Patent ID: 7946406
Filing Date: 2011-05-24
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A coin processing system comprising: a coin processing machine comprising a coin input region, a coin module configured to receive coins input into the coin input region, to process the coins, and to determine a total amount of the coins, and to output the coins to at least one coin receptacle; a sensor configured to measure a parameter associated with the coin processing system and output to a controller a signal relating to the measured parameter; an actuating device operatively associated with the sensor; a communication interface; a controller configured to process the signal relating to the measured parameter and to output data relating to the parameter to a memory, the controller being further configured to retrieve the data from the memory and to trend the data relating to the parameter, the controller being further configured to execute an error avoidance instruction set responsive to the trended data exceeding a predetermined setpoint to prevent an error from occurring; and at least one of another controller and another memory located remotely from the coin processing machine, wherein at least one of the signal relating to the measured parameter output by the sensor or the data relating to the parameter output by the controller is output to at least one of the another controller or the another memory through the communication interface, wherein execution of the error avoidance instruction set by the controller causes the actuating device to actuate to influence the parameter associated with the coin processing system to prevent said error from occurring.