Patient Satisfaction Sensor Device

• US 20160066067A1
• Filed: 09/03/2014
• Published: 03/03/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Oberon, Inc. (Chatsworth Products Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Oberon, Inc. (Chatsworth Products Incorporated)
• Inventors: Schultz, Richard Douglas, DeGroote, David Glenn, Weaver, Travis James, Thompson, Scott
• Application Number:
  US14/476,116
• Publication Number:
  US 20160066067A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/30 for purposes related to the operation of the system, e.g. for safety or monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/52 Indication arrangements, e.g. displays
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/64 using pre-stored data
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2110/00 Control inputs relating to air properties
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2110/10 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2110/20 Humidity
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2110/50 Air quality properties
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2110/64 Airborne particle content
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2130/30 Artificial light
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2130/40 Noise
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 30/70 Efficient control or regulation technologies, e.g. for control of refrigerant flow, motor or heating

Abstract

A patient satisfaction sensor device comprises a data bus, a multitude of sensors, at least one processing unit, a communications interface, and memory. The multitude of sensors may include light sensor(s), sound sensor(s), humidity sensor(s), temperature sensor(s), air quality sensor(s), and/or the like. The memory is configured to hold data and machine executable instructions. The machine executable instructions are configured to cause at least one processing unit to: collect sensor data from at least one of the multitude of sensors, generate processed sensor data from the sensor data, and generate a report that comprises processed sensor data that exceeds at least one threshold. The communications interface is configured to communicate the report to at least one external device.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a. a data bus;

b. a multitude of sensors connected to the data bus, the multitude of sensors including;

i. at least one light sensor;

ii. at least one sound sensor;

iii. at least one humidity sensor;

iv. at least one temperature sensor; and

v. at least one air quality sensor;

c. at least one processing unit connected to the data bus;

d. a communications interface connected to the data bus configured to communicate with at least one external monitoring device; and

e. a memory comprising;

i. a data segment; and

ii. a computer readable instructions segment, the computer readable instructions configured to cause the at least one processing unit to;

1. collect sensor data from at least one of the multitude of sensors;

2. generate processed sensor data from the sensor data; and

3. generate a report that comprises processed sensor data that exceeds at least one threshold.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein at least one threshold is a patient satisfaction threshold.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein at least one threshold comprises a series of patient satisfaction thresholds.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the multitude of sensors further comprises at least one particle counter.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the multitude of sensors further comprises at least one particle counter configured to count particles of different sizes.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the multitude of sensors further comprises at least one pressure sensor.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the at least one light sensor that measure visible light in Lux.

10. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the machine readable instructions segment further include machine readable instructions configured to cause the at least one processing unit to integrate the sound sensor data.

11. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the machine readable instructions segment further include machine readable instructions configured to cause the at least one processing unit to integrate the sound sensor data with a sliding peak-hold function.

12. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the at least one air quality sensor comprises at least one CO2 sensor.

13. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the at least one air quality sensor comprises at least one CO2 sensor that measures CO2 in parts per million.

14. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the at least one air quality sensor comprises at least one hazardous gas sensor.

15. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the at least one external monitoring device comprises at least one of the following:

a. at least one other apparatus;

b. at least one environmental monitoring device;

c. at least one environmental sensor device;

d. at least one SaaS;

e. at least one environmental monitoring program;

f. at least one cloud based server; and

g. at least one network server.

16. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the at least one external monitoring device comprises at least one database.

17. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the machine readable instructions segment further include machine readable instructions configured to cause the at least one processing unit to communicate the report to recipients listed in a notification list.

18. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the machine readable instructions segment further include machine readable instructions configured to cause the at least one processing unit to communicate sensor data to at least one external monitoring device.

19. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the machine readable instructions segment further include machine readable instructions configured to cause the at least one processing unit to communicate processed sensor data to at least one external monitoring device.

20. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein at least one threshold comprises a multiple sensor threshold.

8. The apparatus according to claim Error! Reference source not found, wherein the at least one sound sensor further comprises at least one wide dynamic range logarithmic amplifier.

9. The apparatus according to claim Error! Reference source not found, wherein the at least one sound sensor further comprises at least one A-weighted audio filter.