Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device including an inertia sensor, an atmospheric pressure sensor, a processor operatively connected to the inertia sensor, the atmospheric pressure sensor, and a memory operatively connected to the processor, wherein the memory is configured to store instructions which, when executed, cause the processor to acquire acceleration sensing data from the inertia sensor and atmospheric pressure sensing data from the atmospheric pressure sensor, sense whether the electronic device has fallen based on the acceleration sensing data and the atmospheric pressure sensing data, and determine whether a user has fallen, based on the acceleration sensing data, when it is determined that the electronic device has fallen.

Abstract: An interdisciplinary health and wellness system for providing multiple disciplinaries on a single platform to develop a personalized interdisciplinary regimen for improving a user's health and wellness is disclosed. The user interacts with a user interface via a computing device to access information. A specialist may communicate with the user through a specialist interface via a computing device.

Abstract: Systems, devices and methods for alerting a crew of an aircraft or other mobile platform of a relevant condition associated with the aircraft are disclosed. One exemplary method comprises receiving data indicative of an existence of the relevant condition associated with the aircraft; receiving data indicative of a substantially real-time value of a dynamic parameter associated with the relevant condition; and displaying an awareness-enhancing indication associated with the relevant condition in a display area of the crew alerting system of the aircraft. The awareness-enhancing indication comprises a textual message and a supplemental indication indicative of the substantially real-time value of the dynamic parameter associated with the relevant condition. In various embodiments, the supplemental indication may be textual or graphical. The supplemental indication may also be indicative of a target value of the dynamic parameter.

Abstract: A system for monitoring the operational status of an aircraft crew includes a unit for determining at least one pilot state based on first monitoring data of a high design assurance level and second monitoring data of a lower design assurance level. The determination unit includes a first evaluation module capable of obtaining a high-level pilot state from the first data, regardless of the second data; a second evaluation module capable of determining a low-level pilot state, from at least the second data; and a consolidation module for determining a consolidated pilot state. The consolidated pilot state is obtained as a function of the high-level pilot state and the low-level pilot state.

Abstract: A system for alerting service animals to perform specified tasks generally includes an alert device which provides a first and a second haptic alert from an alert device worn by a service animal and a monitoring device worn by a handler. The monitoring device is programmed to monitor a physiologic parameter of the handler and has a first mode programmed to transmit a first actuation signal to the alert device when the physiologic parameter exceeds a first threshold such that the alert device provides the first haptic alert to the service animal and a second mode programmed to transmit a second actuation signal to the alert device when the physiologic parameter exceeds a second threshold such that the alert device provides the haptic alert to the service animal. The auditory alert is correlated to a first task and the second haptic alert is correlated to a second task.

Abstract: A tactile display device including a nodule having variable stiffness under a surface to provide a near-real feeling of palpation for a physician. The device utilizes granular jamming technology using pneumatic actuation to control a nodule that maintains its shape while allowing the modulation in stiffness. The nodule includes two hemispheres, a contact portion and an actuation portion, forming a sphere. The contact portion and the actuation portion include different thicknesses and/or materials, while the dimensions of the dimensions of the nodule are maintained. As such, a physician can utilize the device to identify the difference between a normal lump and an affected lump even if the shape of each lump appears to be the same. With the tactile display device, due to the different levels of stiffness, a physician can detect the severity of the lump.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for driver detection are described. One example method includes monitoring data provided by an accelerometer associated with a client device. It is determined whether the data indicates a particular event associated with a vehicle. In response to determining that the data indicates the particular event associated with the vehicle, one or more micro-activities associated with the vehicle are determined based on data from at least one of the accelerometer and one or more other sensors associated with the client device. Results from each of the one or more micro-activities are provided to a trained model associated with the client device. In response to providing the results to the trained model, one or more vehicular events in a time sequence are identified based on the one or more micro-activities associated with the vehicle.

Abstract: An electronic messaging device includes a receiver configured to receive a message at one of a first operational frequency and second operational frequency. The messaging device can added to a message distribution group comprising a plurality of existing messaging devices. A test communication can be sent through a coupling to test an operation of the messaging device and confirming the addition of the messaging device to the message distribution group without communicating with the existing messaging devices.

Abstract: An emergency readiness verification system includes a housing, a secure weight-sensing mechanism, a vertically-actuated switch assembly, a vertically-adjustable calibration mechanism, and an alert device in communication with the vertically-actuated switch assembly. The vertically-adjustable calibration mechanism fixes a vertical position of the vertically-actuated switch assembly such that an engagement tab of the attachment extension engages an actuator of the vertically-actuated switch assembly when a weight of the fire extinguisher supported by an extinguisher attachment falls is within an alert threshold, and disengages the actuator when the weight of the fire extinguisher falls below the alert threshold or when the fire extinguisher is not supported by the extinguisher attachment.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for metering water are disclosed. In some implementations, audio energy corresponding to a flow of material in a pipe that meets a threshold audio energy is detected using a sensor of a batter-operated device connected to the pipe. One or more components of the battery-operated device are activated in response to detecting the audio energy that meets the threshold audio energy. Audio data corresponding to the flow of material in the pipe is collected using the sensor in response to detecting the audio energy that meets the threshold audio energy. The audio data is analyzed using a processing component of the batter-operated device to determine one or more events. An indication of the one or more events is transmitted to an external computing system in response to determining the one or more events.

Abstract: A method for providing a thermal feedback, performed by a feedback device. The feedback device outputs the thermal feedback, by transmitting a heat generated by a thermoelectric element, to a user via a contact surface contacting with a body part of the user. The method may include obtaining a feedback start message including a type of the thermal feedback, and when the type of the thermal feedback is a thermal grill feedback, outputting the thermal grill feedback by performing a thermal grill operation in which a heat generating operation and a heat absorbing operation is combined. The outputting of the thermal grill feedback may include applying a forward power to the thermoelectric element to perform the heat generating operation, applying a reverse power of which a current direction is opposite to the forward power to the thermoelectric element to perform the heat absorbing operation, and repeating the applying the forward power and the applying the reverse power alternatively.

Abstract: An example disclosed method for authenticating a radio frequency identification (“RFID”) tag includes receiving a first signal including a first transponder identifier associated with the RFID tag; receiving a second signal including a second transponder identifier, wherein the second transponder identifier is associated with a different transponder than the first transponder identifier; and determining, with circuitry, whether the second transponder identifier is associated with the RFID tag.

Abstract: Included are: a list acquiring unit for acquiring a device list that lists models of a device having functions that can be controlled by operation of a remote controller; a model receiving unit for receiving information of a target model of a target device, of which device control signal generated by operation of the remote controller is to be registered, the target model of the target device selected on the basis of the device list acquired by the list acquiring unit; a function determination unit for determining one or more target functions of the target model received by the model receiving unit; and a guidance generation unit for generating guidance information indicating operation of the remote controller for executing the one or more target functions determined by the function determination unit.

Abstract: A method of assessing an operator emotional state and sending an alert based on the emotional state. The method includes tracking during a time period, using at least one sensor, one of an image sensor data, voice data or a biometric parameter of an operator. Determining, using a controller that is operatively connected to at least one sensor, a probability of a likely emotional state from a list of emotional states of an operator based on one of the image sensor data, voice data or the biometric parameter. Comparing, using a processor, the probability of one of the likely emotional states of the operator with a baseline emotional state of the operator. Sending, using the controller, an alert if most likely emotional state deviates from the baseline emotional state by a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: A method and device for determining whether a user is actively driving a motor vehicle or car sick. The sensor device is provided for sensing eye movement of the user and the method includes supplying an artificial intelligence with data originating from the sensor device in order to recognize at least one frequency of eye movements of the user, a frequency of eye movements above a first threshold characterizing a visualization by the user of a passing landscape, and being distinguished from a concentration of gaze of a vehicle driver, and determining a current frequency of eye movements of the user and comparing the current frequency with the first threshold, and if the current frequency is greater than the first threshold, triggering a notification signal for the user.

Abstract: A portable monitoring unit for personnel working in hazardous environments, including a coupling to which an auxiliary unit can be structurally coupled; a motion sensor; an alert generator which is configured to generate an alert when motion is not detected for a period of time; and a power interface arranged to receive power for the portable monitoring unit from a power interface of the auxiliary unit when the auxiliary unit is structurally coupled to the portable monitoring unit.

Abstract: A vehicular safety device for monitoring the presence of a child or pet in a motorized vehicle. The device interfaces with the vehicle's power receptacle for detection of the on/off state of the vehicle. The operator is prompted to inform the device of the presence of the child or pet upon start of the engine of the vehicle through an auditory interface. When the engine of the vehicle is shut down, the device provides an audible reminder to the operator that a child or pet is present in the vehicle.

Abstract: Systems and methods for vehicle-to-vehicle communications are provided. An example computer-implemented method includes obtaining, by a computing system onboard a first autonomous vehicle, sensor data associated with an environment of the first autonomous vehicle. The method includes determining, by the computing system, an intermediate environmental representation of at least a portion of the environment of the first autonomous vehicle based at least in part on the sensor data. The method includes generating, by the computing system, a compressed intermediate environmental representation by compressing the intermediate environmental representation of at least the portion of the environment of the first autonomous vehicle. The method includes communicating, by the computing system, the compressed intermediate environmental representation to a second autonomous vehicle.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a testing method and a testing system for a human stress reaction, and a computer-readable storage medium. The testing method for the human stress reaction includes acquiring position information and visual field information of a testee in a virtual road traffic scene after the virtual road traffic scene is established; guiding the testee into a test zone when the testee is within a test-waiting zone and when a visual field direction of the testee faces the test zone, and simultaneously, starting acquiring stress reaction data of the testee; controlling a virtual reality environment module to create a virtual stress event in the test zone after it is determined that the testee is within the test zone, and applying a stimulation to the testee, such that the testee make a stress reaction.

Abstract: The system provides a method and apparatus for patient monitoring. In one embodiment, the system comprises beacons located in the patient environment. The beacons may be part of the Medical Internet of Things (MIOT). The patient has a medical wearable that includes fall detection and non-clinical medical monitoring within a geo-fencing perimeter to assure patient safety. The caregivers wear monitoring badges that identify the location, proximity, time management and resources spent for a patient. A central hub base station in the home coordinates and collects the information from the beacons, badges, and medical wearable to deliver information (e.g., via the cloud) for the management of the patient and the caregiver.