Firearm usage monitoring system providing alerts for ammunition resupply
AssigneeArmaments Research Company, Inc.
InventorsWilliam Deng, Michael Canty
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Abstract
Methods and systems of firearm monitoring and firearm resupply are provided, including application software that receives signals from firearms and firearm-based sensors related, in part, to ammunition levels associated with at least one firearm, and evaluating, via an event model, the sensor information, and determining, via the evaluation, the occurrence of one or more of specified and monitored events in order to display, in response to determining that a monitored event will occur, a recommended action such as a resupply of ammunition.
Claims21
A system for providing alerts for ammunition re-supply, the system comprising:
- a server device running application software that receives signals from firearms regarding usage thereof, each firearm including a plurality of sensor types;
- a controller coupled to the server device, the controller running application software configured to:
- receive sensor information for the firearms from the signals received by the server, wherein the sensor information includes at least one measure of an ammunition level associated with each firearm;
- evaluate, via an event model, the sensor information, the event model being created by:
- selecting a plurality of monitored events;
- labeling information from a database with one or more of the monitored events including a discharge event, an ammunition level event and a resupply event, the information being collected via a sensor within the sensor types;
- grouping, for each item of labeled information, unlabeled information that is sensed temporally proximate to the monitored event by the sensor or another sensor within the sensor types;
- splitting the grouped data into a first portion and a second portion;
- training the event model using the first portion via machine learning;
- and
- evaluating the event model using the second portion;
- determine, via the evaluation, occurrence of one or more of the monitored events;
- and
- display, in response to determining that a monitored event will occur, indicia communicating the occurrence of the one or more of the monitored events to a viewer via a human interface.
A method for providing alerts for ammunition re-supply, the method comprising:
- receiving sensor information from a firearm;
- evaluating, via an event model, the sensor information, the event model being created by:
- obtaining timestamped information from a first sensor type and a second sensor type, the first sensor type being coupled to a firearm;
- selecting a plurality of monitored events including a discharge event, an ammunition level event and a resupply event;
- labeling, in response to the timestamped information occurring contemporaneously with a respective one or more of the monitored events, the timestamped information with the respective one or more of the monitored events;
- grouping, for each item of labeled information, items of the timestamped information that are sensed temporally proximate to the monitored event by the sensor or another sensor within the sensor types;
- splitting the grouped data into a first portion and a second portion;
- training the event model using the first portion via machine learning;
- and
- evaluating the event model using the second portion;
- and
- determining, via the evaluation, occurrence of one or more of the monitored events;
- and
- displaying, in response to determining that a monitored event will occur, indicia communicating the occurrence of the one or more of the monitored events to a viewer via a human interface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.