Patent ID: 6493363
Filing Date: 2002-12-10
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
An automated insect monitoring system comprising:a plurality of sensor units wherein each of said units comprises: an insect electrocutor trap operatively connected to a high voltage generator; a sense coil operatively connected to said generator; a signal conditioning circuit operatively connected to said coil; a digital register operatively connected to said circuit; and a communications system, operatively connected to said register of each of units of said plurality of sensor units, for receiving data from a plurality of spatially separated locations containing sensor units comprising: a computer operatively connected to said register of each of units of said plurality of sensor units; a first multiplexing module operably connected to the computer; a plurality of second multiplexing modules each operatively connected to the first multiplexing module as a plurality of inputs for the first multiplexing module; a plurality of intermediate levels, each level containing a plurality of multiplexing modules, each module operably connected to a lower level module as a plurality of inputs for said lower level module; a plurality of last level multiplexing modules, each operatively connected to a lower intermediate level multiplexing module as a plurality of inputs for the intermediate level multiplexing module; and a plurality of data registers, each operatively connected to a last level multiplexing module, each of the last level multiplexing modules having a plurality of inputs for receiving data from two or more data registers; a multiplexer; and an addressing circuit receiving address information transmitted by the computer and programming the multiplexer to select one of the plurality of inputs of the multiplexing module as an output to be sent to the computer in response to the received address information.