US 12,244,434 B2
System for emergency safety warning and risk mitigation
Mladen Milosevic, Stoneham, MA (US); and Saman Parvaneh, Danvers, MA (US)
Assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Appl. No. 17/047,283
Filed by KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
PCT Filed Apr. 18, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/060031
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 13, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/202053, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 24, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/771,846, filed on Nov. 27, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/659,437, filed on Apr. 18, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0167986 A1, Jun. 3, 2021
Int. Cl. H04L 12/28 (2006.01); G06F 16/9035 (2019.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); H04L 67/12 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 12/2838 (2013.01) [G06F 16/9035 (2019.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); H04L 12/2807 (2013.01); H04L 67/12 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for activities of daily living (“ADL”) and instrumental activities of daily living (“IADL”) monitoring through electric current profile sensing, the system comprising:
a home sensing module configured to collecting information from an existing utility meter, wherein the existing utility meter includes at least a water meter;
an electric current profile sensing module configured to sense electricity usage and capture an electrical current profile of a plurality of devices in a home using a plurality of current clamps;
a device usage detection module configured to match the electrical current profile for each of the plurality of devices to a referenced profile for each of the plurality of devices to determine a detected usage for each of the plurality of devices;
an external factors module configured to collect information about contextual factors associated with the home from publicly available data, wherein the collected information includes at least one of a size of the home, and/or socioeconomic information; and
an ADL and IADL detection module configured to translate the detected usage for each of the plurality of devices into ADLs and IADLs;
a risk assessment and analysis module configured analyze the information provided by the home sensing module, the external factors module, and/or the ADL and IADL detection module to detect a hazardous situation, wherein the hazardous situation is a risk of a fire determined based on the detected usage for each of the plurality of devices and/or the hazardous situation is a risk of in-home flooding determined based on the information collected from the existing utility meter, wherein the hazardous situation is further determined based on the information collected by the external factors module; and
a safety prompts module configured to deliver a first prompt to a user about the detected hazardous situation, wherein the safety prompts module is further configured to deliver a second prompt to one or more individuals or organizations in a safety network of the user if the user does not respond to the first prompt with a certain period of time.