CN104040596B - Obtain health status and the method and apparatus in geographical position of user - Google Patents

Abstract

Obtaining the target location of the user being associated with health Wearable (50), this health Wearable (50) receives and relates to the information of user's situation and by the network (24) instruction to server (12) transmission status.Method includes: provide network (24), and it is by multiple lighting units (42,32) with for safeguarding that the data base (22) of the information in the geographical position of each described in multiple lighting units is constituted, and each lighting unit transmits unique identifier；Thering is provided lighting unit identifier sensor (52) for health Wearable, sensor receives the lighting unit identifier of at least one in multiple lighting units；Health Wearable transmits the lighting unit identifier received with instruction in the message via network to server；And data base provides the geographical position of one or more lighting unit, geographical position is corresponding to the target location of health Wearable.

Description

Obtain health status and the method and apparatus in geographical position of user

The present invention relates to such as be monitored by the user of health care and emergency response service and follow the trail of, and relate more specifically to use the user location of indoor and outdoors lighting mains and follow the trail of.

Becoming increasingly popular along with user health monitors, warning or the alarm of the needs of instant assistance can be produced in the most any place (or indoor or outdoor) by instruction user.Such as, the health Wearable for health monitoring application can produce alarm or warning, and it is sent to remote location or the care-giver at central monitoring and remote response station.The warning of the criticality of instruction user's situation or alarm may need the instant assistance from care-giver；Therefore, follow the trail of the exact position of the user of wearable device, such as, which building, which side or which section, any layer, which room etc. of building, become most important.

Typically, alarm or warning are triggered by equipment or central monitoring or remote response station.Once critical alarm or warning produce, then need to identify the exact position of the user of wearable device, such as on the street of hospital, building or outdoor, in order to provide for care-giver and emergency response person and help timely.In addition in case of emergency indicating the position of the user of wearable device, it is also desirable to follow the trail of the whereabouts of this user in the most a certain interval before alarm is triggered.Such tracked information can provide to be seen clearly user's situation.

Can use various cordless communication network to connect devices to central monitoring and remote response station, including cellular network, network based on the Internet (such as WiFi), or special/proprietary network (such as, Wireless Medical Telemetry system) etc..These wireless technologys may be provided for positioning service, but has different accurate degree.Can the Internet Geolocation and of R.Barnes on the ieee communication magazine in April, 2011 et al. Location-based Services(Internet geographic position and location Based service) in find the general introduction of location technology, its content is incorporated by reference in this in this article.

When the aerial visual field is unobstructed, location based on GPS is very accurate, but works the most well at interior of building.When equipment is in the covering of some base stations or access point, use community ID and the cellular network of measurement and WiFi location technology can provide and be accurately positioned.But, surrounding (such as building infrastructure) ambiguity produced may affect tracking performance.Such as, in hospital or some densely populated buildings, it is necessary to for uniquely identifying the room of user, floor or the hospital bed of patient in such as hospital etc, the degree of accuracy of several meters may produce ambiguity.It addition, location technology can be the most battery-powered and must be to use the power consumption of the equipment of energy in the way of very conservative to dramatically increase.Accordingly, it is considered to typical battery capacity and required charging interval, by existing location technology, within the relatively long time, the position of tracing equipment may be unactual.

It is further noted that typical central health monitoring system does not have the information about city, street or building layout, and it is to rely on the external system for location-based service.Health system is not well defined in the prior art with the coordination and communicating followed the trail of between such external system of location for equipment.

Therefor it is required that for the user location of health care and emergency response system and tracking, it solves electric power and the orientation problem occurred in existing system.

One purpose of native system is to overcome defect of the prior art and/or make improvement in the prior art.

Another purpose of native system is the personnel positions that accurately instruction uses health Wearable.

Therefore, describe is for obtaining the system of target location of user, the method and apparatus being associated with health Wearable, it is by the situation including health status using detection user of sensor information, and transmits the instruction about the situation detected by network to server.The method includes: provide network, and it is by multiple lighting units with for safeguarding that the data base of the information in the geographical position of each described in multiple lighting units is constituted, and each lighting unit transmits unique identifier；Thering is provided lighting unit identifier sensor for one or more health Wearable, sensor receives the lighting unit identifier of at least one in multiple lighting units；One or more health Wearable have the lighting unit identifier received of instruction via network to server transmission；And data base provides the geographical position of one or more lighting unit, geographical position is corresponding to the target location of health Wearable.

Unique identifier can use electromagnetic radiation to transmit, such as one of modulation light in invisible or visible spectrum.Lighting unit identifier sensor can be selected from integrated with health Wearable and be placed on or near health Wearable to strengthen detection performance.Lighting unit identifier sensor may be wirelessly connected to one or more health Wearable.When producing instruction, periodically, at the time of pre-determining, and/or when meeting the condition of some pre-determining, health Wearable can communicate.

Communication can also include the timestamp being associated with one or more lighting unit identifiers, receives the time of specific illumination element identifier (element ID) for instruction.Health Wearable can include memorizer, and it is for storing lighting unit identifier and indicating when to receive the timestamp being associated of single lighting unit identifier.The one or more lighting unit identifiers transmitted can include that many lighting unit identifiers with different time stamp are for obtaining multiple target locations and can form health Wearable track in time.Track can be used for assessing the health status of the user with health Wearable.

Additionally, when providing single lighting unit identifier in the message, the position of lighting unit is target location, it is the approximation of customer location, and when providing multiple lighting unit identifier with time upper close timestamp in the message, the position of multiple lighting units may be used to determine whether target location.The method can also include that requested database provides the geographical position of one or more lighting units and warns at least one emergency response person to need assistance the user of target location wearing health Wearable.Building section, floor number and room number can be used in target location；Postcode, street name and house number；There is building or the city map of identified target location；Latitude, longitude and height above sea level；Relative bearing about pre-determining position；And at least one in the relative bearing about another location of reception and registration identifies in inquiry response.

Explain native system in further detail, and as example, referring to the drawings, wherein:

Fig. 1 be a diagram that the framework of the embodiment according to native system and the figure of parts；With

Fig. 2 is that the description of the embodiment according to native system relates to lighting mains, equipment and the flow chart of the emergent general tracing process monitoring server；And

Fig. 3 shows a part for the system of the embodiment according to native system.

The following is the description of illustrative embodiment, when it is combined with the following drawings, above-indicated feature and advantage and other feature and advantage will be proved.In the following description, following detailed description, such as framework, interface, technology, the illustrative details of component attributes etc are elaborated.But, for those of ordinary skill in the art it would be apparent that depart from the other embodiments in these details and still will be understood to is that in the range of appended claims.Additionally, for purposes of clarity, eliminate the detailed description of well-known equipment, circuit, instrument, technology and method, in order to avoid obscuring the description of native system.It is to be clearly understood that accompanying drawing is included for illustration purposes, and it is not offered as the scope of native system.In the accompanying drawings, the different identical reference numbers in figure may refer to the element being similar to.

Fig. 1 illustrates the figure of framework and the parts illustrating the embodiment according to native system.Native system is based on the recognition that, is i.e. similar at entitled " Enhanced Lighting Network The lighting mains of enhancing of to Serve Mobile Cellular Users and Method of Operation thereof(service mobile cellular user and operational approach thereof) " that illuminator described in the co-pending patent application (its complete content is incorporated by reference in this) of (the U.S. Patent application No.61/553 that on October 31st, 2011 submits to; 436) can be used for contributing to the tracking of one or more health wearable device, in order to the position of its user is indicated when wishing.These illuminators have begun to merge wired or wireless communication feature by backhaul infrastructure, enable to realize and the communication of the network for illumination supervision.The backhaul infrastructure of illuminator includes the link between the main communication network of such as the Internet etc and local illuminator, such as passes through gateway.These links can be between (multiple) lighting unit and gateway itself and/or can be between lighting unit, such as the trunking traffic between lighting unit, be used for arriving gateway for rear end communication.Therefore, for illumination supervision purpose so that controlling lighting unit (such as throughout illuminator, ON/OFF, light modulation etc.), these illuminators can use the coupling of such as the Internet etc via wired or wireless communication method (such as, optical fiber, electric lines of force, Ethernet, WiFi, cable, Very High Speed DSL (VDSL), RF net, honeycomb, visible light communication (VLC) etc.) by backhaul infrastructure access network.

As shown in fig. 1, lighting unit 42,32 can combine in 30 in lighting mains 40 with the backhaul infrastructure of the communication technology including such gateway 46,36, access point 34 and base station 44.According to the embodiment of native system, single lighting unit 42,32 can include ID, and it uniquely identifies each lighting unit 42,32, enabling realizes the simple INFORMATION DISCOVERY relevant to each lighting unit.Information can be stored in data base 22, and can include the energy efficiency of lighting unit, Stock Check, control, type, life-span, maintenance record etc., and appositely, lighting unit 42, the physics of 32 and/or geographical position.Data base 22 can be managed by illumination supervision device server 20, and also can include relating to lighting mains 40, the information of the management of 30.It addition, data base 22 can include for identifying lighting unit 42, the situational map in the geographical position of 32.In view of lighting unit 42, the ID of 32, illumination supervision server 20 can be such as by using lighting unit ID inquiry data base 22 to determine lighting unit 42 to obtain lighting unit geographical position, the one or more geographical position in 32.It addition, in the case of the most such as receiving multiple lighting unit ID with timed sequence, illumination supervision server 20 can such as use triangulation to determine geographical position by combining the position of multiple lighting unit 42,32.

Embodiment according to native system, lighting unit 42,32 can equipped with transceiver 48(such as, emitter/receiver), it is activated the most wirelessly and/or with passing through line with illumination supervision device server 20 such as to be communicated by gateway 46 and network 24, such as by sending status message.As can be comprehensible, one or more in shown gateway can be directly connected to network, such as without base station, such as by wired connection etc..It addition, it is possible that other between lighting unit with illumination supervision device server is connected.According to the embodiment of native system, lighting unit can alternatively or additionally be directly connected to BS and without gateway.It addition, lighting unit can communicate with other lighting unit with arrive illumination supervision device 20 as described herein and/or emergent monitor in server 12 one or more.

According to the embodiment of native system, such status message can be the periodic beacon message sent with the interval of certain pre-determining, such as, indicate whether that all are all suitably working, and indicates current lighting conditions, instruction current atmospheric conditions etc..Status message such as directly can be sent to illumination supervision device server 20 from the lighting unit sending status message by gateway 46,36, and/or can be relayed by another lighting unit.According to the embodiment of native system, gateway 46,36 can be such as via such as the Internet, base station 44,34 and network 24(or some other wide area network, such as, phone and/or cellular network) status message is relayed to illumination supervision device server 20.

According to the embodiment of native system, lighting unit 42,32 can locally (such as, near lighting unit) with health Wearable 50(BWD near lighting unit) detectable form launches device id.Such as, lighting unit 42,32 can launch electromagnetic radiation, and such as it is invisible and can be become include the instruction of device id by modulation/coding.Such as when lighting unit 42,32 when night opens and when being switched off during they (the most typically turn off light irradiation) by day, and such transmitting electromagnetic radiation can be in outdoor and/or indoor use.According to the embodiment of native system, lighting unit 42,32 can pass through the instruction of other system (such as by the operation etc. of RF identification (RFID) system) transmission equipment ID.According to the embodiment of native system, other communication protocol can include 802.15.4, ZigBee, 802.11, it includes other the one or more proprietary realization in these agreements.

For the embodiment discussed and modification thereof, lighting unit 42 universal in the indoor and most of outdoor environment producing general light irradiation, 32 obligated offers have cost-benefit location and/or follow the trail of during solution and the solution user including health monitoring and emergency response are applied monitors the specific needs occurred.According to the embodiment of native system, use the illumination supervision device server 20 of the information being stored in data base 22 that the unique identities of each lighting unit 42,32 can be utilized to identify the corresponding geographical position of lighting unit 42,32.

Embodiment according to native system, health Wearable 50 can be used for health monitoring application and can include the sensor 52 of such as body sensor etc, for such as determining alarm condition when these sensors 52 detect the abnormal reading from corresponding user.For the ease of following discussion, term health Wearable will be used to indicate that the equipment carried by user in this article so that determines that the position of health Wearable is used for determining the position of user.Embodiment according to native system, health Wearable can be the special supervision equipment of such as health monitoring device etc and/or can be the multipurpose plant of such as smart phone etc, is wherein monitored the one in many operations of simply equipment by the user of the use of one or more sensors.

According to the embodiment of native system, in the one or more environment that may be located at user in sensor, this be physically worn on health entirely different.Such as, embodiment according to native system, one or more in sensor may be located near living area, such as on/within floor, as the one or more pressure transducers on/within floor, it such as can detect such as user trajectory for the purpose producing alarm as described herein, user during user monitors falls the User Activity of etc.One or more camera sensors that can include such as being attached to lamp stand in sensor.As can be comprehensible, many different types of sensors can provide the information of the situation (such as alarm condition) that may be used to determine whether user, and is intended to be contained by native system.In the sensor including sensor in environment one or more can for determine user's situation and therefore the notice purpose of Health management service device and communicate with health Wearable.According to the embodiment of native system, sensor information by health Wearable for determining the purpose of user's situation, and/or can may be forwarded to Health management service device for the situation determining user.

Equipment 50 can include the sensor 54 being associated, and it is activated with sensing such as from lighting unit 42,32 radio communication sent and/or electromagnetic radiation delivery, and from electromagnetic radiation (such as light) the decoding device ID of message and/or modulation/coding.Hereinafter, term " optical sensor " is used to distinguish between detecting the operation of device id and the operation of detection user's situation, but, according to the embodiment of native system, identical sensor (such as camera) can be used for sensor device ID and for sensing the situation of user.In optical sensor 54 can be integrated physically within equipment 50 and/or can be placed on neatly on or near health to strengthen receptivity.In the embodiment of native system, wherein optical sensor 54 separates from equipment 50, and optical sensor 54 can be communicated with equipment 50 by wiredly and/or wirelessly link.Such wireless link can be based on such as wireless medical body area network, bluetooth, Zigbee etc..

When it is present, optical sensor 54 can detect the transmission of the many lighting units 42,32 from given geographical location, and wherein, transmission can include upper close timestamp of identical or time and the corresponding lighting unit ID in given geographical location.From the information of such transmission, such as lighting unit ID and indicate when to receive the timestamp being associated of transmission from corresponding lighting unit 42,32, can be stored in device memory (for example, with reference to Fig. 3, memorizer 320).

As described, it is one or more that equipment 50 monitors in sensor 52, and when exception or the pre-determining situation of user being detected, equipment can produce the notification message (such as alarm) for Health management service device.It addition, equipment 50 can the device id of the neighbouring lighting unit 42,32 of (such as, simultaneously, synchronize and/or before the detection of user's situation and/or the generation of alarm instant) detection (such as, sensing) by the operation of such as optical sensor 54.As a result, in response to the detection of user's situation (such as alarm condition), equipment 50 can forward produced alarm and the device id sensed by using of device transceiver to the emergent supervision server 12 with data base 14.According to the embodiment of native system, equipment 50 can utilize the communication network of such as cellular communications networks etc to monitor that server 12 communicates with emergent.It addition, with emergent, the backhaul infrastructure that equipment 50 can utilize lighting mains 40 monitors that server 12 communicates.

According to the embodiment of native system, this communication indicates the user of health wearable device 50 such as to run into health problem in the adjacent domain of the proximity illumination unit 42,32 detected to emergent supervision server 12, and assistance is probably necessity.As can be comprehensible, according to the embodiment of native system, the situation detected can be simply the exception that there is not the user detected.Such as, system can support inquiry system, and wherein user's situation can be evaluated to determine and whether exception be detected.As discussed above, by the use of data base 22, ID may be used to determine whether lighting unit 42, the geographical position of 32, and it is thus determined that the equipment 50 of correspondence and the position of corresponding user.

According to the embodiment of native system, in order to determine geographical position, emergent monitor that server 12 can send the ID that the sensed determination for the geographical position of the lighting unit 42,32 corresponding to sensed ID via network 24 to illumination supervision server 20.In operation, illumination supervision server 20 can utilize sensed ID for inquiry data base 22 to determine lighting unit 42, the geographical position of 32, and so that it is determined that the geographical position of corresponding user, hereafter it can be returned to emergent supervision server 12.As can be comprehensible, emergent monitor that server 12 can be safeguarded data base 22 and/or can be provided data base 22 before the reception of the ID sensed.In these embodiments, need not emergent supervision server 12 mutual with illumination supervision server 20 when receiving the ID sensed, because it has had for determining lighting unit 42, the geographical position of 32 and so that it is determined that the data base in geographical position of corresponding user.

In any case, emergent monitor that server 12 may then based on the information in its data base 14 and determines and take what action and warn which care-giver 16 and emergency response person 18.As apparent to those skilled in the art, equipment 20 and server 12, the network 24 used between 20 and between server 12,20 self can be same or can include multiple multiformity network.To those skilled in the art it will also be apparent that described sequence of events, such as the discovery in whose request geographical position, can change.Such as, equipment 50 can ask the geographical position of neighbouring lighting unit 42,32 by sending, to illumination supervision server 20, the ID sensed from illumination supervision server 20.Alternatively, care-giver/emergency response person 16, and 18 can substitute for emergent supervision server 12 makes request.Request and any other discussed communicate can by use include via base station 44, access point 34 and/or network 24 shown technology realization.The other modification of native system easily will be expected by those of ordinary skill in the art and contained by appended claims.

In another embodiment, lighting unit 42, the sequence of the lighting unit ID received of 32 and the timestamp being associated can before alarm condition such as by equipment 50(such as periodically) be logged by, to follow the trail of movement and the current location of user.When analytical sequence, such as from the geographical position being associated with ID on illumination supervision server 20, it may be determined that the track/movement of user.Such storage history of the track/movement of user may be utilized for assessing health status and/or the mental status of user.Such as, user's detection in position uncommon for this user and/or track can be used for triggering other supervision and/or for triggering alarm.

According to the embodiment of native system, equipment 50 can configure trace parameters according to the health status of the user being associated.Trace parameters can include trigger event/threshold value, such as, heart rate/ECG and breathing rate, SpO₂Or combinations thereof, to start to follow the trail of, and/or to adjust detection and the frequency of report lighting unit ID.In other words, equipment 50 can trigger reception and the report of lighting unit ID according to user health situation and/or adjust frequency/granularity.User health situation or can be assessed by equipment 50 is local and/or can be returned by emergent supervision server 12.Such as, for more acute user, it may be desirable to realized the location tracking of higher precision by the detection frequently of lighting unit ID and report.In another example, when user's situation deteriorate into a certain predefined below horizontal time, can be that user triggers tracing process.

What Fig. 2 illustrated the embodiment according to native system relates to lighting mains, equipment and the emergent general tracing process 100 monitoring server.Hereafter this process is first begin to and, during action 102, and illumination supervision server 20(such as Fig. 1) can be by lighting unit 42, the geographical position of 32 is collectively stored in data base 22 together with corresponding lighting unit ID.During action 104, lighting unit 42,32 can with ID(corresponding to local transmission such as, in the general adjacent domain of corresponding lighting unit).During action 106, health wearable device 50 can detect the ID of neighbouring lighting unit 42,32 and can detect the situation of user.Hereafter, health wearable device 50 can transmit the lighting unit ID that be detected and the information relating to detected situation to emergent supervision server 12.Then, during action 108, emergent supervision server 12 can be inquired about and/or otherwise ask the position being associated with the ID of the lighting unit 42,32 detected.During action 110, illumination supervision server 20 can provide the position of the lighting unit 42,32 being associated with the ID detected to emergent supervision server 12.Hereafter, during action 112, the position of the lighting unit 42,32 being associated with the ID detected can be provided to care-giver/emergency response person 16,18.As can be comprehensible, can be to emergent supervision server 12 periodically or with At All Other Times and/or interval forwards and relates to the information of user, such as, in order to determine the purpose of the situation of user.

Fig. 3 shows a part (such as, emergent supervision server, illumination supervision server, health wearable device etc.) for the system 300 of the embodiment according to native system.System 300 is included in and is operatively coupled to the processor 310 of memorizer 320, display 330 and input peripheral 370.In the case of health wearable device, system 300 can include one or more sensor 54.Sensor 54 can include wireless receiver and/or electromagnetic radiation sensor, and it receives and forwards the sensor information (such as device id) of correspondence, user to monitor information (such as alarm condition) etc. to processor 310.Memorizer 320 can be any kind of non-transitory equipment, and it is for storing application data and relating to other data of described operation.Application data and other data are received for configuration (such as, programming) processor 310 by processor 310 to perform operational motion according to native system.So configured processor 310 becomes specific use machine, is particularly suited for performing according to native system.

User input part 370 can include keyboard, mouse, tracking ball or miscellaneous equipment, including touch-sensitive display, it can be independent or a part for system, such as personal computer, PDA(Personal Digital Assistant), mobile phone, smart phone, Set Top Box, TV or a part for the miscellaneous equipment for communicating with processor 310 via any operable link.Input peripheral 370 can be operatively used for mutual with processor 310, mutual including make it possible to realize in user interface as described herein.Obviously, processor 310, memorizer 320, display 330 and/or input peripheral 370 can be a part for the miscellaneous equipment of computer system or such as cellular station, lighting unit and/or miscellaneous equipment (such as, cellular carrier equipment, lighting operation person's equipment etc.) etc as described herein whole or in part.

The method of native system is particularly suitable for being implemented by computer software programs, and such program comprises the one or more module in describe and/or the independent step of prediction or action corresponding to native system.Certainly, such program can be embodied in computer-readable medium, the most integrated chip, ancillary equipment or memorizer, such as memorizer 320 or be coupled to other memorizer of processor 310.

It is included in the program in memorizer 320 and/or program part to be configured to realize method disclosed herein, operational motion and function by processor 310.Memorizer can be distributed, and processor 310(wherein can provide additional processor) can also be distributed or can be single.Memorizer may be implemented as electricity, magnetically or optically memorizer, or these any combination, or other type of storage device.Additionally, term " memorizer " should be construed broadly to be enough to contain can any information of address that reads or be written in described addressable space of the address from the addressable addressable space of processor 310.Should define, such as by the addressable information of network 24 still in memorizer, because according to native system, processor 310 can retrieve information for operation from network 24.

Processor 310 can be used to provide control signal and/or in response to from input peripheral 370, the input signal of sensor 54, and the miscellaneous equipment in response to network 24 performs operation, and operation is stored in the instruction in memorizer 320.Processor 310 can be that (multiple) special or universal integrated circuit.It addition, processor 310 could be for carrying out, according to native system, the application specific processor that performs, or can be general processor, the only one operation in many of which function be for performing according to native system.Processor 310 can operate and utilize program part, multiple program segment, and/or can be to utilize the special or hardware device of multipurpose integrated circuit.

Finally, the native system that is intended only to illustrate discussed above, and be not necessarily to be construed as appended claims is restricted to any specific embodiment or embodiment group.It should also be appreciated that arrive, those of ordinary skill in the art can be designed that numerous amendment and alternative embodiment are without deviating from the wide in range of the native system illustrated the most in the appended claims and the spirit and scope of intention.

Therefore, specification and drawings, and its scope being not intended to limit appended claims to be treated by way of illustration.In explaining appended claims, it should be understood that

A) word " includes " other element in addition to being not precluded from those except enumerating in given claim or the existence of action；

B) the word "a" or "an" before element is not precluded from the existence of multiple such element；

C) any reference marker in claim is not intended to their scope；

D) some " means " structure or functions that can be realized by identical entry or hardware or software represent；

E) any disclosed element can include hardware components (such as including discrete and integrated electronic circuit), software section (such as computer programming) and any combination thereof；

F) one or two during hardware components can include analog-and digital-part；

G) any disclosed equipment, its part, action etc. can be combined with together or are separated into other part, action etc., unless special declaration separately；

H) sequence of specific action or step is not had to be intended to necessity, the action indicated in being included in flow chart or the order of step；And

I) term " multiple " element includes two or more elements required for protection, and does not implies that any particular range of number of elements；That is, multiple element may be as few as two elements, and can include the element of immeasurable quantity.

Claims (19)

1. obtaining the health status of user being associated with health Wearable (50) and a method for target location, described method includes following action:

Health Wearable (50) is used to monitor the health status of user；

Transmitted the instruction of health status to server (12) by network (24)；

Instruction is used to determine the health status that whether there is pre-determining in user；

Thering is provided network (24), it is by multiple lighting units (42,32) with for safeguarding that the data base (22) of the information in the geographical position describing multiple lighting units is constituted, and each lighting unit transmits unique identifier；

Thering is provided lighting unit identifier sensor (52) for health Wearable, this lighting unit identifier sensor receives the lighting unit identifier of at least one in multiple lighting units；

Health Wearable transmits the lighting unit identifier received with instruction in the message via network to server；With

Data base provides the geographical position of one or more lighting units based on the lighting unit identifier received, and one or more geographical position are corresponding to the target location of health Wearable；And

If there is the health status of pre-determining, determine the action of one or more pre-determining.

2.AsMethod described in claim 1, wherein uses electromagnetic spectrum to transmit unique identifier.

3.AsMethod described in claim 1, wherein this lighting unit identifier sensor is selected from integrated with health Wearable and is placed on neatly on or near health Wearable to strengthen detection performance.

4.AsMethod described in claim 3, is wherein connected to one or more health Wearable this lighting unit identifier sensor wireless.

5.AsMethod described in claim 1, wherein when one below, health Wearable communicates: when producing alarm or warning, periodically, at the time of pre-determining.

6.AsMethod described in claim 5, wherein communicate the timestamp also including being associated with one or more lighting unit identifiers, receives the time of specific illumination element identifier (element ID) for instruction.

7.AsMethod described in claim 6, wherein health Wearable includes memorizer (320), the timestamp being associated of its single lighting unit identifier for storing lighting unit identifier and indicate when to receive each iteration.

8.AsMethod described in claim 6, the one or more lighting unit identifiers wherein transmitted include many lighting unit identifiers with different timestamps, for obtaining multiple target locations and also including being formed the action of health Wearable track in time.

9.AsMethod described in claim 8, also includes using track to assess the action of the health status of the user of health Wearable.

10.AsMethod described in claim 1, wherein

When providing single lighting unit identifier in the message, the position of lighting unit is target location, and

When providing multiple lighting unit identifier with time upper close timestamp in the message, the position of multiple lighting units is used for determining target location.

11.AsMethod described in claim 1, also includes following action:

Requested database provides one or more geographical position of lighting unit；With

At least one emergency response person is warned to need assistance the user dressing health Wearable of target location.

12.AsMethod described in claim 1, wherein target location building section, floor number and room number；Postcode, street name and house number；There is building or the city map of identified target location；Latitude, longitude and height above sea level；Relative bearing about pre-determining position；And at least one in the relative bearing about another location of reception and registration identifies in inquiry response.

13. 1 kinds are used for obtaining the health status of user and the system in geographical position, and described system includes:

Network (24), it is by multiple lighting units (42,32) with for safeguarding that the data base of the information in the geographical position describing multiple lighting units is constituted, and each lighting unit transmits unique identifier；

Being connected to the server (12) of network, this network for transmitting instruction and the position of user of the health status of user's situation to described server；With

Health Wearable (50), it is dressed by user and is configured to detect user health situation and transmit the instruction of user's situation to server, health Wearable has lighting unit identifier sensor (52) for receiving the lighting unit identifier of at least one in multiple lighting unit, server receives lighting unit identifier and the instruction from health Wearable, instruction is used to determine whether there is the health status of pre-determining, the geographical position of one or more lighting unit is determined from data base, geographical position is corresponding to the target location of health Wearable, and

In response to the health status of pre-determining, determine the action of one or more pre-determining.

14.AsSystem described in claim 13, wherein target area is selected from building, hospital, street and incity, city selectable position.

15.AsSystem described in claim 13, plurality of lighting unit uses electromagnetic spectrum to transmit unique identifier.

16.AsSystem described in claim 13, wherein lighting unit identifier sensor is selected from integrated with health Wearable and is placed on neatly to strengthen detection performance convenience on or near health Wearable, and is connected to health Wearable by wireless and in hardwired attachment one.

17.AsSystem described in claim 13, the wherein communication of health Wearable

Including the one or more timestamps being associated with one or more lighting unit identifiers, it receives the time of specific illumination element identifier (element ID) for instruction, and

Server it is transferred to: when producing alarm or warning, periodically, at the time of pre-determining when one below.

18.AsSystem described in claim 17, the one or more lighting unit identifiers wherein transmitted include different timestamps, and it indicates health Wearable track in time, track instruction to dress the health status of the user of health Wearable.

19.AsSystem described in claim 13, wherein section, floor number and the room number in the building of target location；Postcode, street name and house number；There is building or the city map of identified target location；Latitude, longitude and height above sea level；Relative bearing about pre-determining position；And at least one in the relative bearing about another location of reception and registration identifies in inquiry response.