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Apparatus for monitoring the status of multiple laundry appliances

  • US 20050108326A1
  • Filed: 09/10/2004
  • Published: 05/19/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for monitoring the operating status of a group of laundry appliances in a laundry room comprising:

  • multiple laundry appliances, each having a status signal generating mechanism within, said signal indicating the status of the appliance;

    a gang monitor connected to each of the laundry appliances, said gang monitor constructed to receive and process the appliance status signals and generate a busy/idle status signal representative thereof;

    a server for communicating with said gang monitor to receive the busy/idle status signal therefrom, said server constructed to process, compile and store a status record for each appliance;

    a user interface to provide access by a user to the server;

    a first communication link connecting the server and said gang monitor to allow the gang monitor to send status signals to said server; and

    a second communication link connecting the user interface to the server to allow access by said user to the server.

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