Digital smart security network system, method and program

• US 9,942,414 B2
• Filed: 10/22/2012
• Issued: 04/10/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Technomirai Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Technomirai Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Miwa, Kazuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Wang, Quan-Zhen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Foxx, Chico A
• Application Number:
  US14/412,952
• Publication Number:
  US 20150179039A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,996 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/043 detecting an emergency event, e.g. a fall
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0453 worn on the body to detect health condition by physiological monitoring, e.g. electrocardiogram, temperature, breathing detecting, measuring or recording for diagnostic purposes A61B5/00
• 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 25/006 Alarm destination chosen according to type of event, e.g. in case of fire phone the fire service, in case of medical emergency phone the ambulance
• 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 25/08 using communication transmission lines G08B13/19658, G08B21/0286, G08B25/016 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/04 with alarm systems, e.g. fire, police or burglar alarm systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• 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]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/50 for emergency connections

Abstract

Provided are a digital smart security system and method and a program that allow reporting the occurrence of an abnormal situation in security, even in front of a suspicious person, without the suspicious person'"'"'s awareness. The digital smart security system comprises an abnormality determination unit (112) that, when breathing detected by a respiration sensor (10) for detecting a user'"'"'s breathing has a preset breathing pattern in which breathing stops for a predetermined period of time and resumes, determines it to be the occurrence of an abnormal situation, and an alarm sending unit (203) that reports the abnormal situation based on the determination result as being the occurrence of an abnormal situation. The abnormality determination unit (112), if the user has stopped breathing for a certain period of time (for example, 10 to 15 seconds) and has resumed breathing, determines it to be the occurrence of an abnormal situation. On the other hand, the abnormality determination unit (112), if breathing has stopped and does not resume, determines that an abnormal situation in health of the user has occurred.

Claims

1. A digital smart security system comprising:

a first communication terminal of a plurality of communication terminals, the first communication terminal comprising a respiratory information acquiring means for acquiring respiratory information from a respiration sensor that is configured to detect breathing of a person to which the respiration sensor is fitted;

an abnormality determining means for determining, based on the respiratory information, that a security abnormality exists when the person does not breathe for a predetermined period of time and resumes, determining that a health abnormality of the person exists when the person does not breathe and does not resume, and determining that neither the security abnormality nor the health abnormality exists otherwise; and

a control means for reporting different abnormal situations between the security abnormality and the health abnormality by the abnormality determining means, and reporting the security abnormality, without awareness of a suspicious person;

a positional information acquiring means for detecting existing positions of the plurality of communication terminals, and acquiring positional information of the plurality of communication terminals; and

jurisdiction retaining means for retaining information pertaining to a jurisdictional district for receiving an emergency telephone call where a building under security exists, wherein

the control means refers to the jurisdiction retaining means in response to the first communication terminal being in the jurisdiction district and the abnormality determining means having determined that it is an abnormal situation indicative of the security abnormality has occurred, and when any other of the plurality of communication terminals exists in the jurisdictional district, the control means reports preferentially to the other communication terminals, existing in the jurisdictional district.

2. The digital smart security system according to claim 1, wherein the abnormality determining means determines that it is different abnormality, based on the respiratory information, in response to which period of a plurality of predetermined periods the breathing stops and resumes, and the control means makes a different report in response to the different abnormality.

3. The digital smart security system according to claim 1, wherein the reporting means transmits an e-mail message and an image.

5. A tangible non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having a program stored therein, wherein the program configures a computer to perform as the digital smart security system according to claim 1.

4. A digital smart security method comprising:

a respiratory information acquiring step of acquiring, by a respiratory information acquiring means of a first communication terminal of plurality of communication terminals, respiratory information from a respiration sensor that is configured to detect breathing of a person to which the respiration sensor is fitted;

an abnormality determining step of determining, by an abnormality determining means based on the respiratory information, that a security abnormality exists when the person does not breathe for a predetermined period of time and resumes, determining that a health abnormality of the person exists when person does not breathes and does not resume, and determining that neither the security abnormality nor the health abnormality exists otherwise; and

a control step of reporting, by a control means, different abnormal situations between the security abnormality and health abnormality by the abnormality determining step, and reporting the security abnormality, without awareness of the suspicious person;

a positional detecting step, by a positional information acquiring means, for acquiring positional information of the plurality of communication terminals; and

a retaining step for retaining, into a jurisdiction retaining means, information pertaining to a jurisdiction district for receiving an emergency telephone call where a building under security exists, wherein

the control means refers to the jurisdiction retaining means in response to the first communication terminal being in the jurisdiction district and the abnormality determining means having determined that it is an abnormal situation indicative of the security abnormality, and when any other of the plurality of communication terminals exists in the jurisdictional district, the control means reports preferentially to the other communication terminals, existing in the jurisdictional district.