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The invention provides a system and method for activating one or more warning devices, such as weather warning sirens, environmental warning devices, flash flood gates, and the like, from a remote or central location. Warning devices situated across geographically dispersed areas can be remotely con

The invention provides a system and method for activating one or more warning devices, such as weather warning sirens, environmental warning devices, flash flood gates, and the like, from a remote or central location. Warning devices situated across geographically dispersed areas can be remotely controlled from a central location, such as a weather center, on the basis of detected and predicted weather patterns and other environmentally hazardous events. One or more warning devices can be quickly and easily activated through a computer-implemented user interface that allows a user to select a group of warning devices that are in the path of an approaching hazardous event. Each warning device is activated through a communication line that transmits an activation code to each device. Each device provides confirmation that it has been activated, and the resulting activation is indicated on a computer screen.

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The invention provides a system and method for activating one or more warning devices, such as weather warning sirens, environmental warning devices, flash flood gates, and the like, from a remote or central location. Warning devices situated across geographically dispersed areas can be remotely con

The invention provides a system and method for activating one or more warning devices, such as weather warning sirens, environmental warning devices, flash flood gates, and the like, from a remote or central location. Warning devices situated across geographically dispersed areas can be remotely controlled from a central location, such as a weather center, on the basis of detected and predicted weather patterns and other environmentally hazardous events. One or more warning devices can be quickly and easily activated through a computer-implemented user interface that allows a user to select a group of warning devices that are in the path of an approaching hazardous event. Each warning device is activated through a communication line that transmits an activation code to each device. Each device provides confirmation that it has been activated, and the resulting activation is indicated on a computer screen. icine & Biology Society 11th Annu International Conference 1989.* Transcript of a video presented by SRI at the 3rd World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery in Bordeaux on Jun. 18-20, 1992, in Washington on Apr. 9, 1992, an in San Diego, CA on Jun. 4-7, 1992 entitled "Telepresence Surgery--The Future of Minimally Invasive Medicine". Statutory Declaration of Dr. Philip S. Green, presenter of the video entitled "Telspresence Surgery --The Future of Minimally Invasive Medicine". Abstract of a presentation "Telepresence: Advanced Teleoperator Technology for Minimally Invasive Surgery" (P. Green et al.) given at the 3rd World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery in Bordeaux, Jun. 18-20, 1992. Abstract of a presentation "Telepresence: Advanced Teleoperator Technology for Minimally Invasive Surgery", (P. Green et al.) given at "Medicine meets virtual reality" symposium in Sna Diego, Jun. 4-7, 1992. Abstract of a presentation "Camera Control for Laparoscopic Surgery by Speech-Recognizing Robot: Constant Attention and Better Use of Personnel" (Colin Besant et al.) given at the 3rd World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery in Bordeaux, Jun. 18-20, 1992. "A Literature Review: Robots in Medicine" (B Preising et al.) IEEE Jun. 1991. "Robots for the Operating Room" (Elizabeth Corcoran), The New York Times, Sunday Jul. 19, 1992, Section 3, p. 9, col. 1. "Taming the Bull: Safety in a Precise Surgical Robot" (Russell H. Taylor et al.), IEEE 1991. Abstract of a presentation "Design Considerations of a New Generation Endoscope Using Robotics and Computer Vision Technology" (S.M. Krishnan et al.) given at the 3rd World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery in Bordeaux, Jun. 18-20, 1992. Abstract of a presentation "3-D Vision Technology Applied to Advanced Minimally Invasive Surgery Systems" given at the 3rd World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery in Bordeaux, Jun. 18-20, 1992. "Analysis of the Surgeon's Grasp for Telerobotic Surgical Manipulation" (Frank Tendick and Lawrence Stark), IEEE 1989. "Kinematic Control and Visual Display of Redundant Teleoperators" (Hardi Das et al.), IEEE 1989. "A New System for Computer Assisted Neurosurgery" (S. Lavallee), IEEE 1989. "An Advanced Control Micromanipulator for Surgical Applications" (Ben Gayed et al.), Systems Science vol. 13 1987. "Force Feedback-Based Telemicromanipulation for Robot Surgery on Soft Tissues" (A.M. Sabatini et al.), IEEE 1989. "Six-Axis Bilateral Control of an Articulated Slave Manipulator Using a Cartesian Master Manipulator" (Masao Inoue), Advanced Robotics 1990. "On a Micro-Manipulator for Medical Application--Stability Consideration of its Bilateral Controller" (S. Majima et al.), Mechatronics 1991. "Controlling Remote Manipulators through Kinesthetic Coupling" (A.K. Bejczy), Computers in Mechanical Engineering 1983. "Design of a Surgeon-Machine Interface for Teleoperated Microsurgery" (Steve Charles M.D. et al.), IEEE 1989. "A Robot in an Operating Room: A Bull in a China Shop" (J.M. Dolan et al.), 1987. Abstract of a presentation "Concept and Experimental Application of a Surgical Robotic System the Steerable MIS Instrument SMI" given at the 3rd World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery in Bordeaux, Jun. 18-20, 1992. Abstract of a presentation given at the 3rd World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery in Bordeaux, Jun. 18-20, 1992, entitled "Session 15/1". Abstract of a presentation "A Pneumatic Controlled Sewing Device for Endoscopic Application the MIS Sewing Instrument MSI" given at the 3rd World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery in Bordeaux, Jun. 18-20, 1992. Abstract of a presentation given at the 3rd World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery in Bordeaux (Jun. 18-20, 1992), entitled "Session 15/2". Abstract of a presentation given at the 3rd World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery in Bordeaux (Jun. 18-20, 1992), entitled Session 15/4. Abstract of a presentation given at the 3rd World Congress of Endo