WIRELESS SENSOR DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS

• US 20070223310A1
• Filed: 04/30/2007
• Published: 09/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: CommWorks Solutions, LLC (IP Investments Group LLC)
• Original Assignee: CommWorks Solutions, LLC (IP Investments Group LLC)
• Inventors: Tran, Bao
• Application Number:
  US11/741,894
• Publication Number:
  US 20070223310A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 367/77
• CPC Class Codes: G01V 1/003 Seismic data acquisition in general, e.g. survey design G01V1/3808, G01V1/42 take precedence

Abstract

A wireless network includes a plurality of sensors; and a wireless station adapted to communicate with the plurality of sensors, each wireless station having a positioning system to provide 3D coordinates, each wireless station being part of a mesh network and each wireless station automatically determining the 3D coordinates of each sensor based on the mesh network.

Claims

1. A wireless network, comprising:

a plurality of sensors; and

a wireless station adapted to communicate with the plurality of sensors, each wireless station being part of a mesh network providing node to node communication, and

a long range transceiver coupled to at least one wireless station to communicate with a recording truck.

2. The wireless network of claim 1, wherein one of the sensors comprises a MEMS sensor that outputs 24-bit or 32-bit seismic signals.

3. The wireless network of claim 1, wherein one of the sensors comprises a spring-mass sensor that uses relative motion between a mass and a coil to generate an analog output signal.

4. The wireless network of claim 3, wherein the sensors comprise geophones.

5. The wireless network of claim 1, wherein the sensor comprises a wireless transmitter to transmit seismic data.

6. The wireless network of claim 5, comprising a smart antenna coupled to the wireless transmitter to transmit seismic data.

7. The wireless network of claim 5, comprising a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna coupled to the wireless transmitter.

8. The wireless network of claim 1, wherein the sensor comprises a transmitter compatible with one of:

802 protocol, cellular protocol, Bluetooth protocol, Zigbee protocol.

9. The wireless network of claim 1, wherein the wireless station comprises a device compatible with one of:

WiFi protocol, Bluetooth protocol, ZigBee protocol, WiMAX protocol, 3G cellular protocol, 4G cellular protocol.

10. The wireless network of claim 1, wherein the wireless station comprises a transmitter compatible with one of:

802.X protocol, Bluetooth protocol, Zigbee protocol, and wherein the long range transceiver comprises a device compatible with one of;

WiMAX protocol, 3G cellular protocol, 4G cellular protocol.

11. The wireless network of claim 1, comprising a smart antenna coupled to the wireless station.

12. The wireless network of claim 1, comprising a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna coupled to the wireless station.

13. The wireless network of claim 1, comprising a WiMAX transceiver coupled to the wireless stations to transmit seismic data.

14. The wireless network of claim 13, comprising one of:

a smart antenna, a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna, each coupled to the WiMAX transceiver.

15. The wireless network of claim 1, wherein each wireless station comprises a processor to pre-process and to remove noise from seismic data.

16. The wireless network of claim 1, comprising one of:

a solar cell, a fuel cell to power the wireless station.

17. The wireless network of claim 1, wherein the sensors communicate over the mesh network and self-assemble upon wireless station command.

18. The wireless network of claim 1, wherein time of arrival data is used to determine sensor location.

19. The wireless network of claim 1, comprising a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna coupled to the wireless station and wherein the wireless station comprises a multi-cluster multi-hop wireless ad hoc network formed without pre-existing infrastructure.

20. A wireless network, comprising:

a plurality of sensors;

a wireless station adapted to communicate with the plurality of sensors, each wireless station having a positioning system to provide 3D coordinates, each wireless station being part of a mesh network providing node to node communication and each wireless station automatically determining the 3D coordinates of each sensor based on the mesh network, and

a long range transceiver coupled to at least one wireless station to communicate with a recording truck, wherein one of the sensors comprises a MEMS sensor that outputs 24-bit or 32-bit seismic signals.