Method and apparatus for detecting an emergency situation in a room
View Patent ↗A method of detecting an emergency situation in a room of a hotel is provided. The method comprising: monitoring an access control operably connect to a door of a room; determining that the access control has not been engaged; determining that activity has not been detected in the room for a selected time period; and activating an alarm.
1. A system of detecting an emergency situation in a room of a hotel, the system comprising:
a processor; and
a memory comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:
monitoring a door lock operably connected to a door of a room, the door lock comprising a dead bolt lock that can be actuated manually from inside the room;
detecting actuation of the dead bolt from an unlocked position to a locked position;
determining that the dead bolt has not been moved from the locked position to the unlocked position for a first selected time period;
determining that activity has not been detected in the room for a second selected time period; and
activating an alarm.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the activity includes at least one of motion and audible sounds.
3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:
determining that a telephone within the room has not received or transmitted a telephone call within the second selected time period.
4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:
detecting a mobile device within the room.
5. The system of claim 4 , wherein:
the mobile device is detected within the room using wireless communication.
6. The system of claim 5 , wherein:
the wireless communication includes at least one of Wi-Fi triangulation, zigbee, and Bluetooth signal strength.
7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:
determining that the room has not been cleaned within the second selected time period.
8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:
determining that a window of the room has not been opened or closed within the second selected time period.
9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:
transmitting a telephone call to a telephone within the room after the second selected time period and not receiving an answer to the telephone call.
10. The system of claim 1 , wherein:
the first selected time period is about equal to 24 hours.
11. A computer program product tangibly embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium, the computer program product including instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
monitoring a door lock operably connected to a door of a room, the door lock comprising a dead bolt lock that can be actuated manually from inside the room;
detecting actuation of the dead bolt from an unlocked position to a locked position;
determining that the dead bolt has not been moved from the locked position to the unlocked position for a first selected time period;
determining that activity has not been detected in the room for a second selected time period; and
activating an alarm.
12. The computer program product of claim 11 , wherein the activity includes at least one of motion and audible sounds.
13. The computer program product of claim 11 , wherein the operations further comprise:
determining that a telephone within the room has not received or transmitted a telephone call within the second selected time period.
14. The computer program product of claim 11 , wherein the operations further comprise:
detecting a mobile device within the room.
15. The computer program product of claim 14 , wherein:
the mobile device is detected within the room using wireless communication.
16. The computer program product of claim 15 , wherein:
the wireless communication includes at least one of Wi-Fi triangulation, zigbee, and Bluetooth signal strength.
17. The computer program product of claim 11 , wherein the operations further comprise:
determining that the room has not been cleaned within the second selected time period.
18. The computer program product of claim 11 , wherein the operations further comprise:
determining that a window of the room has not been opened or closed within the second selected time period.
19. The computer program product of claim 11 , wherein the operations further comprise:
transmitting a telephone call to a telephone within the room after the second selected time period and not receiving an answer to the telephone call.
20. The computer program product of claim 11 , wherein:
the first selected time period is about equal to 24 hours.