Body-worn alert system
AssigneeSentinelWear LLC
InventorsJames E. Schorey, Benjamin Kamen
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Abstract
A method and system are described for automated child monitoring. The system comprises wearable sensor device wirelessly connected to a mobile device. The system comprises sensors configured to detect environmental factors and activities of a child. In one or more embodiments, the activities may be one or more of drinking, vaping, smoking, driving and presence of a threat for a child. The system may be configured to determine real-time location of a wearer as well as contextual information. The sensor device is communicably coupled to one or more mobile devices, additional wearable devices or fixed units. The mobile device is configured to control one or more operations of the inconspicuous wearable device.
Claims16
An automated child monitoring system, the automated child monitoring system comprising:
- an inconspicuous wearable device comprising:
- a hardware processor;
- a memory communicatively coupled to the hardware processor;
- a speaker configured to play an audio received from a remote device via a transceiver;
- a microphone configured to record audio within a pre-defined distance of a child, wherein the inconspicuous wearable device is wearable by the child;
- one or more sensors configured to detect one or more activities of the child,
- wherein the one or more sensors are configured with one or more pre-defined threshold values for one or more pre-defined rules associated with the activities;
- wherein the one or more activities comprises at least one of:
- drinking, vaping, smoking, a presence of a threat for the child
- wherein in response to detection above the one or more pre-defined threshold values for one or more pre-defined rules of such activity detection, one or more alerts are generated;
- and
- a hub unit communicably coupled to the inconspicuous wearable device, wherein the hub unit is configured to control one or more operations of the inconspicuous wearable device, wherein the hub unit is configured to generate a real-time report of the child and further provide one or more alarms to a user of the remote device, wherein when the remote device is non-functional, then the real-time report of the child is transmitted and is accessed on recovery of a functioning of the remote device.
A method for monitoring an activity of a child;
- the method comprising:
- detecting, by an automated child monitoring system, one or more activities of the child using one or more sensors, wherein the one or more sensors comprises temperature sensor, smoke sensor, proximity sensor, noise sensor, and imaging sensor,
- wherein the one or more sensors are configured with one or more pre-defined threshold values for one or more pre-defined rules associated with the activities;
- wherein in response to detection above the one or more pre-defined threshold values for one or more pre-defined rules of such activity detection, one or more alerts are generated;
- and
- identifying, by the automated child monitoring system, a real-time location of the child;
- determining, by the automated child monitoring system, one or more threats that are within nearby surroundings of the child based on the detected one or more activities and the real-time location of the child;
- and
- generating, by the automated child monitoring system, a real-time report of the child, wherein the real-time report comprises information about the detected one or more activities of the child, the real-time location of the child over a time period, and the determined one or more threats;
- and
- transmitting, by the automated child monitoring system, the real-time report of the child to a cloud server.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.