Equipment sound monitoring system and method

A method for comparative analysis of sound data obtained from client equipment, the system comprising:

• receiving analog sound energy from a piece of equipment associated with a client user and converting the received sound energy into digital sound data;
• generating one or more digital data files comprising location data, equipment type data, and the sound data;
• transmitting said data files to a remote server via a global communications network;
• storing the data files in a database in association with a client profile;
• aggregating data associated with the data files with previously stored and related data across a plurality of predetermined data parameters;
• identifying outlying data points with respect to the plurality of data points from the sound data;
• comparing the sound data with baseline data determined according to baseline criteria comprising one or more of the equipment type, the location and the aggregated data;
• and
• identifying data points from the sound data representative of an equipment failure.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having program instructions residing thereon, the instructions effective upon execution by a processor to perform a comparative analysis of sound data obtained from client equipment comprising the steps of:

• receiving digital data files comprising location data, equipment type data, and sound data representative of sounds collected from a piece of client equipment;
• storing the received data files in a database functionally linked to the processor;
• aggregating data associated with the data files with previously stored and related data across a plurality of predetermined data parameters;
• identifying outlying data points with respect to the plurality of data points from the sound data;
• comparing the sound data with baseline data determined according to baseline criteria comprising one or more of the equipment type, the location and the aggregated data;
• and
• identifying data points from the sound data representative of an equipment failure.