System for automatically monitoring persons in a domestic environment

US6825761B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Tilo Christ · Erlangen, DE
• Michael Mankopf · Baiersdorf, DE
• Volker Schmidt · Lexington, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 1, 2002
• Grant date: Nov 30, 2004
• Expiry date: Oct 14, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G08B25/14
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A system for automatically monitoring persons in a domestic environment by using sensors for detecting characteristic parameters which are supplied to a surveillance center which, if necessary, alerts an alarm center, particularly a service provider, the sensors detecting a plurality of domestic devices (including measuring devices) used or operated regularly and the sensor data being supplied personalized and automatically to the center which evaluates the incoming data by using an expert system with predetermined rules.