Incontinence system

1. A method of using a system for monitoring persons with incontinence, comprising:

configuring an electronic tag to have a microcontroller and transmitter;

locating the electronic tag inside an underwear brief;

the electronic tag being connected to and aware of status of an electrical connection with a plurality of in-brief sensors located in or near to the underwear brief;

determining and communicating, through the electronic tag, a status of the electronic tag itself as well as the plurality of in-brief sensors;

monitoring the wetness sensor using a conductor located within the underwear brief worn by a person suffering from incontinence;

locating a first plurality of near-field electromagnetic sensors within the electronic tag, the first plurality of near-field electromagnetic sensors suitable for determining tag proximity; and

attaching one or more of a second plurality of near-field electromagnetic sensors to a hospital bed and determining whether the bed is in a high or low position.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

locating a plurality of environment-data sensors near to the hospital bed;

the environment-data comprising at least one of temperature, humidity, and lightness/darkness of the patient room.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

the plurality of in-brief sensors comprising one or more motion detectors, one or more GPS detectors, and one or more temperature sensors, all of which communicate patent-status information to and with a master module;

the in-brief sensors monitoring and transmitting to the master module any potential occurrences of voiding, and body temperature;

the motion detectors and GPS detectors monitoring and transmitting to the master module physical geolocation of a patient, and potential fall detection of a patient;

a customized mobile app located within the master module receiving the transmitted occurrences of voiding, body temperature, physical geolocation, and fall detection.

4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising:

a data-storage and processing sub-system managing various communication signals related to an individual patient and working with the master module;

opening or closing of a medication box is configured to communicate with the data-storage and processing sub-system.

5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising:

configuring the data-storage and processing sub-system to have a visual warning panel capable of providing visual status of the tag battery; and

obtaining warnings regarding a battery status of the tag itself and not limited to status of the wearer, utilizing the warning panel.

6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising:

assigning a unique identifier to each particular tag;

determining a life cycle for a particular tag;

calculating and displaying how many days until replacement will be needed for that particular tag; and

the tag communicating the life cycle information to the master module using bluetooth.

7. The method of claim 3 , further comprising:

providing a thermal path directly to the skin of a wearer\patient thereby yielding a body temperature of that wearer\patient.

8. The method of claim 3 , further comprising:

configuring one or more of the in-brief sensors to have an adjustable wetness sensitivity control mechanism; and

customizing the adjustable wetness sensitivity control to adapt to the physical conditions of a specific individual.

9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:

configuring the master module to have a self-adjusting algorithm;

the self-adjusting algorithm responsive to a specific person's wetness threshold automatically customizing the adjustable wetness sensitivity control below which no signal is sent;

the master module communicating the customized threshold data to the peripheral module; thereby

reducing an incidence of false reports of wetness.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

positioning a peripheral module within a tag;

configuring the peripheral module to have Bluetooth capability;

connecting the peripheral module to be in communication with one or more of the plurality of in-brief sensors;

positioning a master module and a server module to be in communication with the plurality of in-brief sensors, and sensors-in-proximity, through the peripheral module; and

the peripheral module reading the various values of the in-brief sensors and inserting these values into a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) advertisement report.

11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:

the server module recording information from the tags and various sensors into a database configured to manage statistical and empirical data.

12. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:

programming a microcontroller embedded in the peripheral module with an event driven language thereby reducing the current consumption;

the microcontroller automatically going asleep between events.

13. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:

locating the master module within a tablet or mobile computing device.

14. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:

the server module comprising a PC located in the hospital or a virtual private server;

the server module recording patient information into a database to be used for statistical analysis;

the master module making a TCP connection over a wireless network with the server module and sends the temperature and moisture values stamped with the respective time and date; and

the master module only making the TCP connection when these values exceed a predefined threshold or when the values return back to a normal value after a re-set.

15. The method of claim 14 , further comprising:

positioning a mobile app within the master module;

locating two or more GUI tabs, comprising Main and Configuration, within the mobile app.

16. The method of claim 15 , further comprising:

the Main tab receiving moisture and temperature values every ten seconds and displaying the moisture and temperature information within two GUI graphs.

17. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:

the server module generating an automatic email and sending to one or more of a plurality of email addresses using SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) protocol when an important event occurs.

18. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

tracking information with a particular tag such as the length of time since the battery was last changed or replaced.