Monitoring apparatus and system
OwnerDillon James Korpmaninventor
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Abstract
A monitoring apparatus that provides multi-level monitoring of personal activities by a user. The monitoring apparatus includes a display, a user interface, a GPS location device, a timer or clock, and wireless or cellular communication transmitters or similar devices. The user designates one or more contacts who will be notified if certain pre-established monitoring conditions are met (e.g., if the user may be in trouble). When the pre-established monitoring conditions are met, the contacts are alerted and notified via phone, email, text, or similar means of communication, or combinations thereof, of the user's location, contact information, and the state that caused the alert and notification.
Claims16
A monitoring apparatus, comprising:
- a user interface coupled to a display, and further comprising at least one data entry mechanism;
- a GPS tracking device;
- a timer;
- a wireless communication transmitter;
- at least one microprocessor in electronic communication with the GPS tracking device and the timer and the wireless communication transmitter, wherein the microprocessor is configured to monitor a plurality of monitoring parameters to determine whether a threshold value of at least one monitoring parameter from the plurality of monitoring parameters is exceeded during a monitoring event or period for a user, wherein said plurality of monitoring parameters comprises a speed of the user, a travel time of the user, and an absence of the user from an expected location, and upon determining that said threshold value has been exceeded, and prior to sending any contact message to any previously established contact, to prompt the user to engage a deactivation means using the user interface within a certain time threshold;
- wherein the microprocessor is further configured, upon the user not engaging said deactivation means within said certain time threshold, to automatically engage the wireless communication transmitters to contact at least one previously established contact upon exceeding the threshold value for the at least one monitoring parameter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.