JP2789494B2 - Response device activated by pager - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To allow a caller B to obtain state information of a specific subscriber A and its surrounding even when the subscriber A is lack of the qualification as a concerned party by allowing the caller B to specify the subscriber with a receiver of a one-way radio public communication system and starting a specific operation of the specific subscriber A automatically without manual intervention. CONSTITUTION:When a response operation is designated by a code signal S2 at the arrival of a call, any designated operation of response circuits 17-19 is started. Even when the subscriber A has no qualification as a concerned party, any required message is delivered to the 3rd party or the caller B to allow the 3rd party or the caller B to take a required action in the operation of each of the response circuits 17-19. They have the radio wave transmission mode and transmit a radio wave of a predetermined frequency. Since the radio wave is modulated by a specific proper audible frequency or a language or a specific code and a responder II often uses a battery for its power supply, a function of intermittent transmission at a proper duty or the like is provided to save power and to attain transmission for a long time. The caller B uses the receiver of a radio wave or a direction finder or the like to cope with the response of the subscriber A.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION "Industrial application field" The present invention relates to a specific person (may be a group) or an article related to the person (this person and the article are hereinafter referred to as A).
A device that acquires and uses sensor information related to A in search of the location of the child and infants, senile demented people, sick persons, victims, accidents, crime victims, stolen people, stolen articles, lost items using this device It relates to a system for monitoring, rescuing, collecting, and the like.

"Conventional technology" When a person who has no ability to take part, such as an infant or a senile dementia, gets lost or goes out and goes missing, there is a way for the parent to search for the non-professional at that time. There was no choice but to ask the police.

The same applies when the person is fainted or suffers a physical disability due to an acute illness or accident, or when there is no third person to seek help nearby.

In the case of distress in mountains, etc., a method of starting communication and transmission with a person carrying a radio communication device or radio wave transmitter and carrying out communication and transmission in the emergency has been conventionally performed, but if the party is unconscious, it may cause physical disability. You cannot seek relief if you are unable to activate if you are not activated. The same applies if you are arrested for freedom due to crimes such as abduction, binding, or confinement.

A stolen person, a stolen article, and a lost item cannot be activated by themselves because they are articles. In order to prevent shoplifting at superstores and department stores, there is a method to attach a responder that emits sound by feeling radio waves, light, magnetism, etc. to the product, and activate the responder at the exit of the sales floor with radio waves, light, magnetism, etc. , Cannot be applied to places other than sales floors, and cannot limit individual specific items.

A conventional pager or radio pager can be specified by using a telephone number or an ID (identification) number so that B can call a specific A, and when A has a party capability, it constitutes an effective system. However, the system cannot be established for A or a person who does not have the ability to act.

On the other hand pager (hereinafter called pager)
In the stationary type, the answering machine / home cooler / electric water heater is used, and in the case of goods transported by car, various car functional units are used for the purpose of the present invention. For things to be carried / installed such as cats and stolen items, a sound announcement generator that requests assistance from a third person for wandering elderly people.
There is a radio wave source for radio wave direction finding.

In addition, there is a method in which a portable wireless device is used to remotely activate a carried / moved sensor and collect its output.

"Problems to be solved by the invention" As described in the prior art, one or more infants,
Senile dementia, persons who have lost their abilities due to acute illness, accident encounter, or distress, persons who have been disabled due to kidnapping, binding, or captivity, stolen or lost items that are incapable of acting ( A pager provides a means of downlink communication between the called party or A) and a guardian / home / owner / manager (hereinafter called the B or B) and requires manual intervention. Requesting assistance from a third party or activating a radio wave source for direction detection is effective for discovering A when the device responds without being activated. However, it is necessary for a person who is in an emergency, accident, or distress to know the health condition of the person in advance for lifesaving.
In addition, in the case of kidnapping, binding, confinement, or theft, it is necessary to know not only the health condition of the individual but also the situation of the criminal and the state of detention in order to safely rescue and arrest the criminal. None of the prior art can meet this need.

Although a portable radio can be used in place of a pager, it is large, heavy and expensive, consumes a large amount of power while waiting, and in the case of a mobile phone terminal, the battery usage time is as short as 7 to 20 hours. It is not suitable in the case of A which is the object of the above.
The challenge is to create a lightweight, compact, inexpensive and portable sensor output collection method with long call waiting times.

"Means for Solving the Problems" According to the present invention, the waiting time is about 2 in small size, light weight and inexpensive.
Use a pager that is as long as a month (including radio paging for FM broadcasts) for downstream communication. A also carries a sensor and a sensor output upstream radio transmission unit, and is activated by a pager call. Upstream wireless transmission of the sensor output is sufficient in a very short time, so that the battery can be reduced in size and weight.

By providing a sensor in advance in the A-type responding device, if A is a human, health information such as body temperature, respiration, pulse, etc. detected by the sensor and surviving information can be obtained. If it is an article or an article, the surrounding information, for example, the surrounding sound, light and darkness, temperature, humidity, vibration, etc. detected by a sensor, is reported to a third party or B by upstream communication separate from the call, or Notification is made to B by a wireless and / or wired public communication system activated by uplink wireless communication.

As described above, monitoring and monitoring of persons or goods without
Increase the success rate of rescue and recovery.

"Action" The small size and light weight of the pager and the long waiting time of 2 months, combined with the small size and light weight of the battery for upstream communication due to the short time of sensor output transmission, make the elderly, dogs, cats, swag etc. To be portable and installable.

The pager number is for a specific person (single or group)
Alternatively, it is possible to specify an article related to the person.

The wireless public communication system makes it possible to call mobility A existing in a wide area.

The output of A's receiver that receives the call automatically activates, directly or indirectly, the connected responding equipment, allowing it to respond even if A has no party capability.

That is, a third party or B in the vicinity knows the situation of A, and increases the success rate of searching, rescuing, or collecting by the information obtained by the response of the sensor and the uplink wireless transmission. Further, direction detection using the uplink radio transmission radio wave as a radio source can be used together.

It is standardized as a general-purpose specification that a conventional pager or radio pager (terminal) receiver is provided with an output terminal to a responding device connected to it, and if commercialized, connection to the responding device is simple and easy. Becomes

"Embodiment" A pager and a radio pager are available for a wide range of communication that can be used in a wide range of cases where B to A are specified. Mobile phones are larger, heavier, more expensive, and have a shorter waiting time of 7 to 20 hours than pagers and radio pagers. Therefore, the pager defined below is used. The pager was initially called a pager because it emitted a ringing tone, but later the pilot LED, vibration, L
It now has a CD display, etc., and its functions have been expanded.
In addition, the Radio Data System in Europe
There is also a paging system terminal used in wide area broadcasting as in m), and these are collectively referred to as a pager below. It is expected that systems using satellite communications will appear in the future, but these are of course also included in the pager of the present invention.

The connection between the paging system receiver (terminal), that is, the pager and the responding device will be described with reference to FIG.

Pager receiver I has all the functions of a conventional pager,
ON-OFFB as an electrical output terminal for signal coupling to the response equipment II
This is an example in which a signal terminal 4 and a code output terminal 5 are added.

That is, the pager used in the present invention receives a predetermined radio frequency signal with the built-in antenna 1, amplifies, detects, demodulates, shapes, etc. the received signal with the receiving unit 2, and outputs the bit synchronization and data synchronization with the data restoration circuit 3. performs frame synchronization and error correction, etc., is further compared with the telephone number / ID number of the storage unit, call "Yes" or "not" and outputs the Kano oN / OFF signals S ₁ to the terminal 4, the system, Data recovery and corresponding messages are retrieved from memory and code signal S ₂
Is output to the terminal 5. ON / OFF signals S ₁ by the speaker 6 is the most common ones or lighting the display unit 7 of the driven by generating a call sound or issues diode (LED), a call sound that the user is immobile Can also.
Optionally, some of which can add vibration generating unit 8 driven by ON / OFF signals S ₁ terminal 4. In addition, the code signal S2 is used to display numeric and / or character information on the liquid crystal display (LC
D) Some have a function that can be displayed in 9. Conventionally, it is completed by the pager itself, and output terminals 4 and 5 to other devices
Do not have

Responding device II is wire bonded to and ON / OFF signals S ₁ output terminals 4 and 5 of the receiver I, receives a code signal S _2, to start a specific function. In the case of this electric wire connection, the receiver I and the responder II can be integrated into a small and convenient one.

To connect the conventional pager to the response device II without changing it, the sound from the speaker 6 of the pager, the LED 7
More light, the vibration of the vibration generating unit 8 or the like may be used. That is, the microphone 11 is provided for the sound on the response device II side,
The optical sensor 12 such as a photodiode for the light, by providing the vibration sensor 13 such as an electromagnetic vibration detector in vibration may be detected that the ON / OFFB signals S ₁ is turned to ON. In this case, the receiver I and the response device II need to be held as close as possible. Especially in light, responding equipment II
Needs to be able to hold the structure of the display unit 7 with the LED and the optical sensor 12 facing each other. The OR circuit 14 activates the response circuit 15 when any one of the output of the terminal 4, the microphone 11, the optical sensor 12, and the vibration sensor 13 is ON. Therefore, input to terminal 4, microphone 11, light sensor
12, the vibration sensor 13 is not necessary, and at least one of them is sufficient, and the others can be omitted. However, it is desirable to have two or more in order to ensure safety against malfunction due to failure. Also, when it is desired to suppress malfunctions as much as possible, a plurality of these are provided, and their outputs are supplied not to the OR circuit 14 but to the AND circuit.
It may be desirable to drive the response circuit 15 with the output of the circuit.

Conventional pager function is expanded, the code signal S ₂ is to be output, in addition to functions to inform mere call,
By coding multiple functions, B can make a call,
The desired function can be specified for the response device II. Therefore the function determination circuit 16 a code signal S ₂ is supplied is provided from the output terminal 5, function determination circuit 16 outputs a function output S _3, S _4, S ₅ three in the illustrated example, Responsive circuits 17, 1 that perform different functions a, b, c for each
Start 8,19. This type is not limited to three types.

If possible to make changes to the pager, radio transmission as the output of ON / OFF signals S _1, electromagnetic induction, ultrasonic wave or the like can also be used. At this time, the pager receiver I and the responder II can be used at relatively distant positions.

When used by A who has been kidnapped, bound, confined, etc., it is necessary that the presence of the call and the response to the call be unknown to the perpetrator of the third party. The coupling between the receiver I and the responder II that does not feel the human five senses such as electromagnetic induction and ultrasonic waves is desirable. Furthermore, the binding of the code signal S ₂ can be utilized to transmit such as type or ultrasonic-wave acoustic coupler or optical coupler electromagnetic induction coupler.

 Next, a specific example of the response operation will be described.

When responding device II is activated in the presence or absence of a call i.e. ON / OFF signals S _1, responsive circuit 15 is operated. When calling, the code signal S ₂
When the response operation is designated, the designated operation of one of the response circuits 17, 18, and 19 is started. The operation of each response circuit may be performed by a third party or B
There is a known example in which some necessary message is transmitted to a third party and a third party or B takes necessary action.

 Next, application examples of the present invention will be described.

First, this is an example used to detect the location of A. This is when a toddler is lost, when a mentally ill or an elderly person with dementia wanders and becomes unknown, and a healthy person suddenly goes out. If you become unconscious (syncope) due to intracerebral hemorrhage, heart disease, etc., encounter an accident and experience fainting due to a large amount of bleeding, brain bruise, trauma, etc. People who are targeted in advance when they become distressed or encounter physical disabilities or fainting in mountain / sea encounters, especially in winter, etc., or when stolen or lost items instead of people Alternatively, the location can be detected by carrying or incorporating the pager receiver I and the responder II in the article.

When kidnapped, arrested, or confined, they are unable to act on their own because they are under the surveillance of their perpetrators or have been restricted in their physical freedom. However, even in this case, the victim has previously set the pager receiver I
And the response device II, the location can be detected.
In this case, the pager receiver I and the responder II are preferably integrated and miniaturized as much as possible, and the coupling is preferably performed by radio or electromagnetic coupling. The reason is that it is possible to carry without being detected by the perpetrator, and there is a need to have a system in which the connection is not detected by the perpetrator's five senses. Also, the response mode needs to be a third-party concealment mode that is not detected by the assailant, and a known direction detection radio wave source activation mode that can detect a location from a long distance is suitable.

The location of A can be determined by moving and tracking the B or the client of B carrying the direction finder by car or the like.

The present invention further provides that B has information on A itself or around A,
Even if A does not have the competence concerned, it is possible to automatically collect without human intervention, and A may move freely because it uses a wireless system.

B can specify and call A in exactly the same manner as described above. In response to the receiver ON / OFF signals S ₁ or the code signal S ₂ of the I, responding device II is in the information that is set in advance, and returns the specified type of information to B. By providing various sensors in A in advance, corresponding information can be collected.

For example, if a microphone is provided, the heart sound and utterance of A, the sound of the surrounding environment, the pronunciation of a third party or an assailant, the conversation, and the like can be transmitted to B. If you have a thermometer,
The body temperature of A, the ambient temperature, and the like can be transmitted to B.
According to the optical sensor, the surrounding light and darkness, the electrocardiograph the electrocardiogram, the blood glucose sensor the blood glucose level, the vibrometer the A breathing, posture change and walking situation, and the surrounding vibration situation (external traffic, construction, (A third person's walking, etc.) can be sent to B, information on A's health condition, life and death, information on estimating the location of A's survival, notification from a third party, notification when A has competence, etc. Can be used for

As a communication method from A to B, since the call from B to A is one-way, another route is required. The first direction is a method in which the wireless communication mode is selected as the response mode of the response device II, and the high-frequency signal is modulated by voice, sound, and data (code or tone signal) of the sensor output.
Can receive and demodulate the radio wave to obtain information.

The second method is a method of receiving a radio wave transmitted from A and automatically providing a fixed ground relay device (single or plural) that calls B via a telephone line (wired / wireless). In this case, since the range of action of A is limited to the range within which the repeater can receive the radio wave of A, A is used in an area where there is no fixed ground repeater, for example, when a disaster occurs in a mountain or sea. Although it may be inconvenient, it is effective in the case of a lost child, senile wandering, a health monitor in daily life, and the like.

When the connection between the receiver I and the response equipment II is wire-less, the receiver I and the response equipment II can be divided and put into any storage pocket for human use and used even if they are separated from each other. It is possible.

According to the present invention, a caller B specifies a specific A (a person, a group, or an article) by a pager and automatically activates a specific operation related to the A without a human being. Therefore, even if A does not have the ability to perform the party, B can obtain the location of A, information on A itself, situation information around A, and the like.

According to the present invention, lost children, wanderers due to senile dementia,
Searching, discovering, rescuing, retrieving victims, accidents, persons who have been physically or mentally impaired while traveling or traveling, kidnapped persons, confined persons, stolen vehicles, stolen items, lost items, etc. Success rate can be increased. In addition, health monitoring and behavior monitoring can be performed.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the pager, the sensor, and the upstream wireless communication unit can be made lightweight, small, and long in waiting time (about two months).

According to the second aspect, the power consumption is reduced and the size is reduced.
Repeaters can be used in a wider area.

[Brief description of the drawings]

 FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A response device activated by a pager, said response device having a sensor for detecting a situation of or around the wearer or the installation itself, and returning an output of the sensor to a caller. Responsive device activated by a pager, comprising wireless transmission means 2. A pager according to claim 1, wherein said sensor output is returned to a caller by a repeater which receives the radio wave of said wireless transmission means and relays the information to a telephone line. Response device.