Smart monitoring safety system using sensors

Inventors

Johnson, Steven Gail • del Carpio, Derek • Fathman, James M.

Assignees

CareView Communications Inc

Abstract

A smart monitoring system comprising a plurality of sensor devices coupled to appliances and fixtures within a dwelling environment, at least one of the plurality of sensor devices comprising sensor elements including an accelerometer configured to detect a usage associated with the appliances and fixtures, and a computing device operative to receive event signals from the plurality of sensor devices, generate a collection of data with the event signals, analyze the collection of data, generate analytics and pattern data based on the analysis, and generate notifications based on abnormalities in the analytics and pattern data.

Core Innovation

The invention relates to a smart monitoring safety system for a dwelling environment that includes a plurality of sensor devices coupled to appliances and fixtures. At least one of the sensor devices includes an accelerometer attached to a given appliance or fixture, where the given appliance or fixture includes a medicine cabinet, and the sensors generate and transmit event signals associated with usage of the appliances and fixtures within the dwelling environment.

The computing system receives event signals from the plurality of sensor devices and identifies a particular room within the dwelling environment from event signals. One or more event signals include a unique signal that matches a pattern stored on a given sensor device, and event signals received from the sensor device attached to the medicine cabinet indicate taking of medicine, where the taking of medicine involves a person or object associated with usage of the medicine cabinet.

For the medicine cabinet, the taking of medicine includes a button press with a press duration that is representative of urgency unique to the medicine cabinet, and the distinctive press duration indicates an emergency. The computing system generates a score identifying risk to an individual being monitored corresponding to a trend associated with the individual's health, where the trend includes the indication of taking of medicine, presence of a person in the particular room, and usage of appliances and fixtures corresponding to the particular room.

The computing system generates analytics and pattern data based on the analysis, receives configuration rules for triggering an alarm associated with the analytics and pattern data, and generates notifications for the alarm based on abnormalities in the analytics and pattern data. The computing system transmits the notifications over a communication network to a client device, and the alarm activates a web interface to cause the alarm to display on the client device and to enable a connection to the computing device.

Claims Coverage

The document includes two independent claims. Both independent claims share the same core inventive workflow: receiving sensor event signals, using unique pattern-matching to identify room and medicine-taking including urgency via press duration, generating a health-risk score based on trends, producing analytics and pattern data, applying configuration rules for alarms, and transmitting notifications via a web-interface-enabled alarm to a client device.

Across both independent claims, the inventive coverage centers on accelerometer-based medicine-cabinet sensing that uses unique pattern-matching to identify room-specific taking of medicine, where a distinctive press duration indicates urgency and an emergency, and on generating a health-risk score from trends. The claims further cover producing analytics and pattern data, applying configuration rules for alarm triggering, generating notifications for abnormalities, and delivering those notifications to a client device via an alarm that activates a web interface.

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