US 12,745,124 B2 · Asset management and IOT device for refrigerated appliances

Abstract

An asset management system includes an asset management network that connects various types of refrigeration appliances to an asset manager. At the device layer, IOT devices are connected to the refrigeration appliances and have edge compute capability, including a backup power management function, and a modem for network communication. IOT device ports directly integrate with sensors, switches, and/or serial data controllers of refrigeration appliances. Push notification alarms are initiated on the edge of the network by IOT devices. The network tags operating data by appliance serial, and the asset manager stores the data using serial numbers as primary keys. The asset manager streams data from numerous appliances and uses event driven processing to promptly respond to edge alarms. The operating data keyed by serial number is enriched with proprietary data organized by appliance type and is used to develop new predictive models by appliance type.

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Dependent claims

A processor-executable method of connecting a subject refrigeration appliance to an asset manager in an asset management system for a plurality of refrigeration appliances, the method comprising:

receiving a web page request including a device identifier (“ID”) for an internet of things (“IOT”) device;
determining based on the device ID that the IOT device has not been bound to any refrigeration appliance;
in response to receiving the web page request for the IOT device and determining that the IOT device has not been bound to any refrigeration appliance, returning a web form including a field for input of a serial number of the subject refrigeration appliance;
after returning the web form, receiving input of the serial number of the subject refrigeration appliance to the web form;
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in response to receiving input of the serial number of the subject refrigeration appliance to the web form, binding the IOT device to the subject refrigeration appliance in the asset management system.

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An asset management system for a plurality of refrigeration appliances, each refrigeration appliance having a serial number, the asset management system comprising:

a plurality of internet of things (“IOT”) devices, each IOT device comprising a modem having a device identifier (“ID”) and being emblazoned with a machine readable code encoding a web address including the respective device ID, each IOT device configured to be bound to a respective one of the refrigeration appliances and configured to use the modem to transmit operating data from the respective refrigeration appliance;
a data broker configured to receive the operating data from the plurality of IOT devices and transmit structured data objects containing the operating data, each structured data object being tagged by the serial number of a source refrigeration appliance, the data broker being further configured to receive web page requests from one or more client devices entering said web addresses including the respective device IDs into web browsers, wherein in response to each web page request, the data broker is configured to determine based on the included device ID whether the IOT device has been bound to any refrigeration appliance, wherein in response to receiving a web page request and determining based on the included device ID that the IOT device has not been bound to any refrigeration appliance, the data broker is further configured to redirect the web page request to another web address for a web form including a field for inputting a serial number of a subject refrigeration appliance to bind the IOT device to the subject refrigeration appliance with the serial number input into said field, and wherein in response to receiving a web page request and determining based on the included device ID that the IOT device has been bound to any refrigeration appliance, the data broker is further configured to redirect the web page request to another web address for a public web page for displaying operating data for the respective refrigeration appliance to which the IOT has already been bound;
and
an asset manager configured to stream the structured data objects from the data broker, parse the streamed structured data objects by serial number of the source refrigeration appliance, and store the operating data contained in the structured data objects in a time series database using the serial numbers of the source refrigeration appliances as primary keys.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Asset management and IOT device for refrigerated appliances

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Asset management and IOT device for refrigerated appliances

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