Abstract: A system for monitoring the safety of personnel on a work site, by providing workers on the site with portable battery powered safety monitors equipped with alarms, sensors to detect hazardous conditions, at least two forms of geo-location and two forms of voice and data telecommunication and two CPU's sharing the computation load, each CPU equipped to monitor and reset the other in case of failure to function, with each monitor capable of serving as a node in a mesh network and relaying information concerning alarms detected including location thereof to other monitors on the mesh network.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 31, 2017
Date of Patent:
November 13, 2018
Assignee:
Universal Site Monitoring Unit Trust
Inventors:
Andrew Charles Thurlow, Emil William Tastula, Timothy Clinton Earl
Abstract: A system for monitoring the safety of personnel on a work site, by providing workers on the site with portable battery powered safety monitors equipped with alarms, sensors to detect hazardous conditions, at least two forms of geo-location and two forms of voice and data telecommunication and two CPU's sharing the computation load, each CPU equipped to monitor and reset the other in case of failure to function, with each monitor capable of serving as a node in a mesh network and relaying information concerning alarms detected including location thereof to other monitors on the mesh network.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 2, 2015
Date of Patent:
August 1, 2017
Assignee:
Universal Site Monitoring Unit Trust
Inventors:
Andrew Charles Thurlow, Emil William Tastula, Timothy Clinton Earl
Abstract: A system for monitoring the safety of personnel on a work site, by providing workers on the site with portable battery powered safety monitors equipped with alarms, sensors to detect hazardous conditions, at least two forms of geo-location and two forms of voice and data telecommunication and two CPU's sharing the computation load, each CPU equipped to monitor and reset the other in case of failure to function, with each monitor capable of serving as a node in a mesh network and relaying information concerning alarms detected including location thereof to other monitors on the mesh network.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 2, 2015
Publication date:
May 18, 2017
Applicant:
Universal Site Monitoring Unit Trust
Inventors:
Andrew Charles THURLOW, Emil William TASTULA, Timothy Clinton EARL