Patent 7525421 was granted and assigned to Raytheon on April, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An event alert system and method provide event detection modules that communicate detected events with a central command center. The central command center combines the detected events with related data to provide an intelligent response signal, and communicates the intelligent response signal to event responders. The event alert system also provides an event detection module having event sensors able to detect a variety of types of events.