EMERGENCY EQUIPMENT POWER SOURCES

摘要

Energy harvesting devices provide power to devices of emergency equipment stations (e.g., fire extinguisher station, fire alarm pull station, defibrillator station, etc.) distributed throughout a facility to monitor one or more internal or external conditions (e.g., identifiable objects detected near the station, presence of an obstruction restricting access to the station, etc.) and relay information about the monitored conditions to a central station.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
at least one energy harvesting device for harvesting energy from inside a building; at least one emergency equipment station that includes an emergency assistance device and a plurality of modules powered, at least in part, by the at least one energy harvesting device, wherein the at least one energy harvesting device is a small autonomous device associated with the at least one emergency equipment station; communications circuitry for the at least one emergency equipment station; and a processor in the at least one emergency equipment station, wherein the processor is configured to receive and process data from the at least one energy harvesting device and the plurality of modules, wherein the processor allocates power harvested by the energy harvesting device to the plurality of modules, and wherein the processor transmits power distribution data through the communications circuitry to a central station located remotely from the emergency equipment station.