Patent ID: 6823291
Filing Date: 2004-11-23
Classification: F02B,G05B

Abstract:
A power equipment monitoring system for monitoring performance data of individual power equipment units, said system comprising sensors (1d) associated with each said unit (1), a data collection and processing device (4a) local to each said unit adapted to receive and process data from the respective sensors, monitoring equipment (2) adapted to receive data from each data collection and processing device (3) for fault and maintenance monitoring purposes, characterized by the provision of a data access device (4b) associated with each data collection and processing device (4a), said data access device (4b) being accessible remotely, separately from the monitoring equipment (2) to provide a display, using a remote computer (8), of data from a selected said data collection and processing device (3) characterized in that the data access device is arranged to store data from the data collection and processing device (4a) in a format which can be utilized to generate the said display at the remote computer using an internet web browser.