Patent Document ID: 9518862
Application ID: 14532718
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A computerized method of monitoring and notifying one or more remotely located interested parties of the rezero status of a weighing apparatus, said method comprising: providing a computerized local monitoring system to monitor a rezero status of at least one weighing apparatus of interest and to transmit weighing apparatus rezero data; placing an external system in communication with the local monitoring system, the external system including a remote server configured at least to transmit an electronic notification to a remotely located interested party based on data received from the local monitoring system; using associated programming to predict a rezero fault by: (1) identifying a plurality of recorded rezero data deadload weight readings corresponding to a series of previous weighing apparatus rezero operations and received from the at least one weighing apparatus at times t 1 - t n , (2) identifying the point in time of a next scheduled weighing apparatus rezero operation, (3) identifying a predetermined weighing apparatus rezero threshold value in the form of a maximum deadload weight that may be associated with a given rezero operation, (4) applying linear regression analysis to the plurality of recorded rezero data deadload weight readings to predict whether the deadload weight as seen by the weighing apparatus would exceed the predetermined rezero threshold value prior to the identified next scheduled weighing apparatus rezero operation; and if it is predicted that the deadload weight as seen by the weighing apparatus would exceed the predetermined rezero threshold value prior to the identified next scheduled weighing apparatus rezero operation, using the remote server to transmit an electronic notification to a remotely located interested party.