Communications: electrical – Condition responsive indicating system – Specific condition
Patent
1993-12-20
1996-09-03
Swann, Glen
Communications: electrical
Condition responsive indicating system
Specific condition
340539, 34082536, 34082549, 455 561, 342463, G08B 2300
Patent
active
055527728
ABSTRACT:
Method and apparatus for monitoring the present location of an emergency or general serviceperson, such as a firefighter or a hazardous materials spill clean-up specialist, assigned to perform emergency services at a designated site. The site diameter can be as small as a few meters or as large as several kilometers. The serviceperson's present location can be checked at selected time intervals with time periods ranging from a few hundred milliseconds to thousands of seconds, as desired. The serviceperson wears or carries a location-determining ("LD") unit that receives electromagnetic signals that contain information allowing determination of the present location of the LD unit, and thus of the serviceperson, from three or more signal sources. These signal sources may be FM subcarrier signal transmitters, or may be an integrated combination of FM subcarrier signal transmitters and (1) transmitters for a Loran, Omega, Decca, Tacan, JTIDS Relnav or PLRS or other ground-based system, or (2) transmitters for a satellite-based positioning system, such as GPS or GLONASS, or other broadcast sources. The relative phases or transmission times for the signals from each source are determined and provided for the LD unit. The present location of the serviceperson, or change thereof, is determined and transmitted to a central station at selected interrogation times, or upon occurrence of any of a specified group of other conditions. The central station transmits an alarm signal if one or more of the following conditions is present: (1) the worker's LD is not within the designated site; (2) the central station does not receive transmitted present location information from the LD unit for at least K consecutive interrogation times; or (3) the location of the LD unit changes by less than a selected threshold amount in a time interval of selected length .DELTA.t.sub.change ; or (4) a physiological indicium of the serviceperson is in a danger zone.
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Janky James M.
Schipper John F.
Lee Benjamin C.
Schipper John
Swann Glen
Trimble Navigation Limited
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