Furniture cleaning management system

A furniture cleaning management system (FCMS) for a furniture affordance, the FCMS comprising:

• an indicator for indicating a cleaning status of the furniture affordance;
• a sensor option generating a trigger signal in response to sensing conditions that indicate a change in the cleaning status of the furniture affordance;
• and
• a processor receiving the trigger signal from the sensor option and causing the indicator to indicate the current cleaning status of the furniture affordance;
• wherein the sensor option includes an accelerometer generating the trigger signal in response to detecting a movement pattern of a portion of the furniture affordance associated with cleaning the portion of the furniture affordance.

A method for operating a furniture cleaning management system (FCMS) for a furniture affordance, the method comprising the steps of implementing via a processor:

• monitoring a sensor option to sense a cleaning status of the furniture affordance;
• generating a trigger signal in response to sensing, with the sensor, a change in cleaning status of the furniture affordance;
• generating a timestamp record in response to sensing the change in cleaning status;
• and
• causing an indicator to indicate the cleaning status of the furniture affordance in response to generating the trigger signal;
• wherein monitoring a sensor option includes monitoring an occupancy sensor to detect a change in occupancy for the furniture affordance and generating a trigger signal is performed in response to detecting a change in user occupying status for the furniture affordance.

A method for operating a furniture cleaning management system (FCMS) for a furniture affordance, the method comprising the steps of implementing via a processor:

• monitoring a sensor option to sense a cleaning status of the furniture affordance;
• generating a trigger signal in response to sensing, with the sensor, a change in cleaning status of the furniture affordance;
• generating a timestamp record in response to sensing the change in cleaning status;
• and
• causing an indicator to indicate the cleaning status of the furniture affordance in response to generating the trigger signal;
• wherein monitoring a sensor option includes monitoring an accelerometer for movement of a portion of the furniture affordance consistent with cleaning and generating a trigger signal is performed in response to detecting movement consistent with cleaning.