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US 2010/0131242 A1Published application
Monitoring system with dynamically configurable non-interfering signal processing
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsMatthew Allen Nelson, Dustin Delany Hess, Summer Woodson
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Abstract
A monitoring system with dynamically configurable non-interfering signal processing is disclosed. In one aspect, data relating to the management of the operation of a machine and data relating to the safety protection of the machine are combined in a non-interfering manner.
Claims20
A system for monitoring a machine, comprising:
- at least one sensor located about the machine that generates signals representative of a machine condition;
- and
- a monitoring module that monitors the signals generated from the at least one sensor, the monitoring module comprising:
- a first level signal processing component that generates a plurality of waveforms from the signals generated from the at least one sensor, each of the plurality of waveforms providing different frequency information of the signals;
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- a second level signal processing component comprising a plurality of signal processing blocks that are dynamically configurable to be linked to form at least one data path that defines a signal processing operation to be performed on at least one waveform selected from the plurality of waveforms generated from the first level signal processing component to determine at least one measurement relating to the management of the operation of the machine and at least one data path that defines a signal processing operation to be performed on at least one waveform selected from the plurality of waveforms generated from the first level signal processing component to determine at least one measurement relating to the safety protection of the machine, wherein configurability of measurements relating to the management of the operation of the machine is independent and non-interfering with the configurability of measurements relating to the safety protection of the machine.
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A method for monitoring a machine, comprising:
- obtaining raw data representative of a condition occurring at a machine;
- generating a plurality of waveforms from the raw data, wherein each of the plurality of waveforms depict a visual representation having different frequency information of the raw data;
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- dynamically configuring a plurality of signal processing blocks to be linked to form at least one data path that defines a signal processing operation to be performed on at least one waveform selected from the plurality of waveforms to determine at least one measurement relating to the management of the operation of the machine and at least one measurement relating to the safety protection of the machine, without interfering with signal processing blocks used in other data paths that determine measurements relating to the management of the operation of the machine and other data paths that determine measurements relating to the safety protection of the machine.
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A tangible-readable medium storing instructions, which when executed, enables a processor to monitor a machine, the instructions causing the processor to perform actions comprising:
- obtaining signals representative of a machine condition;
- generating a plurality of waveforms from the signals, wherein each of the plurality of waveforms provides different frequency information of the signals;
- and
- dynamically configuring a plurality of signal processing blocks to be linked to form at least one data path that defines a signal processing operation to be performed on at least one waveform selected from the plurality of waveforms to determine at least one measurement relating to the management of the operation of the machine and at least one measurement relating to the safety protection of the machine, without interfering with signal processing blocks used in other data paths that determine measurements relating to the management of the operation of the machine and other data paths that determine measurements relating to the safety protection of the machine.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.