[0001] The present disclosure relates generally to protection and safety means from the
viruses and bacteria and other infectants. More particularly, the present disclosure provides a
surveillance system for alerting and protecting people from infected entities.
BACKGROUND
[0002] Background description includes information that may be useful in understanding the
present invention. It is not an admission that any of the information provided herein is prior art or
relevant to the presently claimed invention, or that any publication specifically or implicitly
referenced is prior art.
[0003] The transmission of contagious microbes like virus, bacteria, fungi, and other germs
has caused serious health problems. Sometimes such health problems become so serious that
they can even hamper country’s economy due to increase in human mortality rate. Strenuous
efforts to stop transmission of microbes are made however, desired results from efforts is a time
taking process. Pandemic due to corona virus has also created a similar situation and has affected
people and economy significantly. Present means to avoid transmission of microbes like viruses,
bacteria and other air borne diseases is to break chain of respective microbes and make them
inactive to stop from growing and evolving in surroundings. Various methods are adopted to
diminish effects of similar microbes. Some of them includes sanitization, social distancing,
staying at home, boosting immunity etc.
[0004] There are applications available to detect infected suspects or victims suffering from
such diseases. They help in tracking of suspects and victims and alert other people by making
them aware about infected suspects. With received information from application group of people
who have downloaded application can become aware about suspected or victims present in near
by places and accordingly protect themselves. However, such applications cannot give
information about entry of suspected or victims in restricted and predefined areas which makes
difficult for cops to track such victims.
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[0005] It makes difficult for cops and invigilators to track such victims or suspects who
intentionally or unintentionally break lockdown rules, thereby increasing risk of spreading
microbes like viruses, bacteria, fungi, and other germs.
[0006] There is a need to overcome the above mentioned problem with solution, which can
eliminate problems associated with conventional methods and enhances prior art. The present
disclosure provides a device, which aids in eradicating risk related to transmission of viruses,
bacteria and other air borne diseases by making cops, invigilator and other uninfected people
aware about infected suspects and victims and promotes to take necessary steps and precautions.
OBJECTS OF THE PRESENT DISCLOSURE
[0007] Some of the objects of the present disclosure, which at least one embodiment herein
satisfies are as listed herein below.
[0008] It is an object of the present disclosure to provide a system, that helps in preventing
people from persons infected by contagious viruses, bacteria and other germs.
[0009] It is an object of the present disclosure to provide a system that aids in saving life of
people and improving economy of nation
[0010] It is an object of the present disclosure to provide a system, that facilitates in tracking
of infected suspects or victims of contagious viruses, bacteria and airborne diseases.
[0011] It is an object of the present disclosure to provide a system, that enables cops and
invigilators to keep a check on infected suspects and victims of contagious viruses, bacteria and
airborne diseases.
[0012] It is an object of the present disclosure to provide a system to promote awareness
among uninfected suspects or victims to stay safe.
[0013] It is an object of the present disclosure to provide a system, that helps uninfected
suspects or victims to become alert for predefined areas which were crossed by the infected
suspects or victims.
[0014] It is an object of the present disclosure to provide a system, that aids in detecting
culprits breaking the rules of lockdown.
[0015] It is an object of the present disclosure to provide innovative, efficient, portable, and
safe system for alerting and protecting the people from person infected with contagious viruses,
bacteria and other germs.
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SUMMARY
[0016] The present disclosure relates generally to protection and safety means from the
viruses and bacteria and other infectants. More particularly, the present disclosure provides a
surveillance system for alerting and protecting people from infected entities.
[0017] An aspect of the present disclosure pertains to a surveillance system for protection
from infected entity, where the system may include a set of sensors to sense parameters
associated with a first entity, and correspondingly generate a first set of signals, a processing unit
operatively coupled with the first set of sensors, and where the processing unit may include one
or more processors coupled with a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the
one or more processors and configured to extract a second set of signals from the first set of
signals, where the second set of signals pertain to location and position parameters associated
with the first entity, compare the extracted location, and position parameters with a first data set,
where the first data set may include predefined limit ranges, and generate a set of alarm signals
when at least one of the extracted location, and position parameters are beyond the predefined
limit ranges.
[0018] In an aspect, the first set of sensors may include any or a combination of location
sensor, Global Positioning System sensor, and geo location sensor.
[0019] In an aspect, the parameters associated with the first entity may include any or a
combination of current location, geographic position, and past location.
[0020] In an aspect, the system may include one or more computing devices associated with
one or more second entities, being communicatively coupled with the processing unit and the set
of sensors, and maybe configured to receive the set of alarm signals from the processing unit,
and where the one or more computing devices may include any or a combination of cell phone,
laptop, palmtop, I pad, and tablet.
[0021] In an aspect, the set of alarm signals generated by the processing unit may be
configured to facilitate in transmitting SOS alert to the computing device associated with the one
or more second entity.
[0022] In an aspect, the system may include a communication unit operatively coupled with
the processing unit, and configured to communicatively the computing device with the system.
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[0023] In an aspect, the communication unit may include any or a combination of Wireless
Fidelity (Wi-Fi), Bluetooth, and Li-Fi, optical fibre, Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), and
ZigBee.
[0024] In an aspect, the set of sensors may be configured with a wearable device, and where
the wearable device may be adapted in form of wrist band, watch, anklet, and may be configured
to be clipped with clothes wrists and waist.
[0025] In an aspect, the wearable device may include a power source configured to supply
electric power to the device.
[0026] In an aspect, the power source may include any or a combination of rechargeable
battery, rechargeable cells, solar cell, solar battery, electrochemical cells, storage battery, and
secondary cell.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0027] The accompanying drawings are included to provide a further understanding of the
present disclosure, and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification. The
drawings illustrate exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure and, together with the
description, serve to explain the principles of the present disclosure.
[0028] The diagrams are for illustration only, which thus is not a limitation of the present
disclosure, and wherein:
[0029] FIG. 1 illustrates a block diagram of surveillance system for protection from infected
entities, in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure.
[0030] FIG. 2 illustrates exemplary functional components of processing unit of the proposed
surveillance system for protection from infected entities, in accordance with an embodiment of
the present disclosure.
[0031] FIG. 3A illustrates overall working and components of the proposed surveillance
system for protection from infected entities, in accordance with an embodiment of the present
disclosure.
[0032] FIG. 3B illustrates an exemplary computer system in which or with which
embodiments of the present invention can be utilized in accordance with embodiments of the
present disclosure.
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DETAIL DESCRIPTION
[0033] In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to
provide a thorough understanding of embodiments of the present invention. It will be apparent to
one skilled in the art that embodiments of the present invention may be practiced without some
of these specific details.
[0034] Embodiments of the present invention include various steps, which will be described
below. The steps may be performed by hardware components or may be embodied in machineexecutable instructions, which may be used to cause a general-purpose or special-purpose
processor programmed with the instructions to perform the steps. Alternatively, steps may be
performed by a combination of hardware, software, firmware and/or by human operators.
[0035] Embodiments of the present invention may be provided as a computer program
product, which may include a machine-readable storage medium tangibly embodying thereon
instructions, which may be used to program a computer (or other electronic devices) to perform a
process. The machine-readable medium may include, but is not limited to, fixed (hard) drives,
magnetic tape, floppy diskettes, optical disks, compact disc read-only memories (CD-ROMs),
and magneto-optical disks, semiconductor memories, such as ROMs, PROMs, random access
memories (RAMs), programmable read-only memories (PROMs), erasable PROMs (EPROMs),
electrically erasable PROMs (EEPROMs), flash memory, magnetic or optical cards, or other
type of media/machine-readable medium suitable for storing electronic instructions (e.g.,
computer programming code, such as software or firmware).
[0036] Various methods described herein may be practiced by combining one or more
machine-readable storage media containing the code according to the present invention with
appropriate standard computer hardware to execute the code contained therein. An apparatus for
practicing various embodiments of the present invention may involve one or more computers (or
one or more processors within a single computer) and storage systems containing or having
network access to computer program(s) coded in accordance with various methods described
herein, and the method steps of the invention could be accomplished by modules, routines,
subroutines, or subparts of a computer program product.
[0037] If the specification states a component or feature “may”, “can”, “could”, or “might”
be included or have a characteristic, that particular component or feature is not required to be
included or have the characteristic.
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[0038] As used in the description herein and throughout the claims that follow, the meaning
of “a,” “an,” and “the” includes plural reference unless the context clearly dictates otherwise.
Also, as used in the description herein, the meaning of “in” includes “in” and “on” unless the
context clearly dictates otherwise.
[0039] Exemplary embodiments will now be described more fully hereinafter with reference
to the accompanying drawings, in which exemplary embodiments are shown. This invention
may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to
the embodiments set forth herein. These embodiments are provided so that this invention will be
thorough and complete and will fully convey the scope of the invention to those of ordinary skill
in the art. Moreover, all statements herein reciting embodiments of the invention, as well as
specific examples thereof, are intended to encompass both structural and functional equivalents
thereof. Additionally, it is intended that such equivalents include both currently known
equivalents as well as equivalents developed in the future (i.e., any elements developed that
perform the same function, regardless of structure).
[0040] While embodiments of the present invention have been illustrated and described, it
will be clear that the invention is not limited to these embodiments only. Numerous
modifications, changes, variations, substitutions, and equivalents will be apparent to those skilled
in the art, without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention, as described in the claim.
[0041] The present disclosure relates generally to protection and safety means from the
viruses and bacteria and other infectants. More particularly, the present disclosure provides a
surveillance system for alerting and protecting people from infected entities.
[0042] According to an aspect the present disclosure pertains to a surveillance system for
protection from infected entity , where the system can include a set of sensors to sense
parameters associated with a first entity, and correspondingly generate a first set of signals, a
processing unit operatively coupled with the first set of sensors, and where the processing unit
can include one or more processors coupled with a memory, the memory storing instructions
executable by the one or more processors and configured to extract second set of signals from the
first set of signals, where the second set of signals pertain to location and position parameters
associated with the first entity, compare the extracted location, and position parameters with a
first data set, where the first data set can include predefined limit ranges, and generate a set of
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alarm signals when at least one of the extracted location, and position parameters are beyond the
predefined limit ranges.
[0043] In an embodiment, the first set of sensors can include any or a combination of
location sensor, Global Positioning System sensor, and geo location sensor.
[0044] In an embodiment, the parameters associated with the first entity can include any or a
combination of current location, geographic position, and past location
[0045] In an embodiment, the system can include one or more computing devices associated
with the one or more second entities, being communicatively coupled with the processing unit
and the set of sensors, and configured to receive the set of alarm signals from the processing unit,
and where the computing device can include any or a combination of cell phone, laptop,
palmtop, I pad, and tablet.
[0046] In an embodiment, the set of alarm signals generated by the processing unit can be
configured to facilitate in transmitting SOS alert to the computing device associated with the one
or more second entities.
[0047] In an embodiment, the system can include a communication unit operatively coupled
with the processing unit, and configured to communicatively the computing device with the
system.
[0048] In an embodiment, the communication unit can include any or a combination of
Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi), Bluetooth, and Li-Fi, optical fiber, Wireless Local Area Network
(WLAN), and ZigBee.
[0049] In an embodiment, the set of sensors can be configured with a wearable device, and
where the wearable device can be adapted in form of wrist band, watch, anklet, and can be
configured to be clipped with clothes wrists and waist.
[0050] In an embodiment, the wear able device can include a power source configured to
supply electric power to the device.
[0051] In an embodiment, the power source can include any or a combination of
rechargeable battery, rechargeable cells, solar cell, solar battery, electrochemical cells, storage
battery, and secondary cell.
[0052] FIG. 1 illustrates a block diagram of surveillance system for protection from infected
entities, in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure.
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[0053] As illustrated in FIG 1, the proposed system (also referred to as system 100) can
include a set of sensors (also referred collectively as sensors 102, and individually as sensor 102,
herein), and a processing unit 104. The sensors 102 can be operatively coupled with the
processing unit 104. The sensors 102 can be configured to sense parameters associated with a
first entity. The first entity can include any or a combination of suspected person, victims, and
infected person. The system 100 can include one or more computing device 104 (also referred
collectively as computing devices 104, and individually as computing device 104,
herein)communicatively coupled with the processing unit 106 and the sensors 102.
[0054] In an illustrative embodiment, the sensors 102 can include any or a combination of
location sensor, Global Positioning System sensor, geo location sensor. The sensors 102 such as
GPS sensor or location sensor can sense physical parameters like position, and location of the
first entity, and can convert the physical parameters into a set of electrical signals. The GPS
sensor can be receivers with antennas that can use a satellite-based navigation system with a
network of satellites in orbit around earth to provide position, velocity, and timing information
associated with the first entity. The first entity can include any or a combination of suspected
person, victims, and infected person. In an illustrative embodiment, the sensors 102 can be
configured with a wearable device, where the wearable device can be adapted in form of wrist
band, watch, anklet, and can also be configured to be clipped with clothes wrists and waist.
[0055] In an embodiment, the processing unit 106 can be configured to receive the first set of
signals from the sensors 102. The received first set of signals from the sensors 102 can be the set
of electrical signals. The processing unit 106 can convert the set of electrical signals into
machine readable form and transmit the set of electrical signals further to sub units like an
extraction unit, a comparison unit, a signal generation unit, and other unit(s).The processing unit
106 can transmit the set of alarm signal to the computing device 104. The alarm signal can
pertain to SOS alert.
[0056] In an illustrative embodiment, the processing unit 106 can be microprocessor,
microcontroller, Arduino Uno, At mega 328, and other similar processing unit 106. The
processing unit 106 can receive the first set of signals in form of a set of electrical signals. The
processing unit 106 can convert the received electrical set of signals into a machine readable
form or binary codes with the help of the extraction unit 212. Further, the processing unit 106
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can be configured to extract the second set of signals from the first set of signals in machine
readable form, and can transmit the extracted second set of signals to the comparison unit 214.
[0057] In an embodiment, the computing device 104 can be configured to receive a set of
alarm signals from the processing unit 106 or signal generation unit. In an illustrative
embodiment, the computing device can include any or a combination of cell phone, laptop,
palmtop, I pad, and tablet. The computing device 104 can also be operatively coupled with the
wearable device through the sensors 102. In another illustrative embodiment, the computing
device 104 can be associated with one or more second entities (also referred collectively as
second entities, and individually as second entity, herein), where the second entity can include
any or a combination of unsuspected person, and uninfected person. The second entity can
become aware about risk related to transmission of virus through the first entity with help of an
application. The application can be downloaded in the computing device 104 by the second
entity.
[0058] In an illustrative embodiment, the system 100 can include the wearable device worn
by the first entity. The wearable device can be given by cops or surveillance team to the first
entity for keeping track of location, and position of the first entity. The first entity can include
any or a combination of suspected person, victims, and infected person. In another illustrative
embodiment, the set of alarm signals generated by the processing unit can be configured to
facilitate in transmitting SOS alert to the computing device104 associated with a second entity.
[0059] FIG. 2 illustrates exemplary functional components of processing unit of the proposed
surveillance system for protection from infected entities, in accordance with an embodiment of
the present disclosure.
[0060] As illustrated in an embodiment, the processing unit 106 can include one or more
processor(s) 202. The one or more processor(s) 202 can be implemented as one or more
microprocessors, microcomputers, microcontrollers, digital signal processors, central processing
units, logic circuitries, and/or any devices that manipulate data based on operational instructions.
Among other capabilities, the one or more processor(s) 202 are configured to fetch and execute
computer-readable instructions stored in a memory 204 of the processing unit 106. The memory
204 can store one or more computer-readable instructions or routines, which may be fetched and
executed to create or share the data units over a network service. The memory 204 can include
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any non-transitory storage device including, for example, volatile memory such as RAM, or nonvolatile memory such as EPROM, flash memory, and the like.
[0061] In an embodiment, the processing unit 106 can also include an interface(s) 206. The
interface(s) 206 may include a variety of interfaces, for example, interfaces for data input and
output devices, referred to as I/O devices, storage devices, and the like. The interface(s) 206 may
facilitate communication of the processing unit 106 with various devices coupled to the
processing unit 106. The interface(s) 206 may also provide a communication pathway for one or
more components of processing unit 106. Examples of such components include, but are not
limited to, processing engine(s) 208 and data 210.
[0062] In an embodiment, the processing engine(s) 208 can be implemented as a
combination of hardware and programming (for example, programmable instructions) to
implement one or more functionalities of the processing engine(s) 208. In examples described
herein, such combinations of hardware and programming may be implemented in several
different ways. For example, the programming for the processing engine(s) 208 may be
processor executable instructions stored on a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium
and the hardware for the processing engine(s) 208 may include a processing resource (for
example, one or more processors), to execute such instructions. In the present examples, the
machine-readable storage medium may store instructions that, when executed by the processing
resource, implement the processing engine(s) 208. In such examples, the processing unit 106 can
include the machine-readable storage medium storing the instructions and the processing
resource to execute the instructions, or the machine-readable storage medium may be separate
but accessible to processing unit 106 and the processing resource. In other examples, the
processing engine(s) 208 may be implemented by electronic circuitry. A database 210 can
include data that is either stored or generated as a result of functionalities implemented by any of
the components of the processing engine(s) 208.
[0063] In an embodiment, the processing engine(s) 208 can include an extraction unit 212, a
comparison unit 214, a signal generation unit 216, and other unit (s) 218. The other unit(s) 218
can implement functionalities that supplement applications or functions performed by the system
100 or the processing engine(s) 208.
[0064] The database 210 can include data that is either stored or generated as a result of
functionalities implemented by any of the components of the processing engine(s) 208.
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[0065] It would be appreciated that units being described are only exemplary units and any
other unit or sub-unit may be included as part of the system 102. These units too may be merged
or divided into super- units or sub-units as may be configured.
[0066] As illustrated in FIG.2, the device 100 can include the processing unit 106 with sub
unit including the extraction unit 212, the comparison unit 214, the signal generation unit 216,
and the other unit(s) 218 respectively. The processing unit 106 can facilitate in generating and
transmitting a set of alarm signals to a network or server. The alarm signals can be SOS alert.
The server 306 can further be configured to transmit the set of alarm signals to a computing
device 104 via a communication unit. The communication unit can include any or a combination
of Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi), Bluetooth, and Li-Fi, optical fibre, Wireless Local Area Network
(WLAN), and ZigBee.
[0067] In an embodiment, the extraction unit 212 can facilitate extraction of second set of
signals from first set of signals. The first set of signals can be generated by sensors 102. The
sensors can detect parameters associated with a first entity, and correspondingly generate the first
set of signals. The first entity can include any or a combination of suspected person, victims, and
infected person. The sensors 102 can be operatively coupled with a wearable device, where the
wearable device can be adapted in form of a wrist band, watch, anklet, and can be configured to
be clipped with clothes wrists and waist. The first entity can wear the wearable device. The
extraction unit 212 can receive the first set of signals as a set of electrical signals. The set of
electrical signals can pertain to parameters detected by the sensors like location, position, spot,
district, place, and the like of the first entity. The extraction unit 212 can facilitate extraction of
the second set of signals from the first set of signals in machine readable form. The second set of
signals can pertain to location and position parameters associated with the first entity. The
extraction unit 212 can transmit the extracted second set of signals, which can be in machine
readable form, to the comparison unit 214.
[0068] In an illustrative embodiment, the extraction unit 212 can receive the first set of
signals from the sensor 102 such as Global Positioning System (GPS) sensor associated with the
first entity. The first entity can include any or a combination of suspected person, victims, and
infected person. The first entity can wear a wearable device such as wrist band and according to
the parameters detected by the GPS sensor, which is operatively coupled with the device, the
extraction unit can extract the second set of signals from the first set of signals. The first set of
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signals can pertain to detected parameters by the GPS sensor. The parameters detected by the
GPS sensor can include current location, geographic position, past location, and the like of the
first entity. The second set of signals can pertain to location and position parameters in machine
readable form.
[0069] In an illustrative embodiment, the comparison unit 214 can facilitate in comparing the
extracted location and position parameters with a first data set, where the first data set can
pertain to predefined limit ranges. The comparison unit 214 can receive the extracted location
and position parameters from the extraction unit 212, and can compare with the first dataset
stored in database 210. The predefined limit ranges can include threshold values pertaining to the
location and position parameters associated with the first entity. The comparison unit 214 can
compare the extracted location and position parameters, and can facilitate in finding whether the
extracted location and position parameters has reached the predefined limit ranges.
[0070] In an illustrative embodiment, the comparison unit 214 can receive the extracted
location and position parameters in machine readable form. The comparison unit 214 can
facilitate in comparing the received and extracted location and position parameters in machine
readable form with help of a comparator. The comparator can enable comparing the extracted
location and position parameters with the predefined limit ranges. The comparator can include an
analogue comparator or a digital comparator. The digital comparators can compare the extracted
location and position parameters with the predefined limit ranges. The digital comparators can
facilitate comparison with help of logic gates such as AND, NOT or NOR gates. The digital
comparator can be configured to accept the extracted location and position parameters in the
machine readable form. Further three conditions can be applicable for the comparison of the
extracted location and position parameters with the predefined limit ranges.
[0071] In an illustrative embodiment, the three conditions associated with the digital
comparator can include a first condition, which can prevail when the extracted location and
position parameters are found equal to the predefined limit ranges, a second condition can
prevail when the extracted location and position parameters are found beyond the predefined
limit ranges, and the third condition can prevail when the extracted location and position
parameters are found less than the predefined limit ranges. The digital comparator can compare
and transmit the compared location and position parameter signals to the signal generation unit
216.
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[0072] In an illustrative embodiment, the predefined limit ranges can include numerical
values stored in first data set such as 500 meters or 1 kilometres. The comparator of the
comparison unit 214 can compare the extracted location and position parameters with the stored
numerical values like 500 meters or 1 kilometres and correspondingly transmit the compared
location and position parameters signals to the signal generation unit 216.
[0073] In an illustrative embodiment, the signal generation unit 216 can facilitate in
generating and transmitting a set of alarm signals to a network or server. The set of alarm signals
can be the SOS alert. The signal generation unit can be configured to generate and transmit the
set of alarm signals when at least one of the location and position parameters are found beyond
the predefined limit ranges. The set of alarm signals can be generated and transmitted to the set
of network or server in machine readable form.
[0074] In an illustrative embodiment, the signal generation unit 216 after identifying at least
one of the location and position parameters to be beyond the predefined limit ranges, can
generate and transmit the set of alarm signals. The set of alarm signals transmitted to the network
or server can further be transmitted to an application downloaded by a second entity in a
computing device. The computing device 104 can receive the set of alarm signals in machine
readable form.
[0075] In an illustrative embodiment, the signal generation unit 216 can facilitate in
generating a set of warning signals. The set of warning signals can be received by the wearable
device worn by the first entity. The set of warning signals can be generated in machine readable
form and transmitted to the wearable device. The wearable device can receive the set of warning
signals, and the set of warning signals can be converted into electrical signals at a set of interface
operatively coupled with the wearable device. The set of interface can include any or a
combination of siren, light emitting diode, display.
[0076] In an illustrative embodiment, when the signal generation unit 216 identifies that the
first entity has crossed the predetermined limit range such as 500 meters or 1 kilometres as stored
in the first data set, the signal generation unit can generate and transmit the set of alarm signals
to the server in machine readable form.
[0077] FIG. 3A illustrates overall working and components of the proposed surveillance
system for protection from infected entities, in accordance with an embodiment of the present
disclosure.
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[0078] As illustrated in fig 3, the system 100 can include block 302, where the block 302
pertain to a wearable device with sensors 102. In an illustrative embodiment, the sensors 102 can
include any or a combination of location sensor, Global Positioning System sensor, geo location
sensor. The wearable device can be Global system for monitoring enabled. The wearable device
can be worn by a first entity. The first entity can include any or a combination suspected person,
victims, , and infected person as shown in block 304. The wearable device can be given to the
first entity by surveillance team or cops. The surveillance team or cops308 can aid in tracking
those first entity who does not follow lockdown rules and moves outside a predefined area. The
wearable device can be adapted in form of wrist band, watch, anklet, and can be configured to be
clipped with clothes wrists and waist.
[0079] In an illustrative embodiment, the wearable device 302 can be communicatively
coupled with a network via server as shown in block 306.The system 102 can be implemented
using any or a combination of hardware components and software components such as a cloud, a
server, a computing system, a computing device, a network device and the like. Further, the
system 102 can interact with the wear able device through plurality of communication unit, such
as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Li-Fi, or an application, that can reside in a computing unit104. In an
implementation, the system 100 can be accessed by a network or a server 306that can be
configured with any operating system, including but not limited to, AndroidTM, iOSTM, and the
like.
[0080] Further, the network can be a wireless network, a wired network or a combination
thereof that can be implemented as one of the different types of networks, such as Intranet, Local
Area Network (LAN), Wide Area Network (WAN), Internet, and the like. Further, the network
104 can either be a dedicated network or a shared network. The shared network can represent an
association of the different types of networks that can use variety of protocols, for example,
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP),
Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), and the like.
[0081] In an illustrative embodiment, the surveillance team or cops can activate the wearable
device such as wrist band. Upon activation of the band, the band can send first set of signals to
the server 106 via the communication unit, where the first set of signals can pertain to parameters
associated with the first entity. The first set of signals can be detected by the sensor 102 such as
location sensor. The location sensor can detect the location and position parameters associated
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with the first entity and can transmit the first set of signal to the server 306. The surveillance
team or cops308 can track the location and position of the first entity with help of the sensors
102.
[0082] In an illustrative embodiment, the wearable device can be communicatively coupled
with the computing device. The computing device can include any or a combination of cell
phone, laptop, palmtop, I pad, and tablet. The computing unit 104 can be associated with a
second entity, where the second entity can include any or a combination of unsuspected person,
uncontaminated person, and uninfected person. The computing device can include an application
310 which can be downloaded by the second entity. The application310 can be downloaded upon
making the second entity aware about the application 310 by the cops or surveillance team 308.
The downloaded application can facilitate in exchanging information pertaining to first set of
signals from the wearable device or the sensors 102.
[0083] In an illustrative embodiment, the surveillance team or cops 308 can create awareness
regarding the application, and the second entity can download the application on their respective
computing device 104. As the first entity as shown in block 304 moves out of a predetermined
area, the sensor 102 associated with the wearable device worn by the first entity can detect the
location and position parameters associated with the first entity, and can facilitate in transmitting
SOS alert 312 to the network or server 306 with help of a processing unit 106. The
predetermined area can include a fix radius of location or district decided by the surveillance
team or cops 308 for the first entity’s movement. The movement of the first entity beyond the
predetermined area can pertain to a threat for the second entity. The surveillance team or cops
308 can track the SOS alert312 and the SOS alert 312 can be transmitted to the applications
downloaded in the computing device 104 associated with the second entity. The SOS alert 312
can be generated by the processing unit 106 and transmitted to the computing device 104 with
help of the communication unit such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and the like.
[0084] In an illustrative embodiment, the predetermined area can include limit ranges such as
500 meters or 1 kilometres for movement of the first entity. As the first entity crosses the
predetermined area of limit ranges, the SOS alert 312 can be transmitted to the server 306 with
help of the wearable device 302 and the sensor 104.
[0085] In an illustrative embodiment, the SOS alert 312 generated can enable the second
entity to take necessary precautions and become aware about the predetermined area crossed by
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the first entity. The SOS alert 312 can be generated and transmitted to the respective computing
device 104 associated with the second entity and accordingly the surveillance team or cops 308
can track the location of the first entity crossing the predetermined area, and can catch them. The
second entity can become aware upon receiving the SOS alert 312 from the downloaded
application.
[0086] In an illustrative embodiment, the processing unit 106 can facilitate in generating a
set of warning signals through the wearable device. The set of warning signals can be in form of
siren, light, audio, text message, and the like. The set of warning signals can be transmitted to a
set of interface operatively coupled with the wearable device. The set of interface can include
siren, display, light emitting diode, and the like. In another illustrative embodiment, the set of
warning signals can enable the first entity in reminding about the predetermined area when the
first entity crosses the predetermined area intentionally or unintentionally. The set of warning
signal can also aid the surveillance team or cops 308 in tracking the first entity who crosses the
predetermined area, and accordingly can take measures. In yet another illustrative embodiment,
the set of warning signals can also help the second entity in identifying the first entity who
crosses the predetermined area and breaks lockdown rules.
[0087] In an illustrative embodiment, the wearable device can include a power source
configured to supply electric power to the device. The power source can include any or a
combination of rechargeable battery, rechargeable cells, solar cell, solar battery, electrochemical
cells, storage battery, and secondary cell.
[0088] FIG. 3B illustrates an exemplary computer system in which or with which
embodiments of the present invention can be utilized in accordance with embodiments of the
present disclosure.
[0089] As shown in FIG. 3B, computer system 300 includes an external storage device 320,
a bus 330, a main memory 340, a read only memory 350, a mass storage device 360,
communication port 370, and a processor 380. A person skilled in the art will appreciate that
computer system may include more than one processor and communication ports. Examples of
processor 380 include, but are not limited to, an Intel® Itanium® or Itanium 2 processor(s), or
AMD® Opteron® or Athlon MP® processor(s), Motorola® lines of processors, FortiSOC™
system on a chip processors or other future processors. Processor 380 may include various
modules associated with embodiments of the present invention. Communication port 370 can be
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any of an RS-232 port for use with a modem based dialup connection, a 10/100 Ethernet port, a
Gigabit or 10 Gigabit port using copper or fiber, a serial port, a parallel port, or other existing or
future ports. Communication port 370 may be chosen depending on a network, such a Local
Area Network (LAN), Wide Area Network (WAN), or any network to which computer system
connects.
[0090] In an embodiment, the memory 340 can be Random Access Memory (RAM), or any
other dynamic storage device commonly known in the art. Read only memory 350 can be any
static storage device(s) e.g., but not limited to, a Programmable Read Only Memory (PROM)
chips for storing static information e.g., start-up or BIOS instructions for processor 380. Mass
storage 360 may be any current or future mass storage solution, which can be used to store
information and/or instructions. Exemplary mass storage solutions include, but are not limited to,
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment (PATA) or Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
(SATA) hard disk drives or solid-state drives (internal or external, e.g., having Universal Serial
Bus (USB) and/or Fire wire interfaces), e.g. those available from Seagate (e.g., the Seagate
Barracuda 7102 family) or Hitachi (e.g., the Hitachi Desk star 7K1000), one or more optical
discs, Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) storage, e.g. an array of disks (e.g., SATA
arrays), available from various vendors including Dot Hill Systems Corp., LaCie, Nexsan
Technologies, Inc. and Enhance Technology, Inc.
[0091] In an embodiment, the bus 330 communicatively couples processor(s) 380 with the
other memory, storage and communication blocks. Bus 330 can be, e.g. a Peripheral Component
Interconnect (PCI) / PCI Extended (PCI-X) bus, Small Computer System Interface (SCSI), USB
or the like, for connecting expansion cards, drives and other subsystems as well as other buses,
such a front side bus (FSB), which connects processor 380 to software system.
[0092] In another embodiment, operator and administrative interfaces, e.g. a display,
keyboard, and a cursor control device, may also be coupled to bus 330 to support direct operator
interaction with computer system. Other operator and administrative interfaces can be provided
through network connections connected through communication port 370. External storage
device 320 can be any kind of external hard-drives, floppy drives, IOMEGA® Zip Drives,
Compact Disc - Read Only Memory (CD-ROM), Compact Disc - Re-Writable (CD-RW), Digital
Video Disk - Read Only Memory (DVD-ROM). Components described above are meant only to
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exemplify various possibilities. In no way should the aforementioned exemplary computer
system limit the scope of the present disclosure.
[0093] Thus, it will be appreciated by those of ordinary skill in the art that the diagrams,
schematics, illustrations, and the like represent conceptual views or processes illustrating
systems and methods embodying this invention. The functions of the various elements shown in
the figures may be provided through the use of dedicated hardware as well as hardware capable
of executing associated software. Similarly, any switches shown in the figures are conceptual
only. Their function may be carried out through the operation of program logic, through
dedicated logic, through the interaction of program control and dedicated logic, or even
manually, the particular technique being selectable by the entity implementing this invention.
Those of ordinary skill in the art further understand that the exemplary hardware, software,
processes, methods, and/or operating systems described herein are for illustrative purposes and,
thus, are not intended to be limited to any particular named.
[0094] While embodiments of the present invention have been illustrated and described, it
will be clear that the invention is not limited to these embodiments only. Numerous
modifications, changes, variations, substitutions, and equivalents will be apparent to those skilled
in the art, without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention, as described in the claim.
[0095] In the foregoing description, numerous details are set forth. It will be apparent,
however, to one of ordinary skill in the art having the benefit of this disclosure, that the present
invention may be practiced without these specific details. In some instances, well-known
structures and devices are shown in block diagram form, rather than in detail, to avoid obscuring
the present invention.
[0096] As used herein, and unless the context dictates otherwise, the term "coupled to" is
intended to include both direct coupling (in which two elements that are coupled to each other
contact each other) and indirect coupling (in which at least one additional element is located
between the two elements). Therefore, the terms "coupled to" and "coupled with" are used
synonymously. Within the context of this document terms "coupled to" and "coupled with" are
also used euphemistically to mean “communicatively coupled with” over a network, where two
or more devices are able to exchange data with each other over the network, possibly via one or
more intermediary device.
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[0097] It should be apparent to those skilled in the art that many more modifications besides
those already described are possible without departing from the inventive concepts herein. The
inventive subject matter, therefore, is not to be restricted except in the spirit of the appended
claims. Moreover, in interpreting both the specification and the claims, all terms should be
interpreted in the broadest possible manner consistent with the context. In particular, the terms
“comprises” and “comprising” should be interpreted as referring to elements, components, or
steps in a non-exclusive manner, indicating that the referenced elements, components, or steps
may be present, or utilized, or combined with other elements, ` components, or steps that are not
expressly referenced.
[0098] While the foregoing describes various embodiments of the invention, other and
further embodiments of the invention may be devised without departing from the basic scope
thereof. The scope of the invention is determined by the claims that follow. The invention is not
limited to the described embodiments, versions or examples, which are included to enable a
person having ordinary skill in the art to make and use the invention when combined with
information and knowledge available to the person having ordinary skill in the art.
ADVANTAGES OF THE PRESENT DISCLOSURE
[0099] The present disclosure provides a system, that helps in preventing people from
persons infected by contagious viruses, bacteria and other germs.
[00100] The present disclosure provides a system that aids in saving life of people and
improving economy of nation
[00101] The present disclosure provides a system, that facilitates in tracking of infected
suspects or victims of contagious viruses, bacteria and airborne diseases.
[00102] The present disclosure provides a system, that enables cops and invigilators to keep a
check on infected suspects and victims of contagious viruses, bacteria and airborne diseases.
[00103] The present disclosure provides a system to promote awareness among uninfected
suspects or victims to stay safe.
[00104] The present disclosure provides a system, that helps uninfected suspects or victims to
become alert for predefined areas which were crossed by the infected suspects or victims.
[00105] The present disclosure provides a system, that aids in detecting culprits breaking the
rules of lockdown.
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[00106] The present disclosure provides an innovative, efficient, portable, and safe system for
alerting and protecting the people from person infected with contagious viruses, bacteria and
other germs.

We Claim:

1. A surveillance system for protection from infected entity, the system comprises of:
a set of sensors to sense parameters associated with a first entity, and correspondingly
generate a first set of signals;
a processing unit operatively coupled with the first set of sensors, and wherein the
processing unit comprises of one or more processors coupled with a memory, the
memory storing instructions executable by the one or more processors and configured to:
extract a second set of signals from the first set of signals, wherein the second set
of signals pertain to location and position parameters associated with the first entity;
compare the extracted location, and position parameters with a first data set,
wherein the first data set comprises predefined limit ranges, and;
generate a set of alarm signals when at least one of the extracted location, and
position parameters are beyond the predefined limit ranges.
2. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first set of sensors comprises any or a
combination of location sensor, Global Positioning System sensor, and geo location
sensor.
3. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the parameters associated with the first entity
comprises any or a combination of current location, geographic position ,and past
location.
4. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the system comprises one or more computing
device associated with one or more second entities, being communicatively coupled with
the processing unit and the set of sensors, and configured to receive the set of alarm
signals from the processing unit, and wherein the computing device comprise any or a
combination of cell phone, laptop, palmtop, I pad, and tablet.
5. The system as claimed in claim 4, wherein the set of alarm signals generated by the
processing unit is configured to facilitate in transmitting SOS alert to the computing
device associated with one or more second entities.
6. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the system comprises a communication unit
operatively coupled with the processing unit, and configured to communicatively couple
the computing device with the system.
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7. The system as claimed in claim 6, wherein the communication unit comprises any or a
combination of Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi), Bluetooth, and Li-Fi, optical fiber, Wireless
Local Area Network (WLAN), and ZigBee.
8. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the set of sensors is configured with a
wearable device, and wherein the wearable device is adapted in form of wrist band,
watch, anklet, and is configured to be clipped with clothes wrists and waist.
9. The system as claimed in claim 8, wherein the wearable device comprises a power source
configured to supply electric power to the device.
10. The system as claimed in claim 9, wherein the power source comprises any or a
combination of rechargeable battery, rechargeable cells, solar cell, solar battery,
electrochemical cells, storage battery, and secondary cell.