Transceiver based monitoring system & process

A wireless communications monitoring system comprising:

• (a) a setup routine adapted to configure and enable a monitor mode for a wireless transceiver;
• wherein said monitor mode is enabled to detect activity within an area to be monitored by said wireless transceiver;
• (b) a detection routine executing on an Internet based server adapted to detect monitoring data signals transmitted by said wireless transceiver when said monitor mode is enabled;
• (c) a threshold routine adapted to set monitor mode control options, which options include a user selectable threshold required for an alert to be triggered in connection with said monitoring data signals;
• wherein said monitor mode control options permit a user to receive alerts over a low bandwidth text-based communications network;
• (d) an alert generator routine adapted to generate an electronic alert to when said monitoring data signals trigger said user selectable threshold when said monitor mode is enabled.

A wireless monitoring system comprising:

• (a) a wireless transceiver adapted with a selectable monitor mode;
• (b) a monitoring circuit in the wireless transceiver adapted to detect activity within a monitored area when said monitor mode is enabled;
• (c) said monitoring circuit being adapted to send monitoring data on a periodic basis through a real-time wireless communications channel to an Internet server;
• (d) said Internet server including an alert generator routine adapted to generate an alert when said monitoring data triggers a threshold set by a user of the wireless monitoring system;
• (e) said Internet server further including a transmission circuit for transmitting at least said alert to a separate wireless transceiver for the user.

A communications system adapted to monitor events associated with a first user within a monitored area including:

• (a) a first routine adapted to enable reporting control options on a first transceiver, which reporting control options include:
• i. user selectable controls for identifying target events to be detected for the first user within the monitored area;
• and
• ii. user calibration data defining said target events;
• iii. user selectable controls for identifying a threshold to be exceeded by said target events;
• iv. an option for enabling said target events to be detected for the first user during a specified period, which begins at a first time and lasts for a first time duration;
• and
• v. identification data for at least one second user designated by the first user to receive reports on selected ones of said detected target events;
• (b) a second routine adapted to cause said first transceiver to communicate said target events for the first user within the monitored area periodically or continuously over a real-time communications channel to an Internet server during said specified period;
• (c) a third routine operating at said Internet server for processing said target events to identify a selected event;
• wherein said Internet server further stores a journal of said target events;
• (d) said third routine being further adapted to report on said selected event by generating an alert from the Internet server which is communicated to a cellphone of said at least one second user;
• wherein said detection control options permit the second user to receive alerts for said selected events over a first communications channel which is separate from a second communications channel used by the cellphone to receive voice data signals.