Threat detection system having cloud or local-hosted monitoring unit for communicating by broadband, cellular or wireless with remote/local internet addressable wireless detector units, their associated wireless sensors and their associated optional wireless sub-sensor devices, that blanket a venue using a broad range of wireless network arrangements and reporting non-compliant sensor data values or conditions, data value rate-of-change and/or device location and/or unit and/or device non-response, against predetermined thresholds, and delivering notifications to system administrators and responders, while enabling related response solutions and confirming that they have been enabled

• US 10,733,865 B2
• Filed: 04/23/2019
• Issued: 08/04/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Douglas Howard Lundy
• Original Assignee: Douglas Howard Lundy
• Inventors: Lundy, Douglas Howard
• Primary Examiner(s): Rushing, Mark S
• Application Number:
  US16/392,411
• Publication Number:
  US 20190347921A1
• Time in Patent Office: 469 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/02 Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/009 Signalling of the alarm condition to a substation whose identity is signalled to a central station, e.g. relaying alarm signals in order to extend communication range
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A data value and condition sensing and threat detecting network comprising a plurality of wireless sensor devices and their optional related wireless sub-sensor devices, for communication with wireless detector units in a network arrangement, such wireless detector units to communicate to and from a secure Central Monitoring Unit (“CMU”) that manages the value/condition sensing and client alert processes, based upon wireless sensor values/conditions and optional wireless sub-sensor values/conditions as they relate to pre-determined values/conditions, and sensor device location coordinates data (derived from Global Positioning Systems(“GPS”) or Cellular Triangulation Systems (“CTS”)) as they relate to pre-determined “location differential values”, data “timeframe-based rate of change” as it relates to pre-determined “rate of change differentials” in a pre-determined timeframe or part thereof, and declaring a normal, aware or alert state within a pre-determined timeframe, with the CMU enabling/disabling related devices and alerting responders, and confirming that such related devices have been enabled/disabled and alerts have been delivered, to responders.

Claims

1. A data sensing and threat detecting network for detecting and reporting environmental and other threats within a venue, and enabling/disabling lights, power outlets water pumps, power windows, power doors, video doors, video surveillance and related devices and confirming that they have been enabled/disabled, while detecting on/off conditions and presence/absence conditions, that may include motion, vibration, voice recognition, facial recognition, iris biometric identification, video surveillance, fingerprint recognition, finger and palm recognition, liquid and other conditions, the network comprising a plurality of wireless detector units each having a transmitter and a receiver for respectively transmitting and receiving environmental, and other data and location coordinates and data sensor value and rate of change information within the venue and each having a data processor,

the network further comprising a plurality of wireless sensor devices, each able to sense one or a plurality of threats, including environmental and other world security, surveillance and monitoring challenges, and each having a transmitter and a receiver for respectively transmitting and receiving threats and environmental and other data and location coordinates and data value rate of change information within a venue and each having a data processor, said wireless detector units and said wireless sensor devices being connected to Internet of Things (“

IoT”

) and Industrial Internet of Things (“

IIoT”

) mesh multi-hop, ZigBee, Z-Wave or IPV6 over 6LoWPAN and other related networks based upon 6LoWPAN or WiFi or cellular or Internet broadband network arrangement whereby said wireless detector unit data processors and said wireless sensor device data processors have programming which allows communication alternately to and from more than one of others of said wireless detector units and said wireless sensor devices in a manner such that transmission of data from said wireless sensor devices to said wireless detector units and communication from said wireless detector units to said wireless sensor devices may be effected over alternate wireless paths whereby the transmission of data from said wireless sensor devices to said wireless detector units and communication from said wireless detector units to said wireless sensor devices may be effected using optimized wireless paths for agriculture, aircraft, amusement parks, art galleries, asset tracking, homes, smart homes, condominiums, apartments, warehouses, distribution centers, transportation trucks and trailers, train engines and cars, subways, buses, autonomous vehicles, electric vehicles, vineyards, schools, school districts, private schools and colleges and universities, colleges, universities, museums, cafeterias, freezers, coolers, ovens, boilers, greenhouses, water treatment plants, sewage treatment plants, holding tanks, HVAC, smart HVAC, chillers, hospitals, hotels, motels, manufacturing plants, private areas, remote properties, vacant properties, vacation properties, restaurants, energy smart grids, pipelines, nuclear power plants, zoos, and warfare and related venues,

the network further comprising means for blanketing substantially all of physical space in the venue with low-power, low-cost wireless sub-sensor devices, each able to sense one or a plurality of threats, for sensing environmental and other data, including location coordinates data in a quantity of said low-power, low-cost wireless sub-sensor devices so that substantially all of physical space in the venue can be sampled inexpensively, said means for blanketing comprising a plurality of environmental threat and location coordinates data sub-sensor devices equipped with low-power, low-cost wireless communications technology including Bluetooth or Z-Wave or IPV6 over 6LoWPAN for amusement parks, agriculture, aircraft, art galleries, asset tracking, homes, smart homes, condominiums, apartments, warehouses, distribution centers, transportation trucks and trailers, train engines and cars, subways, buses, autonomous vehicles, electric vehicles, vineyards, schools, school districts, private schools and colleges and universities, colleges, universities, museums cafeterias, freezers, coolers, ovens, boilers, greenhouses, water treatment plants, sewage treatment plants, holding tanks, HVAC, smart HVAC, chillers, hospitals, hotels, motels, manufacturing plants, private areas, remote properties, vacant properties, vacation properties, restaurants, energy smart grids, pipelines, zoos, nuclear power plants, and warfare and related venues and each having a transmitter and a receiver for respectively transmitting and receiving information and each having a processor whereby the distance over which said wireless sub-sensor devices are equipped to wirelessly transmit data is limited by the low-power wireless communications technology thereof, said wireless sub-sensor programmed for communication with an associated one of said sensor devices which is sufficiently nearby to wirelessly receive data transmitted from said respective low-power wireless communications technology sub-sensor device, and wherein said wireless sensor devices are equipped to communicate with said wireless detector units and with others of said sensor devices over distances which are greater than the limited distance over which said sub-sensor devices are equipped to communicate,

the network further comprising a central monitoring unit either located remotely (including in “

the cloud” and

/or a “

server farm”

) or locally, which is programmed to communicate to and from said wireless detector units, using secure cellular, satellite, internet broadband or intranet networks for management of routing of transmissions of sensed environmental and other threats and location coordinates data between said wireless sensor devices and said wireless detector units over optimized paths and for comparing the sensed environmental and other threats and location coordinates data received from said wireless sensor devices and said wireless sub-sensor device within the venue to determine whether an environmental, or other, threat exists within the venue, wherein said wireless detector units are equipped to receive and process sensed and location coordinates information from said wireless sensor devices and transmit the processed sensed and location coordinates information to said central monitoring unit, and wherein the network has

first programming, if a data value wireless sensor, to declare a value aware state when a sensed value of said at least one of said wireless sensor or wireless sub-sensor devices is at a value which is either (1) greater than a corresponding predetermined upper threshold value plus a corresponding predetermined upper fluctuation buffer value, or (2) less than a corresponding predetermined lower threshold value less a corresponding predetermined lower fluctuation buffer value,

and if a condition sensor, to declare a condition aware state when a sensed condition of said at least one of said wireless sensor or wireless sub-sensor devices is at a condition that is non-compliant with a predetermined condition, including, a door “

open”

when it should be “

closed”

or water is “

present”

when it should be “

absent”

or a light is “

on”

when it should be “

off”

,and

second programming, if a data value sensor, to declare a value alert state (a continuing presence of a value aware state) when a sensed value of said at least one of said wireless sensor or wireless sub-sensor devices, after a predetermined number of predetermined time-based wireless sensor or wireless sub-sensor cycles, remains at a value which is either (1) greater than a corresponding predetermined upper threshold value plus a corresponding predetermined upper threshold buffer value, or (2) less than a corresponding predetermined lower threshold value less a corresponding predetermined lower threshold value less a corresponding predetermined lower fluctuation buffer value,

and if a condition sensor, to declare a condition alert state (a continuing presence of a non-compliant sensed condition) when a sensed condition of said at least one of said sensor or sub-sensor devices, after a predetermined number of predetermined time-based sensor or sub-sensor cycles, remains non-compliant with a predetermined condition, and

third programming to declare a data value alert state when a sensed sensor value relative to its prior sensed value, is at a differential value greater than its allowed corresponding predetermined upper rate of change threshold over a predetermined period of time, or pro-rated portion thereof, or is at a differential value less than its allowed corresponding predetermined lower rate of change threshold over a predetermined period of time, or pro-rated portion thereof, and

fourth programming to declare an alert state when the location coordinates of a said wireless detector unit or said wireless sensor device or said wireless sub-sensor device is at a differential value which is greater than the allowed corresponding predetermined Global Positioning System (“

GPS”

) or Cellular Triangulation System (“

CTS”

) differential threshold, and

fifth programming to declare an urgent alert state when a sensed data value is greater than the maximum allowable pre-determined value for a wireless sensor device or sub-sensor device or less than the minimum allowable pre-determined value for a wireless sensor device or wireless sub-sensor device, and

sixth programming after an alert state or urgent alert state has been declared, subsequent to the completion of a rules-based assessment process, to enable a wireless detector unit or a wireless sensor device to power relational devices, consisting of any or all of the following, electrical outlets, water/liquid pumps, security beacons, video surveillance systems, audio surveillance systems, lighting systems and audio response systems, and confirm that the relational device(s) has/have been enabled.

2. The network according to claim 1 wherein at least one of said wireless sensor devices and/or wireless sub-sensors devices is modular and may be fixed, portable, wearable or mobile, and may be powered by A/C, non-rechargeable batteries, rechargeable batteries, lithium power packs, uninterruptible power supplies, solar, wind or vibration, or a combination thereof, and have a size which is less than about 4 inches by 4 inches by 4 inches.

3. The network according to claim 1 wherein the network has programming for comparing wireless sensor values or conditions, received from said wireless sensor devices and wireless sub-sensor devices with predetermined threshold values, or predetermined conditions, in a manner to minimize false positive values or conditions of said wireless sensor and wireless sub-sensor devices while minimizing introduction of false negative values or conditions of said wireless sensor devices and said wireless sub-sensor devices in deciding whether a normal state, aware state, alert state or urgent alert state should be declared.

4. The network according to claim 1 has programming to declare an urgent alert state when a sensed value of said wireless sensor or wireless sub-sensor devices, relative to its prior sensed value, is at a differential value greater than its allowed corresponding predetermined upper rate of change threshold over a predetermined period of time, or pro-rated portion thereof, or is at a differential value less than its allowed corresponding predetermined lower rate of change threshold over a predetermined period of time, or pro-rated portion thereof, and has

programming to declare an urgent alert state when the location coordinates of a said wireless detector unit or said wireless sensor device or said wireless sub-sensor device is at a differential value which is greater than the allowed corresponding predetermined Global Positioning System (“

GPS”

) or Cellular Triangulation System (“

CTS”

) differential threshold, and has

programming to determine to declare an urgent alert state when a sensed wireless sensor value is greater than the pre-determined maximum allowable sensed value or less than the pre-determined minimum allowable sensed value for wireless sensor or wireless sub-sensor devices, and has

programming after an urgent alert state has been declared, subsequent to the completion of a rules-based assessment process, to enable a wireless detector unit or wireless sensor device to power relational devices, consisting of any or all of the following, electrical outlets, water/liquid pumps, security beacons, video surveillance systems, audio surveillance systems, lighting systems and audio response systems, and confirm that the relational device(s) has/have been enabled.

5. The network according to claim 1 wherein the network has programming to declare an urgent alert state, when any or all of the following is/are detected,

a said wireless detector unit fails to communicate with said central monitoring unit within a predetermined time period or

a said wireless sensor device fails to communicate with its said respective wireless detector unit within a predetermined time period or

a said wireless sub-sensor device fails to communicate with its said respective wireless sensor device within a predetermined time period or

a said wireless detector unit fails to communicate its location coordinates to said central monitoring unit within a predetermined time period or

a said wireless sensor device fails to communicate its location coordinates to its said respective wireless detector unit within a predetermined time period or

a said wireless sub-sensor device fails to communicate its location coordinates to its said respective wireless sensor device within a predetermined period.

6. The network according to claim 1 wherein the network has programming to allow pre-scheduled and dynamic events to be enabled and disabled, by the central monitoring unit, based upon year, month and day of year, including, but not limited to, electric power enabling to devices and disabling thereof, based upon day-of-year, type of day (regular, weekend or holiday) and time of day by time zone, with feedback monitoring to ensure that the said event(s) has/have been enabled or disabled, and confirming that the events(s) was/were in fact completed as required, failing which a message is transmitted by the central monitoring unit, to the central monitoring unit administrator and the system responders, who takes action, as required.

7. A data sensing and threat detecting network for detecting and reporting environmental and other threats within a venue, and enabling/disabling lights, power outlets, water pumps, power windows, power doors, video doors, video surveillance and related devices and confirming that they have been enabled/disabled, while detecting on/off conditions and presence/absence that may include motion, vibration, voice recognition, facial recognition, iris biometric identification, fingerprint recognition, finger and palm recognition, liquid absence/presence and other conditions,

the network comprising a plurality of wireless detector units each having a transmitter and a receiver for respectively transmitting and receiving environmental, and other, sensed data and location coordinates and value rate of change information within the venue and each having a data processor,

the network further comprising a plurality of wireless sensor devices, each having a transmitter and a receiver for respectively transmitting and receiving environmental, and other data information within the venue and each of which wireless sensor devices having a data processor, able to sense one of a plurality of threats, including environmental and/or other world challenges, and each having a transmitter and a receiver for respectively transmitting and receiving threats and environmental and other data and location coordinates and data value rate of change information within a venue and each having a data processor, said wireless detector units and said wireless sensor devices being connected to Internet of Things (“

IoT”

) and Industrial Internet of Things (“

IIoT”

) mesh multi-hop, ZigBee, Z-Wave or IPV6 over 6LoWPAN and other related wireless networks based upon 6LoWPAN network arrangements whereby said wireless detector unit data processors and said wireless sensor device data processors have programming which allows communication alternately to and from more than one of others of said wireless detector units and said wireless sensor devices in a manner such that transmission of data from said wireless sensor devices to said wireless detector units and communication from said wireless detector units to said wireless sensor devices may be effected over alternate wireless paths whereby the transmission of data from said wireless sensor devices to said wireless detector units and communication from said wireless detector units to said wireless sensor devices may be effected using optimized wireless paths for agriculture, amusement parks, aircraft, art galleries, asset tracking, homes, smart homes, condominiums, apartments, warehouse, distribution centers, transportation trucks and trailers, train engines and cars, subways, buses, autonomous vehicles, electric vehicles, vineyards, schools, school districts, private schools and colleges and universities, colleges, universities, museums, cafeterias, freezers, coolers, ovens, boilers, greenhouses, water treatment plants, sewage treatment plants, holding tanks, HVAC, smart HVAC, chillers, hospitals, hotels, motels, manufacturing plants, private areas, remote properties, vacant properties, vacation properties, restaurants, energy smart grids, pipelines, zoos, nuclear power plants, and warfare and related venues,

the network further comprising means for blanketing substantially all of physical space in the venue with low-power, low-cost wireless sub-sensor devices, each able to sense one or a plurality of threats, for sensing environmental and other data, including location coordinates data in a quantity of said low-cost wireless devices so that substantially all of physical space in the venue can be sampled inexpensively, said means for blanketing comprising a plurality of environmental threat and location coordinates data wireless sub-sensor devices equipped with low-power, low-cost wireless communications technology including Bluetooth or Z-Wave IPV6 over 6LoWPAN for agriculture, amusement parks, aircraft, art galleries, asset tracking, homes, smart homes, condominiums, apartments, warehouses, distribution centers, transportation trucks and trailers, train engines and cars, subways, buses, autonomous vehicles, electric vehicles, vineyards, schools, school districts, colleges, universities, museums, private schools and colleges and universities, cafeterias, freezers, coolers, ovens, boilers, greenhouses, water treatment plants, sewage treatment plants, holding tanks, HVAC, smart HVAC, chillers, hospitals, hotels, motels, manufacturing plants, private areas, remote properties, vacant properties, vacation properties, restaurants, energy smartgrids, pipelines, zoos, nuclear plants, and warfare and related venues and each having a transmitter and a receiver for respectively transmitting and receiving information and each having a processor whereby the distance over which said wireless sub-sensor devices are equipped to wirelessly transmit data, is limited by the low-power wireless communications technology thereof, said wireless sub-sensor processor programmed for communication with an associated one of said wireless sensor devices which is sufficiently nearby to wirelessly receive data transmitted from said respective low-power wireless communications technology wireless sub-sensor device, and wherein said wireless sensor devices are equipped to communicate with said wireless detector units and with others of said wireless sensor devices over distances which are greater than the limited distance over which said wireless sub-sensor devices are equipped to communicate,

the network further comprising a central monitoring unit, either located remotely (including in “

the cloud” and

/or in a “

server farm”

)) or locally, which is programmed to communicate to and from said wireless detector units, using secure cellular, satellite, internet broadband or intranet networks, for management of routing of transmissions of sensed environmental, and other, data between said wireless sensor devices and said wireless detector units over optimized paths and for comparing the sensed environmental, and other, location coordinates and wireless sensor rate of change data received from said wireless sensor devices and said wireless sub-sensor devices within the venue to determine whether an environmental, or other, threat exists within the venue, wherein said wireless detector units are equipped to receive and process sensed data and location coordinates information from said wireless sensor devices and transmit the processed sensed data, location coordinates and rate of change information to said central monitoring unit, by cellular, satellite, internet broadband or intranet, and wherein the network has

first programming to provide a plurality of running average baselines of at least one sensed value of at least one of said wireless sensor devices and wireless sub-sensor devices, and

second programming to declare an aware state when a sensed value of said at least one of said wireless sensor devices and wireless sub-sensor devices is at a value which is either (1) greater than a corresponding predetermined upper threshold value or a corresponding running average baseline value (whichever is greater) plus a corresponding predetermined upper fluctuation buffer value, or (2) less than a corresponding predetermined lower threshold value or a corresponding running average baseline value (whichever is less) less a corresponding predetermined lower fluctuation buffer value.

8. The network according to claim 7 wherein said plurality of said wireless sensor devices and wireless sub-sensor devices are modular and may be fixed, wearable, portable or mobile and have a size which is less than about 4 inches by 4 inches by 4 inches.

9. The network according to claim 7 wherein the network has programming for comparing sensed values for conditions, received from said wireless sensor devices and said wireless sub-sensor devices with predetermined threshold values, or predetermined conditions, in a manner to minimize false positive values or conditions of said wireless sensor and wireless sub-sensor devices while minimizing introduction of false negative values or conditions, received from said wireless sensor devices and said wireless sub-sensor devices in deciding whether a normal state, aware state, alert state or urgent alert state should be declared.

10. The network according to claim 7 wherein the network has programming to declare an urgent alert state when one of said wireless detector units fails to communicate with said central monitoring unit within a predetermined time period or when one of said wireless sensor devices fails to communicate with said respective wireless detector unit within a predetermined time period or when one of said wireless sub-sensor devices fails to communicate with said respective wireless sensor device within a predetermined time period.

11. The network according to claim 7 wherein the network has third programming to declare an urgent alert state when a sensed value detected by a wireless sensor device or wireless sub-sensor device is greater than a predetermined maximum allowable sensed value or less than a predetermined minimum allowable sensed value.

12. The network according to claim 7 wherein the network has programming to allow pre-scheduled and dynamic events to be enabled and disabled, by the central monitoring unit, based upon year, month and day-of-year, including, but not limited to, electric power enabling to devices and disabling thereof, based upon day-of-year, type of day (regular, weekend or holiday) and time of day, by international time zone, with feedback monitoring to ensure that the said event(s) has/have been enabled or disabled, and confirming that the events(s) was/were in fact completed as required, failing which an alert message is transmitted by the central monitoring unit, to the central monitoring unit administrator and the system responders, who take action, as required.

13. A data sensing and threat detecting network for detecting and reporting environmental and other threats within a venue, and enabling/disabling lights, power outlets, water pumps, power windows, power doors, video doors, video surveillance and related devices and confirming that they have been enabled/disabled, while detecting on/off conditions and presence/absence conditions, that may include motion, vibration, voice recognition, facial recognition, iris biometric identification, fingerprint recognition, finger and palm recognition, liquid absence/presence and other conditions,

the network further comprising a plurality of wireless detector units each having a transmitter and a receiver for respectively transmitting and receiving environmental, rate of change and location coordinates data information within the venue and each having a data processor,

the network further comprising a plurality of wireless sensor devices, each of which wireless sensor devices having a transmitter and a receiver for respectively transmitting and receiving environmental and other data information within the venue and each of which wireless sensor devices having a data processor,

said wireless detector units and said wireless sensor devices being connected to Internet of Things (”

IoT”

) or Industrial Internet of Things (“

IIoT”

) mesh multi-hop, ZigBee, Z-Wave or IPV6 over 6LoWPAN, and other related wireless networks whereby said wireless detector unit data processors and said wireless sensor device data processors have programming which allows communication alternately to and from more than one of others of said wireless detector units and said wireless sensor devices in a manner such that transmission of data from said wireless sensor devices to said wireless detector units and communication from said wireless detector units to said sensor devices may be effected over alternate wireless paths whereby the transmission of data from said wireless sensor devices to said wireless detector units and communication from said wireless detector units to said wireless sensor devices may be effected using optimized wireless paths for agriculture, amusement parks, aircraft, art galleries, asset tracking, homes, smart homes, condominiums, apartments, warehouses, distribution centers, transportation trucks and trailers, train engines and cars, subways, buses, autonomous vehicles, electric vehicles, vineyards, schools, school districts, private schools and colleges and universities, museums, cafeterias, freezers, coolers, ovens, boilers, greenhouses, water treatment plants, sewage treatment plants, holding tanks, HVAC, smart HVAC, chillers, hospitals, hotels, motels, manufacturing plants, private areas, remote properties, vacant properties, vacation properties, restaurants, energy smart grids, pipelines, zoos, nuclear power plants, and warfare and related venue,

the network further comprising means for blanketing substantially all of physical space in the venue with low-cost, low-power, low energy use wireless sub-sensor devices, each able to sense one or a plurality of threats, for sensing environmental, rate of change and other data, and including location coordinates data in a quantity of said low-cost wireless sub-sensor devices so that substantially all of physical space in the venue can be sampled inexpensively, said means for blanketing comprising a plurality of environmental and location coordinates wireless sub-sensor devices equipped with low-power, low-cost wireless communications technology including Bluetooth or Z-Wave or IPV6 over 6LoWPAN, and other related networks, for agriculture, amusement parks, aircraft, art galleries, asset tracking, homes, smart homes, condominiums, apartments, warehouses, distribution centers, transportation trucks and trailers, train engines and cars, subways, buses, autonomous vehicles, electric vehicles, vineyards, schools, school districts, private schools and colleges and universities, museums, cafeterias, freezers, coolers, ovens, boilers, greenhouses, water treatment plants, sewage treatment plants, holding tanks, smart HVAC, HVAC, chillers, hospitals, hotels, motels, manufacturing plants, private areas, remote properties, vacant properties, vacation properties, restaurants, energy smart grids, pipelines, zoos, nuclear power plants, and warfare and related venues

and each having a transmitter and a receiver for respectively transmitting and receiving information and each having a processor whereby the distance over which said wireless sub-sensor devices are equipped to wirelessly transmit data is limited by the low-power wireless communications technology thereof, said wireless sub-sensor processor programmed for communication with an associated one'"'"' of said wireless sensor devices which is sufficiently nearby to wirelessly receive data transmitted from said respective low-power wireless communications technology wireless sub-sensor devices, and wherein said wireless sensor devices are equipped to communicate with said wireless detector units and with others of said wireless sensor devices over distances which are greater than the limited distance over which said wireless sub-sensor devices are equipped to communicate,

the network further comprising a central monitoring unit, either located remotely (including in “

the cloud” and

/or a “

server farm”

) or locally, which is programmed to communicate to and from said wireless detector units, by cellular, satellite, internet broadband or intranet networks, for management of routing of transmissions of sensed environmental and location coordinates and rate of change data and confirmation of wireless detector units and wireless sensor device response within pre-determined timeframes between said wireless sensor devices and said wireless detector units over optimized paths and for comparing the environmental and location coordinates data between said wireless sensor devices and said wireless sub-sensor devices within the venue to determine whether an environmental threat exists within the venue, wherein said wireless detector units are equipped to receive and process sensed data and location coordinates information from said wireless sensor devices and transmit the processed sensed and location coordinates information to said central monitoring unit, and wherein said wireless sensor and said wireless sub-sensor devices include at least one wireless condition sensing device, and wherein the network has programming to (a) declare an aware state when a non-compliant condition is sensed by said wireless condition sensing device and (b) after an aware state of the sensed condition has been declared by said wireless condition sensing device, to declare an alert state after a predetermined number of cycles of the condition being sensed during one of the subsequent predetermined number of cycles.

14. The network according to claim 13 wherein the network has programming to declare an urgent alert state when one of said wireless detector units fails to communicate with said central monitoring unit within a predetermined time period or when one of said wireless sensor devices fails to communicate with said respective wireless detector unit within a predetermined time period or when one of said wireless sub-sensor devices fails to communicate with said respective wireless sensor device within a predetermined time period or when one of said wireless detector units fails to communicate its location coordinates to said central monitoring unit within a predetermined time period or when one of said wireless sensor devices fails to communicate its location coordinates to said respective wireless detector unit within a predetermined time period or when one of said wireless sub-sensor devices fails to communicate its location coordinates to said respective wireless sensor device within a predetermined time period.

15. The network according to claim 13 wherein at least one of said wireless sensor devices and wireless sub-sensor devices is modular and may be fixed, portable, wearable or mobile, having a size which is less than about 4 inches by 4 inches by 4 inches.

16. The network according to claim 13 wherein the network has programming for comparing values of said wireless sensor devices and said wireless sub-sensor devices with predetermined threshold values in a manner to minimize introduction of false positive values of said wireless sensor devices and wireless sub-sensor devices while minimizing introduction of false negative values of said wireless sensor devices and said wireless sub-sensor devices in deciding whether an alert state or urgent alert state should be declared.

17. The network according to claim 13, wherein the network has

first programming to provide a plurality of running average baselines of at least one sensed value of at least one of said wireless sensor devices or wireless sub-sensor devices, and

second programming to declare an aware state when a sensed value of said at least one of said wireless sensor devices or wireless sub-sensor devices is at a value which is either (i) greater than a corresponding predetermined upper threshold value or a corresponding running average baseline value (whichever is greater) plus a corresponding predetermined upper fluctuation buffer value, or (ii) less than a corresponding predetermined lower threshold value or a corresponding running average baseline value (whichever is less) less a corresponding predetermined lower fluctuation buffer value, and

third programming to declare an alert state when a sensed value of said wireless sensor device or wireless sub-sensor devices, relative to its prior sensed value, is at a differential value greater than its allowed corresponding predetermined upper rate of change threshold over a predetermined period of time, or pro-rated portion thereof or is at a differential value less than its allowed corresponding predetermined lower rate of change threshold over a predetermined period of time, or pro-rated portion thereof, and

fourth programming to declare an urgent alert state when the location coordinates of a said wireless detector unit or said wireless sensor device or said wireless sub-sensor device is at a differential value which is greater than the allowed corresponding predetermined Global Positioning System (“

GPS”

) and/or Cellular Triangulation System (“

CTS”

) differential threshold, and

fifth programming after an alert state or urgent state has been declared, to enable a wireless sensor device to power relational devices, consisting of any or all of the following, water/liquid pumps, security beacons, video surveillance systems, audio surveillance systems, lighting systems and audio response systems, and confirm that the relational device(s) has/have been enabled.

18. The network according to claim 13 wherein the network has

first programming to declare an aware state when a sensed value of said at least one of said wireless sensor devices or wireless sub-sensor devices is at a value which is either (1) greater than a corresponding predetermined upper threshold value plus a corresponding predetermined upper fluctuation buffer value, or (2) less than a corresponding predetermined lower threshold value less a corresponding predetermined lower fluctuation buffer value or a sensed condition of said at least one said wireless sensor device or wireless sub-sensor device is at a condition which is non-compliant with the predetermined condition, and

second programming to declare an alert state when a sensed value of said wireless sensor device or wireless sub-sensor devices, relative to its prior sensed value, is at a differential value greater than its allowed corresponding predetermined upper rate of change threshold over a predetermined period of time or pro-rated portion thereof or is at a differential value less than its allowed corresponding predetermined lower rate of change threshold over a predetermined period of time or pro-rated portion thereof, and

third programming to declare an urgent alert state when the location coordinates of a said detector unit or said sensor device or said sub-sensor device is at a differential value which is greater than the allowed corresponding predetermined Global Positioning System (“

GPS”

) and/or Cellular Triangulation System (“

CTS”

) differential threshold, and

fourth programming after an alert state or urgent alert state has been declared, to enable a wireless sensor device to power relational devices, consisting of any or all of the following, water/liquid pumps, security beacons, video surveillance systems, audio surveillance systems, lighting systems, and audio response systems, and confirm that the relational device(s) has/have been enabled.

19. The network according to claim 13 wherein the network has programming to determine to declare an urgent alert state when a sensed value for a wireless sensor device or wireless sub-sensor device is greater than a predetermined maximum allowable sensed value or less than a predetermined minimum allowable sensed value.

20. The network according to claim 13 wherein the network has programming to allow predetermined, pre-scheduled and dynamic events to be enabled and disabled, by the central monitoring unit, based upon year, month and day of year, including, but not limited to, electric power enabling to devices and disabling thereof, based upon day-of-year, type of day (regular, weekend or holiday) and time of day by international time zone, with feedback monitoring to ensure that the said device(s) has/have been enabled or disabled, and confirming that the events(s) was/were in fact completed as required, failing which a message is transmitted to the administrator of the central monitoring unit, and the system responders, who takes action, as required.