US 7,616,124 B2
Tag system
Noah Shanti Paessel, Plymouth, Mass. (US); Philip Liang, Cambridge, Mass. (US); and Jonathan Gips, Boston, Mass. (US)
Assigned to Snif Labs, Inc., Boston, Mass. (US)
Filed on Oct. 11, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/546,519.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/725109, filed on Oct. 11, 2005.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/810751, filed on Jun. 05, 2006.
Prior Publication US 2007/0103296 A1, May 10, 2007
Int. Cl. G08B 23/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 340—573.3  [340/572.1] 26 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A monitoring device comprising:
an enclosure that attaches to an agent to be monitored, the enclosure housing:
sensor circuitry that detects at least one state condition relative to the enclosure;
a microcontroller that processes the detected conditions to produce event data relating to an encounter with another monitoring device attached to a second agent to be monitored; and
a wireless transmitter that transmits the event data to a remote host system.