ENGINE AND SYSTEM MONITORING TELEMATIC SYSTEM

• US 20150137993A1
• Filed: 09/05/2014
• Published: 05/21/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Thomas G. Faria Corporation
• Original Assignee: Thomas G. Faria Corporation
• Inventors: Terry, Kevin
• Application Number:
  US14/478,898
• Publication Number:
  US 20150137993A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/870.07
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/40 using a wireless architecture
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/43 using wireless personal area networks [WPAN], e.g. 802.15, 802.15.1, 802.15.4, Bluetooth or ZigBee
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 9/00 Arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station, in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

A marine vessel telematics device comprising: a remote access module configurable to plug into and be in signal communication with the data bus, the remote access module configurable to be in wireless signal communication with a hand held computing device and further configured to transmit to the hand held computing device marine vessel real-world data.

Claims

1. A marine vessel telematics device comprising:

a remote access module configurable to plug into and be in signal communication with the data bus, the remote access module configurable to be in wireless signal communication with a hand held computing device and further configured to transmit to the hand held computing device marine vessel real-world data.

2. The marine vessel telematics device of claim 1 further comprising:

a Wi-Fi transmitter/receiver located in the remote access module.

3. The marine vessel telematics device of claim 2, wherein the remote access module is configurable to be in wireless communication with a network.

4. The marine vessel telematics device of claim 3, where the network is the internet.

5. The marine vessel telematics device of claim 1, where the remote access module is compatible with the NMEA 2000 communications standard.

6. A marine vessel telematics system, comprising:

a data bus located on a marine vessel;

a remote access module physically connected to and in signal communication with the data bus;

a hand held computing device in wireless signal communication with the remote access module

7. The marine vessel telematics system of claim 6, wherein the hand held computing device is portable.

8. The marine vessel telematics system of claim 6, wherein the remote access module is configured to transmit to the hand held computing device marine vessel real-world data.

9. The marine vessel telematics system of claim 6, wherein the marine vessel telematics system is configured to:

create a Wi-Fi software access point network that is visible on any nearby Wi-Fi computing device;

the Wi-Fi software access point appears as “

FARIA-????”

, where the “

?”

are randomly generated characters;

connect the hand held computing devices to the Wi-Fi software access point network with a password;

allow a module interface window to appears on the hand held computing device, after an IP address is entered on a web browser on the hand held computing device;

transmit marine vessel real-world data from the remote access module to the hand held computing device when “

START”

is selected by the user in the module interface window;

create and transmit an email containing marine vessel real-world data to a service technician or dealer when “

SEND”

is selected by the user in the module interface window; and

allow marine vessel real-world data to be viewed on the hand held computing device when “

DETAILS”

is selected by the user in the module interface window.

10. The marine vessel telematics system of claim 6, wherein the marine vessel telematics system is configured to:

create a Wi-Fi software access point network that is visible on any nearby Wi-Fi computing device;

the Wi-Fi software access point appears as “

FARIA-????”

, where the “

?”

are randomly generated characters;

connect the hand held computing devices to the Wi-Fi software access point network with a password;

start configurator app on the hand held computing device;

hand held computing device connects directly and wirelessly to the remote access module;

select public network that remote access module connects to, enter password;

select “

INSTALL”

on hand held computing device;

confirm that remote access module connection to public network is successful,

web browser open on hand held computing device to correct IP address assigned by Wi-Fi router for public network;

marine vessel real-world data is displayed on hand held computing device;

marine vessel real-world data may be displayed on any hand held computing device in communication with the internet, if the public network is in communication with the internet.