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US 10,470,008 B2Granted
Impact prevention using mobile beacons
AssigneeIndustrial Scientific Corporation
InventorsRaghu Arunachalam, L. Robert Crouthamel
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Abstract
A system for impact prevention using mobile beacons includes a receiving device associated with a user, the receiving device comprising a receiver adapted to receive a beacon broadcast from one or more of a plurality of beacons, the beacon broadcast comprising informational data and a range of relevance, a processor, and an alarm, wherein when the processor determines that the receiving device is within the range of relevance, the alarm is activated.
Claims13
A system, the system comprising:
- a receiving device associated with a user, the receiving device comprising:
- a receiver adapted to receive a beacon broadcast from one or more of a plurality of beacons, the beacon broadcast comprising informational data and data regarding a range of relevance;
- and
- a processor;
- and
- an alarm,
- wherein the processor makes a determination that the receiving device is within the range of relevance of a beacon of the plurality of beacons based on the data regarding the range of relevance, and wherein based on the determination, the alarm is activated.
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A method, comprising:
- receiving, on a receiver associated with a user, a beacon broadcast message comprising data regarding an impact danger and data regarding a range of relevance for the beacon broadcast message;
- making a determination if the receiver associated with the user is within the range of relevance for the beacon broadcast message based on the data regarding the range of relevance;
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- alerting, based on the determination, the user to the impact danger.
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A system, the system comprising:
- a beacon associated with a mobile object, wherein the beacon broadcasts warning data about the mobile object and data regarding a range of relevance;
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- a speedometer that senses a speed of the mobile object,
- wherein when the speedometer senses that the speed is above a threshold, the beacon broadcasts the warning data with data regarding a new range of relevance.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.