Personal locator beacon system

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9494674
APP PUB NO 20150247913A1
SERIAL NO

14633656

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A personal locator beacon system including at least one individual locator device and a plurality of battery powered wireless beacons installed at different locations within a facility. Each individual locator device is worn by a corresponding individual and has a local wireless transceiver and a GPS receiver. The plurality of beacons include at least a subset of reed switch beacons installed at different doorway locations within the facility. Each reed switch beacon is configured to transmit an identification signal with a predetermined signal strength for reception by the local wireless transceiver of the individual locator device within a designated area of the facility, as well as to selectively acquire a perimeter mode for detecting opening of a respective door of the facility.

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SAFETRACKS GPS CANADA INCBOX 7 SITE 19 RR 1 RED DEER T4N 5E1

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Ainsley, Sylvain St-Eustache, CA 1 21
Baron, Jerome Laval, CA 8 81
Messier, Yves Pierrefonds, CA 6 148
Radhakrishna, Warrier Aravind Montreal, CA 1 21
Toledano, Ron Dollard-des-Ormeaux, CA 9 41
Watkins, Laura Pierrefonds, CA 1 21

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