Methods and systems for sending messages regarding an emergency that occurred at a facility

A system comprising:

• a monitoring device receiving a message, from a device at a facility, parsing the message to determine whether the message includes an indicator for an occurrence of an emergency condition at the facility, and assigning a high priority to the message responsive to a determination that the message includes the indicator for the emergency condition;
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• a sensor measuring consumption of natural gas, water, or electricity at the facility;
• a control device that, in response to the message indicating the occurrence of the emergency condition, determines the location of the facility based on address information for an account associated with provision of the natural gas, water, or electricity at the facility;
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• a transmission component, at the facility, sending a high priority message to a node of a mesh network, the high priority message including the indicator for the occurrence of the emergency condition, wherein the transmission component further sends messages with information about measurements from the sensor, wherein the messages are routed through the one or more nodes of the mesh network;
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• wherein the mesh network comprises one or more nodes that receive and route measurement messages from facilities, wherein the measurement messages comprise information about measurements from sensors at the facilities.

A system comprising:

• a monitoring device receiving a message, from a device at a facility, parsing the message to determine whether the message includes an indicator for an occurrence of an emergency condition at the facility, and assigning a high priority to the message responsive to a determination that the message includes the indicator for the emergency condition;
• a control device processing the message including the indicator for the occurrence of the emergency, wherein, in response, the control device determines an address of the facility having the emergency condition, alerts an emergency response service, and provides the address of the facility to the emergency response service and
• a transmission component, at the facility, sending a high priority message to a node of a mesh network, the high priority message including the indicator for the occurrence of the emergency condition;
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• wherein the mesh network comprises one or more nodes that receive and route measurement messages from facilities, wherein the measurement messages comprise information about measurements from sensors at the facilities.

A system comprising:

• a monitoring device receiving a message, from a device at a facility, parsing the message to determine whether the message includes an indicator for an occurrence of an emergency condition at the facility, and assigning a high priority to the message responsive to a determination that the message includes the indicator for the emergency condition, wherein the monitoring device is a thermostat comprising a plurality of buttons, one of the buttons, when selected, providing an indication of the occurrence of the emergency condition at the facility;
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• a transmission component, at the facility, sending a high priority message to a node of a mesh network, the high priority message including the indicator for the occurrence of the emergency condition;
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• wherein the mesh network comprises one or more nodes that receive and route measurement messages from facilities, wherein the measurement messages comprise information about measurements from sensors at the facilities.

A method comprising:

• receiving an emergency message regarding an occurrence of an emergency condition at a facility, the emergency message received after being sent from the facility with a high priority through a mesh network and identified by parsing the emergency message to determine whether an emergency indicator is included in the emergency message;
• receiving a measurement message at a lower priority than the emergency message, wherein the measurement message comprises information about a measurement from a utility consumption sensor at the facility, wherein the measurement message is received after being sent from the facility through the mesh network;
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• in response to receiving the emergency message, alerting an emergency response service.

A system comprising:

• a device, at a facility, receiving an indication of an occurrence of an emergency condition at the facility;
• a sensor, at the facility, measuring consumption of natural gas, water, or electricity at the facility;
• a transmission component, at the facility, sending a message through a network with a high priority, the message including an indicator for the occurrence of the emergency condition, wherein the transmission component also sends messages with information about measurements from the sensor through the network at a lower priority than the message including the indicator, and wherein the transmission component is configured to determine whether to send the message at a high priority based at least in part parsing the message to identify the indicator;
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• a control device that, in response to receiving the message including the indicator for the occurrence of the emergency condition, determines the location of the facility based on address information for an account associated with provision of the natural gas, water, or electricity at the facility.