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US 10,832,561 B2Granted
Real time municipal imminent danger warning system
OwnerTimothy E Morgan, Hobey Taminventors
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Abstract
An apparatus and method is provided in which instant emergency alerts can be sent to programmed personal electronic devices by government officials either by a command center or from a government vehicle. The apparatus and method is designed to warn people in imminent danger of a situation that may be occurring within a given geographic area. Such events include high speed police pursuits, emergency response, and fire response.
Claims13
A method of communicating an alert from an emergency vehicle to a personal electronic device (PED) comprising the steps of:
- providing a signaling device within an emergency vehicle, the signaling device optionally having a plurality of emergency event settings selecting from the group consisting of Police pursuit, fire emergency vehicle, ambulance, emergency road closure, emergency lockdown modes and combinations thereof;
- transmitting a signal from the signaling device to a PED, the PED being one of a mobile phone or a dedicated receiving unit within one of an automotive vehicle, a business, or a residence, the signal providing notification of an emergency event, the PED providing an alert to individuals in communication with the PED;
- limiting the transmitting step to a PED or receiving unit within a predetermined location in proximity to the signaling device, the predetermined location being dependent upon the type of emergency event;
- allowing the operator of the PED to have one or more event settings disabled;
- allowing the operator of the PED to disable an event setting within a defined geographic area;
- repeating the transmitting step on a regular interval and adjusting the recipients of the transmitted signal based upon either a change of location of the signaling device or a change of location of the PED to a location outside the predetermined location;
- additionally notifying prior recipients of an alert that the recipient is no longer in the predetermined alert location;
- and
- transmitting an “all clear” message to the most recent grouping of alert recipients that the alert is cancelled.
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A method of communicating an alert from an emergency vehicle to a personal electronic device (PED) comprising the steps of:
- providing a signaling device within an emergency vehicle, the signaling device optionally having a plurality of emergency event settings selecting from the group consisting of Police pursuit, fire emergency vehicle, ambulance, emergency road closure, emergency lockdown modes and combinations thereof, the signaling device being in further communication with a server programmed to gather data regarding an emergency event provided by the signaling device, the data comprising:
- shift hour;
- number of pursuits within a shift;
- average pursuit distance;
- average speed of a pursuit;
- maximum top speed of a pursuit;
- map of the pursuit route;
- marker pins deployed, during a pursuit;
- number of PEDs receiving a signal from the signaling device;
- and
- GPS coordinates;
- transmitting a signal from the signaling device to a PED, the PED being one of a mobile phone or a dedicated receiving unit within one of an automotive vehicle, a business, or a residence, the signal providing notification of an emergency event, the PED providing an alert to individuals in communication with the PED;
- limiting the transmitting step to a PED or receiving unit within a predetermined location in proximity to, the signaling device, the predetermined location being dependent upon the type of emergency event;
- allowing the operator of the PED to have one or more event settings disabled;
- allowing the operator of the PED to disable an event setting within a defined geographic area;
- repeating the transmitting step on a regular interval and adjusting the recipients of the transmitted signal based upon a change of location of the signaling device;
- additionally, notifying prior recipients of an alert that the recipient is no longer in the predetermined alert location;
- and
- transmitting an “all clear” message to the most recent grouping of alert recipients that the alert is cancelled.
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