Accessory for data acquisition and data transfer to an external device

• US 20140323181A1
• Filed: 04/30/2013
• Published: 10/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: HCL Technologies Limited
• Original Assignee: HCL Technologies Limited
• Inventors: Subramaniam, Mahesh, Balu, Jamuna Rani
• Application Number:
  US13/874,459
• Publication Number:
  US 20140323181A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/557
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72409 by interfacing with external accessories hands-free H04M1/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724098 Interfacing with an on-board device of a vehicle for hands-free speaking in vehicles H04M1/6075
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/38 for collecting sensor information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

A system and method to acquire data from a sensor and transfer the data to an external device is disclosed. The sensor retrieves data that corresponds to vibration or pressure and send the millivolt (mV) signal to an accessory. The accessory acquires the data will be much more cost effective compared to dedicated instruments to acquire data and analyze data in itself. The external device collects data and can email the data or sent to cloud due to ready interface from the external device. More advanced calculations can be performed on cloud and results sent back to the external device for detail analysis. The embodiment provides such back and forth analysis using the accessory.

Claims

1. A system for data acquisition and transferring said data, said system comprises a sensor, an accessory, an external device, wherein said system is configured to:

acquire said data from said sensor;

transfer said data to said external device; and

analyze said transferred data by said external device.

2. The system as in claim 1, wherein said system is configured to acquire said data using said accessory and said accessory transfers said data to said external device.

3. The system as in claim 2, wherein system is configured to transfer said data using at least one of:

wired, wireless communication to said external device.

4. The system as in claim 1, wherein said external device is configured to analyze said data and interpret said data.

5. The system as in claim 1, wherein said external device is configured to send said transferred data to a cloud database to analyze said data and said cloud database sends said analyzed data to said external device.

6. An accessory to acquire data and transfer said data to an external device, wherein said accessory comprises:

a microcontroller;

an Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) module;

an external flash memory;

a battery module;

a Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART)

an antenna;

wherein said accessory is configured to;

acquire analog data from said sensor;

convert said analog data to digital data using said ADC module;

read said digital data using said microcontroller;

store said digital data in said external flash memory using said microcontroller; and

transfer said digital data to said external device.

7. The accessory as in claim 6, wherein said accessory is configured to transfer said digital data to an external device using at least one of:

wired, wireless communication.

8. The accessory as in claim 7, wherein said wireless communication comprises at least one of:

Zigbee, Bluetooth, Wireless HART, IPv6, Infrared, and Near-Field communication (NFC).

9. The accessory as in claim 6, wherein said accessory is configured to power said sensor using said battery module.

10. The accessory as in claim 6, wherein said accessory is configured to store said data in said external flash memory and transfer said data to said external device asynchronously.

11. A method to acquire data and transfer said data to an external device, wherein said method comprises:

acquiring said data from a sensor;

transferring said data to said external device; and

analyzing said transferred data by said external device.