Crowd activity and ambient condition measurement and reporting system

• US 9,082,290 B2
• Filed: 11/19/2012
• Issued: 07/14/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ernest W. Grumbles, III
• Original Assignee: Ernest W. Grumbles, III
• Inventors: Grumbles, Ernest W. III
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Hung T
• Application Number:
  US13/681,376
• Publication Number:
  US 20130127634A1
• Time in Patent Office: 967 Days
• Field of Search: 340/286.07, 340/286.08, 340/286.09, 340/539.1, 340/539.11, 340/573.1, 340/870.02, 340/870.03, 340/870.17, 455/414.1, 455/414.2, 455/456.1, 455/456.3, 705/22, 705/26, 705/37, 709/204, 709/219, 709/224
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 19/00 Electric signal transmission systems G08C17/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/40 using a wireless architecture
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/84 Measuring functions
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 9/00 Arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station, in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system for measuring ambient conditions in venues using a number of real-time signals, including sound, temperature, light, motion, water usage, vibration, infrared signal and others. Ambient signal data is transmitted to a cloud-based application that stores the signal levels in a database and presents the information in a visual format for use by venues and by consumers. The system can, among other things, provide an overall measure of crowd activity in a venue.

Claims

1. A system for selecting a venue for a person with environmental or neurological sensitivity, the system comprising:

a first and second set of sensors, each set of sensors including;

a sound pressure level meter configured to transmit data;

a temperature sensor configured to transmit data; and

a light sensor configured to transmit data;

a network for management of the first and second sets of sensors and for transmission of data from the first and second sets of sensors;

a computing device;

a data storage device located on the computing device for storing data from the first and second sets of sensors;

a server configured to receive data from the first and second sets of sensors, including locations of the first and second sets of sensors, the server further comprising a web server configured to transmit at least part of the data from the first and second sets of sensors by sending data to the computing device; and

a software program located on the computing device;

wherein

the first set of sensors is located at a first venue with a first location;

the second set of sensors is located at a second venue with a second location;

the software program collects a first set of data from the first set of sensors at defined, repeated intervals;

the software program stores and analyzes the collected first set of data;

an analysis of the collected first set of data results in a first environmental intensity profile comprising real-time data for sound, real-time data for temperature, real-time data for light, averaged data at specified times for sound, averaged data at specified times for temperature, averaged data at specified times for light, rate of change data for sound, and rate of change data for temperature;

the software program collects a second set of data from the second set of sensors at defined, repeated intervals;

the software program stores and analyzes the collected second set of data;

an analysis of the collected second set of data results in a second environmental intensity profile comprising real-time data for sound, real-time data for temperature, real-time data for light, averaged data at specified times for sound, averaged data at specified times for temperature, averaged data at specified times for light, rate of change data for sound, and rate of change data for temperature;

the system is configured to pair the first environmental intensity profile with the first location to make a first pair, the second environmental intensity profile with the second location to make a second pair, and further configured to simultaneously display the first pair and the second pair;

the system is configured to permit a user to choose whether to view the first pair, the second pair, or both.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the computing device is a mobile computing device.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the computing device is a personal computer.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the first and second environmental intensity profiles displayed in the simultaneous display are numerical values.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the first and second environmental intensity profiles displayed in the simultaneous display are a visual depiction of the numerical values.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the visual depiction is a radius around each of the first and second locations corresponding to the paired environmental intensity profile of the location.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the first and second pairs are displayed on a map.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the first set of sensors and the second set of sensors further include an infrared sensor configured to transmit data.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the first set of sensors and the second set of sensors further include a vibration sensor configured to transmit data.