Sewer cleaning system
OwnerThomas Nagel, Florian Guggemosinventors
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Abstract
Provided is a sewer cleaning system with a flushing nozzle which comprises a camera and a data processing unit, wherein the data processing unit is adapted to receive images of the sewer pipe taken by the camera, to analyze the received images in order to determine a cleaning state of the sewer pipe, and to generate a signal based upon the determined cleaning state and to transmit it to a display unit, wherein the signal is indicative of the determined cleaning state, wherein the display unit is adapted to cause a visualization of the received signal on the display unit based upon the received signal. Furthermore, a correspondingly designed method is provided.
Claims15
A sewer cleaning system, comprising
- a flushing nozzle which is movable or displaceable in a sewer pipe and which is coupled to a flushing hose, wherein the flushing nozzle is designed to clean the sewer pipe when the flushing nozzle is supplied with a flushing medium via the flushing hose, and
- a display unit with a receiving unit, wherein
- the flushing nozzle comprises a transmitting unit, a camera, and a data processing unit,
- the data processing unit is coupled to the camera and to the transmitting unit,
- the transmitting unit is adapted to establish a communications connection with the receiving unit of the display unit,
- the data processing unit is adapted
- to receive images of the sewer pipe taken by the camera,
- to analyze the images received in order to determine the cleaning status of the sewer pipe, and
- to generate a signal based upon the determined cleaning state and to transmit it via the transmitting unit to the receiving unit of the display unit, wherein the signal is indicative of the determined cleaning state, and
- the display unit is adapted to cause a visualization of the received signal on the display unit based upon the signal received from the receiving unit, wherein the visualization of the signal indicates the cleaning status of the sewer pipe.
A method for controlling a flushing nozzle which is movable or displaceable in a sewer pipe, wherein the flushing nozzle comprises a transmitting unit, a camera, and a data processing unit, wherein
- the camera takes pictures of the sewer pipe,
- the data processing unit
- receives the images taken by the camera,
- analyses the images received to determine the cleaning status of the sewer pipe,
- based upon the determined cleaning state, a signal is generated and transmitted via the transmitting unit to a receiving unit, wherein the signal is indicative of the determined cleaning state, and
- the flushing nozzle is controlled as a function of the signal received at the receiving unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.