Patent ID: 7230528

Claim:
A wireless sensor system, comprising: a plurality of wireless sensor units, each of said one or more wireless sensor units comprising at least one sensor configured to measure a condition, said wireless sensor unit configured to receive instructions; each of said one or more wireless sensor units configured to report data measured by said at least one sensor when said wireless sensor determines that data measured by said at least one sensor fails a threshold test, each of said one or more sensor units provided with a label indicating an intended location for installation; a computer-readable media provided with said one or more wireless sensor units, said computer-readable media containing data indicating said intended locations and corresponding identification codes for each of said sensor units; and a base unit configured to communicate with said one or more wireless sensor units and to provide data from said one or more wireless sensor units to a monitoring computer, said monitoring computer configured to send a notification to a responsible party when data from one or more of said wireless sensor units corresponds to an emergency condition, said monitoring computer configured to log data from one or more of said wireless sensor units when said data from one or more of said wireless sensor units corresponds to an abnormal condition said monitoring computer configured to use data from said computer-readable medium to correlate said intended locations with said identification codes.