- Patent Title: Method for tracking the location of a resident within a facility
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Application No.: US15844356Application Date: 2017-12-15
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Publication No.: US10805767B2Publication Date: 2020-10-13
- Inventor: Vikram Devdas , Shane McNamara , Andriy Kanyuka
- Applicant: PHILIPS NORTH AMERICA LLC
- Applicant Address: US MA Andover
- Assignee: PHILIPS NORTH AMERICA LLC
- Current Assignee: PHILIPS NORTH AMERICA LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Andover
- Main IPC: G08B1/08
- IPC: G08B1/08 ; H04W4/029 ; G08B21/04 ; G01S5/00 ; G06F16/00 ; H04W4/33 ; G08B21/02

Abstract:
A variation of a method for tracking locations of residents within an assisted-care facility includes accessing pressure data recorded by wearable devices at known locations within the assisted-care facility; correlating the pressure data with known locations within the assisted-care facility to generate a map of pressure data at various locations within the assisted-care facility; accessing a first pressure value recorded by a first wearable device assigned to a first resident of the assisted-care facility at approximately the first time and representing a local pressure proximal the first wearable device at a first time; estimating a first location of the first wearable device within the assisted-care facility at approximately the first time based on alignment between the first pressure value and pressure data represented in the map; and recording the first location and a first resident identifier of the first resident assigned to the first wearable device to a database.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180367952A1 METHOD FOR TRACKING THE LOCATION OF A RESIDENT WITHIN A FACILITY Public/Granted day:2018-12-20
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