CROWD ACTIVITY AND AMBIENT CONDITION MEASUREMENT AND REPORTING SYSTEM

• US 20130127634A1
• Filed: 11/19/2012
• Published: 05/23/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ernest W. Grumbles, III
• Original Assignee: Ernest W. Grumbles, III
• Inventors: Grumbles, Ernest W. III
• Granted Patent: US 9,082,290 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/870.02
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 19/00 Electric signal transmission systems G08C17/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/40 using a wireless architecture
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/84 Measuring functions
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 9/00 Arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station, in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system for measuring ambient conditions in venues using a number of real-time signals, including sound, temperature, light, motion, water usage, vibration, infrared signal and others. Ambient signal data is transmitted to a cloud-based application that stores the signal levels in a database and presents the information in a visual format for use by venues and by consumers. The system can, among other things, provide an overall measure of crowd activity in a venue.

Claims

1. A system for ambient condition reporting, comprising:

an ambient condition sensor configured to transmit data;

a computer network for management of the ambient condition sensor and transmission of data from the ambient condition sensor;

a data storage device for storing data from the ambient condition sensor; and

a server configured to receive data from the ambient condition sensor data, including the location of the ambient condition sensor.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the ambient condition sensor is a sound pressure level meter.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the ambient condition sensor is a temperature meter.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the ambient condition sensor is a light meter.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein data from the ambient condition sensor includes at least one of the following:

sound pressure level;

temperature;

light level;

vibration; and

water usage.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the server further comprises a web server configured to transmit at least part of the data from the ambient condition sensor by sending data to a computing device.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the computing device is a mobile computing device.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the computing device is a personal computer.