Patent ID: 9100728
Filing Date: 2015-08-04
Classification: C02F,H04Q

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising: one or more environmental instruments for monitoring water quality for one or more water streams, a communication server comprising a server monitor that remotely programs the one or more environmental instruments and sends a task instruction to the one or more environmental instruments based on data reported by the one or more environmental instruments, an alarm transmission server in communication with the communication server, and a server database, wherein the communication server is in communication with the one or more environmental instruments, wherein each of the one or more environmental instruments connects to the communication server to report on tasks run by the environmental instrument based on a primary interval for the environmental instrument, wherein the server monitor continuously queries the server database for tasks that are scheduled to be run by each of the one or more environmental instruments based on a task schedule and a current time on the communication server, wherein the task schedule is based on the primary intervals for each of the one or more environmental instruments, and wherein an alarm transmission server of the one or more servers sends an alarm to one or more output devices if the server monitor determines that a selected environmental instrument of the one or more environmental instruments is malfunctioning based on the selected environmental instrument failing to connect to the communication server for one or more primary intervals for the environmental instrument.