Patent ID: 9716966
Date: 2017-07-25
CPC Classifications: H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A data communication system for communication between a mobile computer device and a condition sensor array comprising at least one condition sensor received within an agricultural storage bin for sensing a condition at a respective location of the condition sensor, the system comprising: an adapter comprising: a program loadable onto and executable by the mobile computer device so as to generate a power up instruction and a sampling instruction by the mobile computer device; the controller of the adapter being operable in a powered down state in which the controller only monitors for a connection to the mobile computer device and a powered up state in which the controller is receptive to operating instructions from the mobile computer device to communicate with the condition sensor array; the controller being arranged to change from the powered down state to the powered up state only in response to the power up instruction from the mobile computer device; and the controller of the adapter being arranged to retrieve the sensed condition data from said at least one condition sensor and to transmit the sensed condition data to the mobile computer device only in response to the sampling instruction generated by the mobile computer device subsequent to being changed into the powered up state by the power up instruction.