MUMBAI, India, April 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202631045644 A) filed by NIT, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, on April 9, for 'an iot-based distributed emergency notification and spatial localisation system for use in resource-constrained environments.'
Inventor(s) include Dr. Koushlendra Kumar Singh; Ayush Kumar Singh; Unnati Chaurasia; and Himanshu Kumar Pathak.
The application for the patent was published on April 17, under issue no. 16/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to an Internet of Things (IoT)-based distributed emergency notification and spatial localisation system designed for deployment in resource-constrained environments lacking reliable smartphone access or internet connectivity. The system comprises a core emergency device including a microcontroller, a GSM communication module associated with a machine-to-machine (M2M) SIM card, a memory unit, and a manually actuable SOS trigger interface. The core device is configured to detect emergency activation and transmit an emergency notification to one or more pre-registered recipients through GSM-based messaging. The system includes at least one detachable extension module connectable through a serial communication interface, the extension module comprising a satellite-based positioning unit and/or an inertial sensing unit including a gyroscopic sensor. A localisation control engine executed by the microcontroller determines geographic coordinates using satellite positioning when available and, during satellite signal unavailability, estimates the current location through dead-reckoning based on gyroscopic data and a stored last valid position. A message generation engine constructs an emergency message including device identification, timestamp, and location information and transmits the message to designated contacts. The distributed modular architecture concentrates communication functionality within the core device while enabling optional localisation capability through extension modules, thereby providing reliable emergency notification and resilient spatial localisation in low-infrastructure environments."
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