Classifications

• • G—PHYSICS
  • G08—SIGNALLING
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  • G08B21/00—Alarms responsive to a single specified undesired or abnormal condition and not otherwise provided for
  • G08B21/02—Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
  • G08B21/0202—Child monitoring systems using a transmitter-receiver system carried by the parent and the child
  • G08B21/0205—Specific application combined with child monitoring using a transmitter-receiver system
  • G08B21/0211—Combination with medical sensor, e.g. for measuring heart rate, temperature
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G08—SIGNALLING
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  • G08B21/00—Alarms responsive to a single specified undesired or abnormal condition and not otherwise provided for
  • G08B21/02—Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
  • G08B21/0202—Child monitoring systems using a transmitter-receiver system carried by the parent and the child
  • G08B21/0261—System arrangements wherein the object is to detect trespassing over a fixed physical boundary, e.g. the end of a garden
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G08—SIGNALLING
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  • G08B21/00—Alarms responsive to a single specified undesired or abnormal condition and not otherwise provided for
  • G08B21/02—Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
  • G08B21/0202—Child monitoring systems using a transmitter-receiver system carried by the parent and the child
  • G08B21/0269—System arrangements wherein the object is to detect the exact location of child or item using a navigation satellite system, e.g. GPS
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G08—SIGNALLING
  • G08B—SIGNALLING SYSTEMS, e.g. PERSONAL CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
  • G08B21/00—Alarms responsive to a single specified undesired or abnormal condition and not otherwise provided for
  • G08B21/02—Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
  • G08B21/04—Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons responsive to non-activity, e.g. of elderly persons
  • G08B21/0438—Sensor means for detecting
  • G08B21/0453—Sensor means for detecting worn on the body to detect health condition by physiological monitoring, e.g. electrocardiogram, temperature, breathing
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G08—SIGNALLING
  • G08B—SIGNALLING SYSTEMS, e.g. PERSONAL CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
  • G08B21/00—Alarms responsive to a single specified undesired or abnormal condition and not otherwise provided for
  • G08B21/18—Status alarms
  • G08B21/22—Status alarms responsive to presence or absence of persons
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G08—SIGNALLING
  • G08B—SIGNALLING SYSTEMS, e.g. PERSONAL CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
  • G08B25/00—Alarm systems in which the location of the alarm condition is signalled to a central station, e.g. fire or police telegraphic systems
  • G08B25/006—Alarm destination chosen according to type of event, e.g. in case of fire phone the fire service, in case of medical emergency phone the ambulance

Definitions

• the invention relates to a method for monitoring persons who require constant care. Its purpose is to ensure that such persons, in particular mentally disturbed people, who are housed in assisted-living homes and require constant care, do not, as far as possible, move out of the protected area set up for their care but, in the case of such removal , quickly returned to proper care.
• the invention further relates to a device suitable for carrying out the method.
• the so-called electronic ankle bracelet has already become known.
• the person to be monitored is this with a preferably on Equipped leg-to-wear strap, which is not removable by itself. Attached to this band is a transmitter which communicates with an associated receiver located in the home of the person to be monitored on the telephone. Signals are sent cyclically through the transmitter on the ankle bracelet. On the basis of the received or not received by the associated transmitter transmission signals can be determined in what periods the offender is in his home and when not.
• the object of the invention is to provide a solution which makes it possible to reliably determine the escape of people in need of care from a protected area and to initiate measures for their return.
• a method and a device are to be specified. It should be the too enabling solution, directly, depending on the physical
• the invention is solved by a method having the features of the main claim.
• a suitable device for carrying out the method is characterized by the device claim.
• Advantageous embodiments or further developments of the method according to the invention are given by the subclaims.
• the location detection unit determines that the person requiring protection leaves the care area
• the person's vital signs are determined by the device carried in the device carried by the latter and a connection to one of a plurality of devices stored in the device via a mobile radio network as a function of the determined vital signs , built to help capable bodies.
• Information about the vital signs and the current whereabouts of the affected person is transmitted via this connection.
• Essential aspects of the invention are to be seen in the fact that the point to be alarmed is selected as a function of the determined vital signs of the person concerned and informed immediately about their current whereabouts. In this way, if necessary, an emergency doctor can also be introduced to the affected person immediately and quickly.
• the vital signs and the whereabouts of the person concerned are repeatedly recorded and transmitted to the point determined for their reception as a function of the determined vital signs.
• This is based on the consideration that although by means of the method in its basic design the removal or running away of a protected person from the care area is very quickly detected, but on the other hand has shown in the past that especially mentally disturbed people in such a case an amazing Develop speed with which they are rapidly moving away from the care area.
• the initiation of measures for repatriation of such persons always requires a certain amount of time.
• the data relating to the whereabouts and vital signs of the person to be returned are updated cyclically.
• the vital signs are also, regardless of whether a supervised person is in the care area or removed from it, recorded cyclically and in the event that at least one of these vital signs exceeds a predetermined threshold, a capable of providing medical assistance Job alerted.
• the transmission of data to the vital signs and the whereabouts of an affected person in the event of alert takes place in the form of an SMS, MMS or e-mail.
• the corresponding data are visualized in a graphically form at the respective alarmed point.
• the device suitable for carrying out the above-described method is a strap to be worn by the person to be monitored on the arm or on the leg, on which electronic units for detecting and
• a location detection unit preferably a GPS receiver
• a mobile radio unit preferably a GSM unit
• the aforementioned units are preferably integrated in a common, permanently connected to the band housing.
• the device which can not be automatically removed or deactivated by a person to be monitored, as already emphasized, also includes a control unit with memory, for controlling the aforementioned units and for storing configuration data and different telephone numbers.
• the control unit Initiated by the control unit, depending on the detected event (eg: person has left care area, but vital signs are normal or at least one vital value has exceeded a limit) one of the stored call numbers in the memory to establish the connection and to transfer the data selected and the mobile unit for establishing the connections and for transmitting the vital signs and data to the current location of the person causes.
• the device comprises means for its configuration. These can either be operating elements on the device itself or a data interface for transmitting corresponding configuration data to the memory of the device. With regard to the manipulation security of the latter variant is to give preference, otherwise would have to be at least ensured in the other variant that the settings of the device by the person in need of care can not be changed.
• the following scenario could arise.
• a person in need of care leaves the care area provided for their care.
• This removal is determined by means of the GPS receiver by comparing the respective current GPS coordinates with data stored in the device according to the invention, which maps the area of care.
• the means for recording vital signs namely the blood pressure and the pulse rate of the monitored person, activated.
• the GSM unit of the device establishes a connection to a stored in the memory of the device number, the number is selected in response to the detected current vital signs from several stored in the memory numbers.
• a phone number of the home staff of a person normally accommodating home a phone number of the Person treating there doctor or the nursing service and an emergency physician number deposited.
• a connection to the emergency doctor will be established and the current values for blood pressure and pulse rate will be transmitted to the remote station when this connection is established. This can be done, for example, by means of an automatically sent SMS of the form
• the person A has left, is located at the location X, Y.
• the emergency call staff can take immediate action to provide medical care to the affected person Home alarms, and these are preferably informed that the ambulance has already been alerted by the device.
• SMS SMS
• Person A has been removed, is located in the X, Y.
• the vital signs are normal. "The information on the current whereabouts of the person, depending on the comfort and in compliance with the length limitation of an SMS by Street names can be specified or simply transmitted as GPS coordinates, and in the case of e-mail transmission, more detailed whereabouts information, including a map excerpt, can be transmitted.

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• 2005
  • 2005-02-08 DE DE102005006037A patent/DE102005006037A1/de not_active Withdrawn
• 2006
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