Gerad D House

US Patent:

7916015, Mar 29, 2011

Filed:

Mar 25, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/089823

Inventors:

Nicholas H. Evancich - Columbia MD, US
Michael P. McLoughlin - Sykesville MD, US
Keith A. Soldavin - Laurel MD, US
Micah A. Carlson - Arnold MD, US
Gerad D. House - Columbia MD, US
Marshall J. Jose - New Windsor MD, US
Edward P. Rhyne - Columbia MD, US
Eric J. Van Gieson - Millersville MD, US

Assignee:

The Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore MD

International Classification:

G08B 1/08

US Classification:

34053926, 340521, 34053911

Abstract:

A monitoring system and method for detecting environmental conditions is provided, the monitoring system including a sensing unit including a plurality of sensors for obtaining data related to environmental conditions, a controller interfaced with the sensing unit for receiving and encoding the data related to environmental conditions into a predetermined format using a base64 encoding scheme, and a communication device for receiving the data in the predetermined format from the controller, forming an e-mail message (which can be further encoded) including instructions on how to decode the email message and transmitting the e-mail message including the data in the predetermined format to at least one predetermined recipient.