Patent ID: 8223011

Claim:
A process for the detection of abnormal situations of a person in a living place, especially for remote surveillance of elderly people, characterised in that it comprises the following steps: receiving information supplied by a sensor worn by the person and relative to at least one vital variable of the person, receiving information originating from a series of motion sensors provided in different places of the living place, confronting said information with predetermined rules involving timeouts, wherein said predetermined rules are selected from a group of rules consisting of rules involving timeouts established according to place and time of day, rules involving different timeouts according to whether an anomaly has been detected at the level of the vital variable and rules involving timeouts according to a common process relaunched at each arrival in a new place where there is no existing abnormal situation, and in response to the preceding step, triggering or not an abnormal situation signalling, wherein said process is suitable for signalling two levels of abnormal situation and wherein an abnormal situation of the highest level is determined either by the elapsing of two distinct timeouts without movement, or by detection of an anomaly at the level of the vital variable with the elapsing of at least one timeout without movement.