Adaptive Bandwidth Consumption in Remote Monitoring of Agricultural Assets
First Claim
1. A method for remotely monitoring an agricultural asset at a remote location, the method comprising:
- providing a monitoring system comprising at least one condition sensor in communication with the agricultural asset so as to be arranged to sense a respective asset condition of the agricultural asset, a controller at the remote location which is arranged for communication with said at least one condition sensor and which includes a prescribed notification criterion associated with said at least one condition sensor stored thereon, and a central monitoring system located separately from the remote location and arranged for communication with the controller; and
using the controller;
periodically sampling the respective asset condition of the agricultural asset sensed by said at least one condition sensor;
comparing each sampled asset condition sensed by said at least one condition sensor to the prescribed notification criterion and determining a notification condition if the sampled asset condition meets the prescribed notification criterion; and
transmitting a notification signal to a central monitoring system in response to determination of a notification condition.
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Abstract
Individual agricultural assets at a remote location are each equipped with at least one condition sensor in communication with a location-based controlling transceiver, which in turn communicates with a central monitoring system. The transceiver will monitor data received from the condition sensors and in accordance with predetermined notification parameters will send a signal to the central monitoring system only when a notification condition, for example an elevated temperature reading in the instance of a grain bin, is detected. By only communicating when a transmission bandwidth requirements between the transceiver and the central monitoring system are minimized. Further transmission bandwidth reduction can be achieved by limiting the notification condition parameters limiting transceiver packet. Various conditions including temperature, gas levels or presence, volume or other conditions of various types of assets could be monitored remotely in this way.
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18 Claims
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1. A method for remotely monitoring an agricultural asset at a remote location, the method comprising:
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providing a monitoring system comprising at least one condition sensor in communication with the agricultural asset so as to be arranged to sense a respective asset condition of the agricultural asset, a controller at the remote location which is arranged for communication with said at least one condition sensor and which includes a prescribed notification criterion associated with said at least one condition sensor stored thereon, and a central monitoring system located separately from the remote location and arranged for communication with the controller; and using the controller; periodically sampling the respective asset condition of the agricultural asset sensed by said at least one condition sensor; comparing each sampled asset condition sensed by said at least one condition sensor to the prescribed notification criterion and determining a notification condition if the sampled asset condition meets the prescribed notification criterion; and transmitting a notification signal to a central monitoring system in response to determination of a notification condition. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A monitoring system for remotely monitoring an agricultural asset at a remote location, the system comprising:
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at least one condition sensor arranged to communication with the agricultural asset so as to sense a respective asset condition of the agricultural asset; and a controller configured to receive a signal from the at least one condition sensor indicating a sensed condition of the agricultural asset;
the controller comprising a memory storage storing a prescribed notification criterion thereon associated with said at least one condition sensor thereon and a processor coupled to the memory storage to enable a comparison of the asset condition sensed by said at least one condition sensor to the prescribed notification criterion and determination of a notification condition if the asset condition meets the prescribed notification criterion;the controller being configured to communicate a notification signal, through a communication network to a central monitoring system when the notification condition is determined.
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