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US-12626576-B2 - System for operative control and monitoring

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Abstract

Invention describes set of units able to communicate one with each other by means of cooperating software, mutually control themselves and imagine displays from other units. Invention enables by means of indicated set or individual units as well, to make remote monitoring of persons and control their location, heath condition and capacity. Also, it enables to monitored persons to check their condition on mobile unit.

Inventors

  • Vladimir Kranz

Assignees

  • Vladimir Kranz

Dates

Publication Date
20260512
Application Date
20190815

Claims (15)

  1. 1 . A system for monitoring comprising: a central control block consisting of: a smaller portable central control unit having a small display, placed on a wrist of a monitored person, a bigger basic central control unit with a bigger display, adapted to handle telephone calls and messages and carried by the monitored person in at least one of a pocket, a hand, a bag and near the monitored person; wherein the smaller portable central control unit further comprises: an electrocardiograph (ECG) control unit placed in a box of the smaller portable control unit connected to a pair of electrodes for use on a right and left arm to capture heart signal for an ECG lead I curve that is displayed on the small display of the portable central control unit and/or the heart signals is transmitted from the ECG control unit by means of a communication block to the bigger basic central control unit, and the ECG lead I curve is displayed on the bigger display for detailed view; wherein the pair of electrodes are placed on at least one of: a box of the portable central control unit, a chest belt, a watch strap of the smaller portable central control unit for a left hand, and a decorative wrist band for right hand or combination thereof, and the smaller portable central control unit is able to accept up to 8 additional electrodes in addition to the pair of electrodes connected to the ECG control unit.
  2. 2 . The system for monitoring according to claim 1 , wherein the ECG control unit is placed inside of the box of the smaller portable central control unit and is connected to one electrode on the box or on the watch strap in which the portable central control unit is placed for contact with the wrist of left arm and the other electrode on the box or on the decorative wrist band which is connected to the right arm.
  3. 3 . The system for monitoring according to claim 1 , wherein the electrodes for the left arm and right arm are adapted for sensing heart signals of ECG lead I, and when two electrodes for legs are added, an lead II is sensed and an lead III is sensed, an augmented Vector Foot (aVF), an augmented Vector Right (aVR), an augmented Vector Left (aVL) are calculated, and when up to six additional electrodes for chest leads V1-V6 are added up to twelve leads ECG are processed and displayed on the display of the central control unit.
  4. 4 . The system for monitoring according to claim 1 , further comprising a sensor block connected to the bigger basic central control unit which forms a central control block with from up to 10 electrodes for sensing the heart signals to be sent to the central control block and/or a surveillance centre where it is processed as from one lead ECG up to 12 leads ECG.
  5. 5 . The system for monitoring according to claim 4 wherein the sensor block is adapted for sensing and processing the heart signals and/or health functions into data for local transmission to central control block placed locally and/or for remote transmission to the surveillance centre placed remotely, and if transmitted to the central control block locally the central control block is adapted for transmission of the heart signals and/or the health functions data to the surveillance centre for evaluation and transmission of data to the surveillance centre is initiated on the basis of at least one of: a selected participants request, the monitored person request, the surveillance centre request, alarm activation, exceeding of set limits of the health functions values, request for uninterrupted transmission, request for periodical transmission in predetermined intervals and derations, or a combination thereof; and if the heart signals or the health functions exceed set the health units of the monitored person, the central control unit and/or the surveillance centre activates a warning signal for a medical personnel or for the monitored person and when the monitored person or the medical personnel does not reset the warning signal within a preset time interval from the beginning of the warning signal, an alarm is activated; wherein if the alarm is initiated in the central control unit, then the alarm is sent to the surveillance centre; whereby the set health limits for activation of the warming signal and/or the alarm are set by the monitored person and/or the medical personnel, whereby the health functions comprises at least one of a body temperature sensor, a respiration sensor, a blood oxygen content sensor, a blood pressure sensor, a heart pulse sensor, test on physical fitness by a movement sensor, a test on mental fitness, or a combination thereof; and the display on the bigger central control unit or on the smaller central control unit is adapted for viewing by the monitored person for adjusting activities of the monitored person and/or medication according to a health condition seen on the display.
  6. 6 . The system for monitoring according to claim 4 , wherein the sensor block for sensing from the body of the monitored person, comprises at least one of: a means for sensing cardiac electrical signals, a means for sensing health data detectable by sensor block, a means for sensing the data of the physical fitness of the monitored person, or a combination thereof; and when the means for sensing cardiac electrical signals is placed on the chest belt or a multifunctional chest belt, wherein the multifunctional chest belt further comprises at least one of: the heart rate sensor, a ECG control unit, a control unit of the chest belt, or combination thereof; wherein the means for sensing the data on physical fitness comprise at least one of a physical activity sensor, a movement motion sensor, a body position sensor, a shock sensor, a footstep sensor, or a combination thereof.
  7. 7 . The system for monitoring according to claim 4 , further comprising: a timer for tracking completion of a task by the monitored person; the surveillance centre for receiving the data, wherein the central control unit or the central surveillance centre are adjusted for verification if the timer has not been reset by the monitored person within a preset period of time and/or for verification of completion of 4 given task by the monitored person, which are used for analysis of the mental fitness of the monitored person, wherein if the timer is not reset within the set time period and/or if the given task is not fulfilled properly or not in time, the warning signal is activated.
  8. 8 . A method for monitoring comprising: communication of data between a smaller portable central control unit placed on a wrist of a monitored person and a bigger basic central control unit carried by the monitored person, wherein the smaller portable central control unit and the bigger basic central control unit are adapted for local transmission of data between the smaller portable central control unit and the bigger basic central control unit; sensing electrocardiograph (ECG) lead I heart signal from a pair of electrodes for a right arm and a left arm and displayed on a smaller display of the smaller portable central control unit; and the smaller portable central control unit further comprises an ECG central control unit placed in a box of portable central control unit connected to the pair of electrodes, and the heart signals are transmitted from the ECG control unit by means of a communication block to the bigger basic central control unit and an ECG curve is displayed on a larger display for detailed view, wherein for displaying of the ECG curve the pair of electrodes are placed on at least one of a box of the smaller portable central control unit, a chest belt, a watch strap of the smaller portable central control unit for a left hand, and a decorative wrist band for right hand or combination thereof; displaying up to 12 leads ECG on the smaller portable central control unit; and the smaller portable central control unit can be able to accept up to 8 additional electrodes in addition to the two electrodes connected to the ECG control unit for achieving the heart signals for displaying up to 12 lead ECG.
  9. 9 . The method for monitoring according to claim 8 wherein displaying up to 12 leads ECG comprising attaching 2 electrodes on the left arm and the right arm to measure lead I, attaching 2 additional electrodes on a left leg and a right leg to measure a lead II signal and calculate lead III signal and 3 augmented vector leads (aVE, aVR, AVL)), wherein lead I, II, III and vector leads totaling to 6 leads; and 6 additional leads are achieved by attaching electrodes on a chest for leads are achieved by attaching 6 additional electrodes on a chest for measuring 6 leads indicated as V1, V2, V3, V4, V5 and V6.
  10. 10 . The method of monitoring according to claim 8 comprising sensing the heart signals by a sensor block using at least 2 and up to 10 electrodes connected to a central control block or a surveillance centre for processing heart signals.
  11. 11 . The method of monitoring according to claim 8 comprising: sensing the heart signals and/or sensing or monitoring a health functions by a sensor block and processing of the heart signals and/or the health functions into data for local transmission to a central control block formed by the smaller portable central unit or the bigger basic central control unit placed locally and for remote transmission to the central control block formed by a surveillance centre placed remotely for evaluation and sending of data to the surveillance centre is done on the basis of at least one of: a selected participants request, the monitored person request, the surveillance centre request, alarm activation, exceeding of set limits of the health functions values, a request for uninterrupted transmission, a request for periodical transmission in predetermined intervals and durations, or a combination thereof; and activation of an alarm or a warning signal for the monitored person by the central control unit and/or the surveillance centre if the heart signals or the health functions exceed set health limits of the monitored person, and when the monitored person or a medical personnel doesn't reset the warning signal within preset time interval from the beginning of the warning signal, the alarm is activated, and wherein if alarm is initiated in the central control unit, the alarm is sent to the surveillance centre, whereby a limits for activation of the warning signal and/or the alarm are set by the monitored person and/or the medical personnel, whereby monitoring of the health functions of the monitored person, wherein a the health functions is at least one of: the body temperature, the respiration, the blood oxygen content, blood pressure, the heart pulse, test on physical fitness, test on mental fitness, or a combination thereof; and displaying tor the monitored person on the display on the central control block for adjusting activities of the monitored person and/or medication according to health condition seen on the display.
  12. 12 . The method of monitoring according to claim 8 further comprising: adjusting of a countdown timer by a button on the smaller portable small central control unit or on the bigger central control unit the monitored person or a qualified personnel and activation of a warming signal by the countdown timer, when the time adjusted by the monitored person or a qualified personnel expires; testing of physical fitness of the monitored person by manually resetting the timer within preset time by the monitored person and/or automatically by movement of the monitored person detected by a movement sensor worn by the monitored person and/or placed in a monitoring room where the monitored person is located, wherein an automatic reset can be deactivated, and/or two timers are used where a first countdown timer is designed for manual and automatic reset and a second count down timer is designed for manual reset only to deactivate the warning signal, and when the warning signal is not deactivated then the warming signal changes into alarm and advantageously automatic reset of the countdown timer by the movement sensor placed in the monitoring room and connected to a stationary central control unit and/or the reset by the monitored person using a remote reset unit or the push button on the central control unit.
  13. 13 . The method of monitoring according to claim 8 comprising: generating and displaying on a central control block of an arrhythmia numerically and/or graphically based on the percentage of arrhythmic cardiac pulses occurrence of the total number of pulses adjustable time period, or in a range given by the number of pulses: wherein an arrhythmia is expressed numerically in percentage or in degrees, and for calculation of the arrhythmia degree is percentage of irregular pulses divided by one hundred and multiplied by the number of degrees of a predefined scale and the calculation is rounded off to the desired number of decimal places and the arrhythmia curve arises by plotting the arrhythmia in percentage or degrees on a y axis and for the time on an x axis.
  14. 14 . The method of monitoring according to claim 13 further comprising: calculating in the central control block a value of arrhythmic cardiac pulses defined by comparing a current heart rate counted from present pulse and average heart rate for selected number of pulses, and wherein arrhythmic cardiac pulse is defined as pulse whose current pulse rate deviates from the average pulse rate by more than a selectable value of 13 percent.
  15. 15 . The method of monitoring according to claim 8 further comprising: generating and displaying in a central control block, a heart rate curve formed by connecting two adjacent values of pulses, where the value of heart rate is in pulses per minute on a y axis is calculated from time intervals on an x axis between two adjacent cardiac pulses; displaying a curve of upper and lower limits of a regular sinus pulses calculated from a curve of average heart rate by adding or deducting a certain heart rate value of 13% of the average heart rate, specifying the irregular pulses in the part of the heart rate curve going over the curves of upper and lower limit; and creating and/or displaying the curve of the average heart rate calculated from a number of recent cardiac pulses, pulse by pulse, from 3-15 pulses.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD The invention concerns the activation of alarm of persons in danger, where the monitoring system will set off the alarm when the monitored persons fail to show alertness or movement, or when other monitored functions are beyond the set limits, indicating that the persons are in danger. It is possible to set the delay of the alarm activation for movement and alertness, where on a warning signal the activation of the alarm, before actually being activated, can be manually reset to confirm the normal condition, so that the delay of the alarm activation is counted again from “zero”. For the monitored functions, the alarm may be reset and is repeated at a set time with the possibility to automatically state the location of the monitored person when calling in the rescuers. Further the invention concerns the device for enabling of localization of persons in case of danger and monitoring of their condition. Device may be realized in the connection with activation of alarm for persons in danger. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION With stationary devices, the current technology allows for setting off the alarm on the basis of monitoring persons in a room where they are usually located using a movement sensor. On the sensor, it is a technician, not a user—the monitored person—who sets a time period within which the system must record the movement of the monitored person, or it will set off the alarm, which is transmitted to the surveillance centre. The drawback is that unless the monitored person moves within the preset time period, the alarm will go off without the monitored person being able to stop it. For that reason, the monitoring times are preset at relatively long periods of 10 to 12 hours. After such a long time during which the monitored person may become incapacitated, particularly if this happens at the beginning of the monitored time, it takes hours before the alarm is set off, possibly causing help to come too late. To prevent frequent alarms, the time for setting off the alarm cannot be preset at a shorter interval. Moreover, each adjustment requires an intervention by a technician, which is costly and prevents the monitored person to reset, and therefore to stop, the alarm before the technician is being called in, which poses a burden on the surveillance centre as it must check every alarm. Only a sensor is used for monitoring movement, indicating an overall movement of the monitored person, which in certain cases may not be sufficiently precise and may lead to a failure. Before any action the surveillance centre staff may contact the monitored person to cheek whether the person is incapacitated. To this end, it uses a speaker phone, which is automatically activated at incoming call from the surveillance centre. If there are more rooms on the premises of the monitored person, these phones must be placed in all rooms to ensure connection, which is costly. Also the monitoring movement sensors must be placed in all rooms to be monitored. The monitoring system which monitors persons for movement and therefore activity is stationary under current technology, which means that it cannot be used by monitored persons outside the premises where it is installed. However, it is also outside the monitored premises that a monitored person may be incapacitated. The current devices do not monitor a normal reaction of the monitored person, but only the person's movement. The movement itself, for instance during a fit accompanied by compulsive movement or a movement of a person that does not have control over himself/herself due to mental indisposition, may not mean that the monitored person is in full possession of his/her senses and not in danger. Nor do the current devices monitor the heart rate or other functions that inform of the health condition of the monitored person and provide an automatic alert in the event that any values exceed the preset limits, it means when an emergency occurs. With stationary device, the surveillance centre cannot connect to the monitoring system on its own initiative to check health functions, particularly to check the degree of danger. If mobile devices, such as mobile phones or other transmitters such as transceivers, are used, they only serve to continuously or periodically transmit various pieces of health information rather than to notify of a state of emergency, which is not assessed at the location of the monitored person. In particular, there is no alarm or automatic data transmission if the monitored functions exceed certain limits and the monitored person is in danger. In addition, mobile phone systems totally lack the above-mentioned functions to monitor movement and confirm normal reactions and other states of the monitored person with assessment at the location of the monitored person and automated alarm indicating the state of emergency; they also lack the option of setting the alarm delay or resetting the system before the alarm is actually set off. Current mo