MANAGEMENT OF A NUMBER OF SWIMMING POOLS

• US 20120158336A1
• Filed: 07/09/2010
• Published: 06/21/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Klereo Co.
• Original Assignee: Kiereo
• Inventors: Saaid, Omar, Boutet, Jean-Marc, Duchamp, Lionel, Dousset, Laurent
• Application Number:
  US13/383,134
• Publication Number:
  US 20120158336A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/81
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/001 Processes for the treatment of water whereby the filtration technique is of importance C02F1/44 takes precedence; construction of filters in general B01D24/00 - B01D41/00
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/008 Control or steering systems not provided for elsewhere in subclass C02F
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/32 with ultraviolet light
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/76 with halogens or compounds of halogens C02F1/4674 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/78 with ozone C02F1/4672 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 2103/42 from bathing facilities, e.g. swimming pools
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 2209/02 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 2209/06 pH
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/10 using a centralized architecture
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/40 using a wireless architecture
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/823 where the data is sent when the measured values exceed a threshold, e.g. sending an alarm
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 9/00 Arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station, in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom

Abstract

Method for managing a group of swimming pools, characterized in that it includes the following steps:

• • measurement or estimation of at least one datum representing the water quality of each swimming pool (11; 13; 15; 17) in the group by its own local monitoring means (21; 23; 25; 27),
  • transmission by the local monitoring means (21; 23; 25; 27) of this at least one datum to a remote server of a management centre (30; 40, 40′) via a communication network (20).

Claims

1. Method for managing a group of swimming pools, wherein it includes the following steps:

measurement or estimation of at least one datum representing the water quality of each swimming pool in the group by its own local monitoring means,

transmission by the local monitoring means of this at least one datum to a remote server of a management centre via a communication network.

2. Method for managing a group of swimming pools according to claim 1, wherein it includes the transmission to the remote server of the management centre by each local monitoring means of the swimming pools of the group of all or part of the following data:

water temperature;

pH of the water;

quantity of chlorine or equivalent product, such as salt or bromine or ozone or active oxygen or level of UV production, of disinfectant through electrolysis such as the production of chlorine through salt electrolysis, the function of which is the treatment of the water.

periods of filtration of the water or measurement of the condition of the filtration.

3. Method for managing a group of swimming pools according to claim 1, wherein the transmission by a local monitoring means of the at least one datum is carried out in a periodic manner, according to a predefined frequency, fixed or variable according to a step of calculation of this frequency by the local monitoring means of a swimming pool or by the remote server of the management centre of the group of swimming pools, and/or in that the transmission by the local monitoring means of the at least one datum is carried out following the detection of a particular situation by the local monitoring means of a swimming pool, and/or in that the transmission by a local monitoring means of the at least one datum is carried out at the request of the management centre.

4. Method for managing a group of swimming pools according to claim 1, wherein it includes an additional step of storage in a memory of the management centre and/or a local monitoring means of a swimming pool of the at least one transmitted datum.

5. Method for managing a group of swimming pools according to claim 1, wherein it includes a step of transmission to the remote server of the management centre and/or of storage in a memory of the management centre of all or part of the following information:

an identifier of the local monitoring means of at least one swimming pool in the group;

the location of at least one swimming pool in the group;

the dimensional characteristics of at least one swimming pool in the group;

the characteristics of at least one local monitoring means of a swimming pool in the group;

the historical data relating to the physicochemical or bacteriological condition of the water of at least one swimming pool in the group;

the historical data relating to maintenance operations of at least one swimming pool in the group.

6. Method for managing a group of swimming pools according to claim 1, wherein it includes a step of transmission to the remote server of the management centre of the information relating to the transition to a degraded condition of the water of a swimming pool in the group or the threat of transition to a degraded condition by a local monitoring means.

7. Method for managing a group of swimming pools according to claim 1, wherein the remote server of the management centre implements a step of determination of the swimming pools in the group whose water quality is threatened, and a step of transmission of an alert message to a swimming pool in the group whose water quality is threatened.

8. Method for managing a group of swimming pools according to claim 1, wherein it includes a step of remote triggering of a local remedial or preventive treatment operation on a swimming pool via the management centre.

9. Method for managing a group of swimming pools according to claim 1, wherein the treatment operation includes one or more of the following operations:

the injection of at least one treatment product into the swimming pool,

the closure of a mobile screen protecting the uncovered swimming pool,

the modification of reference values and/or maximum values and/or minimum values of quantities representing the water quality, such as the pH, chlorine or salt or bromine or ozone or active oxygen or level of UV production, of disinfectant through electrolysis of the local monitoring means of the swimming pool,

the modification of the time periods of reference values of the local monitoring means of the swimming pool and/or maximum values and/or minimum values representing the water quality of the local monitoring means of the swimming pool,

the modification of the swimming pool water filtration ranges,

the addition of treatment products to an adapted reservoir.

10. Method for managing a group of swimming pools according to claim 1, wherein it includes a step of transmission of at least one limit for a given period to an operating parameter of the local monitoring means of a swimming pool to meet a water quality criterion, such as a maximum limit for a certain period of treatment products such as chlorine, and in that it limits the action of actuators of the local monitoring means by this at least one limit.

11. Method for managing a group of swimming pools according to claim 10, wherein at least one limit of an operating parameter of the local monitoring means of a swimming pool depends on the utilization of the swimming pool.

12. Method for managing a group of swimming pools according to claim 11, wherein at least one limit of an operating parameter of the local monitoring means of the swimming pool depends on at least one density threshold of bathers, this at least one density threshold being parameterized according to the water temperature and/or according to the agitation of the water caused by the users and/or on the basis of historical data and/or by an expert system housed within the management centre.

13. Method for managing a group of swimming pools according to claim 10, wherein the local monitoring means operates according to a plurality of modes predefined by different operating limits of certain operating parameters of the local monitoring means, and in that it includes a step of transmission of a command to change the mode from the management centre to the monitoring means.

14. Method for managing a group of swimming pools according to claim 1, wherein it includes the transmission of meteorological forecasts by a meteorological server or a station local to the management centre or to a local monitoring means of a swimming pool.

15. Method for managing a group of swimming pools according to claim 1, wherein the management centre triggers an emergency mode of all or part of the group of swimming pools in the event of a shortage of a resource such as electricity, water, or a treatment product over a given territory.

16. Method for managing a group of swimming pools according to claim 1, wherein it includes a step of presentation on a geographical map on a man-machine interface of the swimming pool management centre of the swimming pools requiring intervention.

17. Method for managing a group of swimming pools according to claim 1, wherein it includes a step of arranging a round of intervention visits optimized for a plurality of swimming pools in the group according to geographical data and the nature of the intervention to be performed.

18. Method for managing a group of swimming pools, wherein it includes a step of definition of different “

typical”

swimming pool models, for which the corresponding values of the operating parameters of a local monitoring means of a swimming pool are stored in a memory of a management centre and/or in a memory of a portable object, such as a USB memory stick, a memory card, RFED, and a step of initialization of the local monitoring means of a swimming pool through an input of the swimming pool model, then the transmission of these initialization values from the management centre or from the portable object to the local monitoring means of the swimming pool.

19. Local monitoring means of a swimming pool, wherein it includes hardware and/or software means which carry out the method for managing a group of swimming pools according to claim 18.

20. Server of a management centre of a group of swimming pools, wherein it includes hardware and/or software means which carry out the method for managing a group of swimming pools according to claim 18.

21. System for managing a group of swimming pools, wherein it includes a local monitoring means to monitor the water quality of each swimming pool in the group, connected to a remote server of a management centre via a communication network, and in that it includes hardware and/or software means which carry out the method for managing the group of swimming pools according to claim 18.