WO2018190747A1

WO2018190747A1 - Device for alerting to a threat to personal safety

Info

Publication number: WO2018190747A1
Application number: PCT/RU2017/000653
Authority: WO
Inventors: Леонид Михайлович БЕРЕЩАНСКИЙ; Никита Олегович ЛОБАЧЕВ
Original assignee: Леонид Михайлович БЕРЕЩАНСКИЙ; Никита Олегович ЛОБАЧЕВ
Priority date: 2017-04-11
Filing date: 2017-09-06
Publication date: 2018-10-18

Abstract

Claimed is an alert device in the form of a ring worn on the finger of a user, wherein the following are mounted in an internal cavity thereof: a power supply, a processor and a unit for wirelessly transmitting a signal to an externally arranged signal receiver, and a physical button projects outward from the housing in the lower portion thereof and serves to initiate generation of the signal alerting to a threat to a user's personal safety or to a medical problem. The device also comprises contacts for connecting a charger, and two permanent magnets for retaining the ring on said charger during charging.

Description

Personal Alert Or Health Alert Device

The claimed utility model relates to the field of informing a person of certain subjects about a person’s emergency, sending an alert to these subjects, a call for help and the location of a person who needs help.

Technical solutions are known in the art for the design of wearable on the human body, including in the form of a ring or ring, alarm devices made with the function of secretly sending signals about help and about their location to response services or other personalities. The patents also describe the features of the implementation of such a device in a simplified scheme using a processor, a means for transmitting signals at a distance and an emergency button (US. N22001 / 0052848, G08B 21/00, US X ° 6310539, G08B 23/00, US 2008182547).

So, it is known a device for alarming personal security threats, comprising a housing made in the form of an annular element carried on the user's finger, in the inner cavity of which a power source, a processor and a signal transmission unit are mounted via wireless communication to an externally located receiver of this signal, as well as outward from the housing to its outer side, a button for initiating the generation of the specified signal, which is an alert signaling a threat to personal safety user, characterized in that said button for initiating the generation of a signal that is an alarm signal about a threat to the personal safety of the user is displayed outside on the outer surface of the ring-shaped element in the second and third quadrants in a clockwise direction, the electronic components are mounted on the ring-shaped built-in cavity element of a flexible board in the form of a tape, the power source is located in the upper part of the body of the ring-shaped element on the inner surface of this g the main board on the back of which is placed in relation to the power source a microprocessor board, which is a single-chip Bluetooth controller with an integrated processor that acts as a processor and signal transmission unit, a memory unit for this controller and an antenna, at least one LED indicator is placed on one side of the specified board, and on the other side of the specified board a vibromotor is placed for issuing vibration signals when a button is pressed to initiate signal generation and during the time it is pressed, while the specified controller is configured to initiate signal transmission through ntennu upon termination of the vibration motor (RU 162348, G08B 25/00, publ. 10.06.2016 city). This decision is made as a prototype.

A disadvantage of the known solution is the low adaptability and, as a result, the insufficient reliability of the operation of the device. This is due to the fact that all elements of the component structure are mounted on a flexible bus, that is, the flexible tape itself is the holder of all electronic components of the device. The installation of such a tape inside the ring case is free, that is, the tape simply fits into the ring so that the button is brought out and the processor unit is located in the cavity of the upper part of the case. But the ring belongs to wearable personal objects and therefore is constantly in dynamics, that is, it is shaken, strikes, inertial loads act on it, etc. Such external loads, as a rule, lead to the fact that they are transmitted and to everything that is inside the ring. Shaking and displacement of the tape and components on it occur. In addition, deformation of the tape when mounting in a ring is possible. Any deformation may lead to loss of contact, soldering failure, breakdown of the conductor, etc. It should not be forgotten that the use of processor units in closed structures leads to a sharp increase in the temperature of the crystal and the supply voltage of its core. This can lead to significant energy consumption of the battery and the failure of the processor unit or its conclusion to non-standard operating mode. All of the above indicates a technological flaw in the design of the ring and the high probability of its failure due to poor operational reliability. This utility model is aimed at achieving a technical result, which consists in increasing the manufacturability of the structure to increase its operational reliability and simplify installation.

The specified technical result is achieved in that an alarm device for personal security threats or health problems, comprising a housing made in the form of a ring worn on the user's finger, in the inner cavity of which is mounted a power source, a processor and a signal transmission unit via wireless communication to an externally located the receiver of this signal, as well as the physical button brought out from the housing in its lower part to initiate the generation of the specified signal, which is a warning signal of a threat to the user's personal safety or health condition, as well as a bus in the form of a flexible tape located in the cavity of the ring, a power source in the form of a flat battery located in the upper part of the housing, a single-chip Bluetooth controller with an integrated processor that implements the functions of the processor and unit signal transmission, antenna, while an LED indicator is output from the housing, and a vibration motor is placed in the cavity of the housing for issuing tactile vibration signals when a button is pressed to initiate the generation of a signal which is an alarm signal about a threat to the user's personal safety or a violation of his health condition, it is equipped with a circuit board located in the upper part of the case and inside the latter, on which a single-chip Bluetooth controller, antenna and voltage regulator are placed, the indicated battery is placed under the circuit board, and the vibromotor is attached to the bottom of the board and is located along the specified battery, the bus at one end is attached to the board and passed inside the ring along the bus to the section the second and third quadrants in the clockwise direction, the LED indicator is pulled out of the housing outward in the area between the physical button and the board, and on the interface section of the second and third quadrants in the clockwise direction, two contacts are fixed on the bus and outward from the housing connection s charger and two permanent magnets to hold the ring on the charger when charging.

These features are significant and are interconnected with the formation of a stable set of essential features sufficient to obtain the desired technical result.

The present utility model is illustrated by a specific example of execution, which, however, is not the only possible one, but clearly demonstrates the possibility of achieving the required technical result.

FIG. 1 - layout of the ring, view from one side;

FIG. 2 - layout of the ring, view from the other side.

According to the present utility model, the design of a personal security alarm device carried in the form of a ring is carried on a user's hand. This device informs certain subjects about a person getting into an emergency situation in which this person needs help. In particular, it is a threat to personal safety or a violation of the state of health.

In general, a personal safety hazard alarm device comprises a housing made in the form of a ring or a ring that is worn on a user's finger, in the inner cavity of which a power source, processor means and a signal transmission unit are mounted via wireless communication to an externally located receiver of this signal, and the button that is brought out from the case to its outside for initiating the generation of the specified signal, which is an alarm signaling a threat to personal safety User STI. This physical button for initiating the generation of a signal, which is an alarm signal about a threat to the user's personal safety, is brought out on the outer surface of the ring-shaped element in the second and third quadrants in a clockwise direction.

Electronic components are mounted in the cavity of a ring or ring. These components include a power supply, a processor, and a unit. transmitting a signal via wireless communication to an externally located receiver of this signal, as well as a physical button brought out from the housing in its lower part to initiate the generation of the specified signal, which is an alarm signal about a threat to the user's personal safety or a violation of his health condition, as well as rings placed in the cavity a bus in the form of a flexible tape located in the upper part of the housing a power supply in the form of a flat-shaped battery, a single-chip Bluetooth controller with built-in a processor that performs the functions of a processor and signal transmission unit, an antenna, while an LED indicator is output from the housing, and a vibromotor is placed in the cavity of the housing to provide tactile vibration signals when a button is pressed to initiate the generation of a signal that is an alarm signaling a threat to the user's personal safety or violation of health. In addition, the device is equipped with a circuit board located in the upper part of the case and inside the latter, on which a single-chip Bluetooth controller, antenna and processor power controller are located.

In addition, this device can be additionally equipped with a positioning unit associated with the controller for transmitting in the signal packet an alarm signaling a threat to the user's personal safety and location coordinates. Or it can be additionally equipped with a signal receiving unit from a computerized means for inputting a signal to cancel sending a signal, which is an alarm signal about a threat to the user's personal safety.

A specific implementation of such a device is shown in FIG. 1 and 2, in which the positions indicate the following components of the ring or ring: 1- LED indicator (LED), 2 - bus in the form of a flat flexible cable such as tape, 3 - physical button, 4 - voltage regulator, 5 - flat battery (rectangular in plan), 6 - permanent magnets, 7 - Bluetooth controller with an integrated processor that performs the functions of a processor and signal transmission unit, 8 - antenna for the module Bluetooth controller, 9 - vibration motor, 10 - two contacts for connecting the charger. The housing 11 of this device can be made of any known material and in shape resembles a ring or ring, is detachable.

As a Bluetooth controller with an integrated processor, for example, the CC2540 Bluetooth chip, a single-chip Bluetooth controller with an integrated processor that functions as a processor and signal transmission unit, can be used. Or, for example, AT76C551 is a single-chip controller designed to organize high-speed transmission of data over a radio channel over short distances in the allowed radio frequency range of ISM. The AT76C551 contains an RF processor. This processor performs all the processing, including modulation and demodulation, of the digital stream according to the Bluetooth standard. The device controls the transceiver and a predetermined speech coffee machine. The AT76C551 contains the ARM7TDMI microprocessor core, which supports working with external and internal memory via a standard microprocessor interface.

A feature of the claimed device is the use of voltage regulator 4 (power). The clock frequency of microprocessors is growing steadily and reaches high values. Increasing the clock frequency of the microprocessor is accompanied by a significant increase in its power consumption, which, accordingly, leads to an increase in the temperature of the processor chip. In addition, the power consumption of microprocessors is also affected by the increase in the number of transistors on its chip (the more modern the processor, the higher the degree of integration it has). Although CMOS transistors, which form the basis of microprocessors, consume scanty currents when closed, but when it comes to several million transistors located on the processor chip, this is no longer neglected. CMOS transistors carry out the main energy consumption at the moment of its switching on, and, naturally, the more often the transistors switch, the more energy they consume. Thus, the processor chip begins to heat up very much, which leads to a significant deterioration

b switching processes of transistors and is able to disable them. At the same time, it is not possible to solve the problem exclusively by tapping. All this forces manufacturers to reduce the supply voltage of microprocessors, more precisely, the voltage of its core. Reducing the supply voltage can solve the problem of power dissipated on the chip of the microprocessor and lower its temperature. If the very first microprocessors of the 80x86 family had a supply voltage of + 5V (and for the first time a voltage reduction to + З.ЗВ was applied in 180486), then the latest generations of microprocessors can already operate at a supply voltage of + 0.5V (see Intel's VR11 specification). But the fact is that such low voltages are not produced by the system power supply. Recall that at its output only voltages + 3.3V, + 5V and + 12V are formed. Thus, on the motherboard should appear its own voltage regulator, able to lower these "high voltage" voltages to the level necessary to power the processor core, i.e. up to 0.5 - 1.6 V (Art. "Voltage Regulators for Powering Modern Intel Pentium Processors and AMD Processors" on the World of PC Peripherals website, http://wvm.miipu.ru/motherboard/81-2011-02- 12-20-10-05 / 153--).

Thus, the use of a voltage regulator allows you to control the temperature of the operating mode of the processor to increase its durability and operational reliability, it is therefore important that the processor unit is in a cavity of a closed volume and does not have ventilation.

In addition, a feature of the claimed solution is its layout. So, we use a rigid board located at the top of the ring and inside the latter, on which a single-chip Bluetooth controller is placed, an antenna is a voltage regulator, the indicated battery is placed under the board, and the vibromotor is attached to the bottom of the board and is located along the specified battery. A flexible tire is used as a connection element and an element for attaching individual components to it. The bus is attached at one end to the board on the processor side and passed inside the ring along the bus to the interface section of the second and third quadrants in a clockwise direction. The LED indicator is brought out of the housing outward in the area between a physical button and a board, and on the interface section of the second and third quadrants in the clockwise direction, two permanent magnets and two contacts for connecting the charger are fixed and pulled out from the housing. The tire is made with ears 12 for attaching it to the wall of the tire and eliminating its displacement.

The use of a battery of a non-removable or non-replaceable type requires the use of rechargeable batteries. In this case, for this purpose, two contact bodies brought out to the outside are used, which must correspond to the contacts on the charger (charger not shown). The use of the contact circuit for connecting to the charger is due to the fact that the housing bus in the part in which these contacts are located has very small transverse dimensions, within which the usual plug contacts do not fit. Therefore, in the claimed ring, the contacts are contact pads of the point type, which should adjoin the same contact pads on the charger.

At the same time, the ring itself, despite its balance, is an unstable structure that will not be held upright when charging. In this regard, in the contact zone there are two permanent magnets that hold the ring in a predetermined position on the charger.

The battery 5 feeds all the actions. When you press the physical button 3 and hold it pressed for N seconds, the vibration motor 9, when interacting with the vibration motor control board and the Bluetooth module, controller 7 vibrates all the while holding this physical button 3. After N seconds, the Bluetooth module detects the expiration of this predetermined time and routes the signal through this Bluetooth module, using the antenna 8 to the associated mobile device to perform further specific scenarios. At this time, LED 1 can indicate system health. A feature of the claimed utility model is that the panic button is located on the outer surface of the product - at the bottom of the ring bar, this allows you to send an alarm and its location with a single motion of the finger, even when restricting the movement of human hands.

In addition, in the well-known rings and rings, the layout architecture provides that the electronic part is made in the form of a monoblock inserted into a socket in a ring or in the form of mounting on a flexible bus. In this utility model, the layout is used, according to which all the main electronic components responsible for the operation of the device are mounted, in fact, on one and the other side of the rigid board. And additional elements are mounted on a flexible bus, which has the ability to lie down fixedly in the bus. Thus, the board forms a monoblock with constant and indestructible from external influences electrical connections.

A person in an emergency and who needs help can use smartphone software and / or a special wearable electronic device (for example, a ring on his finger) to send an alarm and his location to certain subjects.

The roles of these entities may include, but not limited to:

- relatives, friends, close people,

- state security services,

- private security organizations,

- people who are from the user who clicked on the button in a given radius from 0 to 2000 meters.

- users of interest communities within the network system in which the person is a member. It is also understood that a person, after registering in a network system, can enter into groups previously established or created by the users themselves. User groups can be classified according to various criteria, for example, university graduates of such and such, colleagues at work of such and such, motorcyclists, residents of the district of such and such, diasporas by nationality and others. The user can independently determine in advance (the choice can be made in advance in software for smartphones), to whom the alarm will be sent and its location when you click on the panic button in the program for smartphones (soft button) and / or on a separate wearable electronic device (for example, a ring on your finger) (hard button). In the case of proxies, their confirmation will be required to be included in the list of proxies of the user.

An alarm along with the user's location can be sent to certain subjects using any communication system (GSM, CDMA, wi-fi, WTMAX, Bluetooth, etc.).

In the case of private security organizations, an alarm will be sent to the closest quick response group connected to our system. For a quick response team, leaving the call will be mandatory.

The network system implies software for mobile devices (operating systems AppleiOS, GoogleAndroid, Microsoft Windows Mobile and others), a web version and a server part for implementing various scenarios.

When you click on a physical panic button located on a wearable electronic device connected to this system, an alarm is sent and the location of the user sending this signal to certain subjects is sent.

To send an alarm, in the case of a physical alarm button located on a wearable electronic device (for example, a ring on a finger), the user needs to hold the button for N seconds (while the wearable electronic device (buzzes, indicating that the user is about to send an alarm.) The following scenario occurs:

In case of a false press, the user has N seconds to cancel the alarm through the application by entering his personal secret password. If there is no cancellation, an alarm with the user's location is sent to predetermined subjects (one, several or all to choose from):

Yu - To proxies via SMS and in a mobile application,

- The police.

- Private security organizations.

- To people located from the user who clicked the button in a given radius from 0 to 2000 meters.

- To users of the communities of interest within our system, in which the person is a member.

One embodiment implies that after sending a signal to the police, the user receives a call on his phone in order to clarify the situation. If there is no answer to the call, a police squad is sent to the user's location. The second embodiment implies that the police receive a digital signal with the user's location and send an outfit to him. After receiving the alarm, the corresponding recipients of this signal will be able to monitor the movements of the user on the map until the alarm ends. (Recipients of the alarm signal will be able to view the alarm card of the call, on which there will be detailed information on the call - the location at the time of the call, if available - the route of the caller’s movement, his current location, response status of other response entities, chat to coordinate the actions of response entities, etc. )

This utility model is industrially applicable, it allows to increase the manufacturability of the structure to increase its operational reliability and simplify installation.

Claims

Utility Model Formula

An alarm device for personal security threats or health problems, comprising a housing made in the form of a ring wearable on the user's finger, in the inner cavity of which a power source, processor and signal transmission unit are mounted via wireless communication to an externally located receiver of this signal, as well as out of the case in its lower part, a physical button for initiating the generation of the specified signal, which is an alarm signaling a personal security threat user safety or health problems, as well as a bus in the form of a flexible tape located in the cavity of the ring, located in the upper part of the housing, a power supply in the form of a flat battery, a single-chip Bluetooth controller with an integrated processor that performs the functions of a processor and signal transmission unit, an antenna, this led out of the housing LED indicator, and in the cavity of the housing is placed a vibration motor for issuing tactile vibrations when a button is pressed to initiate the generation of a signal is a signal Scope of the alarm notification about the threat to the personal safety of the user or violation of the state of health, characterized in that it is equipped with a circuit board located in the upper part of the case and inside the last one, on which the single-chip Bluetooth controller, antenna and voltage regulator are placed, the indicated battery is placed under the circuit board, and the vibromotor is attached to the bottom of the board and located along the specified battery, the bus is attached at one end to the board and passed inside the ring along the bus to the interface between the second and third quad nt in the clockwise direction, the LED indicator is pulled out of the housing outward in the area between the physical button and the board, and on the interface section of the second and third quadrants in the clockwise direction on the bus are fixed and pushed out of the case two contacts for connecting the charger and two permanent magnets to hold the ring on the charger while charging.