SENSING AND DERIVED INFORMATION CONVEYANCE

• US 20120280814A1
• Filed: 05/04/2012
• Published: 11/08/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/04/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: PakSense Incorporated (Emerson Electric Company)
• Original Assignee: PakSense Incorporated (Emerson Electric Company)
• Inventors: Lawler, Casimir E. Jr., Beale, Arthur G., Hess, Kevin C., Childress, Amy E., Jensen, Thomas P., Roby, Elias H. III
• Application Number:
  US13/464,570
• Publication Number:
  US 20120280814A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/540
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 9/005 Solid-state data loggers
• 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

Devices, systems, and methods for sensing and derived information conveyance as disclosed. One electrical device includes an electronic circuit and executable instructions provided by at least one of: software stored in memory associated with the circuit or provided in firmware within the circuit, wherein the circuit receives raw sensor data from one or more sensors associated with the circuit, analyzes the data, and creates a report document that includes one or more features of the analysis of the data.

Claims

1. An electrical device for sensing and derived information conveyance, comprising:

an electronic circuit; and

executable instructions provided by at least one of;

software stored in memory associated with the circuit or provided in firmware within the circuit, wherein the circuit receives raw sensor data from one or more sensors associated with the circuit, analyzes the data, and creates a report document that includes one or more features of the analysis of the data.

2. The electrical device of claim 1, wherein the circuit creates the report document as one or more of a Portable Document Format (PDF) document, comma separated values file (CSV), text data or information, static device information certificate of calibration, reference table, or reference data.

3. The electrical device of claim 1, wherein the circuit creates the report document independent of external processing.

4. The electrical device of claim 1, wherein the circuit is enclosed in one of a label, tag, or package, that monitors one or more environmental conditions.

5. The electrical device of claim 1, wherein the circuit includes one or more sensors to monitor one or more environmental conditions selected from the group including:

acceleration;

ionizing radiation;

electro-magnetic energy;

sound;

temperature;

force;

orientation;

chemical presence;

chemical change;

bacterial;

viruses;

light; and

humidity.

6. The electrical device of claim 1, wherein the circuit includes a circuit board containing one or more sensors, a power source, and circuitry for receiving data from the one or more sensors, analyzing the data, and creating the report document.

7. The electrical device of claim 6, wherein the circuitry for receiving data from the one or more sensors, analyzing the data, and creating the report document can create multiple different reports from the analyzed data.

8. The electrical device of claim 1, wherein the device includes memory for storing the created report document.

9. The electrical device of claim 1, wherein the device includes transmitter circuitry for directly transmitting the document to an external device as the document is created.

10. The electrical device of claim 1, wherein the transmitter circuitry transmits wirelessly.

11. The electrical device of claim 1, wherein the transmitter circuitry transmits via a wired communication link.

12. A system, comprising:

a controller;

electronic circuitry coupled to the controller to receive raw sensor data from one or more sensors associated with the system; and

executable instructions provided by at least one of software stored in memory associated with the circuit or provided in firmware within the system, wherein the controller, analyzes the data, and creates a report document that includes one or more features of the analysis of the data.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the system includes a wired connection port for wired connection to an external device.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the wired connection port for transmitting the report document to the external device includes one or more blade contacts that are etched from a printed circuit board.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the wired connection port for transmitting the report document to the external device includes one or more connectors.

16. The system of claim 12, wherein the system includes circuitry for transmitting the report document wirelessly to an external device.

17. The system of claim 12, wherein the controller can receive instructions, wirelessly from an external device, to program a personality of the system.

18. The system of claim 12, wherein the system can wirelessly send raw data to an external device.

19. A machine readable medium having executable instructions which can be executed by a controller to cause a machine to perform a method, comprising:

receiving, with electronic circuitry, raw sensor data from one or more sensors associated with the circuit; and

analyzing the data with executable instructions, provided by at least one of software stored in memory associated with the circuit or provided in firmware within the circuit, and creating a report document that includes one or more features of the analysis of the data.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the method further includes:

generating an alert condition via one or more alert mechanisms to indicate a condition of the analyzed data.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein generating an alert condition includes generating the alert condition by causing one or more light emitting diodes to illuminate.

22. The method of claim 19, wherein the method further includes:

generating a template that serves as a standardized page format, followed by textual and graphical information that summarizes and graphs the sensor data.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the method further includes:

formatting an initial document page including defining any geometric constructions and defining any verbiage to be used within the document.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the method further includes:

retrieving verbiage from memory associated with the electronic circuitry based on the defined verbiage needed for formatting the initial document page.