Patent ID: 11918330
Assignee: PRAESIDIUM, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 0:
1. A monitor for use with a contactless monitoring system for monitoring home occupant activity, the monitor comprising:
a face comprising:
a lens, wherein the lens is transparent to radio waves,
an activity indicator; and

a case coupleable to the face comprising an internal cavity, the internal cavity comprising:
a radio wave antenna positioned behind the lens,
a radio wave transmitter,
a radio wave receiver,
a plurality of sensors,
a memory configured to store one or more unique vital sign profiles of one or more known home occupants;
a communication module, and
a base rotatably coupled to the case;

wherein the monitor uses the radio wave transmitter to transmit a radio frequency signal toward an area associated with the living subject,
wherein the monitor uses the radio wave receiver to receive a return signal comprising a vital sign based on a detected return of the radio frequency signal, and
wherein the monitor further forwards the return signal to a control unit that compares the vital sign to the one or more unique vital sign profiles of the one or more known home occupants, and wherein the vital sign comprises one or more of a heart rate and a respiration rate, and
wherein when the vital sign is not recognized, based on the comparison, as belonging to the one or more unique vital sign profiles associated with the one or more known home occupants and a rate of the vital sign is above a threshold, initiate, via the control unit, an alarm.