CA3003863A1 - Lifeband canada personal emergency alert system - Google Patents

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LIFEBAND CANADA PERSONAL EMERGENCY
ALERT SYSTEM
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ALERT SYSTEM
What is it?
LifeBand is a two way emergency alert, lifesaving device worn on the body.
LifeBand is an individual lifesigns and environmental monitor which will, if the wearer is in a physical emergency, sound an alert, emit a light beacon and immediately forward the gps location of the wearer directly to emergency services.
The wearer can also set LifeBand's emergency alert manually if needed.
LifeBand has separate parental controls for its child-call to parent and parental gps ping to locate child.
It can also be used as an incoming broadcast emergency alert system, giving wearers in a targeted area warnings of pending disasters, such as fire, flood, tsunami, earthquakes and other emergency alerts.

LifeBandl, Introduction Introduction to LifeBand As people continue to be lost in our mountains or assaulted, shot at; or hit by cars in their own quiet neighbourhoods, as we face fire, flood, cyclones, earthquakes and droughts, as our water defenses along our coasts continue to fall in the face of insurmountable storms, and as the people on our streets are dying daily of overdoses, I believe governments worldwide can now take action to establish overall emergency relief systems for communication in times of need, to help alert citizens in emergencies and help any citizen caught in a life threatening situation.
This proposal contains my originating drawings, specifications, addenda comments and descriptions of important aspects of the LifeBand system.
LifeBand is a two-way emergency alert system, worn as a bracelet, necklace or ankle band with built-in life monitors, an incoming emergency 911 alert system for general disasters, as well as a non-invasive, personal, direct connection to 911 life-saving services when needed by the wearer.
LifeBand for Children has a parent call button for kids, and a parent GPS locator for parental oversight.
It is designed to save lives by either receiving community alerts from government emergency services, or sending outgoing 911 calls from individuals in stress who need emergency services. LifeBand is designed with one idea in mind: to save lives.
I would like to forward copies of all LifeBand documents to the heads of emergency services and first responders in B.C., for their evaluation and comments.
How much faster and easier it will be to alert or locate survivors using their actual GPS, called immediately to 911, as well as the blinking light and bellowing alarm to further help rescuers locate survivors quickly!
During a one week period last year in 2017:
A man drowned in Westwood Lake in Nanaimo after falling off his canoe. It took them 2 days to find him.
A man was pinned under the upside down wreckage of his semi-trailer truck off Highway 3 down a snowy 75 foot embankment for two days before he was found. His GPS
unit in the truck had failed. He was rescued but subsequently died.

A teen skier accompanied by a party of other schoolmates somehow got off the beaten path, fell off an embankment and subsequently died in the snow. He wasn't found for hours until roll call.
These tragedies were in British Columbia alone, and probably only represent a fraction of the lives who would have been saved, had the LifeBand system been worn and activated.
I believe all these people could have had another shot at life if they had been wearing a LifeBand and been found quickly!
It is my hope that I will find optimistic, visionary, governments and philanthropists who will help finance and arrange the initial stages, as well as software and hardware developers who can make this vision happen, so that we can all communicate and assemble the factors required to develope, distribute and activate such a life saving system.
I will forge forward with plans to make this a reality.
Emergency Services will get more calls, save more lives, and take much less time. There would also be search and rescue cost savings instead of extended, sometimes heartbreaking, searches.

Better to be found quickly and alive with LifeBand!
LifeBand2, New Technologies Governments can now explore new technologies, bringing hope and help to those in need and alerting them to danger. This technology is not invasive, it is protective:
911 at your fingertips, your heart beat and your need.
The LifeBand system has literally millions of applications.
In the old days, we built railways through the heartland and had no fear of tomorrow, but today, given the deplorable state of our planet's health, as nature fights back with wind, rain, flood, fire, earthquakes, tsunamis...
we create emergency alert systems, networking help at the touch of a button.
LIFEBAND CANADA PERSONAL EMERGENCY
ALERT SYSTEM
LifeBand3, Specifications 1.0 LIFEBAND, WHAT'S IN A NAME?

1.1 The LifeBand idea, connectivity and functions are not, as yet, patented or trademarked, and for the purposes of this communication with potential developers and other interested parties, I trust my Canadian copyright will be respected despite any changes to the name or future registration of the patents and trademarks created herein.
1.2 For purposes of this originating contact, whenever I
use the word "LifeBand" in this document it will mean whatever name is finally chosen for the device and systems developed which I describe herein. The name "LifeBand", or "LifeBand System", when referred to in these documents therefore refers to: "LifeBand Canada Personal Emergency Alert System"
Perhaps the name "LifeBand" will not be available, then we would try another name as may be registrable.
1.3 LifeBand should be lightweight, slimline and flexible, so it does not interfere with sports, and should be heat, cold, water and shock resistant, as well as affordable.
1.4 As LifeBand expands globally, saving lives, bringing hope to people in crisis and saving as many families as possible from the loss of loved ones, I cannot begin to imagine how many souls this device will save, particularly when it is placed on the global marketplace.

2.0 INTRODUCTION TO LIFEBAND
2.1 In this turbulent 21st century our needs and desires are transmitted via celltower and interne to whomever has the interest and prowess to accumulate this knowledge or to hack us.
2.2 "They" know what we buy, where we have gone and can track us with our cellphones, should "they" desire.
This leaves little room for privacy.
2.3 The purposes of the devices we generally use on a daily basis are not intended to save our lives, but to make them more convenient for social and business purposes.
On occasion, the intemet has exposed social vices, even criminal acts, by virtue of instant online video taping during, or immediately after, the commission of a crime or an accident.
2.4 But what of our everyday lives and our safety in danger? What device do we use to get help if we don't have a cellphone or can't dial 911? What if our heart has stopped and we are alone at home? What if we have fallen down an embankment off a ski slope and into a snow-hole and our arms are pinned down by the weight of the snow? What if your car has fallen off the side of the highway and into a frigid, water filled ditch and you have been knocked out? How do you call for help?
2.5 So many times I see lives lost, people in the wilderness for days, even weeks, surviving on nothing, or being lost to us forever, simply because we could not find them.
2.6 But what if we could find them? What if we heard the call of a heart that has stopped beating and came quickly to help resuscitate them? What if our life was saved by the LifeBand temperature sensor when we are caught suddenly in drastic freezing conditions? So many lives could be saved if we could get to people quickly and apply remediation and CPR.
2.7 LifeBand is designed to save people's lives in dire need or when they cannot themselves call 911 due to heart failure or environmental and situational disasters. It is also a system to alert wearers in the event of widespread problematic weather or earth events, such as earthquakes and landslides, fires and floods.

3.0 LIFEBAND: WHAT IS IT, WHAT DOES IT DO
AND HOW DOES IT WORK?

3.1 LifeBand is a two way emergency alert system.
LifeBand is worn on the body, the wrist, ankle or as a necklace. Its purpose is to call a GPS Alert to a 911 operator via cell or satellite service provider when the wearer is in dire need, or to respond to Emergency Services Notifications. Children's LifeBands have a parental call button, and parents can ping their children to locate them as well. LifeBand will sound an alarm and show a blinking red light as well as send a GPS Alert when:
3.1.1 The wearer activates the GPS Alert button on their own in a time of crisis;
3.1.2 The wearer's pulse either becomes exceedingly rapid or far too slow or if the pulse disappears altogether;
or 3.1.3 If the temperature surrounding the LifeBand and on the wearer is either far too cold for a human (cold water, snow, ice) or too hot (fire), indicating a climatically dangerous situation for the wearer.
3.2 The LifeBand is acquired, registered and then worn for a week to establish "normal" pulse and temperature patterns for that particular individual, and the LifeBand uses these and other standard parameters to judge whether a person is in cardiac or other distress, at which time the GPS Alert signals 911, and the sound and light alarms bring attention to the person needing care.
3.3 A wearer can also unilaterally activate the GPS Alert system if they are in trouble and need immediate help from first responders, such as fire, police, ambulance, as well as search and rescue. Children can send their parents a gps alert with the parent call button without interfering in the 911 system.
3.3.1 The LifeBand GPS Alert will sound and blink for a period of time until it is turned off by the wearer, or they cancel the LifeB and GPS Alert and puts the LifeB and back on Standby mode, or if help comes to stop the GPS
Alert.
3.3.2 It is apparent that a person in dire stress would not want to have a sounding alarm at certain times or for long periods. If the person is unconscious it would not matter, but if the person is awake and has control with their hands, there should be an easy sound on/off button, perhaps voice controlled, which can deactivate the sound alarm without losing the overall 911 GPS Alert and light.
3.4 For continuous 911 access signal service, it is important that the LifeBand's GPS Alert signals be immediately conveyed to rescue individuals, therefore built-in redundancies must be in place, whether by cable, cell, satellite or other provider. The LifeBand signal to 911 must not be compromised.
3.4.1 Dedicated, high altitude satellites are suggested.
3.5 LifeBand will not monitor nor convey its GPS
location unless the Alert button is pressed by the wearer, or for life sign problems, or for Emergency Alerts incoming, at which time the GPS location is pinged and conveyed to the carrier system and 911. The LifeBand alarm and light will then be activated as well. Incoming Emergency Alerts will carry written notification of the emergency status: fire, flood, avalanche, etc.
3.6 LifeBand will have only 2 settings: On and Standby.
3.6.1 On: The LifeBand displays time, day, date and status (i.e.: "On", LifeSigns: "Normal", etc.) 3.6.2 Standby: The LifeBand does not display time, day, date, or status, but appears to be off. In Standby mode the LifeBand is still competely functional and will respond both to outgoing and incoming alerts. Standby mode is meant to prolong battery life.
3.7 Putting the LifeBand on the bedside table at night or in your pocket: If the LifeBand is taken off, it will not, of course, register life signs, but will be ready and able to respond immediately with the Alert button and for incoming Emergency Alerts. It is presumed the LifeBand will know when it is not being worn and respond to extreme cold and heat surrounding it only.
3.8 There is no "off' button for the LifeBand. Since it is easy to set aside, but remains functional in a time of need, LifeBand must be ready at the touch of a fingertip and long power-up times or allowing the LifeBand to deteriorate to poor battery strength are not recommended.

4.0 LIFEBAND, UPDATES
4.1 Since the world is continually changing, so will the system for LifeBand and its component apps. Updates to the system should be performed when necessary, without charge to the wearer. These could be similar to other computer update systems and there must be access and room in the memory of the mini circuits, or a removable replaceable chip station, to allow for future updates and system expansions.

5.0 LIFEBAND, WATCH
Day, date and time make wearing the LifeBand continually useful, an essential part of every day, increasing chances it will be worn or close at hand when needed.

6.0 LIFEBAND, BATTERIES
6.1 Long life lithium ion or the newly developing solid plastic electrolyte batteries (Nova, "Search for the Super Battery" and the new battery link below, 6.1.1) are possible, but would need to be strong enough to power the light and sound alarm as well as holding the GPS Alert signal for a very long time when an individual is in danger and has called for help, as well as holding power through extremely long standby modes.
6.1.1 This is a link to a corporation which produces high capacity, low risk batteries. There are so many new innovations, I suspect we can create the needed batteries for the small, LifeBand units.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/marcochiappetta/2017/01/31/
researchers-create-new-high-capacity-battery-technology-without-lithium-ions-explosive-risks/#1252bc055ae3 6.2 Batteries should be directly rechargeable from our cellphones, computers, electrical outlets and cars. There are new batteries being created every day, some charged by body movement. Here is a link to some interesting innovations in carbon fibre batteries: http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/130380-future-batteries-coming-soon-charge-in-seconds-last-months-and-power-over-the-air 6.3 Solar LifeBand Plus for mountaineers and other outdoor applications could have solar battery charging for longer trips where normal recharging is impossible. If a light, reliable battery could be found and easily installed on all LifeBands, of course, that would be extremely beneficial in keeping them charged and ready when needed.

7.0 LIFEBAND, REGISTRATION
7.1 Beginning formats for the standard adult and children's LifeBands will be a bracelet, which can also be used as an anklet, and a pendant necklace worn under the clothes. Perhaps technologists can create a belt-attached, functional LifeBand which performs safely.
7.2 Each LifeBand will be registered by the intended wearer. The only identification required will be the person's gender and birthdate, and, if they so choose, their cellphone number. No address or name will be necessary as each LifeBand will have its own serial number and that is the number which is registered to the system with the server. Once registered, individually tested to ensure it is completely functional, and the LifeBand has been activated, there's nothing more to do but wear it to register your own life signs on the unit - and hope you don't need to use it.

7.3 There is no need for name or address since it doesn't matter who you are, or from what station in life, or where you live, your life matters and emergency services will be called to your exact location when the GPS alert is activated. Birthdate and gender are enough for ES to prepare and arrive. Gender sensitive individuals can, of course, say no gender, or whatever they deem expressive of their gender.

8.0 LIFEBAND, DIRECT 911 CONNECTIVITY
8.1 We can be tracked anytime via methods described in my Introduction. This LifeBand system is not intended to track individuals down, it is intended to save lives by quickly locating persons in distress and administering remediation or conversely alerting wearers to emergency situations. As such, it will need direct 911 dispatch connectivity.
8.1.1 For example: A LifeBand GPS Alert comes in to 911 and it is located in the deep woods of the mountains, it's a fair bet it's a search and rescue call.
8.1.2 If a LifeBand GPS Alert comes from a location on or right beside a highway, it's likely some kind of vehicle accident, highway rock fall or a pedestrian on the highway is hurt and needs assistance to survive.

8.1.3 If a LifeBand GPS Alert comes in and the GPS
signal is in the middle of the Georgia Strait or on a waterway somewhere, then it would seem to be a water search and rescue.
8.1.4 However, if a GPS Alert comes into 911 in a highly populated area, or within range of a cell signal, there is no way to tell what is wrong with the individual who is alerting, except if his or her pulse is weak or absent, or if temperature variations are occurring. Therefore a follow up call can be made to the LifeBand wearer's last registered cellphone number, hopefully to establish direct contact with them or a passerby.
8.2 Of course if the GPS Alert happens in the city, there would, no doubt, be someone nearby to hear the alarm and see the flashing red light. Local individuals, in turn, could assist the patient and call 911 dispatch with accident details. The quick locating and administering of naloxone, or other antidotes will quickly save drug overdose victims' lives.
8.3 LifeBand is not fail safe, and no matter what our best efforts may be, tragedy does occur, but I do believe LifeBand will be faster, better than many alternatives available today, such as our cellphones.

8.4 Imagine you are in a disaster and you are fumbling in your pocket for your cellphone, which may or may not cooperate in your situation, and which may or may not have a good cell signal or a good enough charge, or worse still, you may have nothing at all with you to communicate your dire need for help. What if you cannot cry out for help?
8.5 911 services will be accessed much faster and people, such as small children, the elderly, the homeless, those stranded on little known slopes, or buried in debris, will be found and helped more expediently.
8.6 Timeliness is the essence of helping people stay alive, particularly with the unfortunates who are unknowingly caught in a fentanyl or other drug overdose.

9.0 LIFEBAND, EMERGENCY ALERT: FIND
SOMEONE OR ALERT SOMEONE BY REMOTELY
ACTIVATING THEIR LIFEBANDS
9.1 Emergency Alert can be used by emergency services to remotely advise individuals in harm's way, for example fire, flood, landslide, snowslide, earthquake, etc. If LifeB and is on standby, and the batteries are charged, 911 Dispatch can send a signal to the LifeBand wearer which in turn sets off the GPS Alert, sound and light, and draws their attention.

9.2 LifeBand will be extremely useful in alerting citizens to fires, tsunamis and earthquakes, and other natural disaster through Emergency Alert. This system should allow an Alert with written description, such as "Earthquake", "Tsunami", fire, flood, evacuation, and so on.
9.2.1 For example, should many be contacted by Emergency Alert simultaneously, and if broadcast widely over large areas in catastrophic conditions, many will be advised and/or wakened. People could take action to protect themselves and their families from fragile structures around them which might fall to incoming earthquakes, tidal waves or slides, giving them a chance to seek higher, safer ground, or whatever measures are deemed necessary to avert certain personal disasters. By sending out broad spectrum alerts to persons in targeted danger zones, lives will be saved.
9.3 Reverse GPS tracking (tracking individuals wearing LifeBands) other than in emergency situations shall be prohibited, and defenses should be up against errant hackers!
9.4 Wearers of LifeBands will be notified when Reverse GPS Tracking is being performed since it would sound off the GPS Alert system.

9.5 There should be freedom for all of us without need of being tracked, leaving our lives and excursions private without the LifeBand conveying any GPS info unless Alert status has been activated. I believe this is a universal human freedom, the right to move without being tracked.
9.6 In an emergency alert, such as flood or fire, emergency services would target an area for a LifeBand emergency signal and all LifeBands within that target area would sound off and show the alert condition.
9.7 The LifeBand should either be in "Standby" mode, which would not show any display but would be active for alerts, or in full "On" mode, showing active displays, such as time, date, and status. The LifeBand should always remain in one of these two states during which the LifeBand does not convey or keep track of the GPS
location. Only in the event of alerts does the LifeBand immediately send out the current location GPS signal for rescue services.
9.8 On children's and young adult LifeBands, the parents may "ping" their children's LifeBands and children will have a parental call button which sends the gps signal to the parents' cellphones and computers. So as not to interrupt children at school or at play, the parents may activate the GPS locator briefly, which confirms the child's GPS to the parents' phones or computers without activating the Alert or sounding off, etc. I believe that in today's fast paced world, with abductions and disappearances common, the LifeBand can literally be a lifeline for our children in trouble. It is when children are out of their parents' care that they are most vulnerable, and with a parents' call button, kids can call for help at the touch of a finger. With LifeBand, parents can both be notified directly by their children, and also ensure their children are where they should be - and if not, where to find them.

10.0 LIFEBAND, APPLICATIONS FOR REVERSE/
EMERGENCY TRACKING:
10.1 There are many reasonable applications for Reverse Tracking:
10.1.1 Lost or kidnapped children 10.1.2 Lost elders 10.1.3 Missing women 10.1.4 Unknown disappearances in general 10.2 For these, and other public safety reasons, Emergency Services may Reverse Track to an individual's last GPS location to the wearer's LifeBand in silent mode without causing the GPS alarm and light to go off on the wearer (i.e. kidnapping), or full alert if necessary to protect the individual (natural disasters, evacuation notices).
10.3 Armed Forces & Dangerous Offenders 10.3.1 Altered versions of LifeBand would be useful protecting our troops in the armed forces, as well as to monitor and track those deemed dangerous offenders to society.

11.0 LIFEBAND, PLAN OF ACTION
11.1 Apply for patent, trademark and copyright registrations.
11.2 Send out to tender to Canadian software and hardware developers with the expertise and knowledge to create the mini-circuits and the housings.
11.3 Contact regulatory agencies: cellphone and satellite carriers and other interested business and government agencies to begin setting up contextual infrastructures;
11.4 Choose a Canadian company to make prototypes and initiate testing of infrastructures and LifeBand;
11.5 Continue communications with interested parties to ensure any legislation, expectations or rule changes required can be met;
11.6 Tender for a manufacturer, begin production;
11.7 Distribute first production run to first responders for initial use and assessment, then mountaineering sports enthusiasts and the general market, coinciding with having met all regulatory and expected standards;
*NB: Begin as soon as possible, targeting completion and distribution to the public in a highly expedient time frame.
The sooner we manufacture and distribute LifeBand, the more lives we can save!
LifeBand4, Happier Endings 1. A fisherman has fallen off his ship in high seas. He is wearing a life jacket and a LifeBand. He could not be seen for storm and crashing waves, but his LifeBand is flashing red and beeping, his GPS is being alerted and conveyed to 911, and the fishing vessel turns and follows the GPS signal, finally locating the red blinking alert light bouncing on the water. They throw him a line and lifesaver, and haul him aboard.

2. A young child who cannot swim has fallen into a swimming pool in his own back yard and is drowning.
His parents thought he was in the family room, but when their cellphones simultaneously ring the LifeBand to Parent Alert due to his high heart rate from struggling and rapid temperature change from the water, both parents converge on the pool. Dad jumps in and the boy is brought to waterside. Emergency services who had received the GPS Alert arrive and the boy's life signs are stabilized.
3. A little girl has been abducted from a neighbourhood playground. She has been pushed into the back seat of an unknown vehicle and is being transported elsewhere. She has a Kids LifeBand necklace under her clothes. She presses the Alert button from outside her shirt, the alarm sounds and her shirt reflects the red light indicating she is in full alert mode. The abducter, who is driving, pulls to the side of the road to remove the necklace but is met with police vehicles coming from both directions. He jumps out of the car and makes a run for it. The girl is unharmed and returned to her parents safe and sound. The abductor is caught and tried.
Even if an abducter takes off the victim's LifeBand or hits it with a hammer, it would at least signal immediately to parents and 911 the last GPS location of the child and the time of the occurrence.

If the child is in dire need, the alarm and light are certainly the first alerts for those nearby who could immediately help.
4. A man with a gun is entering a mosque. Several men activate their GPS Alerts outside and alarms go off. The gunman is taken by surprise, yet opens fire before making a run for it. There are injuries but no fatalities since the multiple GPS Alert alarms not only distracted the gunman but triggered several 911-called police vehicles which converged on the area with sirens blasting. Before he makes his escape, the terrorist is quickly apprehended, charged and subsequently questioned.
When terrorism events are alerted, it is hoped many enforcement officers will arrive more quickly to the scene, to protect the public and defend them from further attacks by being there promptly. The sounding of alarms also gives prospective victims a heads up chance to duck, hide, run or defend.
5. An elder citizen with Alzheimers slips out a back entrance at her rest home and has found herself lost on an unknown street. She is disoriented and afraid, but doesn't know which way to go. She looks at her wrist LifeBand but can't remember what it's for or how to use it. She begins to wander aimlessly. Luckily the seniors' care facility has noticed her absence and has her on their Parent tracking system. They find her current GPS
location and immediately send out a rescue team. The elder is brought home and finds herself surrounded by her happy family, safe and sound.
6. A young man has been partying with friends. They leave and he is alone. He is in his living room and his heart stops because he has unknowingly ingested fentanyl.
His LifeBand sends an alert and emergency services find him on the floor with no life signs. He is brought back with naloxone and once he knows what has happened to him, redirects his life.
7. A man is walking his pooch through a forest trail and encounters a cougar, he activates his LifeB and, the loud alarm comes on as well as the beacon flashing red light, startling the mountain lion, and the cougar runs off. This might possibly work for bears as well. After the cougar has left, he deactivates the sound alarm and GPS Alert.
All is well, but Emergency services have received the signal and send out a crew just to be sure. When they discover there is a roaming cougar on this trail, notices are put up immediately so future hikers may know and be made aware.
8. A young native girl has found herself far from home in the winter after being dropped off in the middle of nowhere unexpectedly. She is cold and alone and activates her LifeBand. She is found shortly by emergency services and brought home to warmth and safety.
9. An elder living alone has a heart attack. The GPS
Alert is activated by the absence of a pulse. Neighbours hear the alarm and call 911. Emergency responders get there quickly, revive her and take her to hospital for further care.
10. A man is trapped under the rubble of his own home after an earthquake. There are several other members of his family there as well. Luckily, his family have LifeBands and activate the GPS Alerts. Neighbours and friends come to their rescue by following the LifeBand sound beacon and alarm. Searchers find them quickly with all members of his family pulled safely from the wreckage. The sound alarm will be able to bring neighbours together to help one another in many crises.
We have seen in the southern United States in past years with hurricanes and fires, and in Canada, during our many fires, floods and climatic crises, neighbours flock to help neighbours. In the case of an overall area's LifeBand emergency alert system, even if only a few people have active LifeBands, those people who receive an alert will probably set to work both escaping and alerting and assisting others. The LifeBand system will work because people care about each other and want to help and be helped.
11. Baby LifeBand: As a result of "infant death syndrome", a newborn's heart has stopped in the night.
His Baby LifeBand immediately registers lack of pulse, and sets off the GPS Alert and alarms. Both parents leap out of bed and go to the baby's crib, fondling and stimulating her, Mom giving resuscitating CPR - all their hopes are in these actions!
The baby begins breathing and responds to the CPR. As they are leaving to take her to the hospital, an ambulance is arriving. Paramedics take over, administering oxygen and the baby survives. Could this be possible - to save babies dying needlessly with immediate action!? We won't know unless we try!

12. A family member wakes in the night to find the smoke alarm has failed and the home is full of smoke. He activates his LifeBand and begins to wake members of the family. As emergency services arrive his two children have awakened and activated their LifeBands and are saved from the fire, easily located by emergency responders by the sound and light alarm beacons.

13. A man has fallen asleep at the wheel. The pulse detector goes off but he doesn't wake soon enough to avoid landing in a deep, water filled ditch beside the road.
The LifeBand's alarm goes off and the light begins blinking as the cold water inundates his vehicle. A
passing driver sees the bright red hue blinking in the forest, stops to investigate, calls emergency services, who have by now received the driver's GPS Alert and are being dispatched to the scene. The man lives, despite freezing, icy conditions, because he is found quickly.

14. A man is trapped and unconscious underneath a mountain of snow after an avalanche. He cannot activate his LifeBand GPS Alert despite this because his arms are pinned in the snow, however, the temperature change monitor notes that, and subsequently sets itself off, giving GPS location, initiating the sound alert and starts blinking red light in the snow. He is found and excavated quickly -and survives.

15. While attending a school dance, an 18-year-old university student has been victimized by a date rape drug in her drink. Her vital signs go off the chart as the drug takes effect. Her LifeB and anklet signals distress to 911.
Police and ambulance arrive at her GPS location within minutes. They find her in an alley, still with the perpetrator. This young girl is given life saving oxygen and an antidote. They pursue and arrest the attacker, having arrived JUST ON TIME to save this young student from all the worst possibiities, and to witness firsthand and with police video, for future court actions.

16. A man has been hit by a car in the cold of night and is lying in a ditch on the side of a lonely road with little traffic. He is badly injured, but he reaches to his LifeBand and sets off the emergency alert. An ambulance arrives in the dark to his exact GPS location, where they also see the blinking light and hear the alarm. He is saved from fatal injuries and certain death having been found and cared for quickly.

17. A parent has pinged her daughter's LifeBand and finds she is not where she was supposed to be I could go on and on, earthquakes, tsunamis, high winds and seas, so many applications! I know first responders value lives. This technology could do so and I believe, given recent advancements, we can create and master this life saving system in record time.
In this letter presentation I mention two hikers in our B.C.
Coast Mountains, lost in the rising tide of snow during a severe cold snap. A happier story would be that the two men wisely activated their LifeBands when they arrived at the trail head to begin their hike. One had fallen down an embankment and broken a leg. The other immediately activated his LifeBand. They wait 20 minutes for emergency services to arrive in a helicopter. They both live, one with a cast. To me, that's a happier ending, and my heart goes out to all those families who have lost loved ones, that none may ever be lost like this again....
as it does to little Marrisa's family, friends and loved ones.
Could she have been saved by the LifeBand?
I cannot foresee all the possible uses for this device, the LifeBand, nor can I project any possible hacking of any designated system, but I do know that if we develope this software and hardware, and get it out there to the general public, the LifeBand system will save many, many lives.
LifeBand5, A mission of hope and compassion for all In January this year, after seeing a news bulletin about a search for two men who had been hiking in our local Vancouver mountains, and who had subsequently not been found, I felt an overwhelming urge to help. I felt such compassion for the families of these two men and wondered if a lifesaving device could be made. I did rough drawings of possibilities in my daily diary.
Awhile later, I again saw on the news that several men had been consumed by an avalanche and how the survivors tried to find some of their friends in the deep snow, but to no avail. They could not find them to save them. The loss of these lives seemed so needless to me, in this day and age of advanced technology. "Surely," I
thought, "there must be a way!" I decided to go back to my original drawings and re-draw my device, my invention, and present it to Canadian governments for consideration, to save lives. The Canadian Federal Government referred me to the Canadian Intellectual Property Office to proceed with patent registration.
Because it is a wristband and designed to save your life, I
call it "LifeBand". Only at my original design stages, I
nevertheless considered moving forward with it right away, due to the imminent nature of my concern for my fellow citizens who continue to be lost in the woods, found too late on our streets, or never found.
We cannot save every life, and every gadget and gizmo made by man cannot foresee all the possible hazards we may face in life, however, I do believe that the LifeBand will save many lives and make us proud we brought this technology forward for that reason.
It is hoped that on the slopes, on hiking trails, on the waters, in our inner cities, the street people and those financially challenged, in our homes and on our streets, we will all have immediate assistance. LifeBand should be simple to use and affordable to all families. If LifeBand can be made, and a system designed to support it, it should be made, and it is my deepest hope that it will.
I am grateful to all those who have received this submission and to those who will complete its mission of hope for those in need that their lives may be saved - and I am grateful to be Canadian since birth.
Thanking you, Sharon Sedola LifeBand6, Intergovernmental Cooperation Because of its importance and scope, the LifeB and system will need to have intergovernmental approvals and cooperation to proceed. Once the myriad benefits of the system become apparent, I feel this will be forthcoming.
LifeBand7, Under Government Oversight Generally we have no control over corporations and their decisions, or their reasons therefor. Our governments, on the other hand, are democratic, and therefore to some extent controllable by the average citizen with his or her opinion and vote, and government oversight can ensure LifeBand's efficiency with the 911 system is secure.

An idea as vast and sweeping in its ability to save lives and send out community alerts should not be compromised by unilateral corporate control.
Canadian technological firms, universities, tech institutes or affiliate corporations need to be chosen with this in mind to create the hardware and software since this cannot be left in the hands of the LifeBand corporation alone. It is an emergency alert system and should not be compromised, and must be made available to all.
This is why I appeal to the government, our democratic representatives, that once this LifeBand system is ready to be distributed, having met all government checks and standards, to support this system and keep it in accordance with all governments' rules and regulations.
Wherever this system is utilized, it is devised to be co-initiated at start-up, maintained and overseen by the standing governments' coordinated 911 systems.
LifeBand8, Universally Available To All LifeBand's cost should be affordable on the open market for individuals and families, and by subsidy or grant through the government for those who cannot afford one, or through the LifeBand Foundation. All standard LifeBands should be the same configuration for all wearers, so no financial discrimination will take place.
Specialty LifeBands with Emergency Alert Notification buttons, however, may be used by emergency services and all public lifesaving and protection services to give general alerts to the public in a time of crisis.
LifeBands are meant to save all lives, whether in our own homes, on the slopes, or the poor man who sleeps unseen in our back lane. We all need help sometimes.
A long time ago our great Canadian NDP Leader, Tommy, had a vision of Canada where everyone had equal health care - and it became a reality for all of us, for our Canadian life. Since then it has been copied in other kindly societies worldwide. Tommy faced great opposition, but he believed we would be healthier and happier with universal health care. Now we have the opportunity for universal emergency care, with emergency alerts and lifesaving GPS 911 immediate call out.
I believe that LifeBand is the way to save lives on a daily basis, meant to be the universal life jacket for the seas of danger and peril that face us in our mid-21st century.

I pray for socially, politically positive, forward vision for those who read this proposal, and their undertaking to support this new technology which is designed to save all our lives at the touch of a button - very present help in unknown waters.
Today, as you read this, you have a chance again to change our society for the better, every one of us. Fewer funerals, more happy endings.
I pray Canadians have the vision and the heart to take this idea and run with it, however long that may take. It will be worth it, for all of us.
LifeBand9, Dedicated Satellite Connection I believe the LifeBand system would work best if it could be carried with/to/from dedicated satellites as well as communication cell towers.
Since there will naturally be overlaps in all directions, one single satellite could feasibly cover all of B.C., Alberta, the northwestern United States and north to Yukon and the Northwest Territories, not to mention out the great Pacific ocean and eastward.
Perhaps only one, strategically located satellite would create a circle of LifeBand protection to all of Canada, and our southern neighbours.
LifeBand10, For Privacy, No Ongoing GPS Tracking At the core of the LifeBand system is our individual right to complete privacy, should we so choose.
We live in an age when we can be tracked from various and sundry vantage points in the world, via cell towers, wifi systems, our cellphones, remote control hacking of our computers, cameras in space and on the streets, etc.
LifeBand is designed to save lives, NOT TRACK THEM!
Inherent in LifeBand's design is NO EXTERNAL GPS
TRACKING EXCEPT DURING EMERGENCY
ALERTS OR PARENTAL ALERTS, INBOUND OR
OUTGOING.
This standard must be universal in all units far into our undetermined futures.
LifeBandll, For Babies and Children In one section of this proposal, "Happier Endings", I refer to a young baby who has stopped breathing due to infant crib death, and whose life was saved by the parents being alerted by a Baby LifeBand and subsequent immediate CPR.
Of course this is just a speculative scenario, but generally if CPR is performed and paramedics arrive quickly, lives can be miraculously saved. It is my hope that this will be the case for parents who may face infant crib death.
Having brought up four children myself, I know how many predicaments youngsters can get into, and how important it is to be quickly notified when something is wrong and to take immediate steps to help.
Baby LifeBand will send a GPS signal to the parents' cellphones and/or their computers in time of need.
Parents can also "ping" to the baby's LifeBand with the Parents GPS Locator on their cellphones, computers or their own LifeBands. The same will be true for the Child's LifeBand, age 4 to 10, which also has a separate Parent Call button for kids to alert their parents to their whereabouts in times of need. It is suggested that teens be given the pre-adult LifeBand which also receives "pings" from their Parents GPS Locator, and has a Parent Call button, relating their GPS location to the parents.
(Please note: The Parent Call button for kids and the GPS

Locator for parents buttons are shown on the attached file: LifeBandPendantl jpg. Thank you.) In respect for pre-adult privacy, teens may not appreciate it, but the good news is, if they have a LifeBand, it will be there for them to call if they need us.
I believe the average citizen has nothing to hide from authorities and would welcome a device which has the potential to save his or her life, or the lives of their children and family members. With the LifeBand conveying GPS info only when pinged by the parents or from the young adult wearer to the parents in an emergency, privacy is saved and the LifeBand is constantly available to respond in a crisis.
This system allows freedom of movement, yet protection in time of need. These are essentials!
LifeBand12, Tourists and Visitors Every year we hear of tourists and visitors who have come to our province to enjoy our great outdoors, yet some get lost or injured or worse, fall off trails or follow the wrong trail, are caught in avalanches, have emergencies at sea or encounter danger on our streets.

Since LifeBand is intended to save all lives, the LifeBand system in our province must be expanded to include tourists and visitors. This can only be done by having LifeBands available all over the province at a nominal price and by affordable rental at recreational sites and exits and entrances to the province, giving every one equal opportunity to afford this life saving system.
Rental LifeBands would be preset to normal bio pulse and temperature setting ranges for men, women, or children, but without the normal acclimation period.
LifeBand13, for Pets I have included my drawing for the pets LifeBand for cats and dogs, etc. It does not have 911 connectivity, of course, but can be programmed for a designated perimeter, and if your pet wanders out of this perimeter, a red light flashes on the collar and a signal is sent to your cellphone or computer, letting you know your pet is out of bounds and where. Pets LifeBand will enable ongoing tracking as well, so you can find Fido from your couch or car or trail. Many pets are lost simply because the owner does not know they have strayed and the pet cannot subsequently be found.
The individual serial number of the Pets LifeBand can also be used for identification purposes in an online LifeBand Pet Registry, and registered with the veterinarian. There would be many less City Pound calls and lost pets at our SPCA if most pets could easily be found, and many more happy endings for pet owners and their pets.
In my original design of Pets LifeBand there are no life signs sensors, but certainly this could be included. Since a sound alarm would scare the pet, only the flashing light would be on the Pets LifeBand, making it simpler to develope and affordable for pet owners. Its uses could be extended to wildlife management.
LifeBand14, Expanding Out As LifeBand becomes implemented at both the provincial and federal level, it is hoped that the system can be easily expanded out to the rest of the world's interested countries. Since climatic, political and social instabilities face us all, it is my hope that expansion will be worldwide.
Everyone is someone's husband, daughter, sister, brother, mother, father. No one should be lost if they can be saved.

LifeBand15, The LifeBand Foundation I would like to establish a LifeBand Foundation in memory of my son, Daniel, who died needlessly, far too young, last April. My son died but nobody knew.... He was alone in the back seat of his car for hours. Parked in his townhouse space, he was just steps from his own front door. Just a few blocks from the hospital, the ambulance could have saved him. If only the LifeBand had been there to sound a GPS Alert when his heart stopped, to alarm passersby or his father who was at home in such close proximity, Daniel might still be with us today.
No one should lose a son or daughter when help could be so immediate and close!
We invest our lives in our children and the hope and promise of a better world for them, a future. Particularly when a young life is lost, that future, those hopes and that promise all dissolve into the hereafter and we are left mourning not just for them and for us, but for their lost futures. It is a terrible eventuality to wonderful young lives and their grieving families. So much pain might be avoided.
My son died of a biochemical physical addiction we could not cure, one that has been around for thousands of our human years. It's time to find the cures, for this, and all addictions!
THIS FOUNDATION WILL:
1. Establish and/or financially assist Addiction Treatment centres all across Canada, researching old and new tools to help addicts to overcome their pain and join our society again.
New treatments such as Naltrexone, Vivitrol and Gabapentin should be offered to anyone asking for help.
Watch the Nature of Things, Episode: "Wasted", with David Suzuki, for more info on how these medications can save lives.
We need research and development into the root causes of addictions. Is there an "addictive" gene, or is there a part of our brain that could functionally inhibit the development of addictions? Recent discoveries suggest the above drugs can be of great benefit towards sobriety;
2. Provide LifeBands to all homeless people and those who needlessly live on our streets (a travesty in our wealthy society), shown how to use it, and ensure the LifeBands can be fully charged for life;
3. Provide LifeBands to all who are on income assistance and/or who are deemed financially incapable of affording to buy this life saving device for their families on their own.
4. Funds to be handled and managed through the Foundation.
LIFEBAND FOUNDATION, ADDRESSING
ALCOHOLISM AND ADDICTION
How many lives would be saved if these ancient human problems of addictions could be put to rest?
How many youngsters, while under the influence of alcohol, have experimented with drugs while their guards have been down and how many of those have either died from subsequent addictions, "stepping up", or from accidents and other ramifications of over intoxication past the limit, or died from fentanyl overdose?
The new Foundation will explore drugs and treatments that would enable an addiction-prone individual to be impervious to the effects of liquor and the need for drugs, thus making drinking and heavy drugs not of need or interest to the individual other than socially, and find ways to cure addicts of all stripes, so they may live normally, as we do.

To begin with, I would like to see a ban on liquor ads reinstated. I find alcohol advertising subversive, often promoting concepts of "wild parties" and booze infested gatherings, not to mention cars and boats, none of which should be used at the same time as alcohol!
I dare say, we would have fewer street people, fewer homeless, and probably fewer deaths, if we could solve our society's addiction problems. It is my hope that the LifeBand Foundation will bring together new and old research, exploring all tools available, to help solve these ancient societal problems.
One per cent (1%) of all net sales of LifeBand will go to the LifeBand Foundation.
LifeBand16, Inventor's Motivations LifeBand is meant to save lives, perhaps my own or my remaining children and grandchildren, and in this I may be selfish, or perhaps you and yours - or someone far away in a distant land, a cry in the night, that someone will see, hear and come to their aid.
Under a pile of rubble in an earthquake, or in deep mud from a landslide or in a snowslide, survivors can and will be found. Young children will be trackable to their last locations and in distress have the option to alert authorities with the touch of a button. Elderly people will be found when they wander, as will little ones who drift out their gates and into the streets. Teens can signal a personal alert if anyone tries to take advantage of them or causes them bodily harm. Truck drivers who have fallen off the road into deep crevasses, will be found relatively quickly. Parents will find their children.
If there's an emergency alert, it will sound and give instructions so you may prepare your family for what is ahead and notify your neighbours.
Regardless of the multitude of applications, my motivation is to see lives saved.
LifeBand17, About Me I was born in Vancouver General Hospital in 1951. At a year and a half I was taken to Nanaimo to live with my grandmother until my Nanaimo high school graduation in 1968. I subsequently attended SFU and during the course of my life have taken courses at BCIT and Okanagan University.
I am now a grandmother of 3 with 3 surviving children of my own. My favourite hobbies are poetry, photography and music. My recent poetry website is at http://
songsofspirit.weebly.corn.
Among my past vocations I have been an engineering secretary, corporate paralegal, an actress, singer-songwriter, sound engineer, businesswoman and online newspaper publisher. I have also been socially active in local politics.
At the moment I am writing a book on my happy childhood growing up in Nanaimo.
I live in Nanoose now and love living on Vancouver Island, which to me is paradise, and home.
Sharon Sedola Contact Info for Sharon Sedola:
sharonsedola@gmail.com 1957 Harlequin Crescent Nanoose Bay, B.C.

Landline: 250 821 4449 IPhone: 250 797 4176 F/Book. Sharon Sturma Sedola LifeBandA, Fully Recyclable and Reusable When a LifeBand has expired its usefulness, such as when a baby has grown to 4 and will soon need an older child's LifeBand, or when a teen comes of age at 19, then the LifeBand must be returned to the factory where it will be sanitized, repaired and recycled if it is broken, or re-used for another pre-adult or other LifeBand application.
If a LifeBand is broken, it should be sent in for repairs or replacement, not thrown out. Each LifeBand has its own specific serial number registered to each individual and as they are broken or replaced, a new serial number will be given. I cannot say at this time what the cost for upgrades and/or credits for returned LifeBands might be.
Since each LifeBand is registered directly to an individual and is set for their particular age and life signs, LifeBands are not transferable.
If someone passes away, the LifeBand is sent back to the LifeBand corporation for renewal and reuse.
There is too much "throw it out" mentality and the LifeBands must be re-used or recycled and not thrown out with the garbage.

LifeBandB, Carriers and Privacy Multi receiving/sending carriers:
Since a satellite failure would render LifeBand useless for communication, care must be taken to have co-carriers from cell towers and local or available wifis to keep the LifeBand's signal constant.
Care must also be taken to protect the LifeBand system from any kind of hacking. This is an important part of the planning for LifeBand's digital system.
On Privacy:
Only those who wish to evade the law, for whatever illicit purpose, could be targeted for gps tracking, and it is presumed police would need a court order, with just cause, to do so.
LifeBandC, No Microphones or Cameras LifeBand is designed for one purpose only, to activate to save your life, it is not a toy or a communication tool other than in an emergency or life threatening situation.
Since it would be an invasion of privacy for hackers to gain access to a microphone on LifeBand and therefore be privy to our private conversations and activities, there will be no microphones or cameras on LifeBand. This will remain so for the entire future human use of LifeBands.
There may certainly be applications for cameras and microphones on the LifeBand for pets or wildlife, but for human use, all LifeBands will remain without cameras or microphones for individual privacy and security.
LifeBandD, Projected Costs I am hoping to keep the individual costs of LifeBand at the following levels:
Adult: $100 Senior: 80 Teen: 75 Child: 50 Baby: 45 Adult LifeBands can come with or without parental controls. Likewise Seniors may have parental controls with caregivers or choose not.
All Teen, Child and Baby LifeBands will have parental call buttons with a link to their parents' or caregivers' LifeBands.
The LifeBand Foundation will consider any application for a LifeBand by anyone who may be financially challenged. Depending on need, this can be taken to the level of complete coverage for those who require a LifeBand.
No one is to be denied a LifeBand.