Patent ID: 6885309

Claim:
A data collection system comprising: a) a plurality of telemetry devices, each telemetry device including: i) a sensor configured to generate a series of successive measurements by measuring a parameter at a series of measurement times, ii) a memory configured to store a plurality of measurements from said series of successive measurements, and iii) a transmitter configured to transmit measurements stored in memory to a collection device at a series of transmission times; and b) a plurality of collections devices, there being fewer collection devices than telemetry devices, each collection device including: i) a hub to receive transmission as packets from selected of the plurality of telemetry devices, the transmissions containing both old measurements and new measurements; ii) a network device to forward at least a subset of a series of said transmissions over an internet connection to a data processing center to generate an output function; iii) at least one storage device for storing selected of the received transmissions; and iv) a Hypertext Transmission Protocol (HTTP) server configured to host at least one web page that displays information corresponding to selected of the received and forwarded transmissions.