Patent: The Network-Connected, Low-Power Early Warning Device For Natural And Man-Made Disasters is a detection device combining hardware and software in order to alert users of potential dangers. This unique device’s simple design (similar to a smoke alarm), inexpensive price, easy installation, and minimal requirements (wireless internet access or USB power) allows its usage in various establishments such as homes, offices, businesses, schools, and hospitals.
Technology: The prototype is made up of a spare battery, a speaker, and a raspberry pi with a disc SD card. Another part of the technology is the software, which is a mobile device application that alerts users of natural disasters in the determined geographic location through a channel over the internet. The warning device is always on. Thus, the user is able to receive up-to-date alerts about their personalized location and any additional emergency networks they subscribe to, wherever and whenever. In the case the device were to malfunction, the device has a built in battery backup for up 72 hours and can failover to other networks such as cellular or WiFi.
Idea/Uses: Depending on the nature of the disaster and the distance from the origin of the disaster, alerts may be generated seconds (earthquakes), minutes (tornados), hours (tsunamis) before the effects are noticed local to the device.
Claims:
- network communications interface
- annunciator mechanism
- computer processor
- non-transitory computer-readable memory
Taps into central warning system in a certain geographic location
Senses seismic movement
Broadcast alerts visually and audibly to one or more locally connected devices
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