System And Method For Transmitting Pollution Information Over An Integrated Wireless Network
AssigneeSipco, LLC
InventorTHOMAS D. PETITE
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Abstract
A pollution information message system provides a system and method for generating and transmitting pollution information messages. In one embodiment, the pollution information message system employs a transceiver network with a plurality transceivers coupled to monitoring devices. Control room operators receive a pollution information message from an identifiable transceiver. The transceiver, identified by an identification code, indicates a location and the nature of the detected pollution. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
Claims11
In a system that communicates a pollution information message in a wireless network that comprises wireless pollution communication devices, a wireless pollution detector device comprising:
- a pollution detector configured to monitor and detect pollution events, the pollution detector further configured to generate pollution information signals containing information about detected pollution events;
- a wireless transceiver having a unique identification code and being electrically interfaced with the pollution detector, the wireless transceiver being configured to receive information and identification information transmitted from a second wireless transceiver;
- the wireless transceiver being further configured to wirelessly transmit a data message containing the unique identification code, the pollution information signals, the information and identification information associated with the second wireless transceiver;
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- a memory electrically coupled to the wireless transceiver and storing communication path information and wherein the wireless transceiver transmits the data message in accordance with the stored communication path information.
In a wireless communication system that communicates one or more pollution information messages via a wireless network that comprises wireless pollution communication devices, the wireless communication system comprising:
- a wireless transceiver configured to receive a signal from a pollution detector configured to detect pollution, the transceiver configured to transmit a pollution information message that is communicated through a transceiver network, wherein the pollution information message comprises information including pollution detector type, detected pollution levels, and pollution detector operational status;
- the wireless transceiver further being configured to receive one or more pollution information messages from one or more remote wireless transceivers, and forward said received pollution information messages along to a recipient device in accordance with a predetermined communication path;
- an identification code uniquely associated with the transceiver such that a location of the detector is determined by associating the identification code with information residing in a database that includes at least the location of the transceiver;
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- a memory for storing the predetermined communication path that includes one or more wireless transceivers in the wireless network.
A method for communicating pollution information messages, the method comprising:
- generating a pollution information message having at least an identification code uniquely assigned to the transceiver, pollution detector type, detected pollution levels, and pollution detector operational status;
- communicating the pollution information message from the transceiver to a second transceiver coupled to a pollution detector;
- communicating the pollution information from the second transceiver to a network transceiver such that the pollution information message is communicated over an intermediary communication system to a pollution monitoring management controller;
- defining a communication path to transmit the pollution information message from the transceiver to the second transceiver;
- communicating the pollution information message onto the intermediary communication system;
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- receiving a signal from a detector configured to detect pollution such that generating the pollution information message is made in response to receiving the signal from the detector.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.