Self-contained, buoyant, and water-tight wireless flood detector
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1. A system comprising:
- a housing;
a plurality of fluid sensors carried on an external surface of the housing;
an electronics package carried within an interior region of the housing and coupled to the plurality of fluid sensors; and
at least one antenna carried by the electronics package within the interior region of the housing,wherein, when the housing and at least one of the plurality of fluid sensors are located in and exposed to an ambient fluid, the electronics package detects a presence of the ambient fluid regardless of an orientation of the housing and the plurality of fluid sensors relative to the ambient fluid, andwherein, when the housing and the at least one of the plurality of fluid sensors are located in and exposed to the ambient fluid, the at least one antenna is above an upper surface level of the ambient fluid regardless of the orientation of the housing relative to the ambient fluid, thereby facilitating wireless communications with a displaced monitoring control unit.
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Abstract
A floatable flood detector has a watertight housing that carries internally a wireless transmitter and a fluid sensor. In the presence of sensed fluid, an alarm message can be transmitted by the transmitter to a displaced monitoring unit. The sensor has a portion exposed to the fluid of interest outside of the housing. The antenna is carried, at least at a fluid level, relative to the floating housing.
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1. A system comprising:
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a housing; a plurality of fluid sensors carried on an external surface of the housing; an electronics package carried within an interior region of the housing and coupled to the plurality of fluid sensors; and at least one antenna carried by the electronics package within the interior region of the housing, wherein, when the housing and at least one of the plurality of fluid sensors are located in and exposed to an ambient fluid, the electronics package detects a presence of the ambient fluid regardless of an orientation of the housing and the plurality of fluid sensors relative to the ambient fluid, and wherein, when the housing and the at least one of the plurality of fluid sensors are located in and exposed to the ambient fluid, the at least one antenna is above an upper surface level of the ambient fluid regardless of the orientation of the housing relative to the ambient fluid, thereby facilitating wireless communications with a displaced monitoring control unit. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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