Patent ID: 6567502
Filing Date: 2003-05-20
Classification: G08B,H04L,H04M,H04Q,H04W,Y04S

Abstract:
A method of monitoring the vicinity of a user requesting emergency help, said method comprising:receiving, at an emergency service center, an emergency help request from the user; remotely controlling, via the emergency service center, one or more monitoring devices in the user's vicinity in response to the emergency help request from the user, wherein remotely controlling includes remotely activating said one or more monitoring devices and then remotely establishing a direct and individual communication session between the emergency service center and each of said one or more monitoring devices, wherein remotely activating said one or more monitoring devices includes remotely querying said one or more monitoring devices, determining one or more device-specific capabilities for each remotely queried monitoring device, and remotely activating said each remotely queried monitoring device based on the determination of corresponding one or more device-specific capabilities, and wherein there is no interface circuitry interposed between the emergency service center and the one or more monitoring devices; and receiving, at the emergency service center, monitored information directly from said each of said one or more monitoring devices.