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Wireless engine monitoring system for environmental emission control and aircraft networking

  • US 10,661,914 B2
  • Filed: 01/30/2018
  • Issued: 05/26/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/08/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An aircraft comprising:

  • a wireless sensor server contained within the aircraft;

    a plurality of aircraft compartments, each aircraft compartment including a gateway network node comprising a wireless gateway transceiver, andwherein at least one of said aircraft compartments comprises an engine nacelle and an aircraft engine supported within the engine nacelle, a plurality of wireless engine sensors associated with the aircraft engine and configured to sense an engine parameter as environmental engine emissions during phases of flight and generate engine data of the sensed environmental engine emissions and transmit the engine data, wherein at least one of said wireless engine sensors is configured to measure particle emissions in an exhaust plume as exhaust plume data and transmit the exhaust plume data, and said gateway network node contained within the engine nacelle comprises an engine monitoring module, comprising;

    a housing mounted at the aircraft engine,a wireless transceiver carried by the housing and configured to receive the engine data and exhaust plume data from the wireless engine sensors,a memory carried by the housing, andan engine monitoring processor carried by the housing and coupled to the memory and the wireless transceiver and configured to collect and store in said memory the engine data and exhaust plume data,wherein said engine monitoring processor is configured to receive and process the engine data and exhaust plume data and determine engine performance parameters as related to engine emissions and calculate environmental engine emissions from the aircraft and generate alarm reports when the environmental engine emissions exceed a threshold imposed by a jurisdiction when the aircraft is located within that jurisdiction during a phase of flight, wherein said wireless transceiver in said engine monitoring module is configured to transmit said alarm report to said wireless sensor server.

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