Patent ID: 8976031
Filing Date: 2015-03-10
Classification: B05B,G08B,G16H

Abstract:
1. A personal hand hygiene monitoring unit carried on a person for monitoring of hand hygiene, the unit comprising a hand sanitizing fluid dispenser and a portable handheld pocket-sized personal computing device, the dispenser comprising a dispenser housing, a reservoir for containing a fluid, a pump and a discharge outlet, the dispenser housing carrying the reservoir, the pump and the discharge outlet, the pump coupled to the reservoir, the pump is a manually operated pump in which a piston is moved by a user to dispense the fluid from the reservoir out the discharge outlet, the dispenser including a sound producing reed which generates a sound when the piston is moved by a user to dispense the fluid, wherein on the piston being moved by a user to dispense the fluid, the piston engages the reed and the reed is deflected by the piston to produce the sound, the computing device having a computer housing, and within the computer housing a controller, a user interface, a battery, a microphone for sensing the sound, and a data communication device for transmission of data from the computing device, the dispenser housing mechanically coupled to the computer housing, the controller monitoring when the pump is activated by sensing the sound with the microphone and providing for the transmission via the data communication device the data representative of the sound sensed by the microphone to a remote computer.