Patent ID: 6553336
Filing Date: 2003-04-22
Classification: G01D,G05B,G08B,H04L,H04W,Y02P

Abstract:
A remote monitoring system for measuring conditions of an object at a remote location and providing information relating to said measurements to an end-user, said system comprising:at least one sensor module to measure said conditions of said remote object, wherein each sensor module is configured for attachment to said remote object by said end-user and includes a notification module to inform said remote monitoring system of the presence ofthat sensor module coupled to said remote object; a control module local to and in communication with said at least one sensor module to receive and analyze said measured conditions and determine the occurrence of events specified by said end-user; and a monitoring system remote from and in communication with said control module to facilitate entry of said user-specified events and to receive said measured conditions from said control module and transmit said received measured conditions to a processing system of said end-user in response to a request for said measured conditions from said end-user; wherein said notification module includes: a message transmission module to facilitate transmission of a registration message to register said at least one sensor module with said control module; an information transmission module to facilitate transmission of sensor module information to said control module in response to receiving a reply message within a predetermined quantity of registration message transmissions, wherein said sensor module information includes a sensor module identification and information for processing said measured conditions; an indicator module to indicate to said end-user registration of said at least one sensor module in response to receiving said reply message from said control module indicating reception of said sensor module information; an assignment module to assign a prior corresponding control module to said at least one sensor module in response to the absence of said reply message to transmission of said registration message; and a sleep module to place said at least one sensor module in a low power sleep mode in response to the absence of said reply message to transmission of said registration message and the absence of a prior corresponding control module.