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US 2021/0240152 A1Published application
System for monitoring smart utilities
AssigneeCarrier Corporation
InventorsGuru Charan Kottur, Aditya Swami
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Abstract
Disclosed is a system including one or more smart utilities, and a personal smart device configured to: communicate with the one or more smart utilities over one or more networks, instruct the one or more smart utilities to return self-identifying information, and instruct one or more of the one or more smart utilities, individually or as a subgroup, to activate an identifying beacon.
Claims20
A system including one or more smart utilities and a personal smart device configured to:
- communicate with the one or more smart utilities over one or more networks,
- transmit first instructions to the one or more smart utilities to return self-identifying information, and
- transmit second instruction to one or more of the one or more smart utilities, individually or as a subgroup, to activate an identifying beacon.
A method identifying of one or more smart utilities, comprising:
- communicating, with a personal smart device, a communication to the one or more smart utilities over a respective one or more networks,
- transmitting first instructions, with the personal smart device, to the one or more smart utilities to return self-identifying information, and
- transmitting second instructions, with the personal smart device, to one or more of the one or more smart utilities, individually or as a subgroup, to activate an identifying beacon.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.