Power line utilization monitoring systems, devices, and methods with microprocessor-based current measurement and remote authentication
AssigneeElectro Rent Corporation
InventorTim Bealby
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Abstract
Systems, devices, and methods for an monitoring power consumption of a known electronic device including: monitoring, by a monitoring device, a received input electrical power from the known electronic devices; determining a maximum measured power value of the monitored input electrical power; converting the determined maximum power value to a current value; determining if the converted current value is greater than the determined maximum measured power value; connecting to a remote computing device and obtaining access to communicate with the remote computing device via an authentication process; and transmitting data to the connected remote computing device if the determined converted current value is greater than zero.
Claims15
A method of monitoring power consumption of a known electronic device, the method comprising:
- monitoring, by a monitoring device, a received input electrical power from the known electronic device;
- determining, by a microprocessor of the monitoring device, a maximum measured power value of the monitored input electrical power, wherein the maximum measured power value is determined based on scanning an Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) input pin;
- converting, by the microprocessor, the determined maximum power value to a current value;
- determining, by the microprocessor, whether the converted current value is greater than zero;
- connecting, by the microprocessor, to a remote computing device and obtaining access to communicate with the remote computing device via an authentication process;
- transmitting, by the microprocessor, data to the connected remote computing device based on whether the determined converted current value is greater than zero;
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- determining, by the remote computing device, a utilization rate of the known electronic device based on comparing the received transmitted data from the monitoring device against an associated standby current usage of a set of similar known electronic devices.
A power line utilization monitoring system comprising:
- a test equipment;
- a monitoring device comprising a Hall effect current sensor, a microprocessor, and a power supply and conditioner, wherein the microprocessor is configured to receive a voltage value transmitted by the Hall effect current sensor and to convert the received voltage value to a current value, and to determine a maximum measured power value of the monitored input electrical power;
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- a remote computing device, wherein the remote computing device comprises an authentication server, a web service, and a database service;
- wherein the microprocessor of the monitoring device is configured to determine a change in the test equipment status based on comparing the converted current value with a threshold current value;
- wherein the microprocessor of the monitoring device is further configured to communicate with the remote computing device based on a determined change in the test equipment status;
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- wherein the remote computing device is configured to determine a utilization rate of the test equipment based on a set of data received from the microprocessor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.