WO2010084495A1 - Remote babysitting monitor - Google Patents
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- WO2010084495A1 WO2010084495A1 PCT/IL2010/000057 IL2010000057W WO2010084495A1 WO 2010084495 A1 WO2010084495 A1 WO 2010084495A1 IL 2010000057 W IL2010000057 W IL 2010000057W WO 2010084495 A1 WO2010084495 A1 WO 2010084495A1
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
- H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
- H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
- H04M1/72—Mobile telephones; Cordless telephones, i.e. devices for establishing wireless links to base stations without route selection
- H04M1/724—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
- H04M1/72403—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
- H04M1/72409—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality by interfacing with external accessories
- H04M1/72415—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality by interfacing with external accessories for remote control of appliances
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
- H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
- H04M11/00—Telephonic communication systems specially adapted for combination with other electrical systems
- H04M11/04—Telephonic communication systems specially adapted for combination with other electrical systems with alarm systems, e.g. fire, police or burglar alarm systems
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
- H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
- H04M2250/00—Details of telephonic subscriber devices
- H04M2250/12—Details of telephonic subscriber devices including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion
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- the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for monitoring remote sites by means of a cellular telephonic device or cell phone.
- Japanese patent application JP2007233733A2 provides a method to flexibly and rapidly cope with improvements and changes to house equipment or a change of market needs in a home network. This is based on control and monitoring of the house equipment performed in each of a plurality of subsystems that constitute a home network using a general-purpose communication protocol. Because cooperation of the subsystems is performed via the home network, change of market needs or functional improvements to the house equipment can be flexibly and rapidly coped with as compared to a precedent wherein all pieces of the house equipment are connected to one master unit. It will be appreciated however that this system is rather complex, and is based on the existence of an entire home netwrok which will tend to increase the cost and hardware requirements of the system.
- Fig. 1 presents a group of children being remotely monitored by the system of the present invention.
- Fig. 2a presents a flowchart detailing operation of the method of the present invention without remote activation.
- Fig. 2b presents a flowchart detailing operation of the method of the present invention with remote activation.
- the present invention comprises a system and method for remotely monitoring sites by telephonic means.
- the key element of the system is a simply modified cell phone of the most basic variety, not requiring internet connectivity or advanced functionality. By means of this element, the user may listen to or view remote locations in a surreptitious fashion, at will.
- the invention herein disclosed provides means and methods for monitoring the condition of infants, young children, the elderly and the incapacitated from a remote location simply and efficiently.
- It is within the core of the present invention to provide a system for monitoring remote locations comprising a telephonic device adapted to pick up the line automatically when called by a caller, said telephonic device being acoustically coupled to its surroundings, wherein by a caller may listen to said surroundings from a remote location.
- said commonplace object is selected from a group consisting of: clock, table, chair, wall, picture, mirror, safe, bed, door, book, and pen.
- said telephonic device is further provided with sensors selected from a group consisting of: video, vibration, pressure, temperature, acceleration, and motion detectors; wherein said sensors are adapted to be activated by means of numeric codes entered by said caller; further wherein said sensor readings are reported by said telephonic device by means selected from a group consisting of: numerical codes, tones, voice, image, and video.
- step of picking up the line of said telephonic device is performed only upon recognition of a telephone number selected from a predetermined list of numbers. It is an object of the present invention to provide the aforementioned method, further comprising step of providing said telephonic device with outputs selected from a group consisting of speakers, relays, lights, air conditioner controls, boiler controls, oven controls, and security system controls; wherein said sensors are activated by means selected from a group consisting of: numerical codes, tones, voice.
- a standard cell phone is modified such that it 'picks up' automatically when called.
- Many cell phones have such a setting, for example for use when driving. If no such setting is available, the circuitry of the cell phone may be modified to answer automatically when dialed. By answering immediately, the ring is avoided.
- the ring is avoided by setting the phone volume to a silent setting.
- a cell phone so provided to 'pick up' without ringing is then embedded into a common object such as a clock, table, picture, window, chair, safe, or the like, with care being taken that the microphone is amply exposed to the ambient sound environment. This phone will be referred to as the 'monitor cell phone'.
- the location of this device will be referred to as the 'remote location'. It will be understood that a regular telephone with the ringer similarly deactivated and provided with automatic pickup will also serve the same purpose as a cell phone. Already at this point, such a device has great utility, since one can call the number associated with the monitor cell phone, and listen to the environment of the monitor cell phone from around the world. Thus, for example, a parent can monitor the activity of a child from a distance.
- the monitor cell phone is provided with a speaker, such that the user can be heard in the surroundings of the monitor cell phone. In another of the embodiment, no such speaker is provided, such that there is no risk of the monitor cell phone being detected. This will have utility in applications such as security monitoring, where a home owner might want to be able to monitor the sounds in his home without revealing that this monitoring was taking place.
- a microphone is provided with the monitor cell phone.
- video capabilities are provided to the monitor cell phone, which can then be used to monitor the remote location visually.
- further inputs are provided to the cell phone by means which will be clear to one skilled in the art, such as temperature sensors, humidity sensors, movement sensors, pressure sensors, acceleration detectors, vibration sensors, and the like.
- the cell phone is provided with outputs, such as light controls, relays, air conditioner controls, boiler activators, oven controls, and the like, implementing in effect a 'smart house' by means of cell phone. It will be obvious to one skilled in the art that such control over multiple devices and sensors may be easily provided for by means of numeric codes input into the user phone to control operation of the monitor cell phone.
- the monitor cell phone will respond only to a predetermined list of phone numbers, and will not pick up for any numbers not on this list. By this means, undesired snooping is prevented.
- Fig. 1 a basic configuration of the device is shown.
- a cellular phone or other telephonic device 102 is hidden within the clock 101.
- the microphone of the telephonic device is visible on the face of the clock, and is acoustically coupled to its surroundings. By calling this telephonic device, the peaceful slumber or disquietude of one's children 103 may be monitored.
- Fig. 2a the basic method of operation 201 of the device is shown.
- the first step of this method consists of calling the phone that is hidden within the remote location (the monitor phone).
- the monitor phone is adapted to pick up the line automatically, in a preferred embodiment without ringing.
- the caller is finished monitoring, he hangs up and so terminates the call.
- Fig. 2b an alternative method of operation 202 of the device is shown.
- the first step of this method is activated when the monitor phone detects some activity, such as noise above a certain threshold, movement, or the like.
- the monitor phone is adapted to call a predetermined number or numbers when this occurs.
- the entity receiving this call may then monitor the surroundings of the monitor phone, and when said entity is finished monitoring, it may hang up and so terminates the call.
- pre-paid SIM cards will be made available with a certain number of minutes of air time provided. Since two-way communication is not necessary in certain embodiments of the device, this air time may be substantially cheaper than otherwise.
- This air time may be used at will. It will be clear to one skilled in the art that this method may also be used to provide unique access; either the user's cellular phone is restricted to only call the monitor phone, or the monitor phone is restricted to receive calls only from the user's cell phone, or both.
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AU2010207482A AU2010207482A1 (en) | 2009-01-23 | 2010-01-24 | Remote babysitting monitor |
CA2751734A CA2751734A1 (en) | 2009-01-23 | 2010-01-24 | Remote babysitting monitor |
US13/145,888 US20110287749A1 (en) | 2009-01-23 | 2010-01-24 | Remote babysitting monitor |
RU2011134725/07A RU2011134725A (en) | 2009-01-23 | 2010-01-24 | REMOTE CHILD CONTROL |
EP10733307.2A EP2389729A4 (en) | 2009-01-23 | 2010-01-24 | Remote babysitting monitor |
IL214093A IL214093A0 (en) | 2009-01-23 | 2011-07-14 | Remote babysitting monitor |
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