Patent-family-89707708

The present invention relates to an alerting device for warning of anomalies in the behavioral patterns of a person, the device comprising. The device comprises one or more ambient sensoring means comprising one or more ambient sound sensoring means, the one or more ambient sensoring means being adapted to continuously monitor real-time data originating from behavioral patterns of a person; one or more pre-defined pattern profiles stored in the device, including one or more pre-defined sound patterns transformed via a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm into one or more pre-defined FFT Sound Pattern Profiles; and one or more computing means. The computing means being configured to: continuously transform real-time sound monitored by the one or more ambient sound sensoring means via a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm into one or more real-time FFT Sound Pattern Profiles, and preferably correlating with one or more other ambient sensoring means and Sensor Pattern Profiles, thereby allowing a privacy -protecting detection of the ambient sound from the site of operation; continuously perform a pattern recognition, including a continuous comparison of the one or more real-time FFT Sound Pattern Profiles with the one or more pre-defined FFT Sound Pattern Profiles; store one or more event triggers on the device in case of a match between real-time data and the one or more pre-defined pattern profiles, including a match between the one or more real-time FFT Sound Pattern Profiles and the one or more pre-defined FFT Sound Pattern Profiles; and execute an alert based on the one or more stored event triggers if pre-set data sharing permissions allow it, thereby warning of anomalies in the behavioral patterns of a person.