Patent ID: 7469288
Filing Date: 2008-12-23
Classification: D06F

Abstract:
1. A system for monitoring the operating status of a group of laundry appliances in a laundry room comprising: multiple laundry appliances, each having a status signal generating mechanism within, said signal indicating the status of the appliance; a gang monitor connected to each of the laundry appliances, said gang monitor constructed to receive and process the appliance status signals and generate a busy/idle status signal representative thereof; a server for communicating with said gang monitor to receive the busy/idle status signal therefrom, said server constructed to process, compile and store a status record for each appliance; a user interface to provide access by a user to the server; a first communication link connecting the server and said gang monitor to allow the gang monitor to send status signals to said server; and a second communication link connecting the user interface to the server to allow access by said user to the server, wherein the server: