Cellular mobile modbus data collection

• US 20080014913A1
• Filed: 07/11/2007
• Published: 01/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jason Balan
• Original Assignee: Jason Balan
• Inventors: Balan, Jason
• Application Number:
  US11/825,963
• Publication Number:
  US 20080014913A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/418
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/00 Alarm systems in which the location of the alarm condition is signalled to a central station, e.g. fire or police telegraphic systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

Cellular Mobile Modbus Data Collection. Application on a cellular mobile device that collects and transfers data from field devices to server.

Claims

1. Application on mobile device that collects data from a field device and transmits it to server.

2. The method of claim 1 where the mobile device is cellular based.

3. The method of claim 1 where the mobile device is a handheld unit.

4. The method of claim 1 where the mobile device has Bluetooth or similar protocol.

5. The method of claim 1 the application is installed on the mobile device.

6. The method of claim 1 the application uses Modbus ASCII or RTU over Bluetooth or similar protocol.

7. The method of claim 1 the field device communicates via Bluetooth or similar protocol

8. The method of claim 1 the communication between mobile device and field device is secure.

9. The method of claim 1 the mobile and field device have preset usernames and password.

10. The method of claim 1 the application is configurable to store field device registers to communicate with field device.

11. The method of claim 1 the application is configurable to store alarm set points.

12. The method of claim 1 the application will notify personal of alarms via predefined settings.

13. The method of claim 1 the application will store data on mobile device.

14. The method of claim 1 the application will send data via cellular network or similar network to central server.

15. The method of claim 1 the application will remove data off mobile device once data has been sent to server.