Abstract: A system and method for finding the proximate location of an indoor active shooter including: a plurality of acoustic sensors for receiving acoustic information from a monitored area, the sensors being dispersed in the monitored area, and each sensor having a processor for discriminating gunshot candidates from other sounds; and a host processor/server for receiving the gunshot candidates from the sensor and provide further processing to determine if the gunshot candidate is a gunshot. The server may use the first sensor to report as the proximate location of the shooter. As nearby sensors report the same incident, the server may refine the proximate location to within a few feet of the actual location of the shooter. The host processor includes a program or instructions to determine exit routes from the detected shooter and to activate a warning system which directs people away.

Abstract: An object tracking assembly includes a plurality of tracking units that is each attachable to a respective object. Each of the tracking units is in communication with a location network for identifying a location of the tracking units and each of the tracking units broadcasts a tracking signal when the tracking units are actuated. A locating unit is provided and the locating unit broadcasts an actuate signal to each of the tracking units. Each of the tracking units broadcasts the tracking signal to the locating unit when the tracking units receives the actuate signal. The locating unit emits a location alert ranging between a minimum intensity and a maximum intensity corresponding to a distance between the locating unit and a respective one of the tracking units. In this way the locating unit communicates to the user the distance between the locating unit and the respective tracking unit.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes a computer-implemented method to manage an industrial plant facility, the method including: monitoring multiple streams of input data from a network of sensors at the industrial plant facility, wherein the network of sensors include one or more camera devices; determining, by a server computer, an event during construction or operation of the industrial plant facility based on analyzing the multiple streams of input data in real-time; and based on the determined event, generating a notification to alert at least one operator of the industrial plant facility.

Abstract: An information transmission system includes a bell, a transmitter, a manual actuator that is manually operated by an operator and actuates the bell, and a controller having a sensor and a memory, wherein the controller analyzes operation information of actuation of the bell actuated by the manual actuator based on an output from the sensor and stores the operation information to the memory, and wherein the transmitter determines operator information corresponding to the operator in the operation information recorded in the memory when the operator rings the bell, and sends the determined operator information.

Abstract: An auxiliary third brake light which is installed on a truck bed enclosure or frame is disclosed. The auxiliary third brake light is not physically secured by adhesive or mechanical fastener to the truck bed, cab or body or any part of the truck. The parts of the auxiliary third brake light mounted to the truck bed cover and contact the truck bed, cab or body is pressed into contact. When the truck bed cover is collapsed or removed, the user can have full use of the truck bed. The parts of the auxiliary third brake light that contact the truck bed, cab or body are pulled off therefrom. When the truck bed cover is deployed to the erected position, the parts of the third brake light that contact the truck bed, cab or body are properly repositioned back into position.

Abstract: Methods and systems for providing landing area information on an active avionic display on a display device in a cockpit of an aircraft. The system includes an avionic display module configured to render an avionic display on a display device; and a landing area guidance module configured to: construct a graphical insert that is smaller than the avionic display, the graphical insert depicting the landing area environment as a two-dimensional area that includes a landing location rendered therein in a first visualization scheme; overlay the graphical insert on a small portion of the avionic display; indicate a target exit on the landing location; determine whether a runway overrun awareness alerting system (ROAAS) alert has been received; determine whether a surface indication alerts (SurfIA) alert has been received; responsive to the ROAAS alert and the SurfIA alert, alter the rendering within the graphical insert.

Abstract: A video analytics system for real-time monitoring and assessment of airplane ramp safety processes comprises rules relating to airplane ramp safety processes, portable video capture devices located at different predetermined positions with respect to an airplane at an airport ramp which capture video and data related to movements and positioning of objects and services being provided relative to the aircraft at the airport ramp and transmit captured video footage and data via a wireless network to a server which performs video analytics on the captured video and data to generate video analytics data, compare the video analytics data to the rules relating to the airplane safety processes, to determine any safety conditions, store the results of the comparison and output a real-time notification if a safety condition is determined.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for wirelessly transmitting and receiving self- powered power-free fixed temperature type fire detection, the system comprising: a self-powered fixed temperature type fire detector operating by the heat generated by fire occurrence and self- powered; a receiver for receiving and monitoring a fire occurrence signal through wireless communication according to the operation of the self-powered fixed temperature type fire detector; and an application part for allowing the signal received from the receiver to be notified in real time, wherein the fire detector is wirelessly installed, self-powered, and maximized in dust and water-resistant efficiencies.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and a remote control for sending emergency alert requests are disclosed. The methods and systems comprise receiving an emergency alert request from a user via a set-top box at a subscriber location. The emergency alert request is received from a remote control. A medical alert message is sent by the set-top box to a processing device, based on the received medical alert request, via a first network. The processing device sends an emergency alert instruction to provide emergency assistance to the subscriber location to an emergency assistance service provider, via a second network, based, at least in part, on the message. A request to provide medical assistance to the subscriber location may be sent to a medical assistance service provider, who may be a third party. Emergency alert requests for the police or fire department may be sent to a 9-1-1 service.

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems for wildfire detection using power infrastructure are described. One or more aspects of the techniques described include determining (e.g., quantifying) the impact of wildfires on power structures and transmission line sensors. Determination of measurable changes in transmission line temperature and transmission line sag, that result from early onset fires, are used to detect heat events. Therefore, real-time monitoring of transmission line temperature and transmission line sag (e.g., using sensors that are already deployed in some power grid infrastructures) may efficiently detect the early onset of wildfires according to techniques described herein.

Abstract: A system may include an electromagnetic load capable of generating a haptic event and a haptic processor configured to receive at least one first parameter indicative of a desired perception of the haptic event to a user of a device comprising the electromagnetic load, receive at least one second parameter indicative of one or more characteristics of the device, and process the at least one first parameter and the at least one second parameter to generate a driving signal to the electromagnetic load in order to produce the desired perception to the user despite variances in the device that cause an actual perception of the haptic event to vary from the desired perception.

Abstract: An infrasound drive system and method are disclosed. An infrasound drive system includes a control circuit for transmitting a data signal and a power signal, and one or more infrasound drive that includes an input terminal, an amplifier and a tactile transducer, in one or more infrasound drives, the amplifier receives a power signal from the power channel and a data signal from the data channel. The amplifier outputs an amplified signal to the tactile transducer. The tactile transducer generates a tactile vibration based on the data signal and the power signal. An infrasound drive can be disposed in a housing and transmit a haptic force to a user in contact with the housing. A user can limit the haptic force transmitted by the infrasound drive. The power channel and the data channel can be provided by a power over Ethernet (PoE) cable.

Abstract: Safety apparatus including a first monitoring device designed to be locked onto a threatening individual and including GPS apparatus. A second monitoring device designed to be possessed by a threatened victim and including GPS apparatus. A relative motion sensor included in the second monitoring device designed to compare GPS information between the first monitoring device and the second monitoring device and to provide an activating signal when the GPS information indicates closing at a speed greater than the reaction time of the second monitoring device. A rapid response system included in the second monitoring device and connected to receive the activating signal from the relative motion sensor, whereby the rapid response system is activated to send one of a pulse mode and a drive-stun mode to the first monitoring device.

Abstract: There is provided a connector configured to be retrofitted to an electronic aerosol provision system including a first connecting interface connectable to a vaporizer for vaporizing liquid for inhalation by a user; a second connecting interface connectable to a power supply for supplying power to the vaporizer; a sensor for sensing a parameter indicative of a change in the electronic aerosol provision system; and a control unit connected to the sensor and configured to output a signal based on the information from the sensor, wherein the connector, when connected to a vaporizer and to a power supply, forms an electronic aerosol provision system.

Abstract: A mobile smart container system comprises a housing, an access component configured to secure access to a compartment within the housing when in a closed position, a communication interface configured to wirelessly receive a request to access the compartment, a perceivable output device, an electromechanical latch configured to engage with the access component to releasably lock the access component in the closed position, and a processor. The processor receives and authenticates the request to access the compartment and, in response to receiving and authenticating the request, activates the electromechanical latch to unlock the access component to make the compartment accessible, and outputs, upon actuation of the electromechanical latch, an alert via the perceivable output device to identify the smart container system.

Abstract: A method for use in a lighting system for rendering emergency lighting comprises detecting (101) a switch from a normal mode of the lighting system to an emergency mode of the lighting system and a switch from the emergency mode to the normal mode and activating (103) an emergency radio frequency-based sensing function upon detecting the switch from the normal mode to the emergency mode. The radio frequency-based sensing comprises detection of disturbances to a radio frequency field. The method further comprises deactivating (105) the emergency radio frequency-based sensing function upon detecting the switch from the emergency mode to the normal mode.

Abstract: Technologies and techniques for providing assistance to a motor vehicle during a process of exiting a lateral parking space. A device is configured with at least one surroundings sensor system and at least one control unit with an assigned memory to acquire successive values of distances from adjacent motor vehicles during a parking process and to store them in a map of the surroundings. The device may be designed in such a way that, before the start of the process of exiting a parking space, current values of distances from the adjacent motor vehicles are acquired and compared with the distance values stored in the map of the surroundings, wherein, when they correspond, a parking-space-exiting trajectory is made available by means of the map of the surroundings.

Abstract: A method using a safety system and a safety system for localizing at least one person or at least one object in a monitored zone, having at least one control and evaluation unit, having at least one radio location system, wherein the radio location system has arranged radio stations; wherein position data of the person or object can be determined by means of the radio location system; wherein the monitored zone has a plurality of sectors and a plurality of passage zones between the sectors, at least one spatially resolving sensor is associated with each passage zone, and wherein the control and evaluation unit is configured to cyclically compare the position data of the radio location system and the presence data of the spatially resolving sensor in each respective passage zone and to cyclically form status information for the sector.

Abstract: A water contamination detection system. The system may include a device processor; and a non-transitory computer readable medium including instructions executable by the device processor to perform the following steps: receiving information indicative of the presence of one or more contaminants in water within a geographic region; determining a characterization of water contamination within the geographic region; and sending information regarding water contamination to a plurality of users of the system.

Abstract: A system and method for managing one or more firearms having an authentication device is described. The method may receive a profile of one or more firearm users. The profile of the one or more firearm users may be registered to access one or more authentication devices coupled to one or more firearms. A usage of the one or more firearms coupled to the authentication devices may be tracked via the profile of the firearm user. The system can include a central server, a secure management station with a secure application, a docking station, a respective firearm lock or authentication device for each firearm and an enrollment station, each communicating in a secure manner, to globally manage a plurality of firearms.