DE20107967U1 - Mobile emergency aid based on telecommunications (II) - Google Patents

Description

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Mobile emergency aid device based on telecommunications technology (II):

The invention specified in claim 1 is based on the problem that a special, compact, handy, mobile emergency aid device based on telecommunications technology is not yet available on the market. The mobile phones ("cell phones") that are now in common use do include the telecommunications emergency number "110", but in practice the use of this emergency call by pressing the "110" button is far too complicated and time-consuming or even impossible in the vast majority of emergencies when the emergency call has to be sent in a matter of seconds, safely and as discreetly as possible (e.g. in the case of robberies or similar). Furthermore, in practice, in such stressful situations the victim often experiences shock-like "mental blocks" that make it impossible for him to type in a specific, even short, combination of numbers ("110") on the cell phone with the necessary mental concentration.

Furthermore, particularly in the fight against crime (e.g. kidnapping, sexual crimes, etc.), the current technical design of the emergency call system for the security authorities means that relatives of the victim usually only report a missing person well after the crime has been committed, when it may already be too late for the victim. Another problem in the current situation is that in the meantime the victim may be abducted by the perpetrator beyond the immediate vicinity, which makes the search for the victim and perpetrator even more difficult and thus means that valuable time is lost for saving lives. The search for the perpetrator is made even more difficult if the victim himself disappears after the abduction and can no longer be found.

Designing such a mobile emergency aid device that would eliminate the above problems or at least minimize them as much as possible also presented itself to me as a technical problem.

matic, to design a triggering device for activating the emergency aid device that is extremely simple, almost reflexively quick and can be operated without requiring any special mental demands from the victim, but which also provides valuable services to the security authorities in locating the victim as quickly as possible and in apprehending the perpetrator. The new type of emergency aid device (II) that I designed, based on telecommunications technology, meets these requirements.

The following description refers to the comparatively most comprehensive and, in my opinion, most advantageous solution to the problem with all the optional technical additions shown in the above protection claims to optimize this new emergency aid system, as shown by way of example in the attached sketch; reference is made to the marking of the individual components there. With regard to the number, type, combination and placement of the individual electronic and mechanical components of this emergency aid device and their triggering device, this is just one example of several possible solutions based on this innovation developed by me:

1) As long as the two pins (la) and (Ib) are not pressed into the housing, the emergency transmitter is in the locked state.

2) If an emergency or dangerous situation occurs, only these two pins need to be pressed in with a single, simple grip of the gripping hand. This closes the circuit of the emergency aid transmitter (2), which is interrupted at two points and consists of the components emergency call transmitter "110" (2a), transmitter microphone (2b), tracking transmitter (2c), integrated antenna (2d), battery pack (2e) for supplying the system with power and the electronic control element (2f) - and thus triggers the functions named in the further description.

With the requirement that not only one pin is pressed into the cylinder head, but two

Pens are intended to prevent unnecessary accidental false alarms; the efficiency and reflexively quick operation of the device is not affected.

The release pins are designed in such a way that once they have been pressed in, they remain pressed in when released, thus closing the emergency transmitter circuit. Furthermore, to ensure the best possible protection for victims, it must not be possible to simply pull them out of the housing manually - and thus interrupt the emergency transmitter circuit. One way to do this is to create a round opening with an internal thread on the outside of the pins, into which a corresponding "threaded key" can be screwed; only when this screwed-in "threaded key" is pulled out will the corresponding pin be pulled out of the housing again, thus interrupting the circuit. Alternatively, if the pins are pressed in, the emergency transmitter can be switched off again after the dangerous situation has ended by (re)typing the user's ID code.

The user's personal ID code can be programmed, saved and, if necessary, deleted (see below for details!) using the numeric keypad (5). If necessary, additional function keys (3) can be added for this purpose.

This new type of emergency aid system is optimized by automatically adding two identification code numbers to the emergency call via telecommunications technology and visually displaying these on a display at the receiving station (security authority): Firstly, a special identification code number for the telecommunications base station (mobile radio transmitter mast or similar) that is currently receiving and forwarding the emergency call. This code number enables the receiving security authorities to immediately narrow down the area of the crime or danger and take appropriate measures (e.g. ring search with road closures, for example).

Secondly, a second special ID code number for the victim to identify him/her, including as many telephone numbers of close relatives as possible. This ID code of the victim enables the receiving security authorities to immediately contact the victim's close relatives by telephone after the emergency call is received and to receive detailed information from them about the victim's current possible whereabouts in order to be able to coordinate further targeted security police measures with these relatives as quickly as possible.

Both codes must be transmitted to the security authorities via telecommunications technology directly (i.e., if possible, without a time-consuming detour via a so-called "call center") and automatically, coupled together with the emergency call signal and the signal from the tracking device (the latter as double protection to optimize the system).

In order to ensure this new system with the two ID codes, each of the existing and future stationary telecommunications systems must be equipped or retrofitted with telecommunications technology accordingly, unless these technical possibilities are already available in the current technical standard of these mobile radio base systems, which I have not been able to find out.

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1) (Fictional) child abduction/sexual offense; Variant 1: false alarm

The 12-year-old "M." carries such an emergency aid device with her on her way to school by bike from A. village to B. village. As a personal ID code, she has entered her parents' telephone number and, as a precaution, a second telephone number of an aunt who can be reached regularly by telephone into the emergency aid device.

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On a particular day, the car suddenly stops just in front of the girl. The girl sees no way of escaping and, in a panic, quickly presses the two release pins, thereby setting off the emergency transmitter. Cyclists suddenly come along, the man quickly gets back into his car and drives off. On the way home, the girl is met by her parents and the police, who have received the emergency call. Immediately after receiving the emergency call, the police called the girl's still unsuspecting parents using the phone number (and asked for the girl's exact or possible whereabouts), which was programmed into the cell phone's numeric keypad as the girl's special ID code for the emergency call "110" and the tracking device signal, and was thus received by the police via the nearest cell phone tower near �Agr;-Dorf. Regardless of whether the said ID code (in the form of a telephone number) could be used to reach a close relative of the girl and obtain information about the girl's current whereabouts, the police already knew the local area in which the emergency call had been sent, because the emergency call "110" automatically transmitted not only the girl's ID code, but also the additional special ID code of the transmitter (here: the mobile phone transmitter mast near �Agr;-Dorf) that had first received and forwarded the emergency call. In this limited spatial area, the tracking device, which was also activated, would now make it possible to immediately locate the girl's exact whereabouts. The new emergency aid system therefore offers double security for the fastest possible localization of the crime or danger scene, for the best possible protection for the victim!

After the successful outcome of this variant of the case with a supposed false alarm, the emergency call triggered by the girl is now terminated by pulling out the two pins (with a threaded wrench) or (temporarily, if the threaded wrench is not available) by typing in the girl's ID code. Attention: In ge^cjejfi &ä\Y'fn.iAp s^ri; *l*et?:'t:jLjC£h"iauch *drce both pins

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be pulled out again in order to make the emergency transmission device usable again!!! In addition, the tracking transmitter and transmitter microphone in the housing that were triggered together with the emergency call are immediately switched off separately by a specialist. This should be done separately from the emergency call "110" for reasons of the best possible safety for the victim, or if necessary.

2) (Fictional) child abduction/sexual offense; Variant 2: criminal offense

The same situation as in variant 1, but the girl does not receive any help from third parties:

The girl presses the two pins. The emergency device now triggers the functions described under variant 1. The perpetrator grabs the girl, locks her in the trunk of his vehicle and drives off in the car; he leaves the girl's bicycle on the side of the road.

Despite her panic, the girl in the trunk may be able to speak her name, the crime scene, possibly a rough description of the perpetrator and the color of the vehicle used in the crime into the activated transmitter microphone ("bug") in the cap attachment. This information may be transmitted to the police via radio technology coupled with the emergency call "110". As soon as the automatic emergency call "110" arrives (extended with the girl's ID code and the ID code of the base station at A-Dorf that receives the emergency call), the police can immediately start the rescue operation with this information alone. At the crime scene, however, the police and the girl's parents, who were immediately alerted by them, only find the girl's bicycle. In the meantime, the perpetrator with the victim in the trunk of the vehicle used for the crime has driven out of the coverage area of the mobile phone mast at A.-Dorf and into the coverage area ^% of the mobile phone mast at B.-Dorf, which now receives the emergency call "110" as well as the signal from the tracking device and - together with the new special ID code number of the mobile phone mast (= now the one at B.-Dorf!) sdWie;;* mi«t* _: .'der·;^ü*rjve;räii5öf;ter;5 «Icj. «Code number of the

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girl - to the police. In this way, the police can determine the direction of travel and the approximate location of the perpetrator and his victim without being able to make direct contact with the tracking device and can initiate appropriate manhunts, e.g. a ring manhunt. Furthermore, the security authorities can see from the girl's unchanged ID code that this is actually the same emergency, and not another emergency with other people involved.

The perpetrator finally stops on a remote forest path in the coverage area of the mobile phone transmitter mast at X-Dorf to sexually assault his victim. By this point, however, thanks to this emergency aid system, the police have already come so close to the perpetrator, unnoticed by him, that the precise location of the victim and perpetrator is now possible immediately with the activated tracking device and the perpetrator can ultimately be reached in time. The active transmitter microphone can be used to follow the events at the crime scene and thus gain valuable information (e.g. the perpetrator's voice) for later arresting the perpetrator (in the event that he flees when the police arrive).

Even if the trunk of the offender's vehicle is so shielded that the emergency call and the signal from the tracking device with listening option do not work from there, this new type of emergency aid device still offers sufficient and the best possible security, because such crimes practically never take place in a radio-insulated closed trunk, but the victim is taken out of the closed trunk at some point and then at the latest the emergency aid transmitter is fully functional again. Furthermore, sexual crimes or child abduction (kidnapping) in particular usually take place over a longer period of time after the victim has been abducted from the last* location, so that the emergency aid transmitter is still useful and effective in protecting even if its function is actually impaired by the victim spending a longer time in a "radio dead zone".

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One possible solution could be to design the emergency device in such a way that it can use the entire offender's vehicle as an antenna, for example if the housing of the emergency device is pressed against the metal trunk lid by the victim inside the closed trunk. To do this, the housing of the emergency device could be coated with a corresponding contact layer, for example, which can create a conductive connection between the emergency transmitter and the body of the offender's vehicle.

3) In cases of kidnapping or completed sexual crimes (e.g. sexual murder), the emergency aid device can at least make it much easier to find the victim, which in turn is an essential prerequisite for catching the perpetrator and thus also for preventing further crimes of this kind by the same perpetrator.

4) Other areas of use for the emergency aid device: e.g. swimming accidents, accidents or sudden heart attacks while hiking in the mountains, mushroom hunting, avalanches while skiing, etc. In addition to its primary purpose of fighting crime, the emergency aid device is also suitable for saving lives in all other life-threatening emergency situations that occur so suddenly that there is no time for a "normal" emergency call "110". Since such emergency situations are often triggered by extreme events (falling in the mountains, capsizing while surfing, etc.), it is necessary to ensure that the emergency aid device is as robust as possible; in particular, it should be shockproof and waterproof and float in water.

5) This emergency aid device could also be used effectively and in a life-saving manner in the military, for example in the search for missing soldiers.

IV) P^yghre ^ub· of value, utility and necessity

I am convinced that this emergency aid device, ^which I have designed, is a valuable emergency aid device.

System based on telecommunications technology is of the greatest value and benefit to the general public; it can save lives and also make a very significant contribution to the fight against crime, in particular to identifying perpetrators. Anyone - anywhere in the world! - can unexpectedly find themselves in such an emergency situation, so there is a worldwide need for this sophisticated, new life-saving system. For women and girls in particular, who are particularly at risk as potential victims of violent/sexual crimes, this emergency aid device does not of course offer an absolute guarantee of protection and survival, but it does at least represent the best possible additional security. The realization and marketing of this new type of emergency aid device is therefore in any case in the overriding interest of the general public and of each individual in protecting lives and preventing crime. In view of the rapidly increasing number of kidnappings and subsequent sexual murders of young girls and women, the implementation of this new type of emergency aid system based on this emergency aid device based on telecommunications technology that I designed worldwide (!) appears to be an absolute social necessity.

If the implementation of this new type of emergency aid concept requires the support of the radio network operators (technical adaptation of the base transmitter systems for the installation of the ID codes described above!), this should not be a problem, because implementation is also in their own interest: If the radio network operators make implementation technically possible and perhaps even subsidise the end user purchase price of these emergency aid devices so that they are also affordable for the less well-off citizen, they will certainly have considerably less difficulty in the future in finding locations for ^further stationary base radio systems (radio masts, etc.): If the citizen knows that this new type of emergency aid system can also protect him and his relatives effectively and in the best possible way in life-threatening situations, then he will undoubtedly not hesitate to use his .J*<$ali5ierjan0. (this also includes the

We must defend ourselves against the widespread installation of stationary radio transmitters&iacgr;) - just as even the most ardent opponent of aircraft noise does not complain about the noise of a rescue helicopter!

Another significant advantage of this innovation is that, in my opinion, the previously required, very complex and, above all, very expensive satellite tracking system can be significantly improved and made cheaper, or even partially dispensed with. Up to now, the location of a search point on earth has been done using the satellite technology mentioned in the direct "single-beam system", in which the search point is targeted directly from orbit. With the concept I have developed, this location of a search point (even a moving one) is possible using a "two-beam system" without the use of satellites, using only terrestrial stationary radio transmitters (base stations), provided that after the upcoming implementation of the UMTS network, the base stations are so close together that each search point (here: tracking device) is within the detection range of at least two (neighbouring) base stations. I would like to explain this using the above example - variant 2 as follows: The base station "A" is the first to receive the emergency call signal and the signal from the tracking device. Using a simple field strength measurement of the signal, the direction of the search point can be precisely located in the form of a "directional beam" in angular terms and precisely defined according to the cardinal direction. This "beam" (= a directional line from "A" to the search point and beyond) can - which is undoubtedly technically feasible - be transferred or projected onto an electronic map. The same procedure is followed from the neighboring base station "B", which also receives the emergency signal. Where the two directional lines * of the two base stations intersect on the electronic map (in which, of course, the locations of all base stations must also be precisely defined and "aligned"!), is the current location of the search point. With a continuously moving search point (e.g. car with the kidnapped child in the trunk) and continuously new direction measurements at the

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When a getaway vehicle enters their detection area, the security authority can read the exact street and even the exact route point on the electronic map where the vehicle is at that moment. This new localization system, which is independent of (mostly third-party) satellites, should have a great advantage, particularly in the area of spatially limited regional emergency rescue, but also in the military area or in covert surveillance by the security authorities; a single satellite is in any case more susceptible to interference (and the consequences of interference or shutdown are accordingly all the more serious!) than the entire terrestrial radio transmission network of a country with numerous base stations. It would therefore be all the more desirable if all network operators could agree on this one point of

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which would significantly increase the density of the available Funfc rescue network.

When designing this emergency device for crime prevention (but just as important for the further apprehension of perpetrators through the fastest possible intervention of the security authorities, which in turn also acts as the most effective prevention against further crimes by the same perpetrator!), I was able to draw on my many years of professional experience as a senior state police and judicial officer.

In parallel to the construction method "II" described here, I have also designed the same emergency aid system as variant "I" in structural coupling with a conventional mobile phone or similar.

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Mobile emergency aid device based on telecommunications technology (I), shown using a wristwatch case as an example; sketch "A" is a top view; sketch "B" is an interior view

la) and Ib = release pins, on the head side (not visible in the sketch) with internal thread for thread wrench

2) = Total emergency aid transmission facility, consisting of

2a) = Automatic emergency call transmitter "110"

2b) = wireless microphone

2c) = Tracking device

2d) = antenna for 2a-c

2e) = Batteries

2f) = Electronic control for 2a-c, 3 and 4/5

3) = Additional function keys for 2f and programming of the user's personal ID code

4) = Display for checking ID code programming (and optionally for conventional clock, calculator, etc.)

5) = Keyboard for ID code programming (and optionally for conventional clock, calculator, etc.)

6) = Housing of the emergency device (optionally with additional integrated clock, calculator, etc.)

Claims (5)

1. A novel mobile emergency aid device based on telecommunications technology (II), characterized in that a microchip that can be programmed with a sequence of numbers (e.g. telephone number) is integrated into a housing that is worn on the wrist like a wristwatch (functional wristwatch or corresponding dummy housing; variants: pocket watch, neck amulet, etc.) or into a "hollow handle" with or without additional function, together with the necessary mini-numeric keypad (item 5 of the sketch) and display (item 4 of the sketch) as well as a novel special emergency aid transmitter (items 2a-f of the sketch) - see protection claim no. 2 - with a special construction and triggering device. 2. Special emergency aid transmitter according to claim 1, characterized in that it consists of the following electronic components: a) Automatic (!) emergency call "110" (2a of the sketch) with extended functions (see claim 4 and description) b) Specially equipped tracking device (2c of the sketch) with extended functions (see claim 5 and description) c) Transmitting microphone (<2b> of the sketch), (see description) d) Transmitting antenna (2d of the sketch) e) Electronic control module (2f) which connects the emergency assistance transmitter (2a, 2b, 2c, 2d and 2e) with the keyboard (3, 5) and the display (4). 3. Special construction and triggering device according to claim 1, characterized in that a) by deeply pressing two release pins (1a and 1b of the sketch), which protrude from the housing in the locked state, the circuit (2e) of the emergency transmission device is closed and it is thus triggered. b) the release pins are provided with an opening with an internal thread on the outside into which a "threaded key" can be screwed (function: see description). 4. Automatic (!) emergency call "110" with extended functions according to protection claim 2.a), characterized in that special additional signals (= identification code numbers; hereinafter abbreviated as "ID code") in the form of series of numbers, e.g. telephone numbers, are automatically added by telecommunications technology to the emergency call "110" sent by triggering the emergency assistance transmission device (see the specific description of the innovation!). 5) Specially equipped tracking device with extended functions according to claim 2.b, characterized in that a) the additional identification codes mentioned in claim 4 are automatically linked to its radio signal, at least the identification code of the victim (see specific details in the description).