EVACUATION SYSTEM

• US 20170372568A1
• Filed: 06/12/2017
• Published: 12/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: oneEvent Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: oneEvent Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: Wedig, Kurt Joseph, Parent, Daniel Ralph, Wedig, Tammy Michelle, Sutter-Parent, Kristin Ann, Gabriel, Nathan, LePage, Robert, Holmstrom, Scott, Vermaack, Anton, Snyder, Chris
• Application Number:
  US15/620,097
• Publication Number:
  US 20170372568A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 15/00 Identifying, scaring or incapacitating burglars, thieves or intruders, e.g. by explosives
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 19/00 Alarms responsive to two or more different undesired or abnormal conditions, e.g. burglary and fire, abnormal temperature and abnormal rate of flow
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/02 Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 27/001 Signalling to an emergency team, e.g. firemen
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 7/06 using electric transmission , e.g. involving audible and visible signalling through the use of sound and light sources
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 7/066 guiding along a path, e.g. evacuation path lighting strip

Abstract

An illustrative apparatus includes a protective housing and a recording device. The protective housing can include a water-resistant layer comprising a material that is impervious to water. The water-resistant layer can define an inside space of the protective housing. The protective housing can also include a fire-resistant layer that surrounds the water-resistant layer and an outside layer that surrounds the fire-resistant layer. The recording device within the inside space can include a transceiver configured to receive sensed data from one or more sensory nodes and from a commercial panel of a building, a memory configured to store the data received by the transceiver, and a processor operatively coupled to the transceiver and the memory. The processor can be configured to publish the sensed data such that the sensed data is accessible to a first responder.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a protective housing comprising;

a water-resistant layer comprising a material that is impervious to water;

a fire-resistant layer;

an outside layer that surrounds the fire-resistant layer; and

an access passage comprising an interior access hole and an exterior access hole that penetrates the outside layer, and wherein the interior hole is offset from the exterior hole, and

a recording device within the protective housing comprising;

a transceiver configured to receive sensed data from one or more sensory nodes;

a memory configured to store the data received by the transceiver; and

a processor operatively coupled to the transceiver and the memory, wherein the processor is configured to publish the sensed data.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the fire-resistant layer comprises gypsum.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the fire-resistant layer is configured to maintain a temperature of the internal space at 150°

Fahrenheit or less when an external temperature is 1,200°

Fahrenheit or greater for 45 minutes or more.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein at least one of the transceiver, the memory, or the processor is covered with a potting material.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the protective housing further comprises a crush-resistant layer that comprises a billet-machined metal that completely surrounds an inside space of the protective housing.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the recording device further comprises a beacon configured to transmit a location-identifying signal.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein location-identifying signal comprises a 900 mega-Hertz frequency electromagnetic signal that is transmitted once every 33 seconds.

9. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the location-identifying signal is acoustic.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the protective housing comprises at least one side that includes a concave portion configured to receive a pipe.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the concave portion is configured to transfer heat from an inside space of the protective housing to the pipe.

12. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the transceiver is configured to receive the sensed data via at least one of a radio frequency, an Ethernet network, a cellular network, or a cable.

13. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising an antenna fixed to an outside surface of the protective housing, wherein the antenna is coated in a potting layer, and wherein the antenna is in electrical communication with the transceiver.

2. (canceled)

14. A method comprising:

forming an access passage comprising an interior access hole and an exterior access hole that penetrates an outside layer of a protective housing,

wherein the interior hole is offset from the exterior hole,

and wherein the protective housing comprises;

a water-resistant layer of a protective housing, wherein the water-resistant layer comprises a material that is impervious to water and defines an inside space of the protective housing;

a fire-resistant layer; and

an outside layer; and

locating a recording device within the protective housing,

wherein the recording device comprises a transceiver, a memory, and a processor,

wherein the transceiver is configured to sense data from one or more sensory nodes or from a commercial panel of a building, and

wherein the memory is configured to store the sensed data, and wherein the processor is configured to publish the sensed data.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the fire-resistant layer comprises gypsum.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the fire-resistant layer is configured to maintain a temperature of the internal space at 150°

Fahrenheit or less when an external temperature is 1,200°

Fahrenheit or greater for 45 minutes or more.

18. The method of claim 14, further comprising covering at least one of the transceiver, the memory, or the processor with a potting material.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein the recording device further comprises a beacon configured to transmit a location-identifying signal.

20. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein location-identifying signal comprises an electromagnetic signal with a 900 mega-Hertz frequency.

15. (canceled)