ULURT™: Project Scope
ULURT (Patent Pending) REAL-TIME AUTOMATED PERSONAL ALERT TRACKING, DISTRIBUTION & RESPONSE KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICES BASED ON A SYNTHETIC-INTELLIGENCEOPERATING-SYSTEM VIA WAN(WIDE-AREA-NETWORK) & LAN (LOCAL-AREA-NETWORK) REAL-TIME MOBILE SENSORS & METRICS DATA
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George Cunia/Cristi Ruja: Hybridica, Inc. 204 Oakmont Rd. Syracuse, NY, 13214 - USA Tel: 315-289-6061
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ULURT™: Project Scope Project Title AUTOMATED PERSONAL ALERT TRACKING, DISTRIBUTION & RESPONSE SYSTEM BASED ON “REAL-TIME” MOBILE-SENSOR-COMPUTING-DEVICEGENERATED-DATA VIA WIDE-AREA-SERVER &PEER-NETWORKS
Project Background and Description
In recent decades, meteorology and other sciences have advanced rapidly, allowing increasingly accurate detection and prediction of severe & hazardous weather, health, and other “alarming” events, that alert individuals and influence personal action/reaction that may include saving lives. However, in order for these warnings, or "alerts" to be effective, they must be communicated to and received by their intended recipients within the appropriate alert time-frame.
Briefly described, the present project comprises an alert application/apparatus and method for receiving a location-specific event-alert (i.e., an alert directed and relevant to a particular geographical area & personal-user defined parameters) and for informing a user, who may be visually or hearing impaired, of the existence and severity of the alert. More particularly, the present project includes an event-alert application and method which allow a user to receive data corresponding to an event-alert which has been broadcast by ULURT servers, without requiring the user to input, to the event-alert application, data representative of or identifying the current location of the user.
Scope ULURT™ is a “Real-Time” WAN (wide-area-network) Synthetically Intelligent & Automated Personal Alert Tracking, Distribution & Response Knowledge System For Mobile Computing Devices, also referred to as an “Automated Personal Alert Tracking System”, where it's application is to collect and distribute data within the context of weather, health, motorized traffic and interpersonal relationships where the single and/or collective outcomes directly affect the immediate personal decision making process/actions of the individual user/owner of the mobile-computing-device application that supports inter-agency/agent and intra-agency/agent communications among first responders including weather, fire, police, emergency medical service, safety, and/or other agencies-agents, as well as a unique personal-agent built upon personal history data inputs into ULURT™ by and for each mobilecomputing-device-user. ULURT™ HIGHLIGHTS
Capture events from multiple information sources using agent technology Identify target users based on their geolocation,role and self-subscription to alerts Deliver event-alerts in real-time to target users displaying notifications based on event priority (“Must Respond” alerts, “FYI” alerts and others) Track alert response and escalate appropriately Pre-assign alert channel to specific roles Enable users to opt-in/opt-out of alerts based on permission and need-to-know Provide management tools enabling non-IT personnel to configure, update ULURT™ Synthetically Intelligent Agent System for “Inner-Circle” Emergency Map-Routing IntelligentDelivery-System. The Map-Routing will INSTRUCT the Route ALL Inner-Circle Members should take to MEET-UP at a Common POINT
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ULURT™: Project Scope ULURT™ Main Features Displaying Weather Information: Based on the location information provided by the “Android Location Based service” the area map is displayed using the Android map feature. The ULURT™ server is queried based on the “Android always connected to net” feature for the regional weather, and the proper weather information is displayed on the map. (see Fig 1) The ULURT™ constantly monitor the location change of the user and update the map if necessary. Displaying Alerts: The alert information act as an Android service. It is started by the user from the main screen menu, and once it is started the ULURT™ application can be stopped to free system resources. The ULURT™service constantly query the ULURT™ server for the events, based on user location obtained from “Android Location Based service” When an Alert notification is received, it is displayed by the Android Event manger in the Event screen. (see Figure 2) The latitude/longitude is displayed for each event received, but it will be replaced with the event closest location/city when Android Geolocation will effectively work. If the user click on an alert event, the Ulurt application will be open, and the alert icon will be placed using Android Map View based on its location. Configure alerts events The ulurt events are configurable, so a user may select the alerts for which he/she wants to be notified. (see fig 3) The configuration is saved based on the SharedPreferences feature Main events are: Health (Flu, Air Polution, RadiActivity) Weather(Extreme heat, ice, flood, hurricane, tornado) , fire, traffic jam. Displaying weather forecast: Based on the current user location, the current weather is queried from ULURT™ server. The temperature and weather conditions are displayed for the current user location for the next 7 days. (see Fig 4) The latitude/longitude is displayed for current user location, but it will be replaced with the user closest location/city when Android Geolocation will effectively work. The user may double click on a location on the ULURT™ main page (Fig 1) if he/she what to have the forecast for that location. ULURT™will use that location point as a reference for querying the ULURT™ server for weather forecast.
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ULURT™: Project Scope Features In Development Accelerometer: Is a multi-axis device for measuring the acceleration and gravity induced reaction forces it experiences, detecting magnitude and direction of the acceleration of the mobile device as a vector quantity. This component/device is used within our product as an indicator for estimated time of arrival to the Alert-Event. ULURT™ Text-To-Speech-Interface: Text-To-Speech Communication Boundry is used between the Android/ULURT™ application/ device-user and the Event-Generated-Alert. The Text-To-Speech-Interface is an artificial production of human speech using minimal tangible events on the user side. ULURT™ User Input Data to System Database Any android user can be encouraged to submit events in order to notify other users too in the surrounding area about an event (ex. a Traffice Jam) - which may build a local community based on the exchanged information. ULURT™ Compliance with DoD / Federal Regulations & Guidelines DITSCAP/DIACAP System Security Authorization Agreement (SSAA) Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) Certification DoD security standard - Common Access Card (CAC) & Password policies compliance (CSCSTD-002-85) Compatibility with DISA Windows Gold Disk Section 508 and JAWS (Job Access With Speech) compliant software for personnel with special needs Compliance with UFC 4-021-01 and UFC 4-010-10 (as applicable) CAP (Common Alerting Protocol) compliant, supporting emergency management interoperability guidelines ULURT™ Network Alerting: Web-based alert publishing, accessible from multiple networked locations Audio-visual alerts to all wired or wireless networked computing devices within average of 45 seconds Presence-sensing delivery - event-alerts aer stored when user is offline and delivered when online Event-Alert targeting via distribution lists (rosters) to Close-Relationship-Groups Tracking & reporting of event-alert delivery and responses per each event-alert and recipient One-Click-Response to Incoming event-alert & One-Click-Client-Button Activation of eventalert originating from within a Close-Realtionship-Peer-Group...ULURT Mobile User, delivering the event-alert to the pre-defined contacts within a users Close-RelationshipPeer-Group via peer/server or peer/peer connectivity Library of standard Federal and DoD compliant audio-visual signals and scenarios (i.e. FPCON) Web-based alert management and archive – view, abort, edit, and access alert archive Section 508 and JAWS compliant desktop alerting software for personnel with special needs ULURT™ Administration and Architecture Web-based, Role-based Central Administration, accessible from multiple networked locations Web-based users and distribution lists management tools, including import and export Web-based, scalable, open architecture using standard ports and protocols (XML, CAP, SSL..) Security, communication encryption, authentication and audit support
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ULURT™: Project Scope ULURT™ Health: Features/Applications
The concept that location can influence health is well known in medicine and public health science. Certain diseases tend to occur in some places and not others. Health information needs and services also vary with location. Different places on Earth are usually associated with different profiles that can also change with time: physical, biological, environmental, economic, linguistic, social, cultural, and sometimes even spiritual profiles, that do affect and are affected by health, disease, and healthcare. To develop a pilot location-aware online health information service targeting caregivers, patients and the public in general (with different content for different user roles). This implies the development of a localised clinical/ health content server with the functionality to customise content to the location and needs of the viewer in real time. Brute health information delivery risks overloading users with unnecessary information that does not answer their actual needs, and might even act as noise, masking any other useful and relevant information delivered with it. Caregivers need to know not only the history of patients they treat but also information about the social and environmental context within which those patients live. Patients and the public in general also have similar needs that vary with location. A big challenge for online health information services today remains to find and push locationspecific knowledge to users based on their location and associated needs (location awareness). Examples include: local disease rates, maps and guidelines; targeted health education; addresses of local healthcare facilities; local health news; local weather, pollen and air quality alerts and maps (e.g., for asthmatics); local health risks and hazards; travellers health information; local drugs/ drug trade names and prices (in local currency); information whose digital distribution rights are limited to some location(s); in addition to serving up content (and interface) in language(s) relevant to the viewer s location.
To apply suitable methods for gathering and storing user profiles, including detecting their location (online user-filled forms and automatic location detection using for example GeoSelect IP geolocation technology see ); To determine the different location profiles of target users (a location profile describes the language, health and healthcare makeup/ problems and corresponding clinical/ health information needs associated with that location) To develop the necessary content selection models or rules for different locations; To create a suitable clinical/ health content (metadata) pool for the proposed service based on existing, freely accessible Web resources and health news sources (plus any suitable resources developed in-house). Selected resources must be adequately indexed regarding topic, provenance, coverage or scope, language, intended audience and other relevant aspects, in order for the proposed service to be able to unambiguously match content to location and user IP targeting enables Web information services to recognise the geographical location of visitors in real-time, e.g., at the instant someone enters a Web site, it is recognised that the visitor is from Illinois, USA. Based on that knowledge, content can be shown which is likely to be relevant to visitors from this country, region or city. As online information portals accumulate metadata descriptions of Web resources, it becomes necessary to develop effective ways for visualising and navigating the resultant huge metadata repositories as well as the different semantic relationships and attributes of described Web resources. Interactive graphical maps provide one good method to visualise, understand and navigate a world that is too large and complex to be seen directly like the Web. Maps based on familiar metaphors taken from userseveryday life are much easier to
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understand. Associative and pictorial map icons that enable instant recognition and comprehension are preferred to geometric ones and are key to successful maps for browsing medical/ health Internet information resources. Delivering real-time, location-enhanced and personalised health information and services can help consumers and providers accelerate and optimise their decision-making process in many medical/ health situations and problems. The integration of a carefully selected variety of medical/ health Internet information services and resources with userstasks, needs, preferences and their device capabilities should enable users to focus more on informed decision-making and result in better health outcomes.
Benefits
Used within a wide network & over time, ULURT™ indirectly enhances personal & social awareness within the geographical local-community, ultimately influencing social structures, practices and patterns. ULURT™ Event-Alert-Warning Systems include but not limited to: Weather, Health, Traffic (motorized-vehicles), Technical, Safety Agencies/Agents, etc... Traffic awareness of motorized vehicles within a geographical local community, developed over time to facilitate the orderly and timely flow of traffic within the community. Enhanced awareness of close interpersonal relationship circles that include family, social associations, connections, or affiliations between two or more people, as well as a virtual community, etc... Saves Lives / Enhances Family Awareness & Response / Enhances Local-Community Awareness of “Social Space” One-Click-Respose to Incoming Alert-Event Text-To-Speech Interface One-Click-Client-Alert Activation within Close-Relationship-Groups
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Screenshots
Fig1. Main Ulurt application screen It contains the map of the current location of the user based on the Location data provided by Android. The current weather is queried for the current displayed map from the ULURT server and displayed on the map. Selected alert is also displayed on the map on its location.
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Fig2. The Android Event page, where all the alert events are displayed
Currently the latitude/longitude is displayed for each alert, but as soon as Geocoder will be functional, the Closest location/town of the Alert will be displayed. Clicking on a alert item will display the alert event icon on the map.
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Fig3. The Alert configuration page
The alerts for which we want to be notified can be selected. Only selected alerts will be notifed. The selected data are stored locally based on the Android SharedPreferences feature.
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Fig. 4 Weather Forcast
Weather forecast for next 7 days is displayed for the current/chosen location. The ULURT server is queried for the weather forecast (minimum and maximum temperature, weather conditions) for the user current location. An arbitrary location can be selected on the map from ULURT main screen, to enable ULURT to display the weather for that specific location. Again latitude/longitude is displayed and will be replace by closest location/city when Geocoder will be available.
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Prepared By: George Cunia/Cristi Ruja: Hybridica, Inc. 204 Oakmont Rd. Syracuse, NY, 13214 - USA Tel: 315-289-6061
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