SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ALERTING ON-SITE RESPONDERS LOCATED AT A SPECIFIC FACILITY TO ENGAGE AND NEUTRALIZE A THREAT

• US 20150097667A1
• Filed: 10/04/2013
• Published: 04/09/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Cathryn Cruse
• Original Assignee: Cathryn Cruse
• Inventors: Cruse, Cathryn
• Application Number:
  US14/046,061
• Publication Number:
  US 20150097667A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/539.11
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/005 Alarm destination chosen according to a hierarchy of available destinations, e.g. if hospital does not answer send to police station
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 27/001 Signalling to an emergency team, e.g. firemen

Abstract

In an embodiment of the disclosed technology, an emergency response system is used on the premises of a given location or building. The system employs various staff members who are regularly present throughout the facility at random locations. These individuals are each wearing a personal transmitter which, when activated, transmits a distress signal through wireless systems. The distress signal includes the location of the personal transmitter at the time of transmission. Once the transmitted location is received at a central server, the information is then processed and assigned a room number or identifier that is then delivered by a wireless communications system to an on-site, first responding marshal within the facility.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

providing a portable transmitter to each of a plurality of employees present at defined premises;

providing at least one transceiver to at least one marshal present at said premises;

receiving a signal transmitted from an activated transmitter of said plurality of transmitters;

determining a named location within said premises corresponding to said activated transmitter; and

simultaneously sending a notification to said transceiver on said premises and at least one emergency responder based at a location other than said premises, said notification comprising data regarding said activated transmitter.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said data further comprise said named location of said activated transmitter.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said data further comprise a proximity of said transceiver to said activated transmitter.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein said data further comprise information regarding a proximity of the transceiver to said activated transmitter compared to proximities of other transceivers.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein said location comprises a room or area identifier.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein said location is determined via a GPS receiver associated with said activated transmitter.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein said location is determined by triangulating said signal.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said at least one emergency responder is a local police department, emergency medical service or fire department.

9. A method of facilitating emergency response on certain premises, the method comprising:

equipping an armed marshal at said premises with an emergency transceiver;

receiving a signal transmitted from an activated transmitter on said premises;

determining an actual location of said transmitted signal on a pre-configured plan of said premises;

translating said actual location into a named area of said premises;

sending a notification to said transceiver carried by said armed marshal, said notification comprising said named area corresponding to said activated transmitter location; and

communicating said named area and an address of said premises to at least one emergency responder.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein said notification further comprises a distance of said armed marshal to said activated transmitter location.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein said notification further comprises information regarding proximities of other armed marshals with respect to said distance of said armed marshal to said activated transmitter location.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein said notification further comprises displaying said plan to said transceiver.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein said named area of said premises is indicated on said plan.

14. A method of claim 13, wherein a present location of said armed marshal is indicated on said plan.

16. The method of claim 9, further comprising an additional step of:

notifying at least a second marshal about said activated transmitter, and that a closer marshal has also been notified.

18. The method of claim 9, wherein said signal from said activated transmitter is received by said transceiver, and a distance to said activated transmitter is determined by assessing the strength of said signal.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein said transceiver uses a direction and said strength of said signal to locate said activated transmitter.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein said step of notifying said second marshal further comprises informing said second marshal to proceed accordingly to said location on the basis that said second marshal is the second closest to the activated transmitter.

20. A system for responding to an emergency on certain premises, said system comprising:

a plurality of transmitters which transmit signals upon activation, each transmitter associated with an employee present on said premises;

a plurality of transceivers, each transceiver having a display and wireless connectivity, each transceiver associated with an armed marshal present on said premises; and

a server which receives and identifies an origin of said signals and transmits said origin to said transceivers, said server having a processor and memory, said memory comprising pre-configured plan data regarding certain premises.