Wearable multi-sensory personal safety and tracking device

• US 9,922,537 B2
• Filed: 12/05/2013
• Issued: 03/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rasesh Hasmukh Shah, Tejas Girish Shah
• Original Assignee: Rasesh Hasmukh Shah, Tejas Girish Shah
• Inventors: Shah, Tejas Girish, Shah, Rasesh Hasmukh
• Primary Examiner(s): GIRMA, FEKADESELASS
• Application Number:
  US15/501,867
• Publication Number:
  US 20170229004A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,566 Days
• CPC Class Codes: F41B 15/00 Weapons not otherwise provided for , e.g. nunchakus, throwing knives
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 13/0018 for nearby electrical discharge, i.e. the electrodes being positioned on the device and the device brought manually or otherwise into contact with a nearby target batons with electric discharge capability F41B15/04; electric shock devices for animals A01K15/02
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 9/10 Hand-held or body-worn self-defence devices using repellant gases or chemicals
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 15/00 Identifying, scaring or incapacitating burglars, thieves or intruders, e.g. by explosives
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 15/005 by electric shock
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 15/02 with smoke, gas, or coloured or odorous powder or liquid
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12

Abstract

The present invention is a wearable, multi-sensory, personal safety and tracking device which predicts danger by sensing changes in voice, pulse, emotions, impact, motion of the wearer and the device state. In emergency situations, the device triggers SOS, alarm, electro shock, pepper spray and starts capturing images and audio recording for the safety of the wearer. For keeping a track of the wearer, the device connects to the internet using GPRS and sends the images clicked, the sound recorded and the GPS and GSM coordinates to the rescue team for gaining help for the wearer if needed. In the present invention, various technologies are integrated into one single wearable device thereby eliminating the need for purchasing and carrying multiple devices like pulse monitor, motion monitor, phone, camera, GPS module, self-defense tools, etc. thus saving money and providing comfort to the user.

Claims

1. A wearable, multi-sensory, personal safety and tracking device enabled to monitor one or more events and trigger alerts during emergency situations, comprising:

a plurality of automatic sensing modules for sensing changes in voice, pulse, emotions, impact, motion and the device state and capturing the changes sensed in form of sensed data;

a GPS module and a GSM module enabled to capture location co-ordinates of the device at predefined time intervals;

a camera module and a local sound recording module for recording photo or images or pictures, audio and video and further to play back the recorded data;

a memory coupled with a server or a cloud to store the sensed data and the recorded data;

a charging module enabled with a plugged connection, solar or electro-mechanical energy;

a processing module to process the sensed data and the recorded data for detecting an emergency event, wherein the processing module detects the emergency event based upon

detecting an interrupt signal from an automated sensing module, the interrupt signal indicating that a sensor value captured by the said automated sensing module has reached a predefined threshold value,

continuously monitoring sensor values from remaining automated sensing modules for predetermined time to check whether the sensor values captured from the remaining automated sensing modules has reached to respective predefined threshold values,

confirming presence of the emergency event based upon the detection of the sensor values captured from one or more of the remaining automated sensing modules being reached to respective predefined threshold values;

an alert module triggered to activate a siren and for alerting through SOS signals and alarm over a network to devices belonging to a plurality of contacts and on one or more social networking platforms after the detection of the emergency event, wherein the alert module is triggered either manually or automatically;

a plurality of self-defence tools for attack which comprises an electric shock, a pepper spray and a blunt object as attacking means.

2. The wearable, multi-sensory, personal safety and tracking device of claim 1 wherein, the processing module is enabled to check input events comprising one or more of manual switch press, changes in voice, changes in the pulse, accelerometer changes, impact changes on the wearer and other sensory input events at predetermined time intervals.

3. The wearable, multi-sensory, personal safety and tracking device of claim 1 wherein, the device is either locally triggered by the wearer or remotely triggered by the users belonging to predefined set of contacts manually in cases of emergencies.

4. The wearable, multi-sensory, personal safety and tracking device of claim 1 wherein, in an emergency situation, which has been detected automatically or has been triggered manually, the processing module is enabled to:

(i) activate a siren to alarm nearby people, wherein the siren activated is switched off manually in case of false alarm or is automatically switched off after predetermined time;

(ii) activate an electro-shock, wherein the electro-shock activated is deactivated manually in case of false alarm or is automatically deactivated after predetermined time;

(iii) activate the GPS module and GSM module to read the location coordinates, wherein the GPS module and the GSM module are put to sleep after momentary functioning;

(iv) send SOS messages in the form of SMS, e-mail, MMS and posts on social networking internet services to a rescue team;

(v) activate the camera module for capturing images and the local sound recording module which starts the local audio recording, wherein the camera module and the local sound recording module are put to sleep after momentary functioning;

(vi) start playing sound recorded in the device and initiates outgoing call;

(vii) send e-mail of the GPS and GSM coordinates and the images and audio recordings to the rescue team through the internet using GPRS; and

(viii) stores the data in the device, in the absence of the internet and/or connectivity.

5. The wearable, multi-sensory, personal safety and tracking of claim 1 wherein, the processing module manages power by powering on and off the plurality of modules as per requirements.

6. The wearable, multi-sensory, personal safety and tracking device of claim 1, wherein, if the device has battery charging less than 20%, an SMS of the GPS and GSM coordinates is sent to the call center.

7. The wearable, multi-sensory, personal safety and tracking device of claim 1 wherein, the device is enabled to go to dormant stage if the predefined threshold value is not reached for any of the plurality of automated sensing modules, and wherein the processing module continues to check for input events from the automated sensing modules after a predetermined time.

8. The wearable, multi-sensory, personal safety and tracking device of claim 1 wherein, an LED is activated for predetermined time waiting for input action by the user during which if the event cancellation switch is pressed, the device goes back in the dormant stage and if the event cancellation switch is not pressed, the device predicts an emergency situation.

9. The wearable, multi-sensory, personal safety and tracking device of claim 1 wherein, the server checks for connection from the client and after accepting the connection, the server receives data from the client.

10. The wearable, multi-sensory, personal safety and tracking device of claim 1 wherein, if there is a location update packet, the data is updated in a database in the form of acknowledgement packet along with the updating of the contact information or the triggering of an event if any.

11. The wearable, multi-sensory, personal safety and tracking device of claim 9 wherein, if there is an event packet, the data is updated in the database and e-mail is sent to the rescue team which may include the primary contact or all the contacts depending upon the type of event.

12. The wearable, multi-sensory, personal safety and tracking device of claim 9 wherein, if there is image data packet, the image is sent to the registered contacts as e-mail.

13. The wearable, multi-sensory, personal safety and tracking device of claim 1 wherein, if the location of the wearer is not received from the device for predefined time, a SOS is sent to the primary contact with last known details of the GPS/GSM coordinates and the last known path/direction.