US 9,311,808 B2Granted

Monitoring system

AssigneeSeniortek Oy

InventorsPasi Nurmela, Sami Nurmela

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Abstract

A monitoring device of a monitoring system includes a control, an alarm, a first sensor for detecting motion higher than a first predetermined height, a second sensor for detecting, on a floor of a building, motion lower than a second predetermined height, and a third sensor means for detecting an arrival in a sleeping place and a departure from the sleeping place. When the most recent motion detection fed by the third sensor to the control is the arrival in the sleeping place, the control controls the alarm to give an alarm if a predetermined first delay, beginning at the arrival in the sleeping place, is filled before information about the departure from the sleeping place has been received from the third sensor. After the third sensor has detected the departure from the sleeping place, the control controls the alarm to give an alarm if the control receives no motion detections from the first sensor and the second sensor during a predetermined second delay.

Claims15

Dependent claims

A monitoring system for monitoring a person in a building, wherein a monitoring device of the monitoring system comprises control means comprising information on a location permitted at a given time to the person in the building, alarm means, first sensor means for detecting motion higher than a first predetermined height, second sensor means for detecting, on a floor of the building, motion lower than a second predetermined height, and third sensor means for detecting an arrival in a sleeping place and a departure from the sleeping place;

when the most recent motion detection fed by the third sensor means to the control means is the arrival in the sleeping place, the control means are configured to control the alarm means to give an alarm if a predetermined first delay, beginning at the arrival in the sleeping place, is filled before information about the departure from the sleeping place has been received from the third sensor means;
and
after the third sensor means have detected the departure from the sleeping place, the control means are configured to control the alarm means to give an alarm if
the control means have received no motion detections from the first sensor means and the second sensor means during a predetermined second delay.

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A method of monitoring a person in a building, wherein a monitoring device of a monitoring system comprising control means which receive from first, second, and third sensor means motion-related signals, the method comprising:

detecting by the first sensor means first motion higher than a predetermined height;
detecting by the second sensor means, on a floor of the building, motion lower than a second predetermined height;
detecting by the third sensor means an arrival in a sleeping place and a departure from the sleeping place;
when the most recent motion detection fed by the third sensor means to the control means is the arrival in the sleeping place, the control means control alarm means to give an alarm if a predetermined first delay, beginning at the arrival in the sleeping place, is filled before information about the departure from the sleeping place has been received from the third sensor means;
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controlling by the control means the alarm means to give an alarm after the third sensor means have detected the departure from the sleeping place if the control means have received no motion detections from both the first sensor means and the second sensor means during a predetermined second delay.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/390,558Filed 3 Apr 2013
Priority: FI 201253854 Apr 2012
Published: US 2016/0019774 A121 Jan 2016
Granted: 12 Apr 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

G08B 21/22
Status alarms: responsive to presence or absence of persons
A61B 5/1117
Determining posture transitions: fall detection
G08B 21/0415
Based on behaviour analysis: detecting absence of activity per se
G08B 21/0423
Based on behaviour analysis: detecting deviation from an expected pattern of behaviour or schedule