Patent Application
20090212940
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an alarm method, and more particularly to a wireless alarm method.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Alarm has been widely applied in various fields to announce supervisors so as to quickly handle or even remedy an emergency. In hospitals, there are various environmental data, such as the contents of gases including oxygen, nitrogen, and nitrous oxide, or temperature, humidity, gas concentration, etc., which have to be detected and analyzed whether abnormal conditions arise. Hence, an alarm system is provided to detect an unusual environmental condition so as to protect safety of patients and medical personnel.
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However, the prior art alarm apparatus 10 has the disadvantages:
The supervisor must monitor the displayers continuously and can not be away from the display, otherwise the alarm signal may be neglected, thus causing probable emergency. If a hospital has a plurality of district branches, the detected environmental data of each district branches are stored by control units thereof so that all alarm apparatuses of the branch hospitals have to be connected to external hosts and to be monitored via the Internet. Hence, some apparatuses, such as hosts, and network apparatuses, etc. have to additionally purchase and equipment costs increase. Besides, a large amount of data are delivered on Internet is not only easily to raise unstable operation but probably to cause virus infection. Furthermore, it is inconvenient to complete data communication of all branch hospitals.
The primary object of the present invention is to provide a method of a wireless alarm for a medical alarm system, wherein an alarm signal is transmitted to a cell phone of a supervisor through a general packet radio service (GPRS) when an unusual environmental condition is detected by the alarm system. Hence, the unusual environmental condition can be quickly handled or even remedied when the alarm signal is identified by the supervisor.
The another object of the present invention is to provide a method of a wireless for a medical alarm system, wherein the alarm signal is remotely transmitted to the alarm system on Internet without any external host so that the alarm signal can be displayed and monitored on any one display module of the alarm system by the supervisor.
To achieve the objectives mentioned above, a network module and a cell phone module are installed in the alarm system. An alarm signal is remotely transmitted to personal computers or portable apparatuses by the network module on Internet or is remotely transmitted to cell phones of by the cell phone module through a GPRS when an unusual environmental condition is detected by the alarm system.
It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary, and are intended to provide further explanation of the invention as claimed. Other advantages and features of the invention will be apparent from the following description, drawings and claims.
The above and further advantages of this invention may be better understood by referring to the following description, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
The drawings will be described further in connection with the following detailed description of the present invention.
The present invention is to provide a method of a wireless alarm to remotely transmit alarm signals. An alarm signal is displayed on a display unit and is also delivered to remote apparatuses when an unusual environmental condition is detected.
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1. A detection module 12 is used to detect various environmental data, such as the contents of oxygen, nitrogen, and nitrous oxide, or temperature, humidity, gas concentration, etc., and the data are delivered to the control module 11 to identify whether the detected data exceed testing standards after analyzing the environmental data.
2. A display module 13 is used to display the detected environmental data and display an alarm signal generated from the control module 11.
3. A relay module 14 is used to connect to other apparatuses and deliver alarm signals to other apparatuses.
4. A network module 15 is used to remotely transmit the alarm signal to external apparatuses, such as personal computers, or portable apparatuses, etc., on Internet without any external host.
5. A cell phone module 16 is used to remotely transmit the alarm signal to cell phones of a supervisor through a GPRS.
Although the present invention has been described with reference to the preferred embodiment thereof, it will be understood that the invention is not limited to the details thereof.
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In the step (S14), an alarm signal is generated and stored by the control module (S180) when the environmental data do not match with the testing standard (namely, there is potential emergency in the detected area). Afterward, the analyzed data and the alarm signal are delivered to the display module for displaying thereon (S182). The analyzed data and the alarm signal are outputted from the relay module to external apparatuses for display or further caution. The alarm signal is remotely transmitted to external apparatuses, such as computers or portable apparatuses by the network module on Internet (S186). Furthermore, the alarm signal is remotely transmitted to external apparatuses, such as cell phones by the cell phone module through a GPRS (S188).
Although the present invention has been described with reference to the preferred embodiment thereof, it will be understood that the invention is not limited to the details thereof. Various substitutions and modifications have been suggested in the foregoing description, and others will occur to those of ordinary skill in the art. Therefore, all such substitutions and modifications are intended to be embraced within the scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.
