Patent ID: 8805613

Claim:
A method of providing a service for monitoring environmental conditions, comprising the steps of: facilitating offering said monitoring service on a subscription basis; facilitating receiving subscriptions to said monitoring service from a plurality of subscribers; facilitating acquisition of data pertaining to environmental information using a multiplicity of sensors on a multiplicity of networked pervasive devices; facilitating analysis of said data to determine occurrence of at least one environmental event, wherein said analysis is performed by a centralized server which obtains said data from the multiplicity of networked pervasive devices, and wherein said analysis includes fusing said data from the multiplicity of sensors on the multiplicity of networked pervasive devices; and facilitating notification of at least one of said subscribers of said occurrence of said event, wherein said notification of said environmental event is provided from the centralized server to at least one of the multiplicity of networked pervasive devices from which said data was obtained, and wherein one or more of said steps are performed by a hardware device, wherein the at least one of the multiplicity of networked pervasive devices functions as both a provider of said data pertaining to the environmental information which is analyzed to determine the occurrence of the at least one environmental event, and a device through which the at least one of said subscribers is notified of said occurrence of said environmental event.