Embedded system and method for monitoring and verifying an emergency situation of a subject

• US 8,344,873 B2
• Filed: 12/17/2009
• Issued: 01/01/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Reflexive Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Reflexive Ltd.
• Inventors: Seror, Ianiv
• Primary Examiner(s): Tweel, Jr., John A
• Application Number:
  US12/640,087
• Publication Number:
  US 20110148619A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,111 Days
• Field of Search: 340/506, 340/539.12, 340/573.1, 128/904, 600/300
• US Class Current: 340/506
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/001 Alarm cancelling procedures or alarm forwarding decisions, e.g. based on absence of alarm confirmation
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 29/18 Prevention or correction of operating errors G08B29/02, G08B29/12 take precedence

Abstract

A method of verifying alerts received from alerting devices associated with a user. The method includes: verifying the received alerts from the user by applying a specified procedure to the user; analyzing the received alert in respect to specified temporal characteristics of the received alerts; classifying each received alert as either a false alarm or as a valid alarm according to the verifying and the analyzing; and reporting the valid alarms to a service center. Double checking the received alerts both by the verifying and the analyzing enhances alarm reliability.

Claims

1. An alerting system comprising:

at least one alerting device associated with a user;

a managing unit connected to the at least one alerting device via a communication link and arranged to receive and collect data and alerts therefrom;

a verification unit connected to the managing unit and arranged to communicate with the user and verify received alerts therefrom by applying a specified procedure; and

a remote server connected to the managing unit via a communication link and arranged to analyze temporal characteristics of the received data and alerts, in view of the collected data and alerts, and to evaluate a veracity of the received alerts,

wherein the managing unit is arranged to classify each received alert as either a false alarm or as a valid alarm according to results of the verification procedure and the evaluated veracity,

wherein the managing unit is further connected via a communication link to a service center and arranged to report the valid alarms to the service center,

wherein double checking the received alerts both by the verification unit and by the remote server enhances alarm reliability,

wherein the at least one alerting device that is associated with the user is being wore on the body of the user,

wherein the temporal characterstics comprise a form of a measurements'"'"' curve over time, and

wherein the specified procedure comprises at least one of;

communicating directly with the user and verbally checking the user'"'"'s well being; and

the communicating is performed by stimulating the user with at least one stimulus selected from;

vibrational or tactile stimulus.

2. The alerting system of claim 1, wherein the specified procedure comprises remeasuring user data.

3. The alerting system of claim 1, wherein the temporal characteristics comprise a correlation of the received data with collected data of specified similarity.

4. The alerting system of claim 1, wherein the alerting system is arranged to enter an active state from a standby state upon receipt of the alert, and return to the standby state upon classification of the alert as a false alarm.

5. A method of verifying alerts received from at least one alerting device associated with a user, comprising:

verifying the received alerts from the user by applying a specified procedure to the user;

analyzing the received alert in respect to specified temporal characteristics of the received alerts;

classifying each received alert as either a false alarm or as a valid alarm according to the verifying and the analyzing; and

reporting the valid alarms to a service center,

wherein double checking the received alerts both by the verifying and the analyzing enhances alarm reliability,

wherein the at least one alerting device that is associated with the user is being wore on the body of the user,

wherein die specified procedure comprises at least one of;

communicating directly with the user and verbally checking the user'"'"'s well being; and

the communicating is performed by stimulating the user with at least one stimulus selected from;

vibrational or tactile stimulus, and

wherein the temporal characteristics comprise a form of a measurements'"'"' curve over time.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising analyzing the received alerts in view of a plurality of past alerts and their analysis.

7. The method of claim 5, further comprising analyzing the received alert in view of user defined criteria.

8. The method of claim 5, further comprising pre-checking the at least one alerting device such as to characterize its sensitivity ranges.

9. The method of claim 5, further comprising entering an active state from a standby state upon receipt of the alert and returning to the standby state upon the classification of the alert as a false alarm.

10. The method of claim 5, wherein the specified procedure comprises re-measuring user data.

11. The method of claim 5, wherein the temporal characteristics comprise a correlation of the received data with collected data of specified similarity.