Emergency call system

• US 5,630,209 A
• Filed: 06/03/1994
• Issued: 05/13/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/1993
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Alcatel Sel AG (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel Sel AG (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Ohnsorge, Horst, Wizgall, Manfred, Kuttner, Axel
• Primary Examiner(s): Pham, Chi H.
• Application Number:
  US08/253,741
• Time in Patent Office: 1,075 Days
• Field of Search: 455/66, 455/70, 455/88, 455/100, 455/227, 340/539, 235/375, 235/380, 379/37, 379/45, 379/357, 379/91, 379/144, 379/49, 379/51
• US Class Current: 455/521
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/205 Indicating the location of the monitored vehicles as destination, e.g. accidents, stolen, rental
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/04 with alarm systems, e.g. fire, police or burglar alarm systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/50 for emergency connections

Abstract

An emergency call system includes a wireless telecommunication network having predetermined radio channels, at least one wireless emergency call transmission device for reading emergency data and transmitting the data in an emergency call message on at least one of the radio channels, and at least one emergency call receiver device. The at least one emergency call receiver device receives and evaluates the emergency call message, and triggers at least one alarm function and/or further conducts the emergency data to an alarm center connected to the wireless telecommunication network. The system may also be embodied in a wire-bound network.

Claims

1. An emergency call system comprising:

a wireless telecommunication network having predetermined radio channels;

at least one wireless emergency call transmission means for reading emergency data and transmitting the data in an emergency call message on at least one of the radio channels; and

at least one emergency call receiver means for receiving and evaluating the emergency call message, and at least one of;

triggering at least one alarm function, and

further conducting the emergency data to an alarm center connected to the wireless telecommunication network;

wherein the at least one wireless emergency call transmission means comprises;

a card reader for reading the emergency data from a memory card.

2. The emergency call system as defined in claim 1, wherein the at least one wireless emergency call transmission means further comprises:

a signal-processing element disposed downstream of the card reader, for preparing an emergency call message using the emergency data; and

an HF transmission element disposed downstream of the signal-processing element for transmitting the emergency call message on a predetermined channel.

3. The emergency call system as defined in claim 2, wherein the at least one wireless emergency call transmission means signal-processing element creates the emergency call message according to a signal format which is predetermined in a service or mobile radio system.

4. The emergency call system as defined in claim 3, wherein the signal format is a TDMA format.

5. The emergency call system as defined in claim 2, wherein the at least one wireless emergency call transmission means signal-processing element is connected to a satellite radio receiver in order to determine position, which satellite receiver determines actual position data, and wherein the signal-processing element links the emergency call message with these position data.

6. The emergency call system as defined in claim 2, wherein the memory card is a patient chip card on which medical data of a patient is stored, and wherein the card reader reads the medical data as emergency data to create the emergency call message.

7. The emergency call system as defined in claim 2, wherein the at least one emergency call transmission means comprises switching means, connected to the signal-processing element, for linking the emergency call message with an identification corresponding to a given alarm category and for determining the alarm functions to be triggered.

8. The emergency call system as defined in claim 7, wherein the memory card is configured so that it assumes at least two different inserted positions in the card reader, the at least two different inserted positions each determining an alarm category, wherein the respective inserted position causes at least one of the switching means to be switched.

9. The emergency call system as defined in claim 2, wherein the at least one emergency call transmission means comprises a wireless device having a portable housing which includes a carrying frame and an antenna integrated therein.

10. The emergency call system as defined in claim 1, wherein the wireless telecommunication network having predetermined radio channels comprises one of:

a service, and

a mobile radio network.

11. The emergency call system as defined in claim 1, wherein the memory card is a patient chip card on which medical data of a patient is stored, and wherein the card reader reads the medical data as emergency data to create the emergency call message.

12. An emergency call system comprising:

a wire-bound transmission network having at least one available message channel;

at least one wire-bound emergency call transmission means for reading emergency data and an identification number of the emergency data and transmitting the data and identification number together in an emergency call message on the message channel; and

at least one emergency call receiver means for receiving and evaluating the emergency call message, and at least one of;

triggering at least one alarm function, and

further conducting the emergency data to an alarm center connected to the wireless telecommunication network;

wherein the at least one wire-bound emergency call transmission means comprises;

a card reader for reading the emergency data and identification number of a person calling from a memory card.

13. The emergency call system as defined in claim 12, wherein the wire-bound transmission network is at least one of:

a telecommunication network, and

an electrical energy-supply network having predetermined message channels.

14. The emergency call system as defined in claim 12, wherein the at least one wire-bound emergency call transmission means further comprises:

a signal-processing element, disposed downstream of the card reader for creating an emergency call message using the emergency data and the identification number, and transmitting the emergency call message on a predetermined message channel.

15. The emergency call system as defined in claim 14, wherein the memory card is a patient chip card on which medical data of a patient is stored, and wherein the card reader reads the medical data as the emergency data to create the emergency call message.

16. The emergency call system as defined in claim 14, wherein the at least one wire-bound emergency call transmission means comprises switching means connected to the signal-processing element, for linking the emergency call message with an identification corresponding to a given alarm category and for determining the alarm functions to be triggered.

17. The emergency call system as defined in claim 16, wherein the memory card is configured so that it assumes at least two different inserted positions in the card reader, the at least two different inserted positions each determining an alarm category, wherein the respective inserted position causes at least one of the switching means to be switched.

18. The emergency call system as defined in claim 12, wherein the memory card is a patient chip card on which medical data of a patient is stored, and wherein the card reader reads the medical data as the emergency data to create the emergency call message.