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US 10,257,592 B2Granted
Remote tower monitoring
AssigneeSmart Tower Systems LLC
InventorsDavid G. Brinker, Mark S. Allen
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and circuits configured to monitor the displacement of a tower, report the monitored displacement via a networked connection, and determine that the tower is in a non-optimal state. By providing the aspects disclosed herein, an operator of a tower may optimize the tower's function, and potentially prevent the tower from breaking at an earlier stage.
Claims17
A circuit for monitoring a tower, comprising:
- a microcontroller circuit configured to control other elements of the circuit, including:
- a communications circuit configured to receive a polling signal from a remote location over a network, and to transmit an indication of a sensed parameter being outside a predetermined threshold;
- a sensor interfacer circuit configured to receive the sensed parameter from a sensor provided on the tower and to apply at least one correction parameter associated with a height of the sensor on the tower to the sensed parameter using a formulaic algorithm to determine whether the sensed parameter is outside the predetermined threshold,
- a case for enclosing the circuit,
- wherein the case is attached to a portion of the tower that extends in a perpendicular direction from a surface of the earth on which the tower is installed on, and
- the sensed parameter being defined as a movement of only the tower.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.