Weighing apparatus rezero fault prediction and remote alerting
AssigneeMettler-Toledo AG
InventorPatrick Toohey
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Abstract
Systems and methods for remotely monitoring the rezero status of a weighing apparatus, such as a checkweigher. Remotely located interested parties may sign up for notifications related to the weighing apparatus rezero status, and the interested parties may be automatically electronically notified when certain status conditions occur. A hierarchy of notifications may be established such that not all interested parties will receive every notification. System and method embodiments may also operate to identify certain trends in rezero data and to resultantly predict future rezero faults.
Claims21
A computerized method of monitoring and notifying one or more remotely located interested parties of the rezero status of a weighing apparatus, said method comprising:
- providing a computerized local monitoring system to monitor a rezero status of at least one weighing apparatus of interest and to transmit weighing apparatus rezero data;
- placing an external system in communication with the local monitoring system, the external system including a remote server configured at least to transmit an electronic notification to a remotely located interested party based on data received from the local monitoring system;
- analyzing, using programming associated with the local monitoring system, the rezero data received from the at least one weighing apparatus of interest to identify a status condition selected from the group consisting of a rezero operation that has failed to execute within an allotted period of time, a rezero operation that has been interrupted some predetermined number of times, an exceeded rezero threshold, and a predicted rezero fault;
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- using the remote server, transmitting an electronic notification to a remotely located interested party when such a status condition is communicated to the remote server by the local monitoring system.
A computerized method of monitoring and notifying one or more remotely located interested parties of a weighing apparatus predicted rezero fault, said method comprising:
- providing a computerized local monitoring system to monitor a rezero status of at least one weighing apparatus of interest and to transmit weighing apparatus rezero data;
- placing an external system in communication with the local monitoring system, the external system including a remote server configured at least to transmit an electronic notification to a remotely located interested party based on data received from the local monitoring system;
- analyzing, using programming associated with the local monitoring system, rezero data deadload weight readings corresponding to a series of previous weighing apparatus rezero operations, to identify any trend that indicates the future exceedance of a rezero threshold and a resultant rezero fault;
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- using the remoter server, transmitting an electronic notification of a predicted rezero fault to a remotely located interested party when such a predicted rezero fault is communicated to the remote server by the local monitoring system.
A computerized method of monitoring and electronically notifying one or more remotely located interested parties of the rezero status of a weighing apparatus, said method comprising:
- providing a computerized local monitoring system that monitors a rezero status of at least one weighing apparatus of interest and transmits electronic information about the rezero status of the monitored weighing apparatus;
- placing an external system in communication with the local monitoring system, the external system including a remote server adapted to receive rezero data from the local monitoring system and to store at least some of the rezero data;
- providing a web-based interface via which an interested party may register to receive from the remote server electronic notifications related to the rezero status of one or more weighing apparatus of interest to the interested party;
- receiving, via the web-based interface, contact information from the interested party;
- receiving, via the web-based interface, a selection of the types of notifications the interested party wishes to receive;
- receiving, via the web-based interface, a selection of the form of notifications the interested party wishes to receive;
- analyzing, using programming associated with the remote server, the rezero data received from the local monitoring system to identify a status condition selected from the group consisting of a rezero operation that has failed to execute within an allotted period of time, a rezero operation that has been interrupted some predetermined number of times, an exceeded rezero threshold, and a predicted rezero fault;
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- with the remote server, transmitting an electronic notification to a remotely located interested party when such a status condition is identified, using the inputs of the interested party to control the notifications sent to the interested party.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.