Patent ID: 8558689
Filing Date: 2013-10-15
Classification: A62B,G06Q,G08B

Abstract:
1. A processor-implemented method for conducting an automatic headcount during a crisis event, comprising: maintaining a checklist in a database of all persons, including employees, visitors, and contractors, expected to be present at a site at any given moment; checking in visitors and contractors as they enter the site and dynamically updating the checklist in the database to include the visitors and contractors; sending an alert signal via a network to all contact points for each person on the checklist, thereby informing each person associated with a contact point about the crisis event; receiving an acknowledgement signal in response to the alert signal from at least some of the contact points; updating a status of persons associated with the received acknowledgement signal on the checklist as accounted for; sending a message via the network to each person that has been accounted for on the checklist, wherein the message solicits information about at least one individual who has not been accounted for on the checklist; receiving a message from at least one person who has been accounted for on the checklist regarding the at least one individual; updating the status of the individual on the checklist; and displaying the checklist on an output device.