Method and apparatus for forwarding local-alert messages within a communication system

摘要

A method and apparatus for forwarding detected environmental conditions are provided herein. During operation, sensors will continuously sample an environment surrounding a public-safety officer. The sensors are preferably body-worn sensors, but could be vehicle or incident area sensors as well. The sensors continuously monitor and report any detected condition to a hub (which could be body-worn) as a local status alert message. Once the hub receives a detected condition within a local status alert, the hub will make a determination if a dispatch center needs to be notified of the detected condition. The notification of the condition is transmitted to the dispatch center as a global status alert, which may simply comprise a forwarded local status alert.

主权项

1. A method for forwarding local-alert messages within a communication system, the method comprising the steps of:
providing a receiver configured to receive a local-disarm message at a body-worn hub from a body-worn sensor, wherein the body-worn hub and the body-worn sensor are part of a personal-area network; receiving by the receiver, a local-alert message over the personal-area network, wherein the local-alert message is generated from a gun-draw sensor that is part of the personal-area network; determining by the body-worn hub, whether or not to forward information contained within the local-alert message over a wide-area network, wherein the determination whether or not to forward the information contained within the local-alert message is based on whether or not the local-disarm message was received by the body-worn hub; forwarding the information contained within the local-alert message over the wide-area network if the local-disarm message was not received, otherwise discarding the information contained within local-alert message without forwarding the information contained within local-alert message over the wide-area network.