Claims
- 1. An apparatus comprising:
an accelerometer adapted for generating an acceleration signal based on a detected acceleration; a processor coupled to the accelerometer and executing a set of instructions adapted for analyzing the acceleration signal; and a transceiver coupled to the processor and adapted to wirelessly receive an address for a monitoring device and adapted to transmit an alarm signal based on the acceleration signal to the address.
- 2. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a memory coupled to the processor and wherein the memory is adapted to store a profile for comparison with the acceleration signal.
- 3. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a housing adapted for affixation to a monitored object.
- 4. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the accelerometer has a maximum sensitivity to motion in a predetermined plane.
- 5. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the accelerometer includes a mercury element.
- 6. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the accelerometer includes a conductive ball element.
- 7. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the transceiver includes a spread spectrum frequency hopping transceiver.
- 8. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the transceiver is substantially compatible with a protocol of BLUETOOTH™ technical specification version 1.0.
- 9. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the transceiver includes a cellular telephone transceiver or a two-way pager transceiver.
- 10. The apparatus of claim 1 further including a battery power supply coupled to the processor and transceiver.
- 11. A method comprising:
generating an acceleration signal based on a detected acceleration; executing a set of computer instructions to analyze the acceleration signal; wirelessly receiving an address for a monitoring device; and wirelessly transmitting an alarm signal based on the acceleration signal to the address.
- 12. The method of claim 11 further comprising wirelessly receiving an activation instruction.
- 13. The method of claim 11 further comprising wirelessly receiving transmission protocol instructions.
- 14. The method of claim 11 further comprising affixing an accelerometer to a structure.
- 15. A method comprising:
receiving an electronic address for an accelerometer; transmitting a configuration message to the electronic address from a wireless transmitter having a destination address, the configuration message including the destination address; and awaiting receipt of an alarm message at the destination address.
- 16. A method of operating a wireless accelerometer sensor coupled to a monitored object, the method comprising:
transmitting an authorized destination address to the sensor; configuring a transmitter of the sensor to wirelessly transmit an alarm message to the authorized destination address and preclude transmission to a non-authorized destination address; and awaiting receipt of an alarm message at the destination address.
- 17. The method of claim 16 further comprising receiving an alarm signal from an accelerometer.
- 18. The method of claim 17 further comprising filtering the alarm signal.
RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/290,097, filed on Nov. 7, 2002, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/112,066, filed on Mar. 28, 2002, now abandoned, which claims the benefit under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/279,520 (entitled INTERACTIVE MOTION SENSITIVE SENSOR, and filed on Mar. 28, 2001), the specifications of which are incorporated herein by reference.
[0002] This application is related to U.S. Pat. No. 6,356,192, issued Mar. 12, 2002, entitled BI-DIRECTIONAL WIRELESS DETECTION SYSTEM, filed on Aug. 27, 1999, application Ser. No. 09/384,165, the specification of which is herein incorporated by reference.
[0003] This application is related to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/956,474 (entitled BI-DIRECTIONAL WIRELESS DETECTION SYSTEM, and filed on Sep. 19, 2001), the specification of which is herein incorporated by reference application Ser. No. 09/956,474 is a continuation of application Ser. No. 09/384,165.
Provisional Applications (1)
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Continuations (2)
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