Patent ID: 7327286
Filing Date: 2008-02-05
Classification: G01M,G06Q,G07C

Abstract:
1. A marine vessel monitoring system comprising: an electronic storage device storing baseline bilge pump data; a plurality of bilge pump sensors to monitor a bilge pump of a marine vessel, the bilge pump having at least two operative states that are detected by the plurality of bilge pump sensors, the plurality of bilge pump sensors including a bilge pump high water sensor, a bilge pump cycle count sensor, and a bilge pump power sensor; and a telemetry unit to receive input data from the plurality of bilge pump sensors indicating a state of each of the plurality of bilge pump sensors and transmit a telemetry signal to a remote receiver, the telemetry signal including data indicating the state of each of the plurality of bilge pump sensors and the baseline bilge pump data.