Safety-determination information generating apparatus and safety confirmation system

• US 8,593,285 B2
• Filed: 01/27/2010
• Issued: 11/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Fukai, Midori
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Phung
• Application Number:
  US12/656,364
• Publication Number:
  US 20100134300A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,399 Days
• Field of Search: 340/573.1, 340/506, 340/528, 340/539.1, 340/686.1, 340/13.24, 702/188, 702/187
• US Class Current: 340/573.1
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0423 detecting deviation from an expected pattern of behaviour or schedule
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0492 Sensor dual technology, i.e. two or more technologies collaborate to extract unsafe condition, e.g. video tracking and RFID tracking

Abstract

A safety-determination information generating apparatus detects that a toilet equipment used for excretion, which is a regular behavior in the daily life of a monitoring subject, is used. Once the flushing operation unit is touched by the monitoring subject who flushes the toilet after relieving himself/herself, the safety-determination information generating apparatus detects, using the contact sensor, the touching as the use of the equipment, and sends as the safety-determination information the equipment-use information representing that the toilet is used to a remote monitoring apparatus. The remote monitoring apparatus receives the safety-determination information sent by the safety-determination information generating apparatus and displays on the display that the monitoring subject has used the equipment on the basis of the safety-determination information.

Claims

1. A remote monitoring apparatus that remotely monitors a monitoring subject, comprising:

a receiving unit that receives, from a unit that is equipped in a living space where the monitoring subject lives,

first information in which a time when a use of an equipment existing in the living space and used in a regular behavior in a daily life of the monitoring subject is detected and an identification result indicating whether a person used the equipment at the time is the monitoring subject or an other person are associated with each other,

second information in which a time when a person leaves the living space and an identification result indicating whether the person is the monitoring subject or an other person are associated with each other, and

third information in which a time when a person enters the living space and an identification result indicating whether the person is the monitoring subject or an other person are associated with each other;

a safety determining unit that determines, when the second information and the third information received by the receiving unit indicate that the monitoring subject exists in the living space, whether the monitoring subject is safe based on the first information received by the receiving unit; and

a notifying unit that notifies, when the safety determining unit determines that an abnormality has happened concerning the monitoring subject, that an abnormality has happened concerning the monitoring subject.

2. The remote monitoring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the safety determining unit determines, when the second information and the third information indicate that the monitoring subject exists in the living space and when the first information indicates that the monitoring subject does not use the equipment at a time when a predetermined time has passed since the time when the monitoring subject used the equipment, an abnormality has happened concerning the monitoring subject.

3. The remote monitoring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the safety determining unit determines, when the second information and the third information indicate that the monitoring subject entered and exists in the living space and when the first information indicates that the monitoring subject does not use the equipment at a time when a predetermined time has passed since the time when the monitoring subject entered the living space, an abnormality has happened concerning the monitoring subject.

4. The remote monitoring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the receiving unit receives, as the first information, information in which a time when a use of a toilet used for excretion by the monitoring subject is detected and an identification result indicating whether a person used the toilet at the time is the monitoring subject or an other person are associated with each other.

5. The remote monitoring apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a display processing unit that displays on a display unit, as safety-determination information, the first information, the second information or the third information that is received by the receiving unit.