Networked chemical dispersion system

• US 9,357,760 B2
• Filed: 02/16/2012
• Issued: 06/07/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Deere & Company
• Original Assignee: Deere & Company
• Inventors: Anderson, Noel Wayne
• Primary Examiner(s): Alexander, Lyle
• Application Number:
  US13/398,109
• Publication Number:
  US 20120150355A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,573 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A01M 1/2022 Poisoning or narcotising insects by vaporising an insecticide
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2209/11 Apparatus for controlling air treatment
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2209/111 Sensor means, e.g. motion, brightness, scent, contaminant sensors
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2209/13 Dispensing or storing means for active compounds

Abstract

The illustrative embodiments provide a chemical dispersion system comprising a number of chemical dispersion nodes, a chemical dispersion manager, and a processor unit. The processor unit executes the chemical dispersion manager to identify a pest problem and generate a chemical dispersion plan for execution by the number of chemical dispersion nodes.

Claims

1. A method for networked chemical dispersion, the method comprising:

receiving a user selection of an area for chemical treatment;

identifying information associated with the area and the user selection;

generating a chemical dispersion plan using the information identified; and

transmitting the chemical dispersion plan across a network to a number of remote chemical dispersion nodes, wherein the number of remote chemical dispersion nodes execute the chemical dispersion plan using a processor unit that executes the chemical dispersion plan and a disperser that disperses a chemical.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the disperser is selected from at least one of a hose, nozzle, pump, sprayer, tubing, wiper, cloth, roller, laser, electromagnetic wave generator, light emitter, sound generator, electrical pulse generator, mister, fogger, duster, atomizer, gas stream, mechanical finger, and heating element.

3. A method for executing a chemical dispersion plan, the method comprising:

receiving, by a processor unit, a chemical dispersion plan from a remote location using a communications unit;

identifying an amount of a chemical to disperse using the chemical dispersion plan;

identifying a time for dispersion of the chemical using the chemical dispersion plan; and

triggering a cartridge to disperse the amount identified of the chemical at the time identified, wherein the processor unit, the communications unit, and the cartridge are part of a chemical dispersion node that receives and executes the chemical dispersion plan.

4. A method for executing a chemical dispersion plan, the method comprising:

receiving, by a processor unit, a chemical dispersion plan from a remote location using a communications unit;

identifying an amount of a chemical to disperse using the chemical dispersion plan;

identifying a time for dispersion of the chemical using the chemical dispersion plan; and

triggering a cartridge to disperse the amount identified of the chemical at the time identified; and

identifying a dispensed amount of the chemical dispensed in an operating environment by the chemical dispersion node, wherein the chemical is dispensed by a number of chemical dispersion nodes other than a chemical dispersion node identifying the dispensed amount of the chemical, and wherein the chemical dispersion node identifying the dispensed amount transmits the dispensed amount identified to the remote location.

5. A method for executing a chemical dispersion plan, the method comprising:

receiving, by a processor unit, a chemical dispersion plan from a remote location using a communications unit;

identifying an amount of a chemical to disperse using the chemical dispersion plan;

identifying a time for dispersion of the chemical using the chemical dispersion plan; and

triggering a cartridge to disperse the amount identified of the chemical at the time identified;

identifying a dispensed amount of the chemical dispensed in an operating environment by the chemical dispersion node; and

transmitting the dispensed amount to the remote location using the communications unit.

6. A method for networked chemical dispersion, the method comprising:

receiving a user selection of an area for chemical treatment;

identifying information associated with the area and the user selection;

generating a chemical dispersion plan using the information identified;

transmitting the chemical dispersion plan across a network to a number of remote chemical dispersion nodes;

receiving, by a processor unit of a given one of the number of chemical dispersion nodes, the chemical dispersion plan from a remote location using a communications unit; and

executing, by the processor unit, the chemical dispersion plan that specifies an amount of chemical to be applied to the area.

7. A method for networked chemical dispersion, the method comprising:

receiving a user selection of an area for chemical treatment;

identifying information associated with the area and the user selection;

generating a chemical dispersion plan using the information identified;

transmitting the chemical dispersion plan across a network to a number of remote chemical dispersion nodes; and

receiving the information associated with the area from at least one of the number of chemical dispersion nodes, wherein the information associated with the area is retrieved from at least one database associated with the number of chemical dispersion nodes.

8. A method for networked chemical dispersion, the method comprising:

receiving a user selection of an area for chemical treatment at a first location;

identifying information associated with the area and the user selection at the first location;

generating a chemical dispersion plan using the information identified at the first location;

transmitting the chemical dispersion plan across a network to a number of chemical dispersion nodes located remotely from the first location;

receiving, by a processor unit of a given one of the number of chemical dispersion nodes, the chemical dispersion plan from the first location using a communications unit;

identifying an amount of a chemical to disperse using the chemical dispersion plan by the given one of the number of chemical dispersion nodes;

identifying a time for dispersion of the chemical using the chemical dispersion plan by the given one of the number of chemical dispersion nodes; and

triggering a cartridge to disperse the amount identified of the chemical at the time identified by the given one of the number of chemical dispersion nodes.