Monitoring System
First Claim
1. A Monitoring System comprising:
- a) One or more sensors;
b) A microcontroller programmed to adaptively learn and report significant excursions of at least one of said sensors; and
c) A wireless communications device configured to transmit wireless alerts to a monitoring site.
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Abstract
A system for remote monitoring of conditions at a site and transmitting alerts to interested parties'"'"' mobile devices via a social networking service is described. The system employs a wireless communications device, partially exposed outside a small, metal enclosure, to transmit SMS (text message) alerts to a social networking site. Interested parties, including other devices, receive the alerts by simply subscribing to the ‘user’ device, and alarm threshold conditions are established autonomously by the device. Thus, no configuration of the device by interested parties is required. Temperature alerts are generated by the device without user-configured or fixed thresholds. A wall-mounted installation of the device conceals the external antenna within the wall cavity.
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13 Claims
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1. A Monitoring System comprising:
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a) One or more sensors; b) A microcontroller programmed to adaptively learn and report significant excursions of at least one of said sensors; and c) A wireless communications device configured to transmit wireless alerts to a monitoring site. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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- 8. The Monitoring system of claim 1 further comprising an additional microprocessor located at said monitoring site, said additional microprocessor performing at least some of the functions related to the determination of limits.
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8-1. A Method of Monitoring comprising the steps of:
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a) Learning normal operating range of one or more parameters of interest; b) Detecting excursions outside said normal operating ranges of one or more parameters of interest; c) Encoding said excursions outside the learned normal operating ranges as alarm conditions; and d) Wirelessly transmitting said encoded alarm conditions to a monitoring site.
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