GB2427732A - Personal monitor - Google Patents

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GB2427732A
GB2427732A GB0513210A GB0513210A GB2427732A GB 2427732 A GB2427732 A GB 2427732A GB 0513210 A GB0513210 A GB 0513210A GB 0513210 A GB0513210 A GB 0513210A GB 2427732 A GB2427732 A GB 2427732A
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    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A62LIFE-SAVING; FIRE-FIGHTING
    • A62BDEVICES, APPARATUS OR METHODS FOR LIFE-SAVING
    • A62B99/00Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass

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Abstract

Control apparatus interacts with the monitoring and control of persons operating in all environments including fire fighting and the construction industry and who wear hard hats or helmets. The Control apparatus has a receiver to feed a visual Display to record a user's physical condition recorded by radio linked sensors mounted in the wearer's control apparatus. The control apparatus has an evacuation pager to alert all personnel to leave a hostile environment.

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1. Retrofit hard hat personal monitor 2 This invention relates to a
control apparatus, in particular to a control 3 apparatus for monitoring and directing persons on a hostile environments, 4 such as firefighters in burning smoke filled buildings and a method of directing the 5behavior of such persons.
7 Firefighters in hostile environments, such as areas filled with smoke, are 8 only able to function in these conditions by depending upon stored air in 9 their Breathing Apparatus cylinders.
11 There is a life threatening count down from the moment a firefighter pulls 12 on the Breathing set face mask as there is only a limited amount of air in the 12 sets storage cylinder, This could be compromised should the wearer of this 13 breathing set become trapped or unconscious, resulting in a fatality. They 14 are a number monitors based on my work of the nineteen seventies.
It was based on a loud wining sirens being activated when the wearer 16 overcome and cannot move. The problem of now thirty years later is that 17 burning buildings are saturated with similar loud fire and burglar siren 18 alarms resulting in masking the firefighters automatic siren distress units.
My present invention that is the reason for applying for a patent is a 21 an innovative approach to ensure that the personal monitoring device 22 distress signal penetrates all these confusing siren noises. It also 23 penetrate thick debris enabling to both instantly alert nearby personal 24 of the plight of a colleague requiring urgent assistance. With the further 25.innovative evacuation signal from Fire-ground control officer, to urgently 26 recall all firefighters where the building becomes too dangerous to work in.
28 This invention is based on replacing the audio signaling with Radio 29 signal ling system being developed as self contained unit also a version that is being developed to be used as a retrofit unit for mounting in a 31 a firefighters helmet or any type of hard had as personal have to wear 32 hats work in dangerous and hostile environment conditions and would 33 benefit from such automatic radio distress communicator. 34.
The radio distress signals received are instantly flashed onto a small 36 very bright head-up display mounted at the top of the hard hat or helmet 37 visor. 2.
1. This innovation enables the use of very short range radio signal to 2. radiate as a locator signal the fact that these unidirectional signals 3. radiate travel straight lines over the full circumference from the 4. center of the point of radiation, thus encompassing the injured 5. person with an identifiable circular search aerie. For practical 6. purposes a radiated signal limited to a range in distance of about 7. seven meters to confine the search aria, to speed up a life saving 8. rescue.
9. .This invention has both a very low power transmitter and a sensitive 10. Receiver which is designed to receive and the display these radio 11. distress signals and display evacuation signal when such an 12. Emergency occurs 13. Further innovation in the form of a radio controlled display board is for 14. the observation of all personal wearing this invention, which has a 15. has I D display panel that may be activated at any time by any of the 16. portable apparatus when the user requires assistance. 17.
18. Embodiments of the present invention will be described by way of 19. example only and with reference to the drawings in which: 20. In figure 1 is a schematic drawing of monitoring apparatus of an 21. embodiment of this invention; and 22.
23. In figure 2 is a schematic drawing of a I D display control board 24. with pager evacuation recall facility 25.
26. The above figures'1 refers to a personal control apparatus for 27. monitoring the wellbeing, and particularly for monitoring and directing 28. personal in hostile environments incorporating a control apparatus 29. in the form of a head up visual display unit' a. The control apparatus a hazardous environment comprises a control apparatus 1. has an 31 a adoption to receive and identify information from remote apparatus 32 which is attached to the wearer primary as a retrofit within a hard 33 protective hat including helmets'.
The control apparatus consist of an ID encoding generator also a 36 Means by radio to receive distress ID signals with decoder, with a 37 Visual display.
38 The control apparatus,1. further comprises, of a radio receiver and b' 39 A multiple of decoders, c' a recall evacuation transmitter with a Programmable encoder d is a manual distress switch.
41 to place each of the remote apparatus on off e removable keys 42 including the control apparatus in a network of similar control the 43 device is powered by the battery I I apparatus as seen in figure 2. also comprises of the master control 2 unit a also display unit b' with adjacent key switches c' 3 a programmable I 0 d' and a recall evacuation manual switch e' 4 also decoders f' also Antenna g' The complete unit is house in a waterproof and drop proof case h and powered by a battery' I 6 normally on trickle charge on the fire fighting vehicle.
7 The remote apparatus is composed of a mobile monitoring unit 8 mounted as a retrofit helmet device or for clipping on a belt thus 9 enabling distress monitoring of the personal being monitored and controlled.

Claims (1)

  1. Claims I A control apparatus for monitoring and directing personal working
    in all hazardous aria and communication.
    2 A control apparatus as claimed in claim 1 adopted develop -ed to detect radio transmissions and to send radio signals to all monitoring this radio channel.
    3 A control apparatus as claimed in any preceding claims adopted to communicate with this remote apparatus using encoded signals.
    4 A control apparatus as claimed in any preceding claims comprising of decoders A control apparatus as claimed in any preceding claims comprising of a radio locator beacon 6 A control apparatus as claimed in any preceding claims comprising of a radio beacon receiver.
    7 A control apparatus as claimed in any preceding claim comprising a programmable visual display means 8 A control apparatus as claimed in any preceding claim comprising a computational means.
    9 A control apparatus as claimed in any preceding claim comprising of an alarm means.
    As claimed in any preceding claim adopted to co-operate with one or more monitor apparatus in accordance with any preceding claim.
    Claim 11 a control apparatus as claimed in any preceding claim Interact with other monitoring units and / or Distress signaling unit.
    12 A control apparatus as claimed in any preceding claim adopted to cooperate with a remote unit.
    13 a control apparatus as claimed in claim 9 adopted to monitor information detected by a sensor or sensors with said monitoring unit.
    14 A remote apparatus for use with the control apparatus of any preceding claim adopted to be associated with at at least one sensor.
    Claim 15 A remote unit for use with the control apparatus of any of claims I to 12 adopted to be associated with physical movement and br body temperature sensors.
    16 A remote apparatus for use with the control apparatus or any other claim I to 12 adopted to comprise an alarm.
    17 A method of monitoring personal in compromising steps of; generating a job-specific I D number allocating the I D number to an individual collecting data relating to the well-being of the individual; assimilating the data;and noting whether action is required.
    18 A method of monitoring personal as in claim 17 by Adapting it as device for mounting on personal Belts or webbing.
    19 A method of monitoring personal as in claim 17 by adopting this monitor as a retrofit monitor for hard Hats also firefighters and others helmets.
    Apparatus as herein before described with reference to or as shown in the accompanying drawing.
    21 Method as herein before described with reference to or as shown in the accompanying drawing.
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US4468656A (en) * 1981-06-24 1984-08-28 Clifford Thomas J Emergency signalling unit and alarm system for rescuing endangered workers
US4524461A (en) * 1983-07-18 1985-06-18 American Transceiver Corp. Helmet-supported radio transceiver and broadcast receiver system
EP0801368A1 (en) * 1996-04-13 1997-10-15 Draeger Limited Improvements in or relating to monitoring devices
US5990793A (en) * 1994-09-02 1999-11-23 Safety Tech Industries, Inc. Firefighters integrated communication and safety system
GB2341686A (en) * 1998-09-17 2000-03-22 Cohen Ellis B Breathing alarm for a respirator
US6091331A (en) * 1999-09-14 2000-07-18 Bacou Usa Safety, Inc. Emergency worker and fireman's dual emergency warning system
WO2002002191A1 (en) * 2000-06-30 2002-01-10 Kuutti Tom L Digital situation indicator
US6472988B1 (en) * 1998-05-19 2002-10-29 Deutsche Telekom Ag System for monitoring wearers of protective respiratory equipment

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US4468656A (en) * 1981-06-24 1984-08-28 Clifford Thomas J Emergency signalling unit and alarm system for rescuing endangered workers
US4524461A (en) * 1983-07-18 1985-06-18 American Transceiver Corp. Helmet-supported radio transceiver and broadcast receiver system
US5990793A (en) * 1994-09-02 1999-11-23 Safety Tech Industries, Inc. Firefighters integrated communication and safety system
EP0801368A1 (en) * 1996-04-13 1997-10-15 Draeger Limited Improvements in or relating to monitoring devices
US6472988B1 (en) * 1998-05-19 2002-10-29 Deutsche Telekom Ag System for monitoring wearers of protective respiratory equipment
GB2341686A (en) * 1998-09-17 2000-03-22 Cohen Ellis B Breathing alarm for a respirator
US6091331A (en) * 1999-09-14 2000-07-18 Bacou Usa Safety, Inc. Emergency worker and fireman's dual emergency warning system
WO2002002191A1 (en) * 2000-06-30 2002-01-10 Kuutti Tom L Digital situation indicator

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US10657801B2 (en) 2016-06-08 2020-05-19 Sts Defence Limited Predicting temperature rise event

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