USER CONFIGURABLE SYSTEM THAT MINIMIZES WIRELESS NETWORK AIRTIME
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Abstract
A system for remote monitoring and control of remotely located equipment that minimizes wireless airtime includes an interface device coupled with the remote equipment. The interface device selectively communicates over a wireless network with a central server and/or a user device. Wireless communication with the interface device is field configurable by a user to be selectively triggered base on user specified operational conditions. Communication by the interface device may be with one of a first protocol and a second protocol based on user specified operating conditions to optimize wireless airtime. The first protocol includes a user configured data string to select information to be transmitted based on the user specified operating conditions. The second protocol includes a user configurable datafile selectively transmitted over a voice channel of the wireless network based on the user specified operating conditions. Messages communicated with the first and second protocol may be selectively utilized to generate an alert message to the user device based on a user configured message profile.
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63 Claims
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37. A system to monitor operational parameters of a remote site, the system comprising:
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an interface device configurable with a user accessible customization template to generate a customized data string in accordance with the user accessible customization template;
the user accessible customization template configurable by a user of the interface device to specify an operational data parameter to be include in the customized data string, and configurable by the user to specify a binary bit location in the customized data string in which to represent the operational data parameter;
the interface device configured to populate the binary bit location in the customized data string with a representation of the operational data parameter in accordance with the user accessible customization template; and
the interface device comprising a remote communication module that is configured to encapsulate the customized data string within a transport protocol for transmission over a wireless network. - View Dependent Claims (38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44)
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45. A system to monitor operational parameters of a remote site, the system comprising:
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an interface device configured to receive at least one signal representative of a plurality of operational parameters of a remote site, the interface device further configured to selectively generate a customized data string that includes a representation of the operational parameters for transmission over a network;
a customization template accessible to a user of the interface device to configure the customized data string, the customization template comprising a plurality of groups of operational parameter fields that are each configured to receive data entries input by the user of the interface device; and
each of the groups of operational parameter fields representative of one of the operational parameters and comprising a string structure data entry field configured to receive a user entered indication of a binary bit location in the customized data string so that a current value of the one of the operational parameters is assigned to the binary bit location. - View Dependent Claims (46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56)
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57. A system to monitor operational parameters of a remote site, the system comprising:
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a server computer;
an interface device in communication with the server computer, the interface device configurable to receive a plurality of operational parameters, and generate a user customized protocol data string, in accordance with a customization template, for transmission over a wireless network, the server computer operable to generate for display the customization template, the customization template comprising a string structure data entry field operable to receive entry of a binary bit location in the customized protocol data string for at least one of the operational parameters as specified by the user; and
the sever computer operable to download user entered data included customization template to the interface device over the wireless network. - View Dependent Claims (58, 59, 60, 61, 62)
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63. A method of monitoring operation parameters of a remote site, the method comprising:
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generating a customization template in a graphical user interface;
specifying within the customization template a memory location of an operational parameter;
specifying within the customization template a string number of a data string protocol that includes a plurality of bit locations to be generated with an interface device;
specifying within the customization template the content to be placed in each and every one of the bit locations in the data string protocol by the interface device;
downloading the customization template to an interface device;
the interface device, in accordance with the downloaded customization template, populating the bit locations of the data string protocol specified in the customization template with data extracted from the specified memory location; and
transmitting the data string protocol over a network.
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