Patent ID: 8657936

Claim:
A method of reporting a status of an at least one air handler filter to a computer network, the method comprising: activating and registering a network enabled air filter with a network, the air filter having a housing with an at least one exposure slot, an at least one media storage area, an at least one media containment area, an at least one movement member, an at least one controller communicating with the network, an at least one pleated filter media stored in a compact state in the at least one media storage area; starting operation of the at least one air filter within the air handler and moving the at least one pleated filter media stored in a compact state in the at least one media storage area into the exposure slot, exposing the at least one pleated filter media in a deployed state to an air flow the at least one pleated filter media being pleated in the deployed state to become an at least one portion of exposed filter media; monitoring the operation and performance of the at least one air filter through the controller in communication with an at least one sensor in the air filter sending data to the controller; processing and comparing the data sent to the controller and comparing data against a set of parameters; reporting when the processed data is outside the set of parameters; and sending an alert to an alert device in communication with the network.