Early warning system for natural and manmade disasters
US6169476A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 19, 1999 |
| Grant date | Jan 2, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 19, 2019 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG08B21/10
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
An early warning system for all natural and manmade disasters to collect and analyze data in real time as disasters occur, and when necessary, transmit early warnings to cause mitigation responses to lessen the disaster impact on lives and property. The system detects disasters in real time and determines the type, magnitude, speed, direction, and the expected geographic area to be impacted. Early warnings are transmitted to a wide variety of microprocessor receiver/controllers embedded in commonly used consumer and commercial devices to create a universal standard for receiving warnings and allow both human and automated responses during disasters to greatly increase the effectiveness of the warnings to users. The system determines precise real time position and location coordinates as well as other types of current geographic information data for all mobile and stationary devices capable of receiving early warning signals. This allows the system to transmit directed early warnings to only those specific receivers or group of receivers that are in danger from a disaster as determined by the current location and geographic information for each receiver. The system minimizes false o…
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