Patent Document ID: 20070005275
Application ID: 11173743
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of automated integrated monitoring, comprising: instructing a plurality of monitoring devices in a radial-fed hierarchy to buffer data indicative of a first parameter for a predetermined period of time; receiving said data indicative of said first parameter for each of said plurality of monitoring devices; automatically aligning data associated with a reference one of said plurality of monitoring devices and a second one of said plurality of monitoring devices by cross-correlating said data associated with said reference monitoring device and said data associated with said second monitoring device such that said data associated with said second monitoring device is shifted relative to said data associated with said reference monitoring device at the point at which a cross-correlation coefficient produced by said cross-correlating exceeds a threshold; instructing said plurality of monitoring devices to buffer data indicative of a second parameter at periodic time intervals; receiving said data indicative of said second parameter for each of said plurality of monitoring devices; and automatically determining a hierarchy including said plurality of monitoring devices, their location relative to one another, and their interrelationships relative to one another.