Patent ID: 11936489
Assignee: TRUE MANUFACTURING CO., INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC F  H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 10:
11. A method of managing a plurality of refrigeration appliances distributed throughout a geographic area, the method comprising:
establishing a connection between each refrigeration appliance and a remote asset management server on a client-server network;
storing in a memory associated with the asset management server a location of each of the refrigeration appliances in the geographic area;
receiving at the asset management server operating data from the plurality of refrigeration appliances; and
evaluating the operating data from each of the plurality of refrigeration appliances within the geographic area to determine whether a localized event has occurred in a region of the geographic area;
wherein the refrigeration appliances are ice makers and the operating data includes a time parameter representative of time to complete a step of an ice batch production cycle, said receiving comprising receiving at the asset management server from the ice makers via the client-server network the time parameter, the method further comprising determining that a localized event has occurred based on a change in time to complete the step of the ice batch production cycle among a subset of ice makers in a region of the geographic area; wherein the subset of ice makers is more than one ice maker.