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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2014
Filed:
May. 31, 2007
Benjamin E. Funk, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Amrit Bandyopadhyay, Greenbelt, MD (US);
Eric A. Kohn, Washington, DC (US);
Neil Goldsman, Takoma Park, MD (US);
Carole A. Teolis, Glendale, MD (US);
Gilmer L. Blankenship, Washington, DC (US);
Benjamin E. Funk, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Amrit Bandyopadhyay, Greenbelt, MD (US);
Eric A. Kohn, Washington, DC (US);
Neil Goldsman, Takoma Park, MD (US);
Carole A. Teolis, Glendale, MD (US);
Gilmer L. Blankenship, Washington, DC (US);
TRX Systems, Inc., Greenbelt, MD (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to methods and systems for locating and monitoring the status of people and moveable assets, such as first responders, including firefighters and other public service personnel, and their equipment both indoors and out. The invention can provide for locating and monitoring the status of people and assets in environments where GPS systems do not operate, or where operation is impaired or otherwise limited. The system and method uses inertial navigation to determine the location, motion and orientation of the personnel or assets and communicates with an external monitoring station to receive requests for location, motion orientation and status information and to transmit the location, motion orientation and status information to the monitoring station. The system and method can include storing the location, motion and orientation data as well as status data, in the event that the communication system is unable to communicate with and transmit information to the monitoring station, the system will wait until communication is restored and transmit the status information to the monitoring station to update the location, motion orientation and status information for the person or asset.