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US 2019/0197864 A1Published application
Wearable device
AssigneeBce Inc.
InventorsTony Hui, Jagdip Grewal
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Abstract
A wearable device may monitor one or more parameters of a wearer and enter an emergency state based on the values of the monitored parameters. When in the emergency state, the wearable device may connect to a low-power wide area network and transmit an alert to a remote monitoring location.
Claims19
A method of sending an emergency alert from a wearable device, comprising:
- measuring at least one parameter associated with a user of the wearable device while the wearable device is not connected to a network;
- determining an emergency condition based on whether a parameter of the at least one measured parameter corresponds to a stored triggering condition of that parameter;
- and
- when the emergency condition is determined:
- connecting the wearable device to a low-power wide area network;
- and
- transmitting the emergency alert to a remote location over the established connection to the low-power wide area network.
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A wearable device, comprising:
- a network interface for connecting the wearable device to a low-power wide area network;
- one or more sensors for measuring parameters associated with a user of the wearable device;
- a processor;
- and
- a memory storing instructions which when executed by the processor configure the wearable device to:
- measure at least one parameter of the user with the one or more sensors while the wearable device is not connected to a network;
- determine an emergency condition based on whether a parameter of the at least one measured parameter corresponds to a triggering condition of that parameter;
- and
- when the emergency condition is determined:
- connect the wearable device to the low-power wide area network;
- and
- transmit an emergency alert to a remote location over the established connection to the low-power wide area network.
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A system for monitoring a user, comprising:
- a wearable device, comprising:
- a network interface for connecting the wearable device to a low-power wide area network, and for connecting the wearable device to a short range communication network;
- a processor;
- and
- a memory storing instructions executable by the processor;
- and
- a measurement device configured to:
- measure at least one parameter associated with the user of the wearable device;
- connect with the wearable device over the short range communication network;
- and
- transmit the at least one parameter to the wearable device over the short range communication network,
- wherein when the instructions stored in the memory of the wearable device are executed by the processor, the wearable device is configured to:
- connect with the measurement device at a predetermined time interval over the short range communication network;
- receive the at least one parameter from the external measurement device associated with the user of the wearable device;
- determine an emergency condition based on whether a parameter of the at least one received parameter corresponds to a triggering condition;
- and
- when the emergency condition is determined:
- connect the wearable device to the low-power wide area network;
- and
- transmit an emergency alert to the remote location over the established connection to the low-power wide area network.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.