PERSONAL SAFETY SYSTEM

• US 20170127257A1
• Filed: 11/02/2015
• Published: 05/04/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Saxena, Paritosh, Poisner, David I., Triantafillou, Nick, Baron, Casey
• Granted Patent: US 10,349,227 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/60 Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]

Abstract

Various systems and methods for a personal safety system are described herein. A personal safety system includes an alert detection module to receive, at a device, input indicating an alert event; and a communication module to: transmit information regarding the alert event to a cloud service; and broadcast wireless network information of a wireless environment around the device, obtained by the device, to a plurality of devices in the wireless environment.

Claims

1. A personal safety system, the system comprising:

an alert detection module to receive, at a device, input indicating an alert event; and

a communication module to;

transmit information regarding the alert event to a cloud service; and

broadcast wireless network information of a wireless environment around the device, obtained by the device, to a plurality of devices in the wireless environment.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the input is received from a user of the device.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the input comprises a user interface actuation by the user of the device.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the input is received from a remote device, the input initiated by a user of the remote device.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein to transmit information regarding the alert event, the communication module is to:

transmit an identity of a user of the device; and

transmit information about the wireless environment around the device.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein to transmit information regarding the alert, the communication module is to encrypt the information before transmitting.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein to transmit information about the wireless environment, the communication module is to transmit wireless signal strengths of devices in the wireless environment.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein to transmit information about the wireless environment, the communication module is to transmit media access control (MAC) addresses of devices in the wireless environment.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the wireless network information comprises received signal strengths of devices in the wireless environment around the device.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the wireless network information comprises channel state information of devices in the wireless environment around the device.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the communication module is to receive additional wireless network information from at least one of the plurality of devices in the wireless environment.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the additional wireless network information comprises received signal strengths of devices in the wireless environment around the least one of the plurality of devices in the wireless environment.

13. The system of claim 11, further comprising a wireless analysis module to use the additional wireless network information from the at least one of the plurality of devices in the wireless environment along with the wireless network information obtained by the device to determine a location of the at least one of the plurality of devices in the wireless environment.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein to determine the location, the wireless analysis module is to use a free space loss calculation to determine distances between pairs of devices in the wireless environment and using trilateration techniques to determine position from the distances between the pairs of devices.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein the device is associated with a responder classification.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the responder classification is a professional responder, a helper, or a predesignated responder.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the communication module is to receive instructions from the cloud service, the instructions based on the responder classification.

18. At least one machine-readable medium including instructions, which when executed by a machine, cause the machine to:

receive, at a device, input indicating an alert event;

transmit information regarding the alert event to a cloud service; and

broadcast wireless network information of a wireless environment around the device, obtained by the device, to a plurality of devices in the wireless environment.

19. The at least one machine-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the device comprises an access point.

20. The at least one machine-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the instructions to transmit information regarding the alert event comprise instructions to:

transmit an identity of a user of the device; and

transmit information about the wireless environment around the device.

21. The at least one machine-readable medium of claim 20, wherein the instructions to transmit information about the wireless environment comprise instructions to transmit wireless signal strengths of devices in the wireless environment.

22. The at least one machine-readable medium of claim 20, wherein the instructions to transmit information about the wireless environment comprise instructions to transmit media access control (MAC) addresses of devices in the wireless environment.

23. The at least one machine-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the wireless network information comprises channel state information of devices in the wireless environment around the device.

24. A method of using a personal safety system, the method comprising:

receiving, at a device, input indicating an alert event;

transmitting information regarding the alert event to a cloud service; and

broadcasting wireless network information of a wireless environment around the device, obtained by the device, to a plurality of devices in the wireless environment.

25. The method of claim 24, further comprising receiving additional wireless network information from at least one of the plurality of devices in the wireless environment.