Patent ID: 6624754
Filing Date: 2003-09-23
Classification: G08B

Abstract:
A personal security and tracking system that provides for an individual to be monitored, the personal security and tracking system comprising:a portable signaling unit that provides communication information and that receives communication information, wherein the portable signaling unit includes at least one manual trigger that is capable of being triggered manually to provide one or more priority levels of an alarm signal data; a locating system that determines a geographic location of the portable signaling unit; a central processing station capable of receiving and interpreting a signal indicative of the geographic location, including a processor capable of interpreting the geographical location of the portable signaling unit, validating the alarm signal data and analyzing the alarm signal data to determine the one or more priority levels of the alarm signal data, and a data structure that stores any of the geographical location, the alarm signal data and the one or more priority levels of the alarm signal data; and a remote alarm switch unit functionally related to the portable signaling unit, that transmits a periodic signal to the portable signaling unit that does not include alarm signal data when the remote alarm switch unit is in a non-triggered state, and that does include alarm signal data when the remote alarm switch unit is in a triggered state, caused by a triggering condition.