Analytical gateway device for measurement devices

• US 9,739,801 B2
• Filed: 07/16/2013
• Issued: 08/22/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fluke Corporation (Fortive Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Fluke Corporation (Fortive Corp.)
• Inventors: Anderson, Thomas Duffy, Epperson, David Lawrence
• Primary Examiner(s): Charioui, Mohamed
• Assistant Examiner(s): Liang, Leonard S
• Application Number:
  US13/943,736
• Publication Number:
  US 20150022181A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,498 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 1/30 Structural combination of electric measuring instruments with basic electronic circuits, e.g. with amplifier
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 15/125 for digital multimeters
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5005 to service a request
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/40 using a wireless architecture
• 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

Abstract

An analytical gateway device receives measurement data comprising one or more measurement values from one or more measurement devices. The gateway device selects a measurement application from a plurality of measurement applications available for execution (e.g., on the gateway device or some other computing device) based at least in part on the measurement data. For example, the measurement application can be selected based on measurement type information. The measurement type information may include one or more measurement units associated with the measurement values. The gateway device may cause a user interface (or some other information) associated with the measurement application to be presented on a display (e.g., a display of the gateway device or some other computing device in communication with the gateway device).

Claims

1. A method comprising:

by a gateway device, receiving first measurement data from a first measurement device, wherein the first measurement data comprises first measurement type information and a first measurement value, and detecting an event based on a comparison of the first measurement value or a value derived therefrom to a threshold; and

by the gateway device, selecting a first measurement application from a plurality of measurement applications available for execution based at least in part on the first measurement type information and the detected event,

wherein, in response to the detected event, the selected first measurement application controls one or more measurement devices including a second measurement device different from the first measurement device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first measurement type information comprises a representation of a first measurement unit associated with the first measurement value.

3. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising presenting a user interface associated with the first measurement application on a display of the gateway device.

4. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising displaying information associated with the first measurement application on a display of a computing device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the second measurement device is in a low-power state, and wherein said control includes activating the second measurement device to enter an active state in which the gateway device receives second measurement data from the second measurement device, the method further comprising:

by the gateway device, receiving the second measurement data comprising a second measurement value; and

by the gateway device, performing an operation based at least in part on the second measurement data.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the operation comprises execution of a second measurement application that differs from the first measurement application.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the operation comprises displaying information derived from the first measurement data and the second measurement data.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the second measurement data further comprises second measurement type information, and wherein the operation is performed based at least in part on the second measurement type information.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising, by the gateway device, determining a second measurement type for the second measurement data based at least in part on the second measurement type information, wherein the second measurement type differs from the first measurement type.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the first measurement type is voltage, wherein the second measurement type is current, and wherein the displayed information comprises power or energy information.

11. The method of claim 5, wherein the operation comprises a calculation involving the first measurement value and the second measurement value.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising selecting a second measurement application from the plurality of measurement applications available for execution based at least in part on the calculation.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the calculation comprises comparing a difference between the first measurement value and the second measurement value with a predetermined threshold.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising executing the first measurement application on the gateway device.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising executing the first measurement application on a computing device in communication with the gateway device.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the selecting is based at least in part on a measurement data type selected from the group consisting of:

current, AC voltage, DC voltage, time, temperature, resistance, pressure, and flow rate.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein the selecting is based at least in part on a measurement device type selected from the group consisting of:

current measurement device, voltage measurement device, temperature measurement device, resistance measurement device, pressure measurement device, flow measurement device, and multimeter.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the selected measurement application is configured to permit at least partial control by the gateway device of the first measurement device.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the at least partial control of the first measurement device comprises initiating a transition of the respective measurement device from a low-power state to an active state.

20. A system comprising:

a plurality of measurement devices; and

a gateway device comprising;

a wireless communication system configured to receive data from the plurality of measurement devices;

a processor; and

one or more computer-readable media having stored therein computer-executable instructions configured to cause the gateway device to;

receive first measurement data from a first measurement device, wherein the first measurement data comprises first measurement type information and a first measurement value;

detect an event based on a comparison of the first measurement value or a value derived therefrom to a threshold; and

select a first measurement application from a plurality of measurement applications available for execution based at least in part on the first measurement type information and the detected event,

wherein, in response to the detected event, the selected first measurement application controls one or more measurement devices of the plurality of measurement devices including a second measurement device different from the first measurement device.

21. The system of claim 20, wherein at least one of the measurement devices comprises a digital multimeter device.

22. The system of claim 20, wherein the second measurement device is in a low-power state, and wherein said control includes activating the second measurement device to enter an active state in which the gateway device receives second measurement data from the second measurement device.