Patent ID: 8215150

Claim:
A docking station comprising: a housing, the housing defines at least one gas detector receiving port, the receiving port includes at least one of a wired or a wireless integrated interface to communicate with a detector to be evaluated; control circuits carried by the housing and coupled to the integrated interface where the control circuits carry out limited, predetermined detector evaluations the control circuits coupling at least a pulse signal to the detector; a gas control interface carried by the housing and coupled to both the control circuits and the integrated interface, the gas control interface providing a selected gas sample to a detector in a receiving port via the integrated interface, and where the control circuits in conjunction with varying operating parameters of a sensor in the port activate the gas control interface to provide the gas sample; and the integrated interface coupling electric signals from the control circuits and a test gas sample from the gas source to the docking station and wherein the control circuits analyze at least decay transients of the pulse signal to measure factors relating to electrodes, electrolyte and mass transport.