Crew safety system
AssigneeSealution BV
InventorSebastian HAMERS
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Abstract
The current invention relates to a crew safety system for monitoring persons on a ship. The system comprising a plurality of wearables in a two way connection with at least one room module, said room module being in a two way connection with a central module. Said two way connection between each room module and the central module being provided by cabling of a fire safety system. The invention permits the monitoring of the status of a number of crew members and the environment they work in while being advantageously easy and inexpensive to install, run and operate.
Claims18
Crew safety system for monitoring persons on a ship comprising:
- a. at least one wearable device configured to monitor and collect input from a person, wherein each wearable device is provided with a unique identifier;
- b. a plurality of room modules, wherein each room module has a unit identification, and wherein the central module is provided with a database of the unit identifications and the locations of the associated room modules;
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- c. a central module configured to communicate with each room module and receive, request and process information collected by each wearable device from the room modules;
- wherein the at least one wearable device comprises a Bluetooth Low Energy component for transmitting information;
- in that the room modules comprise a Bluetooth Low Energy component and are configured to communicate with the at least one wearable device by means of Bluetooth Low Energy;
- and in that each room module is connected to the central module by means of cabling of a fire safety system in said ship, allowing communication between the room modules and the central module, and wherein the room modules communicate with the central module at a signal frequency of at least 25 kHz.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.