Enhanced fire, safety, security and health monitoring and alarm response method, system and device

A health monitor comprising:

• a bedside monitoring unit including a microphone, microprocessor, and a communications port;
• and
• a monitoring program stored within the microprocessor, including:
• first instructional signals for determining when sound received through the microphone of the bedside unit represents a health indicating parameter, the first instructional signals comprising a technique selected from the group consisting of matched filtering, cross correlation, and neural networking;
• and
• second instructional signals for relaying the health indicating parameter to a medical monitoring service through the communications port.

A home health monitoring system comprising:

• a device for measuring a health indicating parameter and generating a signal in response;
• and
• a bedside monitoring unit having a microphone, a receiver for receiving a signal generated by a measuring device, a communications port, a microprocessor and a monitoring program stored within the microprocessor, including:
• first instructional signals for determining when sound received through the microphone of the bedside unit represents a health indicating parameter, the first instructional signals comprising a technique selected from the group consisting of matched filtering, cross correlation, and neural networking;
• and
• second instructional signals for relaying the sounds received by the microphone and the signals received by the receiver to a medical monitoring service.