MONITORING REMOTE ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS

• US 20150192448A1
• Filed: 03/19/2015
• Published: 07/09/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Arthroscopic Surgery Associates Corporation
• Original Assignee: Arthroscopic Surgery Associates Corporation
• Inventors: Glenn, Gregory M., Silva, Damon, Henry, Timothy
• Granted Patent: US 10,378,945 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01F 23/80 Arrangements for signal processing
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/182 Level alarms, e.g. alarms responsive to variables exceeding a threshold
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/10 using wireless transmission systems G08B25/009 takes precedence
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

A server system for remote monitoring includes a wireless communication interface, a processor, and a storage device. The wireless communication interface receives at least one data packet over wireless communications from a remote monitoring system. The processor processes the data packet including sensor information from a sensor coupled to the remote monitoring system. The storage device stores the sensor information.

Claims

1. A method for monitoring remote assets in real-time, the method comprising:

sending a command over a wireless communication network to a control board, wherein the command instructs the control board to begin collecting data in real-time from a plurality of volumetric sensors at the identified remote assets at different locations, each volumetric sensor measuring a volume of liquid handled by each remote asset;

receiving at least one packet sent from the control board over the wireless communications network, the at least one packet including sensor data concerning a real-time measurement of the volume;

executing instructions stored in a memory of the server system, wherein execution of the instructions by a processor examines each packet of the sensor data to;

identify a sensor associated with the packet,

extract data indicating a real-time measurement of an associated volume of liquid, and

generates a display of a sensor listing, wherein each pf the plurality of sensors is listed with its associated real-time measurement of the volume of liquid; and

storing the sensor data in memory according to the identification of the associated sensor.