Cloud-based system for water analysis
OwnerJames Bennett Babcock, Rebecca Elizabeth Petruccy +2inventors
InventorsJames Bennett Babcock, Rebecca Elizabeth Petruccy, Bretton Wade, Dominic Kennedy
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Abstract
A cross-platform web-based system for water testing capable of measuring, analyzing and maintaining the quality of water using a plurality of different test strip readers each configured to obtain a digital image of a reagent test strip, normalize and analyze color information in the digital image by colorimetric analysis, and to transmit a set of colorimetric values corresponding to said digital image to a cross-platform cloud-based system for analysis. The cloud-based server(s) receive the colorimetric values, calculate analyte parts-per-million (ppm), and return the calculated analyte ppm with consistant results no matter which reader is used.
Claims22
A cloud-based system for water testing, comprising:
- a cloud computing network including at least one web-enabled computer having a processor, a computer readable non-transitory storage medium, and software comprising instructions stored on said non-transitory storage medium for receiving a set of colorimetric values corresponding to a test sample, calculating analyte parts-per-million (ppm) from said set of colorimetric values, and outputting said calculated analyte ppm;
- a plurality of different test strip readers chosen from among a group comprising smartphones, kiosk computers, portable digital strip readers, and remote computers, all in communication with said cloud computing network, said plurality of different test strip readers all including a processor, a computer readable non-transitory storage medium, and software comprising instructions stored on said non-transitory storage medium for providing a user interface to obtain a digital image of a reagent test strip, for normalizing and analyzing color information in the digital image by colorimetric analysis, and for transmitting a set of colorimetric values corresponding to said digital image to said cloud-based computer system for analysis.
A method for water testing, comprising the steps of
- providing software executable on a plurality of different test strip readers chosen from among a group comprising smartphones, kiosk computers, portable digital strip readers, and remote computers, all of said test strip readers including a computer processor and computer readable non-transitory storage medium;
- executing said software on one of said plurality of different test strip readers to instantiate a user interface;
- guiding a user by said user interface to capture a digital image of a reagent test strip;
- said executed software automatically normalizing and analyzing color information in the captured digital image by colorimetric analysis to produce a set of colorimetric values corresponding to said digital image;
- transmitting said a set of colorimetric values to a remote computer system for analysis;
- receiving said transmitted colorimetric values at said remote computer system;
- calculating at said remote computer system analyte parts-per-million (ppm) from said received set of colorimetric values;
- outputting said calculated analyte ppm back to said one of said plurality of different test strip readers;
- displaying said calculated analyte ppm to said user at said one of said plurality of different test strip readers.
An apparatus for water testing, comprising:
- a web-enabled computer having a processor, a computer readable non-transitory storage medium, and software comprising instructions stored on said non-transitory storage medium for receiving a set of colorimetric values corresponding to a test sample, calculating analyte parts-per-million (ppm) from said set of colorimetric values, and outputting said calculated analyte ppm;
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- a test strip reader including a processor, a display, a computer readable non-transitory storage medium, and software comprising instructions stored on said non-transitory storage medium for providing a user interface on said display to obtain a digital image of a reagent test strip, for normalizing and analyzing color information in the digital image by colorimetric analysis, and for transmitting a set of colorimetric values corresponding to said digital image to said web-enabled computer for analysis.
The apparatus for water testing according to claim 21, further comprising a gas cylinder for ejecting said loading shuttle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.