System and method for wireless communication of facility data
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1. A data communications topology for a facility comprising:
- a wireless mesh network of a first type of sensor monitoring the facility;
a wireless data communication device linking the wireless mesh network to a local area network (LAN) of computers, wherein the device is a node on the LAN;
a plurality of serial data radios each coupled to a digital instrument collecting data from a second type of sensor monitoring the facility, wherein the serial data radios are repeating transceivers and at least one of the radios is a node on the LAN.
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Abstract
A novel wireless data communication topology collecting and transmitting data from various sensors and other data sources in a facility. The topology includes serial data modems, serial to Ethernet converters, Ethernet to General Purpose Interface Bus (GPIB) converters, wireless data transmitters and wireless Ethernet radios, e.g., wireless bridges. These data transmission devices transmit data collected from sensors, test instruments and other data generators that monitor a facility. The transmitted data is uploaded to data collection computer systems that may be networked using a LAN (local area network) an intranet and/or internet.
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1. A data communications topology for a facility comprising:
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a wireless mesh network of a first type of sensor monitoring the facility;
a wireless data communication device linking the wireless mesh network to a local area network (LAN) of computers, wherein the device is a node on the LAN;
a plurality of serial data radios each coupled to a digital instrument collecting data from a second type of sensor monitoring the facility, wherein the serial data radios are repeating transceivers and at least one of the radios is a node on the LAN. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A data communications topology for a facility comprising:
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a wireless mesh network of a first type of sensors monitoring the facility;
a wireless data communication device linking the mesh network to a local area network (LAN) of computers, wherein the device is an addressable node on the LAN, and a plurality of serial data radios each coupled to a digital instrument collecting data from at least a second type of sensors monitoring the facility, wherein the serial data radios are repeaters and include at least one of said radios serving as a node on the LAN. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method for communicating data over a facility having various incompatible data sources, said method comprising:
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establishing an local area network (LAN) for computer communications and monitoring functions at the facility;
collecting data from a first type of sensors monitoring a condition of the facility, wherein the collected data is transmitted to a wireless sensor mesh network;
establishing a wireless bridge between the mesh network and the LAN, wherein the wireless bridge is an addressable noted on the LAN and communicates the collected data from the first type of sensors to the LAN;
collecting data from a second type of sensors monitoring a second condition at the facility, wherein the second type of sensors communicate the collected data to a respective one of a plurality of serial data radios that transmit the data to other serial data radios;
repeating the received transmissions of from the other serial data radios by the serial data radios;
communicating the collected data from the second type of sensors by establishing one of the serial data radios as an addressable node on the LAN, and storing in a computer database on the LAN the collected data from the second type of sensors and the collected data from the first type of sensors. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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