Patent ID: 9453869
Filing Date: 2016-09-27
CPC Classification: G01R

Claim Text:
1. A system for collecting blocks of data used in predicting faults in an electrical system having a source line, branch circuits, and a plurality of loads comprising: a) a plurality of power quality nodes, said plurality of power quality nodes being disbursed about said electrical system on said source line, said branch circuits and each of said plurality of loads, each of said power quality nodes configured for sensing voltage and current, a microprocessor, a non-volatile memory, an alarm transmitter/receiver and a data logger transmitter/receiver; b) at least one multi-channel recorder, in communication with each of said plurality of power quality nodes; c) at least one network server in communication with said multi-channel recorder; and d) a base computer station in operative communication with said multi-channel recorder and said network server; e) wherein the non-volatile memory on each of said plurality of power quality nodes stores a plurality of data blocks for transmission to said multi-channel recorder, and further wherein each of said data blocks contains a plurality of readings of said electrical system and further wherein each of said data blocks has a time length; wherein the readings stored in each stored data block contains data having a plurality of recorded parameters; and wherein the plurality of recorded parameters includes: