Alarm monitoring and reporting system
AssigneeThom Kennedy
InventorThom Kennedy
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for monitoring and reporting alarms includes a central monitoring facility which monitors a plurality of remote subscribers. Alarm information is reported to the central monitoring facility by a subscriber. The central monitoring facility causes a summary of the alarm to be transmitted to specific other subscribers. This enables the recipients of the summary to provide follow up reports and to assess how to respond to the report. GPS coordinates are used to identify the location of a reporting subscriber and to select specific other subscribers who should receive the report according to the location of the reporting subscriber.
Claims16
A method for monitoring and disseminating event reports from a plurality of monitored remote locations, comprising the steps of:
- subscribing said plurality of monitored remote locations to be monitored by a central monitoring facility and to report to said central monitoring facility alarm conditions at said monitored remote locations;
- providing said central monitoring facility for monitoring event reports from said subscribed plurality of monitored remote locations;
- receiving a communication from a reporting one of said monitored remote locations, said communication providing a report of an event at said reporting location;
- said central monitoring facility communicating said event report for reception and decoding by at least a plurality of said monitored remote locations other than said reporting location, said plurality of monitored remote locations being configured to decode said event report according to the geographic proximity of said monitored remote locations to said reporting location.
A method according to anyone of the preceding claims wherein said event is an emergency.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.