Patent ID: 9623983
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: B64D,G08B,H04Q

Claim:
1. A system for monitoring an aircraft interior, comprising: a multiplicity of sensors each placed at a selected location of a plurality of locations within the aircraft interior, each sensor being configured to monitor a condition in an associated area of the aircraft interior; a server onboard the aircraft, the onboard server being connected to the multiplicity of sensors and being configured to receive data from each of the multiplicity of sensors and to control operation of each of the multiplicity of sensors; and a router onboard the aircraft, the onboard router being connected to the onboard server and the onboard router being configured to communicate with a router off-board the aircraft and to transfer data from the onboard server to the off-board router, wherein the off-board router is associated with a ground monitoring facility that is configured to analyze data from each of the multiplicity of sensors; and an off-board database associated with the ground monitoring facility, wherein the data from the multiplicity of sensors is stored in the off-board database, the off-board database comprising a reference table configured to store the data from each of the multiplicity of sensors that is within limits and an exceedance table to store data from the multiplicity of sensors that exceeds a predetermined threshold, wherein the ground monitoring facility is configured to perform a method comprising: