Wirelessly activated remote data acquisition

Abstract

A wirelessly activated data acquisition (DAQ) system, includes: a central controller including a wake-up link transmitter and a data link transceiver; and a data acquisition node including: a battery; a wake-up link receiver coupled to and powered by the battery; a power supply circuit controlled by a signal from the wake-up link receiver, the power supply circuit being coupled to the battery and the wake-up link receiver; a processor coupled to the power supply circuit to receive power under control of the signal from the wake-up link receiver; and a data link transceiver coupled to the processor, wherein the processor directs the data link transceiver to transmit data from one or more sensors coupled to the processor.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.