Patent ID: 8610567

Claim:
A mobile device with airbag deployment sensing, the mobile device comprising: a chemical sensor configured to detect an effluent indicative of airbag deployment; a processor configured to communicate with the chemical sensor to determine if an airbag deployment condition exists; a transmitter configured to initiate an emergency communication; and wherein the chemical sensor is at least one of: configured to detect at least one effluent from a group of effluents consisting of sodium azide, nitroguanidine, ammonium nitrate (NH4NO3), dicyanamide or dicyanamide salts, sodium borohydride (NaBH4), sodium hydroxide, cornstarch, French chalk, and talcum powder; configured to detect a combination of two or more effluents indicative of airbag deployment; configured to, together with the processor, identify the airbag deployment condition based on a weighted combination of a plurality of effluents indicative of airbag deployment: and one of a plurality of chemical sensors configured to detect a plurality of effluents indicative of airbag deployment.