Monitoring system for mask device with alert messages and related methods
OwnerMarquette Trishauninventor
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Abstract
A monitoring system may include a server, and mask devices in communication with the server. Each mask device may include a mask body to be worn by a respective user, an air quality sensor carried by the mask body and configured to detect a contaminant concentration value in air breathed through the mask body, a wireless transceiver carried by the mask body and in communication with the server via a wireless link, and a processor carried by the mask body and coupled to the air quality sensor and the wireless transceiver. The processor may be configured to send an alert message to the server when the contaminant concentration value respectively exceeds a threshold.
Claims20
A monitoring system comprising:
- a server;
- and
- a plurality of half-mask mask devices in communication with said server, each half-mask mask device comprising
- a mask body to be worn by a respective user and comprising a port,
- a carrier housing carried by the mask body in the port,
- a circuit board carried by the carrier housing,
- an air quality sensor carried by said circuit board and configured to detect at least one contaminant concentration value in air breathed through said mask body,
- a wireless transceiver carried by said circuit board and in communication with said server via a wireless link,
- an inertial measurement unit (IMU) carried by said circuit board, and
- a processor carried by said circuit board and coupled to said air quality sensor, said wireless transceiver, and said IMU, said processor configured to
- send an alert message to said server when the at least one contaminant concentration value respectively exceeds at least one threshold, and
- detect a cough event of the respective user, and a sneeze event of the respective user based upon said IMU indicating a movement exceeding a movement threshold within a time period.
A monitoring system comprising:
- a server;
- a plurality of half-mask mask devices in communication with said server, each half-mask mask device comprising
- a mask body to be worn by a respective user and comprising a port,
- a carrier housing carried by the mask body in the port,
- a circuit board carried by the carrier housing,
- an air quality sensor carried by said circuit board and configured to detect a plurality of contaminant concentration values in air breathed through said mask body,
- a wireless transceiver carried by said circuit board and in communication with said server via a wireless link,
- an inertial measurement unit (IMU),
- an infrared (IR) sensor carried by said circuit board and configured to detect a body temperature of the respective user, and
- a processor carried by said circuit board and coupled to said air quality sensor, said wireless transceiver, said IR sensor, and said IMU, said processor configured to
- send an alert message to said server when at least one of the plurality of contaminant concentration values respectively exceeds at least one threshold, and
- detect a cough event of the respective user, and a sneeze event of the respective user based upon said IMU indicating a movement exceeding a movement threshold within a time period;
- and
- a plurality of mobile devices in communication with said server and respectively associated with said plurality of half-mask mask devices, said server is configured to forward the alert message to said a respective mobile device.
A method of operating a monitoring system comprising a server, and a plurality of half-mask mask devices in communication with the server, each half-mask mask device comprising a mask body to be worn by a respective user and comprising a port, a carrier housing carried by the mask body in the port, a circuit board carried by the carrier housing, an air quality sensor carried by the circuit board and configured to detect at least one contaminant concentration value in air breathed through the mask body, a wireless transceiver carried by the circuit board and in communication with the server via a wireless link, and an inertial measurement unit (IMU), the method comprising:
- operating a processor in each half-mask mask device to send an alert message to the server when the at least one contaminant concentration value respectively exceeds at least one threshold, and to detect a cough event of the respective user, and a sneeze event of the respective user based upon the IMU indicating a movement exceeding a movement threshold within a time period.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.