Patent ID: 8500876

Claim:
An air dehydrator system for supplying a source of dehydrated air, comprising: an offsite data management system; at least one data network; and an air dehydrator located remote from said offsite data management system, said dehydrator including a housing containing: at least one drying canister; a compressor; a control circuit coupled with said compressor, said control circuit also being in communication via said at least one data network with said offsite data management system, said control circuit controlling operation of said compressor dependent upon control by said offsite data management system, said control by said offsite data management system includes a plurality of input control parameters, said input control parameters including high pressure alarm level; low pressure alarm level; a high duty cycle alarm level, said control circuit being configured to determine if said compressor has a duty cycle that exceeds a predetermined percentage, and setting said high duty cycle alarm if said duty cycle exceeds said predetermined percentage.