Assisted Dosing of Aquatic Environments For Maintaining Water Quality Therein, and Systems, Methods, Apparatuses, and Software Relating Thereto
First Claim
1. A method of assisting a human user with dosing water in an aquatic environment with one or more additives to keep a water-quality parameter of the water within an acceptable range, the method comprising:
- receiving data concerning the water-quality parameter from a water-quality monitoring system monitoring the water of the aquatic environment;
automatedly analyzing the data to determine whether or not the water-quality parameter is out of the acceptable range;
when said analyzing reveals that the water-quality parameter is out of the acceptable range, automatedly determining dosing requirements for the one or more additives that, if added to the water in the aquatic environment, will put the water-quality parameter back into the acceptable range;
automatedly issuing an alert to the human user indicating that dosing is required to bring the water-quality parameter back into the acceptable range; and
automatedly issuing dosing instructions that are based on the dosing requirements and are understandable by the human user.
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Abstract
Methods of assisting human users with dosing of aquatic environments, such as aquariums, pools, hot tubs, ponds, etc., that utilize automated monitoring systems that continually monitor various parameters of the water in the aquatic environments. When one or more measured water parameters of an aquatic environment are out of tolerance, a dosing calculator uses water-quality information from a monitoring system to generate dosing instructions for a human user that instruct the user how to dose the aquatic environment with one or more additives that will put the one or more parameters back into tolerance. In some embodiments, input from a user is used to switch the monitoring system to a dosing mode from a normal monitoring mode to track the progress of the dosing more closely than the normal monitoring mode would.
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20 Claims
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1. A method of assisting a human user with dosing water in an aquatic environment with one or more additives to keep a water-quality parameter of the water within an acceptable range, the method comprising:
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receiving data concerning the water-quality parameter from a water-quality monitoring system monitoring the water of the aquatic environment; automatedly analyzing the data to determine whether or not the water-quality parameter is out of the acceptable range; when said analyzing reveals that the water-quality parameter is out of the acceptable range, automatedly determining dosing requirements for the one or more additives that, if added to the water in the aquatic environment, will put the water-quality parameter back into the acceptable range; automatedly issuing an alert to the human user indicating that dosing is required to bring the water-quality parameter back into the acceptable range; and automatedly issuing dosing instructions that are based on the dosing requirements and are understandable by the human user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A machine-readable hardware storage medium containing machine-executable instructions for executing a method of assisting a human user with dosing water in an aquatic environment with one or more additives to keep a water-quality parameter of the water within an acceptable range, said machine-executable instructions comprising:
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a first set of machine-executable instructions for receiving data concerning the water-quality parameter from a water-quality monitoring system monitoring the water of the aquatic environment; a second set of machine-executable instructions for analyzing the data to determine whether or not the water-quality parameter is out of the acceptable range; a third set of machine-executable instructions for, when said analyzing reveals that the water-quality parameter is out of the acceptable range, determining dosing requirements for the one or more additives that, if added to the water in the aquatic environment, will put the water-quality parameter back into the acceptable range; a fourth set of machine-executable instructions for issuing an alert to the human user indicating that dosing is required to bring the water-quality parameter back into the acceptable range; and a fifth set of machine-executable instructions for issuing dosing instructions that are based on the dosing requirements and are understandable by the human user. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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