EMERGENCY TELEPHONE NUMBER ALERTING DEVICE

摘要

An emergency telephone number alerting and guidance process to gui de emergency responders to the exact scene of an emergency declared by dialing the emergency services notification (ESN) telephone number consisting of the fol lowing steps: a decoder detecting the ESN telephone number as it is dialed on the t elephone instrument; the decoder communicating via a low power, unlicenced radio link to a remotely located guidance beacon assembly informing if of the presence of th e ESN detection; and, the beacon responding to the ESN detection signal by initiat ing a distress guidance signal. The distress guidance signal comprising of a visu al strobe light and a pulsating radio signal which signal may be used by a radio direc tion finder. A system to implement this guidance process consisting of a decoder and guid ancebeacon assembly.