Instrumentation that serves data over the Internet

• US 20070265712A1
• Filed: 07/18/2007
• Published: 11/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Newport Electronics, Inc (Spectris PLC)
• Original Assignee: Newport Electronics, Inc (Spectris PLC)
• Inventors: Hollander, Steven, Leontiev, Daniel, Nastase, Stefan
• Application Number:
  US11/879,886
• Publication Number:
  US 20070265712A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/3
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/00 Programme-control systems
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/24048 Remote test, monitoring, diagnostic
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/31186 TCP-IP internet protocol
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/06 Management of faults, events, alarms or notifications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/00 Arrangements for monitoring or testing data switching networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0817 by checking functioning

Abstract

The invention relates to instruments and methods for controlling operation of remote industrial equipment and process by detected data transfer via internet to an operator located away from the operation who manages variable parameters of the equipment or process via internet control.

Claims

1. Apparatus for monitoring, recording, and controlling variable parameters such as temperature, humidity, time, pH, weight, pressure, flow, electrical resistance, voltage and current through a direct connection to the internet.

3. Apparatus as claimed in claim 1 which is an independent node on an Ethernet/Internet network which functions as server or client on said network.

4. Apparatus of claim 1 which transmits E-mail on the internet to control devices, to report device status or to indicate alarm conditions.

5. Apparatus of claim 1 which receives internet E-mail instruction and control.

6. Apparatus of claim 1 which displays temperature or weight via internet on a wireless enabled device or a meter display.

2. Apparatus selected from meters, controllers, transmitters, signal conditioners and recorder and displays with embedded capacity to serve Web pages to computers and devices with web browsing capacity.

7. Thermostat apparatus activated by E-mail which displays and controls temperature remotely by E-mail.

8. A method of operating apparatus from a remote station via internet which comprises (a) feeding information data from a detector at said apparatus to a web server (b) transmitting said data via internet to control or operate a remote process or device (c) displaying said data.