US 2020/0026585 A1 · FACILITY MONITORING SENSOR

Abstract

A facility monitoring system and application receives and interprets readings from multiple sensors for determining a condition, alert or alarm and initiating appropriate notifications. Low-cost, deployed sensors detect or receive a parameter pertaining to a condition in a physical space, such as temperature, electric flow, or an open door. A channel to a remote monitoring server or application receives and reports the reading via a user accessible GUI (graphical user interface). A compound or aggregate value is computed from multiple channels based on readings from a plurality of sensors, thus allowing reporting of conclusory conditions based on several related readings, rather than a single scalar sensor value that imposes a burden on the user to deduce or investigate other related sensor readings. A GUI receives aggregation processor defining computations to be performed on readings from the multiple sensors, and alert processor defining conditions and alerts representative of issues requiring attention.

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Dependent claims

In a facility environment having a plurality of sensors deployed around a facility defined by a perimeter and an area for sensing environmental and ingress/egress conditions, a method of gathering sensor data, comprising:

associating, at a monitoring server, a channel with each of the sensors in the facility environment, each channel configured to transport and store a parameter value for the associated sensor;
receiving, from each of a plurality channels in the facility environment, a sensor reading indicative of a physical condition or occurrence in the facility environment;
combining readings from a plurality of the channels into a new channel having a value computed from the combined channels;
and
storing the computed value in a history file with the readings from the other channels, the history file responsive to chronological inquires based on the channels.

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In a facility environment having a plurality of sensors deployed around a facility defined by a perimeter and an area, the facility associated with operating parameters defining environmental and ingress/egress conditions, a method of gathering data regarding a facility environment, comprising:

receiving, from each of a plurality of sensors deployed in the facility environment, a sensor reading indicative of a physical condition or occurrence in the facility environment;
invoking an aggregation processor for computing an aggregate value based on a plurality of the sensor readings;
comparing the aggregate value with an alert criteria, the alert criteria indicative of whether the aggregate value denotes a notable condition in the facility environment;
and
based on the comparison, performing at least one of storing or reporting the compared aggregate value.

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A facility monitoring server device responsive to a facility environment having a plurality of sensors deployed around a facility defined by a perimeter and an area, the facility associated with operating parameters defining normal environmental and ingress/egress conditions, comprising:

an interface for receiving, from each of a plurality of sensors deployed in the facility environment, a channel associated with each of the sensors in the facility environment, each channel configured to transport and store a parameter value for the associated sensor;
an aggregation processor configured to compute an aggregate value based on combined readings from a plurality of the channels into a new channel having a value computed from the combined channels;
a storage interface to a repository for storing the aggregate value in a history file with the readings from the other channels, the history file responsive to chronological inquires based on the channels;
and
an alert processor configured to compare, based on an operating parameter and an alert criteria, whether the aggregate value is indicative of a notable occurrence in the facility environment.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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