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US 12,158,279 B2Granted
Environmental monitoring system
OwnerWayne Roeninventor
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Abstract
An fluid monitoring system can include a filter having an upstream face and a downstream face and defining a form factor, a sensor package arranged within the form factor of the filter to detect at least one quality factor of a surrounding medium, a transmitter electronically coupled to the sensor package and including an antenna for autonomous wireless transmission of the detected fluid quality information, and a power subsystem coupled to the sensor package and the transmitter to provide access to continuous electrical power thereto.
Claims19
An HVAC fluid quality monitoring system comprising:
- a filter made of a filter medium, the filter defining a form factor having substantially planar upstream and downstream faces, the form factor having a shape of a rectangular prism such that the filter can be inserted into an HVAC plenum having a rectangular cross section to provide air filtration, wherein the filter medium is pleated to partially fill the form factor and define a plurality of cavities;
- a sensor package comprising:
- a frame arranged in a cavity of the plurality of cavities defined by the pleated filter medium within the form factor;
- a fluid quality monitoring sensing system configured to detect at least one fluid quality factor, the fluid quality monitoring sensing system housed within the frame and configured to be insertable and removable from the frame, the fluid quality monitoring sensing system extending primarily in a direction parallel to both the upstream face and to the downstream face;
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- an energy storage device arranged within the frame;
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- a transmitter electronically coupled to the sensor package, the transmitter including an antenna for autonomous wireless transmission of the detected at least one fluid quality factor.
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A kit for liquid quality monitoring, the kit comprising:
- a filter made of a filter medium, the filter defining a form factor that is a cylindrical toroid extending about a central axial direction, the filter having an annular cross-section orthogonal to the central axial direction and configured to provide liquid filtration;
- a sensing system configured to be arranged proximate the filter, the sensing system comprising:
- sensor package arranged within the form factor, the sensor package extending primarily in an axial direction that is parallel to the central axial direction of the cylindrical toroid, the sensor package extending orthogonal to an expected direction of liquid flow through the filter medium, wherein the sensor package is configured to detect at least one liquid quality factor;
- a transmitter electronically coupled to the sensor package and including a subsystem for autonomous transmission of the detected at least one liquid quality factor;
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- a power subsystem coupled to the sensor package and the transmitter to provide access to continuous electrical power thereto;
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- instructions for configuring a networked device to communicate with the transmitter.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.