Patent ID: 8782922

Claim:
A system comprising: a plurality of dryer installations, each dryer installation including one or more clothes dryers; a plurality of sensors, each of which detects dryer information associated with one of the clothes dryers at the dryer installations, wherein the dryer information includes temperature information, humidity information, and rotation information; and a central computer that receives the dryer information associated with each of the one or more clothes dryers, the controller further including: an analysis application that analyzes the dryer information associated with at least one of the one or more clothes dryers and generates one or more dryer status conclusions for the at least one of the one or more clothes dryer based on the analysis, wherein the status conclusion indicates that items in the at least one of the one or more clothes dryer are overdry if the analysis identifies a dryer rotation, a non-decreasing dryer humidity that satisfies than a low humidity threshold and a dryer temperature that satisfies a high dryer temperature threshold; and a reporting application that generates reports based on the analysis.