Patent ID: 8890669

Claim:
A method for collaboratively monitoring by Machine Type Communication MTC devices in a wireless communication network, wherein each of the MTC devices is connected to a MTC server via said wireless communication network and includes a transceiver having a unique ID and security code, and said transceiver periodically broadcasts its normal or abnormal status information to other MTC devices within a certain range in the vicinity of that MTC device and detects and identifies other MTC devices within said range, wherein said method comprises: the MTC device sending to the MTC server an alarm message and reporting information about current location of the MTC device, when the MTC device is operated illegally but said transceiver is not destroyed; and the MTC device sending once to the MTC server an alarm message, when the MTC device is operated illegally and said transceiver is destroyed, and said other MTC device(s) sending to the MTC server an alarm message and reporting information about said other MTC device(s) current location since said other MTC device(s) does not detect a legal broadcast signal sent by the MTC device.