Notifying a user of an emergency event

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12437629-B2
Application number	US-202318221618-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 13, 2023
Priority date	Jul 13, 2023
Publication date	Oct 7, 2025
Grant date	Oct 7, 2025

Abstract

Devices, systems, and methods for notifying a user of an emergency event are described herein. In some examples, one or more embodiments include an alerting device comprising a memory and a processor to execute instructions stored in the memory to receive event data from a remote computing device, where the event data is associated with an emergency event, and cause an alarm to be output to notify a user of an occurrence of the emergency event based on the received event data, where the alarm is output to a space in which the alerting device is located.

First claim

What is claimed:

1. An alerting device for notifying a user of an emergency event, comprising:
a memory; and
a processor configured to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to:
receive event data from a remote computing device, wherein:
the event data is associated with an emergency event; and
the event data includes an emergency event type, a severity level of the emergency event, and an emergency event responder type; and

cause an alarm to be output to notify a user of an occurrence of the emergency event based on the received event data, wherein:
the alarm is output based on the emergency event type, the severity level of the emergency event, and the emergency event responder type to a space in which the alerting device is located; and
the alerting device includes configuration settings for a type of the alarm to be output, wherein the configuration settings are configured based on a type of user of the alerting device that is responding to the emergency event.

2. The alerting device of claim 1 , wherein the alerting device further includes an audio output device.

3. The alerting device of claim 2 , wherein the processor is configured to execute the instructions to cause the alarm to be output by causing the audio output device to emit text-to-speech information associated with the emergency event to notify the user of the occurrence of the emergency event.

4. The alerting device of claim 2 , wherein the processor is configured to execute the instructions to cause the alarm to be output by causing the audio output device to emit a tone associated with the emergency event to notify the user of the occurrence of the emergency event.

5. The alerting device of claim 1 , wherein:
the alerting device further includes a light emission device; and
the processor is configured to execute the instructions to cause the alarm to be output by causing the light emission device to emit light to notify the user of the occurrence of the emergency event.

6. The alerting device of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to execute the instructions to generate, based on the event data, an audio file including text-to-speech information related to the emergency event and cause the alarm to be output by audibly outputting the text-to-speech information.

7. The alerting device of claim 1 , wherein:
the alerting device is powered by an electrical main;
the alerting device further includes a charge storage device; and
the charge storage device is configured to provide power to the alerting device in response to the electrical main failing.

8. The alerting device of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to receive an input acknowledging the alarm.

9. The alerting device of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to execute the instructions to:
log at least one of a first time at which the alarm is output and a second time at which the alarm ceases to output; and
transmit the first time and the second time to the remote computing device.

10. The alerting device of claim 1 , wherein:
the event data includes a location of the emergency event; and
the location of the emergency event is a location that is different from a location of the space in which the alerting device is located.

11. A remote computing device for notifying a user of an emergency event, comprising:
a memory; and
a processor configured to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to:
configure configuration settings of an alerting device for a type of alarm to be output by the alerting device, wherein the configuration settings are based on a type of user of the alerting device that is responding to an emergency event;
receive emergency event data from a computing device associated with an emergency response center, wherein:
the emergency event data is associated with the emergency event; and
the emergency event data includes an emergency event type, a severity level of the emergency event, and an emergency event responder type;

generate event data based on the received emergency event data; and
transmit the event data to the alerting device to cause the alerting device to output an alarm to notify a user of an occurrence of the emergency event based on the transmitted event data, wherein the alarm is output based on the emergency event type, the severity level of the emergency event, and the emergency event responder type to a space in which the alerting device is located.

12. The remote computing device of claim 11 , wherein the processor is configured to execute the instructions to generate the event data by generating an audio file to cause the alerting device to audibly output text-to-speech information related to the emergency event.

13. The remote computing device of claim 11 , wherein the processor is configured to execute the instructions to generate the event data by generating an audio file to cause the alerting device to audibly output a tone related to the emergency event.

14. The remote computing device of claim 11 , wherein the processor is configured to execute the instructions to generate the event data by generating instructions to cause the alerting device to emit a visible light related to the emergency event.

15. The remote computing device of claim 11 , wherein:
the emergency event data includes a location of the emergency event; and
the location of the emergency event is a location that is different from a location of the remote computing device.

16. A system for notifying a user of an emergency event, comprising:
a remote computing device configured to:
receive emergency event data from a computing device associated with an emergency response center, wherein:
the emergency event data is associated with an emergency event; and
the emergency event data includes an emergency event type, a severity level of the emergency event, and an emergency event responder type;

generate event data based on the received emergency event data; and
transmit the event data to an alerting device; and

the alerting device configured to:
receive the event data from the remote computing device; and
cause an alarm to be output based on the emergency event type, the severity level of the emergency event, and the emergency event responder type to notify a user of an occurrence of the emergency event based on the received event data, wherein the alerting device includes configuration settings for a type of the alarm to be output, wherein the configuration settings are configured based on a type of user of the alerting device that is responding to the emergency event.

17. The system of claim 16 , wherein the emergency event data includes at least one of:
a location of the emergency event; and
an emergency event responder unit sub-type.

18. The system of claim 16 , wherein:
the alerting device is connected to a vibration device; and
the alerting device is configured to enable the vibration device in response to receiving the event data, wherein the vibration device is configured to notify the user of the occurrence of the emergency event.

19. The system of claim 16 , wherein the configuration settings of the alerting device are configurable via the remote computing device.

20. The system of claim 16 , wherein the configuration settings of the alerting device are configurable via a mobile device connected to the alerting device.

Assignees

• Honeywell Int Inc

Inventors

• Pristelski Jeffrey J
• Dickinson Eric G
• Macfarlane Andrew L
• Jacobs Paul J
• Smith Todd J

Classifications

• H04W76/50

  for emergency connections · CPC title

• G08B1/08

  using electric transmission {; transformation of alarm signals to electrical signals from a different medium, e.g. transmission of an electric alarm signal upon detection of an audible alarm signal} · CPC title

• G08B7/06

  using electric transmission {, e.g. involving audible and visible signalling through the use of sound and light sources} · CPC title

• G08B25/006

  Alarm destination chosen according to type of event, e.g. in case of fire phone the fire service, in case of medical emergency phone the ambulance · CPC title

• G08B27/006

  with transmission via telephone network · CPC title