Networked Communications and Early Warning System

• US 20130250848A1
• Filed: 02/28/2013
• Published: 09/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Technology Mining Company, LLC
• Original Assignee: Technology Mining Company, LLC
• Inventors: Woosnam, Calvin H.
• Granted Patent: US 10,055,955 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/316
• CPC Class Codes: F16F 15/121 using springs as elastic members, e.g. metallic springs F16F15/133 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 13/022 repositionable
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19636 pertaining to the camera
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/1966 Wireless systems, other than telephone systems, used to communicate with a camera
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 11/22 Cables including at least one electrical conductor together with optical fibres
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 7/17 Protection against damage caused by external factors, e.g. sheaths or armouring
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/005 Damping of vibrations; Means for reducing wind-induced forces
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/125 Means for positioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/38 Transceivers, i.e. devices in which transmitter and receiver form a structural unit and in which at least one part is used for functions of transmitting and receiving
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/1851 Systems using a satellite or space-based relay H04B7/18508, H04B7/18521 take precedence; providing specific services H04B7/18523 - H04B7/18576
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/02 Arrangements for relaying broadcast information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/59 for emergency or urgency
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/61 for local area broadcast, e.g. instore broadcast
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 40/90 specially adapted for satellite broadcast receiving
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/04 Error control
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/1015 having exterior leads
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/2039 characterised by the heat transfer by conduction from the heat generating element to a dissipating body arrangements for increasing/decreasing heat-transfer, e.g. fins details, F28F13/00

Abstract

A networked communications system comprising one or more integrated satellite based devices each for broadband digital signaling, one or more customized segment addressable cable assembly for terrestrial signaling in operable communication with the integrated satellite based device and a command console, the command console further comprising interconnectivity with public data or voice network signals through digital bridging; and a remote relay station in operable communication with the command console and the customized segment addressable cable assembly. Each detector includes a UWB receiver, processor and voice synthesis circuit, further embedded with a media access control address scheme for identity of each detector.

Claims

7. (canceled)

13. A networked communications system comprising:

one or more integrated satellite based devices each for broadband digital signaling and each further comprising a controller and a command console;

one or more detectors in operable communication with the controller; and

a remote relay station in operable communication with the one or more detectors.

1. A networked communications system comprising:

one or more integrated satellite based devices for broadband digital signaling;

a command console comprising interconnectivity with public data or voice network signals through digital bridging;

one or more customized segment addressable cable assemblies for terrestrial signaling, wherein the one or more customized segment addressable cable assemblies are in operable communication with and terminate at the one or more integrated satellite based devices and the command console, and wherein the one or more customized segment addressable cable assemblies are customized for a particular location and further comprise one or more sectionally accessible junction boxes between individual segments of mechanically armored and thermally protected cable; and

a remote relay station in operable communication with the command console via the public data or voice network signals and the one or more integrated satellite based devices via the broadband digital signaling.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein each of the one or more integrated satellite based devices has a transceiver and is coupled with ultra wide band (UWB) technology to re-broadcast information to other receivers.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the command console comprises hardware, its own un-interruptible power supply (UPS) power supply, a routing box, and a transceiver.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the command console serves as a primary power source to one or more of the one or more integrated satellite based devices.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the command console is interconnects with a pre-wired system in a building.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the command console comprises a UWB bridge component.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein a building equipped with the one or more integrated satellite based devices and the command console also act as a relay station by way of transceivers.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more integrated satellite based devices each comprise a satellite dish mounted using a stainless steel gimbaled mount system, a transceiver and is in operable communication with a controller.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more integrated satellite based devices each comprise a transceiver having a UWB radio frequency device operating at 802.15.3 and 802.15.4 and provide broadband re-direct-able connections to other sites equipped to receive the re-direct-able connections.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the command console is operable By the remote relay station via the satellite device.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more integrated satellite based devices each comprise a transceiver linked to one or more detectors.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the controller is in operable communication with the command console which is powered by one or more UPS that serves as a power source for the controller.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein a segment addressable cable assembly interconnects the controller and the command console.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein the command console interconnects with a building'"'"'s communication system through a transceiver.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein each integrated satellite based device includes at least one transceiver that enables each integrated satellite based device to act as relay station to provide broadband signals to any remote receiver.

18. The system of claim 13, wherein each integrated satellite based devices includes at least one transceiver with a UWB-enabled RF link with auto relaying communication at IEEE 802.15.3.

19. The system of claim 13, wherein each integrated satellite based devices includes at least one transceiver powered by a junction box in operable communication with the device and the command console.

20. The system of claim 13, wherein each integrated satellite based devices includes at least one transceiver with an external antenna selected from the group consisting of omni-directional fractal antenna and a parabolic unidirectional antenna.

21. The system of claim 13 further comprising a 802.15.3/UWB bridge transceiver component that relay signals from the one or more detectors to the command console.

22. The system of claim 13, wherein incoming transmission originating from the remote relay station strikes the one or more integrated satellite based devices and flows through IRU electronics to become a USB signal entering controller.

23. The system of claim 13, wherein the remote relay station is a data collection and data authentication point for authoritative data collected and processed one or more locations.

24. The system of claim 13, wherein the remote relay station issues alerts collected from the one or more detectors.

25. The system of claim 13, wherein the one or more detectors are each UWB receivers with a processor and voice synthesis circuit.

26. The system of claim 13 further comprising a modeling system to input and plot data from each detector to provide an ordered and hierarchical response to an alert emitted by the one or more detectors.

25-1. The system of claim 13, wherein each detector is a smoke detector that includes a UWB receiver, processor and voice synthesis circuit, further embedded with a media access control address scheme for identity of each detector.

27. A detector for a networked communications system comprising:

a UWB receiver;

a processor;

a chipset with an ability to vectorize a transmission and accurately calculate the exact position of the detector; and

a voice synthesis circuit.

28. The detector of claim 27, wherein the UWB receiver, processor, voice synthesis circuit, and chipset are built on a small circuit board and added to a smoke detector during manufacturing.

29. The detector of claim 27 further comprising a media access control address scheme for identity of each detector.