Emergency detection and alert device and system utilizing a mobile communication device

• US 9,183,731 B1
• Filed: 05/15/2014
• Issued: 11/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Umm Al-Qura University
• Original Assignee: Umm Al-Qura University
• Inventors: Bokhary, Salma Yahya I
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Hung T
• Application Number:
  US14/279,238
• Publication Number:
  US 20150332580A1
• Time in Patent Office: 544 Days
• Field of Search: 340/539.1, 340/539.11, 340/539.13, 340/541, 340/573.1, 340/825.49, 455/404.1, 455/404.2, 455/456.1, 455/456.2
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/14 Toxic gas alarms G08B21/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/10 using wireless transmission systems G08B25/009 takes precedence
• 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 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]

Abstract

A wireless emergency detection and alert system includes a primary wireless emergency communication device having an emergency detection and alert application to determine the presence of an emergency condition, based on information received indicating an emergency condition from a sensor associated with the primary wireless emergency communication device, and to execute at least one of a visual or sensual alarm of the at least one detected emergency condition by the primary wireless emergency communication device and to wirelessly transmit an alert signal and an alert message of the detected emergency condition to at least one secondary communication device, the alert message including at least to one of an SMS message, a text type message or a voicemail. The primary wireless emergency communication device also generates an audible alert, a visual alert, or a tactile alert, an alert message or combination thereof, in response to the detection of an emergency condition.

Claims

1. An emergency detection and alert device utilizing wireless communication of an emergency condition, comprising:

at least one sensor to detect at least one corresponding emergency condition and to generate one or more information signals corresponding to a detected at least one emergency condition;

the at least one sensor is selected from the group consisting of an ionization detector, a temperature detector, a gas detector, a fire detector, a fire type detector, a carbon monoxide detector, a radiation detector and a photoelectric detector, or a combination thereof;

a memory adapted to store a mobile application having a plurality of processor-executable instructions to determine the presence of at least one emergency condition and to generate multi alert signals and at least one alert message includes an identification of a sender, a location of the detected at least one emergency condition to wirelessly communicate to at least one secondary communication device of the determined at least one emergency condition;

a processor to execute the processor-executable instructions of the mobile application to determine the presence of at least one emergency condition based on the generated one or more information signals from the at least one sensor, and, when the at least one emergency condition is determined to be present in a proximity of the emergency detection and alert device, to generate the multi alert signals and the at least one alert message includes an identification of a sender, a location of the detected corresponding to the detected at least one emergency condition, and to initiate communication of the generated multi alert signals and the at least one alert message includes an identification of a sender, a location of the detected at least one emergency condition to the at least one secondary communication device via a wireless communication; and

at least one primary alert device responsive to the generated multi alert signals for producing a corresponding alerts based on primary multi alert signals;

wherein the multi alert signals can include a flashing laser light, an audible, a tactile and an olfactory.

2. The emergency detection and alert device according to claim 1, wherein

the emergency detection and alert device comprises at least one of a mobile communication device and an emergency condition detector, and

the emergency condition detector is selected from the group consisting of an ionization detector, a temperature detector, a gas detector, a fire detector, a fire type detector, a carbon monoxide detector, a radiation detector and a photoelectric detector, or a combination thereof.

3. The emergency detection and alert device according to claim 1, wherein the emergency detection and alert device comprises:

a primary wireless emergency communication device when detecting the presence of the at least one emergency condition and wirelessly communicating the generated at least one alert signal and the generated at least one alert message, and

the emergency detection and alert device comprises a secondary communication device when receiving the generated at least one alert signal and the generated at least one alert message via wireless communication from another emergency detection and alert device.

4. The emergency detection and alert device according to claim 3, wherein the primary wireless emergency communication device comprises a smartphone.

5. The emergency detection and alert device according to claim 1, wherein the at least one alert message comprises at least one of a short message service (SMS) message, a Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) message, a tweet, a text type message, a voicemail or a combination thereof.

6. The emergency detection and alert device according to claim 1, wherein the emergency detection and alert device wirelessly communicates the generated at least one alert signal and the generated at least one alert message to at least one secondary communication device located within a predetermined area, distance, location or range relative to a current location of the emergency detection and alert device.

7. The emergency detection and alert device according to claim 1, wherein the emergency detection and alert device, when the presence of at least one emergency condition is determined, wirelessly communicates, calls or transmits one or more of an alert signal or an alert message to one or more predetermined emergency contacts stored in the memory, the predetermined emergency contacts including one or more of an emergency response (911), one or more personal contacts, one or more phone numbers, one or more social application contacts or one or more local member groups.

8. An emergency detection and alert system utilizing wireless communication of an emergency condition, comprising:

at least one primary wireless emergency communication device, the at least one primary wireless emergency communication device comprising;

at least one sensor to detect at least one corresponding emergency condition in a proximity of a corresponding primary wireless emergency communication device and to generate one or more information signals corresponding to a detected at least one emergency condition;

the at least one sensor is selected from the group consisting of an ionization detector, a temperature detector, a gas detector, a fire detector, a fire type detector, a carbon monoxide detector, a radiation detector and a photoelectric detector, or a combination thereof;

a memory adapted to store a mobile application having a plurality of processor-executable instructions to determine the presence of at least one emergency condition and to generate multi alert signals and at least one alert message includes an identification of a sender, a location of the detected at least one emergency condition to wirelessly communicate the determined at least one emergency condition; and

a processor to execute the processor-executable instructions of the mobile application to determine the presence of at least one emergency condition based on the generated one or more information signals from the corresponding at least one sensor of the corresponding primary wireless emergency communication device, and, when the presence of the at least one emergency condition is determined in the proximity of the corresponding primary wireless emergency communication device, to generate the multi alert signals and the at least one alert message includes an identification of a sender, a location of the detected corresponding to the detected at least one emergency condition, and to initiate communication of the generated multi alert signals and the at least one alert message includes an identification of a sender, a location of the detected at least one emergency condition via a wireless communication;

at least one secondary communication device, the at least one secondary communication device adapted to receive the generated multi alert signals and the generated at least one alert message includes an identification of a sender, a location of the detected corresponding to the detected presence of the at least one emergency condition wirelessly communicated from the corresponding primary wireless emergency communication device and to provide an alert of the detected presence of the at least one emergency condition; and

at least one primary alert device for producing alerts based on primary multi alert signals, the at least one primary alert device being selected from the group consisting of flashing laser light, an audible alert, tactile alert and an olfactory alert.

9. The emergency detection and alert system according to claim 8, wherein

the at least one primary wireless emergency communication device comprises at least one of a mobile communication device and an emergency condition detector, and

the emergency condition detector as a primary wireless emergency communication device is selected from the group consisting of an ionization detector, a temperature detector, a gas detector, a fire detector, a fire type detector, a carbon monoxide detector, a radiation detector and a photoelectric detector, or a combination thereof.

10. The emergency detection and alert system according to claim 8, wherein the at least one alert message comprises at least one of a short message service (SMS) message, a Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) message, a tweet, a text type message, a voicemail or a combination thereof.

11. The emergency detection and alert system according to claim 8, wherein the at least one primary wireless emergency communication device comprises a smartphone.

12. The emergency detection and alert system according to claim 8, wherein

the at least one secondary communication device is selected from the group consisting of one or more of a landline, a server, a mobile telephone and an emergency condition detector, and

the emergency condition detector comprises at least one of an ionization detector, a temperature detector, a gas detector, a fire detector, a fire type detector, a carbon monoxide detector, a radiation detector, a photoelectric detector or a combination thereof.

13. The emergency detection and alert system according to claim 8, wherein the at least one primary wireless emergency communication device wirelessly communicates the generated at least one alert signal and the generated at least one alert message to at least one secondary communication device located within a predetermined area, distance, location or range relative to a current location of the corresponding primary wireless emergency communication device.

14. A method for detecting and wirelessly communicating an emergency condition, comprising the steps of:

detecting a presence of at least one emergency condition in a proximity of a mobile communication device by at least one sensor associated with the mobile communication device, the at least one sensor being adapted to sense a corresponding at least one emergency condition;

the at least one sensor is selected from the group consisting of an ionization detector, a temperature detector, a gas detector, a fire detector, a fire type detector, a carbon monoxide detector, a radiation detector and a photoelectric detector, or a combination thereof;

selectively generating by the at least one sensor one or more information signals corresponding to the detected at least one emergency condition;

determining the presence of at least one emergency condition by the mobile communication device based on the one or more information signals;

selectively generating by the mobile communication device, when the presence of the at least one emergency condition is determined, multi alert signals and at least one alert message includes an identification of a sender, a location of the detected corresponding to the at least one detected emergency condition;

determining a current location of the mobile communication device;

selectively communicating by the mobile communication device via a wireless communication the generated multi alert signals and the generated at least one alert message includes an identification of a sender, a location of the detected corresponding to the at least one detected emergency condition to at least one secondary communication device located within a predetermined area, distance, location or range relative to the current location of the mobile communication device via a wireless communication and, when present, selectively wirelessly communicating multi alert signals and

an alert message includes an identification of a sender, a location of the detected corresponding to the at least one detected emergency condition to one or more predetermined emergency contacts of the mobile communication device; and

selectively generating alerts at the mobile communication device, in response to the multi alert signals, the alerts being selected from flashing laser light source, audio sound source, tactile source, and olfactory cue source.