System for sensing environmental conditions
First Claim
1. A system for monitoring a fire, the system comprising:
- a plurality of devices coupled via a network, each with a plurality of sensors;
a base station for communicating with the devices;
a processing system for receiving data from the sensors via the base station; and
a process executing on one or more of the devices for organizing a flow of data from the devices to the base station after deployment of the devices.
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Abstract
A system and method for facilitating measurement of environmental conditions such as might be used in emergencies or other situational awareness applications. The method includes dispersing several networked nodes in a region, the nodes being coupled to one or more sensors, and then employing the one or more sensors to sense one or more environmental conditions and providing sensed data in response thereto. In a more specific embodiment, the region exhibits a fire, and the method further includes utilizing the sensed data to predict fire conditions, such as fire movement and temperature. A controller may be employed to selectively adjust power to one or more sensors based on predetermined priorities associated with sensed data output from the one or more sensors.
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49 Claims
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1. A system for monitoring a fire, the system comprising:
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a plurality of devices coupled via a network, each with a plurality of sensors;
a base station for communicating with the devices;
a processing system for receiving data from the sensors via the base station; and
a process executing on one or more of the devices for organizing a flow of data from the devices to the base station after deployment of the devices. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A system for monitoring a plurality of mobile objects, the system comprising:
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a plurality of devices coupled to the mobile objects, wherein each device includes a plurality of sensors, wherein the sensors include environmental sensors;
a base station for communicating with the devices;
a processing system for receiving data from the sensors via the base station; and
a process executing on one or more of the devices for organizing a flow of data from the devices to the base station after deployment of the devices. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method for obtaining measurements of environmental conditions comprising:
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dispersing several self-networking nodes in a region, the self-networking nodes being coupled to one or more sensors; and
employing the one or more sensors to sense one or more environmental conditions, thereby yielding sensed data. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method for obtaining fire measurements comprising:
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creating a sensor network of spatially dispersed self-networking sensors, the sensor network being in proximity to or in the fire and selectively controlling the sensor network to configure data received by a processing system from one or more sensors of the spatially dispersed sensor network. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A system for facilitating fire measurement comprising:
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sensors interconnected via a network, the sensors being adapted to sense environmental conditions;
one or more Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers adapted to provide position information associated with one or more of the sensors; and
a sensor controller connected to the network, the sensor controller adapted to selectively retrieve the sensed environmental conditions and the position information. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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41. A method for characterizing a wildfire comprising:
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dispersing several nodes in a region exhibiting a fire or susceptible to a fire, the nodes being coupled to one or more sensors and being coupled to one or more Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers;
employing the one or more sensors to sense one or more environmental conditions and providing sensed data in response thereto;
coupling position and elevation information provided by the GPS receiver to the one or more environmental conditions and providing geocoded data in response thereto; and
characterizing the fire based on the geocoded data.
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42. A method for characterizing a wildfire comprising:
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dispersing plural self-networking nodes in proximity to a fire or in a region where future fire-detection and/or measurement is desired, the plural self-networking nodes being coupled to one or more sensors;
forming a network via the self-networking nodes; and
extracting data from the self-networking nodes and providing extracted data to a database in response thereto. - View Dependent Claims (43, 44, 45)
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46. A system for monitoring a fire, the system comprising:
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a plurality of devices, each with a plurality of sensors, wherein a priority is assigned to two or more sensors;
a base station for communicating with the devices; and
a processing system for receiving data from the sensors via the base station, wherein the data is received from the sensors according to the priority. - View Dependent Claims (47, 48, 49)
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