Emergency response system and method

• US 8,610,568 B2
• Filed: 12/17/2011
• Issued: 12/17/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cloud Network Technology Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Cai, Yi-Wen, Wang, Shih-Cheng
• Primary Examiner(s): Previl, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US13/329,244
• Publication Number:
  US 20130154832A1
• Time in Patent Office: 731 Days
• Field of Search: 340/540, 340/501, 340/506, 340/531, 340/539.1, 340/539.11, 340/573.1, 340/6.1, 340/3.1, 340/8.1
• US Class Current: 340/540
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/5116 for emergency applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

An emergency response system is provided. The emergency response system includes an administrator information database capable of storing an administrator information, an emergency device information database capable of storing an emergency device information, a control unit, and a communication unit. The control unit searches the administrator information database to find the administrator information corresponding to a report signal, thereby generating a notification signal according to the administrator information, and searches the emergency device information database to find the emergency device information corresponding to the report signal, thereby generating a reply signal including a nearby emergency device information according to the emergency device information. In response to receiving the report signal from the user terminal, the communication unit transmits the notification signal to an administrator terminal, and transmits the reply signal to the user terminal. The disclosure further provides an emergency response method.

Claims

1. An emergency response system, comprising:

an administrator information database storing at least an administrator information;

an emergency device information database storing at least an emergency device information;

a control unit, wherein the control unit searches the administrator information database to find the administrator information corresponding to a report signal and generates a notification signal according to the administrator information, and searches the emergency device information database to find the emergency device information corresponding to a user terminal location information of a user terminal in the report signal and generates a reply signal including a nearby emergency device information according to the emergency device information; and

a communication unit, wherein the communication unit transmits the notification signal to an administrator terminal and transmits the reply signal to the user terminal in response to receiving the report signal from the user terminal.

2. The emergency response system of claim 1, wherein the nearby emergency device information in the reply signal includes an emergency device location.

3. The emergency response system of claim 1, wherein the report signal includes a scene information, the control unit generates a suggestion signal including a suggestion information according to the scene information when the communication unit does not receive a response signal from the administrator terminal within a predetermined period of time after the communication unit transmits the notification signal to the administrator terminal, and transmits the suggestion signal to the user terminal.

4. The emergency response system of claim 3, wherein when the response signal is not received within the predetermined period of time, the control unit transmits a query signal including a scene information query information to the user terminal while the report signal not includes the scene information, the communication unit receives the report signal including the scene information from the user terminal, and the control unit generates the suggestion signal including the suggestion information according to the scene information in the report signal.

5. The emergency response system of claim 1, wherein the report signal includes a scene information, the control unit searches the emergency device information database to find the emergency device information corresponding to the user terminal location information and the scene information.

6. The emergency response system of claim 1, wherein the report signal includes an audio information, the control unit transforms the audio information to a computer-recognizable scene information, and searches the emergency device information database to find the emergency device information corresponding to the user terminal location information and the computer-recognizable scene information.

7. The emergency response system of claim 1, wherein the user terminal location information is included in an audio information of the report signal, the control unit transforms the audio information to a computer-recognizable scene information, derives the user terminal location information from the computer-recognizable scene information, searches the administrator information database to find the administrator information corresponding to the computer-recognizable scene information, and searches the emergency device information database to find the emergency device information corresponding to the user terminal location information.

8. The emergency response system of claim 1, wherein the communication unit receives the report signal including a scene information from a sensor located corresponding to the location of the user terminal, the control unit searches the emergency device information database to find the emergency device information corresponding to the user terminal location information and the scene information in the report signal.

9. The emergency response system of claim 1, wherein the communication unit receives the report signal including a scene information from a sensor located corresponding to the location of the user terminal, the control unit generates a suggestion signal including a suggestion information according to the scene information, the communication unit transmits the suggestion signal to the user terminal.

10. The emergency response system of claim 1, wherein the emergency device information includes an emergency device location of at least one emergency device.

11. An emergency response method, comprising:

receiving a report signal including a user terminal location information from a user terminal;

searching an administrator information database to find an administrator information corresponding to the report signal;

searching an emergency device information database to find an emergency device information corresponding to the user terminal location information in the report signal;

when the administrator information is found, generating a notification signal according to the administrator information, and transmitting the notification signal to an administrator terminal; and

when the emergency device information is found, generating a reply signal including a nearby emergency device information according to the emergency device information, and transmitting the reply signal to the user terminal.

12. The emergency response method of claim 11, wherein the nearby emergency device information in the reply signal includes an emergency device location.

13. The emergency response method of claim 11, further comprising:

determining a response signal from the administrator terminal not being received within a predetermined period of time after transmitting the notification signal to the administrator terminal; and

when the response signal not being received within the predetermined period of time, generating a suggestion signal including a suggestion information according to a scene information in the report signal, and transmitting the suggestion signal to the user terminal.

14. The emergency response method of claim 13, wherein the step of generating the suggestion signal includes:

when the response signal not being received within the predetermined period of time, determining whether the report signal includes the scene information;

when the report signal not includes the scene information, transmitting a query signal including a scene information query information to the user terminal, and receiving the report signal including the scene information from the user terminal; and

generating the suggestion signal including the suggestion information according to the scene information in the report signal while the predetermined period of time passes before receiving the response signal.

15. The emergency response method of claim 11, wherein the report signal includes a scene information, the step of searching the emergency device information database includes:

searching the emergency device information database to find the emergency device information corresponding to the user terminal location information and the scene information in the report signal.

16. The emergency response method of claim 11, further comprising:

receiving the report signal including an audio information from the user terminal;

transforming the audio information to a computer-recognizable scene information;

the step of searching the emergency device information database includes;

searching the emergency device information database to find the emergency device information corresponding to the user terminal location information and the computer-recognizable scene information.

17. The emergency response method of claim 11, wherein the user terminal location information is included in an audio information of the report signal, the step of receiving the report signal includes:

receiving the report signal including the audio information from the user terminal;

transforming the audio information to a computer-recognizable scene information; and

deriving the user terminal location information from the computer-recognizable scene information;

the step of searching the administrator information database includes;

searching the administrator information database to find the administrator information corresponding to the computer-recognizable scene information;

the step of searching the emergency device information database includes;

searching the emergency device information database to find the emergency device information corresponding to the user terminal location information.

18. The emergency response method of claim 11, further comprising:

receiving the report signal including a scene information from a sensor located corresponding to the location of the user terminal;

the step of searching the emergency device information database includes;

searching the emergency device information database to find the emergency device information corresponding to the user terminal location information and the scene information in the report signal.

19. The emergency response method of claim 11, further comprising:

receiving the report signal including a scene information from a sensor located corresponding to the location of the user terminal;

generating a suggestion signal including a suggestion information according to the scene information; and

transmitting the suggestion signal to the user terminal.

20. The emergency response method of claim 11, wherein the emergency device information includes an emergency device location of at least one emergency device.