System and method for transmitting pollution information over an integrated wireless network

• US 9,515,691 B2
• Filed: 08/10/2015
• Issued: 12/06/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: SIPCO LLC (Ideahub, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: SIPCO LLC (Ideahub, Inc.)
• Inventors: Petite, Thomas D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Jain, Ankur
• Application Number:
  US14/821,853
• Publication Number:
  US 20150349827A1
• Time in Patent Office: 484 Days
• Field of Search: 455/517
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3827 Portable transceivers

Abstract

A pollution information message system provides a system and method for generating and transmitting pollution information messages. In one embodiment, the pollution information message system employs a transceiver network with a plurality transceivers coupled to monitoring devices. Control room operators receive a pollution information message from an identifiable transceiver. The transceiver, identified by an identification code, indicates a location and the nature of the detected pollution. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.

Claims

1. In a system that communicates a pollution information message in a wireless network that comprises wireless pollution communication devices, a wireless pollution detector device comprising:

a pollution detector configured to monitor and detect pollution events, the pollution detector further configured to generate pollution information signals containing information relating to detected pollution events;

a wireless transceiver having a unique identification code and being electrically interfaced with the pollution detector, wherein the wireless transceiver is configured to wirelessly transmit a data message comprising the unique identification code and information related to the pollution information signals, and wherein the wireless transceiver is further configured to receive a pollution information message transmitted from a second wireless transceiver, the pollution information message comprising a second unique identification code associated with the second wireless transceiver, and wherein the wireless transceiver is further configured to wirelessly transmit a repeated data message comprising the pollution information message and the unique identification code;

a memory electrically coupled to the wireless transceiver and storing a communication path and wherein the wireless transceiver transmits the data message and repeated data message in accordance with the stored communication path; and

the system redefining the communication path from a first transceiver if there is no reception of the pollution information message from the first transceiver at a scheduled time or in response to a status inquiry.

2. The wireless pollution detector device of claim 1, wherein the communication path comprises one or more predefined communication paths that comprise a series of transceivers.

3. The wireless pollution detector device of claim 1, wherein the data message includes one or more of operational conditions of the wireless transceiver and the pollution detector, pollution levels, pollution type, nature of detected pollution, and pollution parameters.

4. The wireless pollution detector device of claim 1, wherein the wireless transceiver is configured to receive a control signal from a site controller, and in response to the control signal, wirelessly transmit status information for receipt at the site controller.

5. The wireless pollution detector device of claim 1, wherein the wireless transceiver is configured to receive a second pollution information message transmitted from a third wireless transceiver, the second pollution information message comprising a third unique identification code associated with the third wireless transceiver, and wherein the wireless transceiver is further configured to wirelessly transmit a second repeated data message comprising the second pollution information message and the unique identification code.

6. In a wireless communication system that communicates one or more pollution information messages via a wireless network that comprises a plurality of wireless pollution communication devices, a wireless pollution communication device comprising:

a wireless transceiver configured to receive a signal from a pollution detector configured to detect pollution, the transceiver configured to transmit a pollution information message that is communicated through a transceiver network, wherein the pollution information message comprises information including pollution detector type, detected pollution levels, and pollution detector operational status, the wireless transceiver further being configured to receive one or more pollution information messages from one or more remote wireless transceivers, and forward said received pollution information messages along to a recipient device in accordance with a predetermined communication path, the wireless transceiver associated with a unique identification code such that a location of the detector is determined by associating the identification code with information residing in a database that includes at least the location of the transceiver;

a memory for storing the predetermined communication path that includes one or more wireless transceivers in the wireless network; and

the system redefining the predetermined communication path from a first transceiver if there is no reception of the pollution information message from the first transceiver at a scheduled time or in response to a status inquiry.

7. The wireless pollution communication device of claim 6, wherein the wireless communication device is in communication with at least one site controller via the transceiver network.

8. The wireless pollution communication device of claim 7, wherein the site controller is configured to receive the pollution information message and configure the pollution information message for transmission via a second network to a pollution monitoring management controller.

9. The wireless pollution communication device of claim 7, wherein the wireless transceiver is configured to receive a control signal from the site controller, and in response to the control signal, wirelessly transmit status information for receipt at the site controller.

10. The wireless pollution communication device of claim 7, wherein the wireless transceiver is configured to receive a revised communication path from the site controller for storage in the memory enabling the wireless transceiver to send data messages with the revised communication path.

11. The wireless pollution communication device of claim 10, wherein the revised communication path is based on traffic in the wireless network monitored by the site controller.

12. The wireless pollution communication device of claim 6, wherein the wireless transceiver is configured as a mobile wireless transceiver enabling the wireless pollution communication device to be a mobile wireless pollution communication device.

13. The wireless pollution communication device of claim 12, wherein the mobile wireless pollution detector is disposed in a vehicle to monitor pollution events related to said vehicle.