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US 2024/0187329 A1Published application
IoT Panel for Diagnostics and Monitoring of LAN Cable Conductors
AssigneeNflexon, LLC
InventorsRichard Y. Mei, George W. Brooks
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Abstract
A LAN cable conductor validation system includes controllable relays in-line with a portion of the twisted pair wires of the Ethernet cables. By temporarily open circuiting some of the Ethernet cable twisted pairs a drop in transmission speed can be detected for an active network component. This allows the active component's MAC address to be verified at a given physical location within the cable conductor network system.
Claims11
A current unbalance protection apparatus for a power-over-ethernet network, the apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of current sensors comprising a first current sensor and a second current sensor;
- the first current sensor being configured to take a first current measurement in an outgoing conducting path via a first twisted pair wire;
- the second current sensor being configured to take a second current measurement in a return conducting path via a second twisted pair wire;
- a controller configured to receive the first current measurement and the second current measurement;
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- the controller being able to detect a DC current unbalance condition based on current readings comprising the first current measurement and the second current measurement.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.