ITRM20130270A1 - TELEMONITORATION AND TELEVISION SYSTEM, IN PARTICULAR IN THE COURSE OF AN AGGRESSION, OPERATING BY GPS CELLULAR GEOLOCALIZATION IN MOBILITY AND RELATIVE TECHNIQUE OF USE. - Google Patents

Description

Description of the invention entitled:

"TELEMONITORING AND REMOTE ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, IN PARTICULAR DURING AN AGGRESSION, OPERATING THROUGH GPS GEOLOCATION ON MOBILITY MOBILITY AND RELATED TECHNIQUE OF USE"

DESCRIPTION

Sector in which the invention is carried out

The present invention refers to remote assistance systems, intended to send and satisfy remote intervention requests linked to emergency situations. More specifically, it deals with an integrated network of cellular devices that allows - starting from the information deriving from the monitoring of a person's position and dangerous conditions - to communicate at a distance the state of danger and / or the request for help through the ordinary means of telecommunication of public cellular telephony.

State of the art

In domestic applications, known anti-aggression tele-assistance apparatuses comprise a telephone dialer or switchboard, that is an apparatus connected to the fixed telephone line capable of forwarding (once activated by means of a push button) requests for help at a distance. These requests may take the form of previously recorded voice messages or digital messages capable of identifying the calling station.

Many of the known devices also allow a dialogue between the recipient of the distress call and the person asking for help, as long as this is within the coverage range of the microphone and speaker with which the control unit operating on a fixed line is equipped.

Some known devices allow the intervention of any local rescuers with an internal siren.

In addition to the button on the telephone dialer, a modestly sized remote control is sometimes supplied, often designed to be used as a collar.

To the suppliers of the anti-aggression service, some manufacturers offer a system of centralization of requests for assistance (consisting of telephone interfaces, computers, terminals and software) capable of facilitating the acquisition of the requests themselves.

The known apparatuses are not without drawbacks.

The remote control device allows the sending of the distress call only in the home, even if it allows movement from one environment to another. This last advantage is nullified by the fact that, frequently, the remote control is left in certain areas of the home. Therefore, it cannot be disposed of when needed.

The aforementioned solutions operate, as highlighted, on a fixed telephone line, but the current means of telecommunication certainly meet the growing demand for anti-aggression security even on the move.

In particular, mobile telephony allows you to be in continuous contact with the person in possession of the mobile phone. The daily use of the mobile phone allows you to overcome dangerous conditions as well as the need for assistance (calls to useful numbers 112, 113, 118 etc., sudden car breakdowns, fires, fears of violence or imminent robberies). Here it would certainly be not exhaustive to make a list of the innumerable conditions in which the mobile phone can perform this life-saving function.

However, it remains a standard communication tool, in the sense that it is used basically so that a person can communicate remotely with another person - that is, through voice, fax, or messages -. In order to use a cell line as a tool to implement a reliable activity of prevention of aggression, other functions and performances are required.

For example, it is known that often the anti-aggression call for help is managed by telephone connection to a security center. In this case, valuable time can be lost in diverting a request for help to an emergency room or police station.

Again, even when police station or emergency room personnel have been informed, it may take a substantial amount of time for the person in distress to be reached.

It is clear that a safety device for remote assistance should operate as quickly as possible in order to limit the continuation of dangerous conditions.

On the other hand, very often the call request is addressed to a set of telephone numbers - family members, acquaintances, etc. - according to a particular priority. The repetition of this set of numbers may not be successful in retrieval in real time, because the called party is absent or because he is busy, thereby causing the loss of precious minutes.

Furthermore, if on the one hand the use of a mobile phone on the move allows you to make a request for help from a distance quickly, flexibly and certainly at low cost, an unresolved basic problem is that with this use the called person does not have any information on the location of the person needing help.

The invention which will be described provides an answer to the above problems. In fact, the purpose of the present invention is to provide an anti-aggression remote assistance device operating in real time on a cellular telephone line that can be used both at home and outside when traveling, and that the assisted person can still wear in an invisible way. to other people.

A further object of the present invention is to provide a remote assistance apparatus operating on a cellular telephone line which is of convenient cost so that it can be used for social purposes.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a remote assistance device that uses transmission protocols and standard technologies in the field of public cellular telephony, in order to make the system even more affordable, easy to maintain and use both at home and on the outside.

These and other objects which will become clear in the course of the description are achieved with a remote assistance apparatus - in particular anti-aggression - the characterizing elements of which are reported in the attached claims.

This is an integrated system of specific applications capable of remotely activating some standard activities of the latest generation "smartphones" and specific personalized assistance services for users who have subscribed to the service in question and who have a mobile phone of the above type in operation. specified when one of the following circumstances occurs:

- suspected possible attack by malicious actors

- ongoing aggression by criminals

- health accident

- car accident, and also, even if not related to remote assistance functions,

- proximity to monuments and museums of tourist and / or cultural interest

- proximity to commercial businesses of particular interest

- proximity to pre-selected locations

- payment of goods and services with confirmation

- loss in unknown points of the location in which you are and the need to be guided or recovered by taxi or law enforcement

- need for assistance of various kinds.

Description of a preferred embodiment

For illustrative purposes only and without thereby wanting to limit the generality and possible fields of application, a preferred embodiment of the invention is described below with reference to the attached Figure.

To implement the aforementioned functions, some recent proposals for optimizing the use of cellular devices are used. The phenomenon of “wearable computing”, that is wearable technologies, has long been widespread and rooted. For those who do not want to carry the camera with them, it can be mounted on a helmet or diving mask. Or wearable devices are known for shooting tutorials, particular objects or situations. An example of this is the Panasonic HX-A100 model with optics that can be positioned at the ear level and recording unit with wi-fi connectivity to be attached to an arm using a special accessory.

For about twenty years, prototypes of digital glasses (EyeTap) capable of transforming the human eye into a video camera and display at the same time have been developed.

The advanced smartphone designs carried out by Vladimir Elin are also known. These are “Virtual Touch Screen” (ViTo) and “Vision Contact” (ViCo) systems: two high-definition video cameras have been installed on the edge of the smartphone that operate both on visual parameters and on the perception of infrared rays. These monitor the position of the user's fingers, so to move the screen sensors it is not even necessary to touch it. In addition, the cameras capture the position of the eyes. The processor built into the project calculates the direction of the gaze, the position and the moment when the eyes are on the phone screen. All information is reworked into commands to use this tool.

Also at the University of Ghent in Belgium a lens-screen has been developed, in practice a sort of spherical liquid crystal screen, of microscopic dimensions, which has been incorporated into a contact lens to be able to send commands to the phone without having to touch. the screen.

So with a telephone 1 held for example in the external area of the forearm, like a watch case, at the time of any aggression, the user, without even showing the attacker the activation of the connection, can connect with a center collect reports 8 and send pictures of what is about to happen.

Using the GPS geolocation function of smartphones detectable by means of special applications already available and other proprietary software, a Call Center 3 is put in a position to communicate with the user of the service and assist him, depending on the circumstances specified above and the type of service. to which it has joined, with a series of methods which are summarized, by way of example only, below:

- aggression: if necessary, by clicking on the mobile phone 1, the camera 10 of the device is activated and, if it is positioned on the neck or wrist of the subscriber or in any case able to take the desired images, all phases of the The aggression and the physiognomies of the attackers are filmed and the relative images transferred via the web function of the mobile phone in real time to the assistance center 8, therefore no longer available to either the subscriber or the attackers.

Call Center 3 that receives the alarm signal (S.O.S.) carries out the following operations:

o activates the speakerphone and informs the attacker that the whole scene has already been shot and the images have already been transferred to the Assistance Center, causing him to desist from the attack;

o requires the intervention of the Police, making available images available in their Operating Rooms or on a special website or mobile phones;

o ask for ambulance and medical personnel to intervene, if circumstances require it;

o informs the people on the list provided by the subscriber at the time of joining the service.

Furthermore, the technique for the automatic detection of aggressions works so that if a person is walking in a given place and is the object of aggression, the application using the GPS geolocation function following a click on the button (simulated on the LCD display) 9 of the mobile phone 1 allows you to intervene via the camera 10 of the device and allows you to detect images and transmit them to a series of predetermined addresses, geolocated in the vicinity of the smartphone from which the emergency call originated. This function is performed in half the time of the applications developed so far and unlike the systems already on the market, it not only realizes what can be seen, but also transmits it to a certain number of people within a radius of about one km. The algorithm it basically puts users in peer to peer communication one to one. If a user of the service happens to be attacked on the street, the other users of the group - currently located in the same area - learn about it in a very short time, each through their smartphone which is located nearby, or, in any case, in a predetermined radius. By means of each smartphone this report is acquired by the person in possession of the same. Basically it is the smartphones that communicate with each other. Think about what a continuous alert function could be in the context of an isolated street or a nightclub.

In addition to the activation commanded by the user in possession of the smartphone 1, a series of complementary service optimization units must be considered. In substance, the device 1 comprises a mobile cell unit which interfaces with one or more acceleration, fall or more generally abrupt displacement detectors.

It should be emphasized that in a preferred embodiment the device 1 is worn by the client by means of a collar, a scarf or a scarf, or even a bracelet to be worn on the wrist, which must be fastened for the control system to operate. That is to say that if a connector has its ends locked to each other, in fact the control system puts itself in a condition of its own alert, which can be activated by the user signal. On the other hand, in conditions of disconnected connector, it is considered that the device is not worn and therefore no detection is prepared. With the system according to the present invention it is detected whether the person has been pushed or has fallen on the basis of the sudden movements and movements produced by himself. In fact, even the slightest movement is perceived by a barycentric motion sensor. In this way, you become aware of an emergency condition contextual to the aggression.

At any time, the geolocation device for remote rescue according to the present invention can be activated with one of the following conditions:

pressing the key (simulated on the LCD display) 9 for manual activation;

b- detection of a sudden and violent movement and / or loss of vertical position by the sensor / micro-controller system.

Immediately following one of the aforementioned activations, a series of rescue devices are activated, including:

i- connection with programmed and stored numbers, dialing them in sequence;

ii- the camera, and the audio for detecting what is happening

iii- the speakerphone which the mobile unit is provided with while on the move.

In this alarm condition, the system initiates a predefined series of calls to programmed and stored numbers, dialing them in sequence. In particular, it should be noted the condition in which the n-users who subscribe to the service may find themselves depending on whether they are, or are not, geolocated within a given area. Every time a user enters a specific geographical area 11 (which could be the one covered by a SRB radio base station, for example) then at the level of the database 4 of the identifiers of the smartphones geolocated in the vicinity, an update is carried out for the new entry. .

In fact, for each user of an area or place, the presence at a given moment of a user physically, in said area, is defined on the basis of its satellite geolocation. A dedicated procedure automatically detects the geo-localized people present in said area to enter them in a database 4 which for each area manages the user groups based on their geolocation to possibly put them in contact, through real-time reporting, in the case of a of them suffer an attack detected by the control center 8.

Basically, on the one hand there is the static database 5 of the users who have subscribed to the service and associated with this general database, a series of dynamic databases are then derived, which locate the instant t, in which cell 11 is in fact positioned the user user of the anti-aggression signaling service according to the present invention.

If you think of an off-site girl studying at university, in the periods of time that she lives in the university, she will be placed in a condition of possible connection and contact (in case of assault) with a series of colleagues - and with who exchanged their telephone number and with whom they decided to offer each other possible help in the event of a request for help, as they are probably present within the same spaces of the university.

For example, suppose that two friends are at a party and that one of the two has to go away momentarily to smoke a cigarette outside the club; any aggression would first of all be reported to the geolocated friend by the GPS in the immediate vicinity. This virtual availability can be used despite the fact that the various girls may originally have a different de facto residence.

For this purpose, it is envisaged that upon joining the service (but also thereafter, as more acquaintances are made), one can have a condition of mutual exchange of potential help in the case of aggression by entering an availability database.

Therefore, these are certainly databases that find their origins in the HLR and VLR archives associated with mobile users in general, but which, as a further feature, present the adhesion to a service for which check-in is continuously evaluated, in a given zone or area, every time you move around the territory; in this way, by noting who are the people - and the relative identifiers - with whom he would like to be primarily in contact, to avoid that the help of the bodies in charge (112, 113…) arrives too late.

Therefore, the registration of a user to the service is divided into three distinct phases:

a) joining the service;

b) the definition of a place;

c) the definition of a series of users with whom to be put in contact as a priority in case of aggression.

In fact, it is foreseeable that, in any case, a user prefers that the request for help should go directly to certain people - relatives, friends - rather than to others unknown.

In a further embodiment of the invention, the techniques of trimming the image of the attacker recorded in real time are applied. In this context, the connection with remote assistance assistance centers and remote intervention centers that operate in detecting what is happening is envisaged; arranging for facial images to be sent immediately to the state police archives for instant identification of the aggressor. A voice machine 3, having acquired the name and surname, builds and sends a message to the alert-database 4 to be reproduced at a sound level such as "Paolo Rossi you have been recognized. Stop and handed over to the police ". Here you take advantage of the disorientation to which the aggressor would be subjected to hear his name and surname pronounced after just a few seconds. After each answer, the system sends a pre-recorded voice message and then starts the hands-free connection.

In an embodiment that provides for the configuration of a dedicated anti-aggression and remote assistance assistance center 8, for each client subscribing to the service, a unique identifier is stored in the relative database 5, to which the mobile phone number and the individual identification data of the owner as well as further configuration parameters. It is important to note that, from the mobile phone unit 1 SIM, the identifier associated with the calling number itself constitutes a unique code to which the individual identification data of the owner can be associated: therefore the identification of the caller through the his mobile phone number at the time of the request for assistance allows the exact and immediate recognition at the control unit 8 which acquires the request for assistance for assistance or from the person who in any case collects the request.

Advantages and industriality of the invention

The apparatus according to the present invention, with the aim of reducing production and management costs, minimizes the information detected and the data transmitted - extremely overabundant in the solutions of the known art - to reach essential evaluations: if the person monitoring subject has fallen and / or if the person has been the victim of an assault.

The solution that involves inserting the smartphone with a belt, such as a scarf or bracelet is extremely advantageous as it obviously implies that the user will wear said device even in the unpleasant moment in which he finds himself in need of anti-aggression rescue, without having to search around. some dedicated remote control. In addition, the device is equipped with a SIM that will contain in its memory the numbers to be entered which can be entered by the user. More specifically, this SIM can be programmed by the dealer when purchasing the device, as well as, later, with the help of any mobile phone by sending an SMS in a predefined format to the number corresponding to the SIM. . There are innumerable applications which themselves constitute an added value with respect to the basic functionalities of the smartphone already implemented according to the present invention. Starting from the principle of the assistance center 8 described above, for example, an auxiliary function can be implemented in the vicinity of monuments and museums of tourist and / or cultural interest; in the event that the subscriber intends to request the assistance of the Call Center to be able to hear the description of the characteristics of the monument located in the geolocation perimeter and to view archive images of the same.

Claims (10)

CLAIMS 1 Remote assistance technique based on the satellite detection network, for the localization of users and on the mobile phone network which is accessed by means of at least one mobile device (1) in the possession of the user, characterized by the fact that the interworking mobile phone services (2) with satellite geolocation services (7) provide for three distinct operational phases of remote detection and control in which: i- for each user, in an area or place, the presence, instant by instant, of a user, physically, in said area, based on its satellite geolocation, is defined each time in real time, a- in the case of entry into a given area / zone, inclusion in the user group associated with that zone, b- in the event of a user leaving a given zone, cancellation from the group of users associated with said zone, a dedicated procedure by automatically detecting the geolocalized user present in said area to insert it in a database (4) which for each area manages groups of users based on their current geolocation to possibly put them in contact, through instant reporting, in the event one of them suffers an attack detected by a control center (8); ii- when the user activates the alert condition via his / her device (1), a wait / listen function is activated by means of the cyclical check of the status of the sensor units such as automatic dry knock detector, to level of sudden and violent shocks, and / or loss of balance and posture with respect to the vertical position normally held by the user wearing the mobile device (1), said verification being performed by the operating system of the device (1) by testing the status bit associated with each peripheral sensor, iii- when the user activates the alarm condition through his own device (1) by command and / or pressing a key (simulated on the LCD display of the device) (9) dedicated to manual, direct signaling , the user opens the connection for communications to a control and remote assistance center (8). 2. Remote assistance technique according to the preceding claim characterized by the fact that following phase ii- or iii- relating to a condition of certain aggression, a sequence of calls to user numbers is activated, of which in phase i- has been registered the location near the mobile device (1) in the possession of the attacked person. 3. Remote assistance technique according to the preceding claim characterized by the fact that following phase ii- or iii- relating to a certain aggression condition, a sequence of calls to user numbers is activated, of which in phase a) has been registered the location in the vicinity of the mobile device (1) in the possession of the attacked person, on the basis of a predetermined priority by the same user at the time of joining the service to privilege known and trusted people to whom to report the request for help. 4. Tele-assistance technique according to the preceding claim characterized by the fact that the device (1) is worn by the patient by means of sealing and locking means such as a collar, a scarf or a scarf, or a bracelet to be worn on the wrist, which are connected and / or interconnected for the alert and alarm procedures to take effect: I. in the conditions in which the relative connectors are arranged with the ends locked to each other, the control state placing itself in a condition of its own alert, capable of being activated by the user signal, II. when the connector is disconnected, considering that the device is not worn and therefore no detection is set up. 5. Remote assistance technique according to each of the preceding claims characterized by the fact that following the occurrence of conditions ii- or iii-, at the same time as the connection request with the numbers selected based on the position, the following alarm activation options are undertaken: a) commissioning of the camera (10), for the filming of all phases of the ongoing aggression; b) transfer of the related images in real time, via web, to a control and assistance center (8) c) activation of the speakerphone that informs the attacker that the whole scene has already been filmed and the images already transferred to the Assistance Center, causing him to desist from the attack; d) request for intervention by the Police, making available images available in their Operating Rooms or on a special website or mobile phones; e) request for ambulance and medical personnel, if circumstances require it; f) information to the persons referred to in the list provided by the subscriber at the time of joining the service. 6. Remote assistance technique according to the preceding claim characterized by the fact that to activate said warning functions the user makes use of tools such as "wearable computing", to be able to send, at the time of any attack, commands to the phone without having to touch the screen, the user succeeding without showing the attacker the activation of the connection, to connect with the reporting center (8) and to send images on what is about to happen. 7. Tele-assistance technique according to the preceding claim characterized in that in the automatic detection of the aggression the geolocation function following a click on the mobile phone allows to intervene through the camera of the device and allows to detect images and transmit them to a set of pre-established addresses, geolocated in the vicinity of the smartphone from which the emergency call originated, thereby establishing a fast and reliable peer to peer communication regime between the users of the group, currently located in the same area, in which the various mobile phones (1) communicate with each other, virtually directly. 8. Remote assistance technique according to the preceding claim characterized by the fact that in the activities of detecting and sending the images to the control center (8), following an attack, procedures are applied to cut out the images of the aggressor recorded in real time, facial images being immediately sent to the state police archives for instant identification of the attacker. 9. Mobile telephone network system that interacts with a satellite geolocation system comprising hardware and software resources for the connection of N users who subscribe to a remote assistance service according to the procedures of the preceding claims, further characterized by the fact that it comprises: I. a plurality of terminals (1) each in possession of a single user capable of opening an alert or alarm session with a central server (6) dedicated to the remote assistance service, each user being associated with at least one identifier that identifies him in a first database (5); II. the first static database (5) residing on the central server responsible for registering the user who uses the remote assistance service and creating a user profile for the management of preferential contact lists with which to communicate in case of aggression in based on geolocation performed in real time, III. a second database (4), residing on the central server (6) with a mechanism for instantiating data, operating in real time, in relation to the detection of the position in which the user who uses the service is located, following his movements on the territory, creating each time a table of users to which the report of aggression in progress should be sent in the event that the relative request for help arrives from a localized user. 10. Mobile telephone network system that interacts with a satellite geolocation system according to the previous claims, characterized by the fact that the device (1) worn by the client when predicting the alert and possible alarm functions, is equipped with sealing and locking means such as a collar, a scarf or a scarf, or even a bracelet to be worn on the wrist, equipped with electrical connectors that must be connected and / or interconnected for the alert and alarm procedures to come into operation, being said means sealing and locking electrically connectable by means of a circuit closure detection sensor for the activation of the function itself by the device (1), whose operating system by testing the status bit associated with said circuit closure detection sensor, cyclically checks the connection conditions.