ENVIRONMENTAL MONITOR
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Abstract
A battery powered remote control unit or other ancillary device (2) is shipped in the same packaging as the main product (1) and is subject to similar environmental conditions throughout the supply chain. The remote control unit is fitted with an environmental sensor (20) to detect such conditions during transit, when the main product (1) has no power supply and stores the data (21). When the main product (1) is first powered up and used, the remote control communicates to the product (1) and relays data captured by the handset (2). This data, together with data collected by the main device (1) when in use, using its own sensor (1), is stored (11) to be retrieved subsequently by a reader (42) to identify events that may have caused a fault in the device (1).
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1-38. -38. (canceled)
- 39. First and second co-operating devices, the second device being a detachable or separate auxiliary to a main function of the first device, and both having sensors for recording environmental data, the first device having a receiver and data store for receiving and storing data transmitted by the second device, the second device having a store for collecting environmental data, and a transmitter for transmitting the data it has collected to the first device in response to a prompt generated by initialization of the main function of the first device.
- 54. A device having means for collecting and recording environmental data, the device having an active state in which it collects such data and a dormant state in which it does not collect such data, the device being equipped to transmit a signal to an ancillary element when it goes from the dormant state to the active state, and means for collecting and storing data transmitted by the ancillary element which has been collected by the ancillary element whilst the device was in the dormant state.
- 57. A battery-operated wireless remote control device, having a controller for generating control instructions for a controlled device, and a data collection system for collecting and recording environmental data over a period determined by an external prompt, the device having a transmitter for transmitting the data it has recorded to a co-operating device in response to a prompt.
- 64. A method of transferring data to a first device from a second device, the second device being a detachable or separate auxiliary to the main function of the first device, and wherein the second device collects and records environmental data and subsequently, in response to a prompt generated by initialization of the main function of the first device, transmits the data it has recorded to the first device, where it is stored.
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