Alert and warning system and method
First Claim
1. A warning system comprising:
- at least one alert zone defined by at least one set of coordinate pairs;
at least one wireless alert trigger node attached to a vehicle, configured to generate a wireless alert signal based on whether the position of the vehicle corresponds to the coordinate pair;
at least one warning alert response node configured to receive the wireless alert signal and generate a warning activation signal;
at least one warning device configured to receive the warning activation signal and generate a warning in response to said warning activation signal.
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Abstract
The present inventions provide a system and method for providing a warning using at least one wireless communication link between an approaching object and the location where a warning is to be given based in part on the location of the object and its proximity to the warning location. One aspect of the inventions includes receiving a communication from an object, for example a vehicle, which includes location information, at an alert node, wirelessly communicating alert information to a warning node, and causing a warning device to generate a warning. Preferably the alert node communicates with a plurality of vehicles and a plurality of warning nodes and determines to which of the plurality of warning nodes to communicate alert information based in part on the location information received from at least one of the vehicles and the location of the warning device.
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59 Claims
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1. A warning system comprising:
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at least one alert zone defined by at least one set of coordinate pairs; at least one wireless alert trigger node attached to a vehicle, configured to generate a wireless alert signal based on whether the position of the vehicle corresponds to the coordinate pair; at least one warning alert response node configured to receive the wireless alert signal and generate a warning activation signal; at least one warning device configured to receive the warning activation signal and generate a warning in response to said warning activation signal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. The method of providing a warning of an approaching vehicle comprising:
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generating a wireless alert signal based on whether the position of the vehicle corresponds to at least one of coordinate pairs from a set of coordinate pairs defining at least one alert zone; receiving said wireless alert signal; generating a warning activation signal; receiving said warning activation signal; generating a warning in response to the warning activation signal, wherein the warning is generated so that the warning is most likely to reach the intended audience. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42)
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43. A warning system comprising:
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a position transmitter attached to a vehicle, configured to transmit wireless vehicle position information; a host alert node; at least one warning alert response node; at least one alert zone defined by at least one set of coordinate pairs; at least one warning device; wherein the host alert node is configured to determine whether the position of the vehicle corresponds to the coordinate pair from the at least one set of coordinate pairs at least in part based on the wireless vehicle position information and to transmit alert information to the at least one warning alert response node when the position of the vehicle corresponds to the at least one coordinate pair; the warning alert response node is configured to receive the alert information and to output an alert activation signal to the warning device; the warning device is configured to receive as an input the alert activation signal and to generate a warning in response to the alert activation signal; the warning device being positioned such as to alert interested parties. - View Dependent Claims (44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59)
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