Environmental condition surveillance and methods thereof
AssigneeMagnum Energy Solutions, LLC
InventorsMichael E. Giorgi, Jorge E. Saenz
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Abstract
A surveillance platform for the sensing, measuring, monitoring and controlling equipment and environments, such as food storage and retailing environments, data center environments, and other environments in which equipment performance, operating status, and environmental condition monitoring is desirable, is provided. The surveillance platform can facilitate reporting, visualizing, acknowledging, analyzing, calculating, event generating, notifying, trending, and tracking, of operational events occurring within the environment. Such techniques can be used to protect articles such as food articles, medical articles, computing devices and equipment, artifacts, documents, and the like.
Claims20
A system, comprising:
- an access point device configured to:
- obtain over a first communication link environmental data from a sensor manager that receives the environmental data over a second communication link from at least one sensor in a monitored environment that generates the environmental data based on at least one condition with the monitored environment;
- communicate with at least one other sensor manager;
- transmit the environmental data over a third communication link to an environmental surveillance computing system that is configured to activate an actuator positioned proximate to the monitored environment to trigger an alarm in response to detection of a reference environmental condition within the monitored environment based on the environmental data;
- and
- in response to communication between the environmental surveillance computing system and the access point device being interrupted:
- store additional environmental data from the sensor manager during the interruption;
- assume control of the actuator from the environmental surveillance computing system, and
- controlling the actuator to trigger the alarm in response to detection of the reference environmental condition within the monitored climate-controlled environment.
A method, comprising:
- obtaining, by an access point device comprising a processor, environmental data over a first communication link from a sensor manager that receives the environmental data over a second communication link from at least one sensor in a monitored environment that generates the environmental data based on at least one condition with the monitored environment;
- communicating, by the access point device, with at least one other sensor manager;
- providing, by the access point device, the environmental data over a third communication link to an environmental surveillance computing system that is configured to activate an actuator positioned proximate to the monitored environment to trigger an alarm in response to detection of a reference environmental condition within the monitored environment based on the environmental data;
- and
- in response to communication between the environmental surveillance computing system and the access point device being interrupted:
- storing, by the access point device, additional environmental data from the sensor manager during the interruption;
- taking, by the access point device, control of the actuator from the environmental surveillance computing system, and
- control, by the access point device, the actuator to trigger the alarm in response to detection of the reference environmental condition within the monitored climate-controlled environment.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution, cause an access point device including a processor to perform operations comprising:
- receiving environmental data over a first communication link from a sensor manager that receives the environmental data over a second communication link from at least one sensor in a monitored environment that generates the environmental data based on at least one condition with the monitored environment;
- communicating with at least one other sensor manager;
- sending the environmental data over a third communication link to an environmental surveillance computing system that is configured to activate an actuator positioned proximate to the monitored environment to trigger an alarm in response to detection of a reference environmental condition within the monitored environment based on the environmental data;
- and
- in response to communication between the environmental surveillance computing system and the access point device being interrupted:
- storing additional environmental data from the sensor manager during the interruption;
- taking control of the actuator from the environmental surveillance computing system, and
- control the actuator to trigger the alarm in response to detection of the reference environmental condition within the monitored climate-controlled environment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.