Patent ID: 9499412
Filing Date: 2016-11-22
CPC Classification: C02F,G05D

Claim Text:
1. A method of determining regulatory compliance of a plurality of environmental systems, a regulatory body designating each of said plurality of environmental systems with a respective permitted threshold for a predetermined amount of wastewater to be processed within a predetermined period of time, said method of determining requlatory compliance comprising: providing that each of said plurality of environmental systems are operable for processing less than 5000 gallons of wastewater within a designated amount of time; providing a plurality of pumps for said plurality of environmental systems so that each of said plurality of environmental systems comprises a pump; providing said plurality of environmental systems with a plurality of universal dialers so that each of said plurality of environmental systems comprises a universal dialer, each universal dialer comprises a processor operatively connected to a respective pump and configured to receive and transmit pump operation data related to operation of said respective pump without processing said pump operation data to determine compliance with said respective permitted threshold; configuring said processor to operate each universal dialer to periodically connect to a server upon a first occurrence of at least one of a predetermined time period or a predefined event, and when connected, to transmit said pump operation data; configuring said server to receive installation data comprising said respective permitted threshold for each of said plurality of environmental systems and utilizing said server to determine whether each respective of said plurality of environmental systems is in compliance with said respective permitted threshold; and configuring said server to provide an authorized third party with processed data indicative of whether respective of said plurality of environmental systems for which said authorized third party is authorized are in compliance with said respective permitted threshold.