Patent ID: 7093492

Claim:
A configurable vibration sensor comprising: one or more sensor circuits; one or more analog-to-digital converters coupled to the one or more sensor circuits, for converting output from the one or more sensor circuits to one or more digital signals; a processor coupled to the one or more analog-to-digital converters, for processing the one or more digital signals; a digital communications interface coupled to the processor, for facilitating the communication of at least data between the processor and a computer adapted to receive digital input; and a power regulator, wherein the digital communications interface and the power regulator are coupled to the computer through a shared communications medium adapted to transmit power and data, and wherein in operation, the power regulator receives power through the shared communications medium for supply to one or more components of the configurable vibration sensor; wherein each of the one or more sensor circuits comprises a vibration sensing element and a variable bandwidth filter coupled thereto; and wherein each variable bandwidth filter of the one or more sensor circuits is controllable by the processor such that the operation of each variable bandwidth filter is variable by the processor.