Configuring a data collection platform adapted to collect environment data
AssigneeOTT HydroMet B.V.
InventorsAndrejs Rozitis, Greg Koch, Michael R. Nelson, Gretchen Denton, Joanna Rita Yanaga
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Abstract
The application relates to a data collection system, a data collection platform, and a user computing device as well as methods and computer program products for configuring the data collection platform adapted to collect environment data.
Claims20
A method for configuring a data collection platform adapted to collect environment data from one or more monitoring devices, the data collection platform comprising a processor and a communication interface for communicating with the one or more monitoring devices according to a communication protocol, the method comprising:
- receiving, by the processor from a computing device in communication with the data collection platform, an instruction to configure a new monitoring device to communicate with the data collection platform;
- automatically identifying, by the processor via the communication interface and according to the communication protocol, an address of each of the one or more monitoring devices, the one or more monitoring devices comprising the new monitoring device;
- sending, by the processor to the user computing device, the address of the one or more monitoring devices, thereby causing the user computing device to display a first graphical user interface (GUI) including the address of the one or more monitoring devices and a prompt to change an address of the new monitoring device;
- receiving, from the user computing device, a user input specifying a new address for the new monitoring device;
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- assigning, by the processor via the communication interface and according to the communication protocol, the new address to the new monitoring device.
A data collection platform adapted to collect environment data from one or more monitoring devices, the data collection platform comprising a communication interface for communicating with the one or more monitoring devices according to a communication protocol, and a processor configured to:
- receive, from a user computing device, an instruction to configure a new monitoring device to communicate with the data collection platform;
- automatically identify, via the communication interface and according to the communication protocol, an address assigned to each of the one or more monitoring devices, the one or more monitoring devices including the new monitoring device;
- send to a user computing device the identified address or addresses of the one or more monitoring devices, thereby causing the user computing device to display a first GUI including the identified address or addresses and a prompt to change an address of the new monitoring device;
- receive, from the user computing device, a user input indicating a new address for the new monitoring device;
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- assign, via the communication interface and according to the communication protocol, the new address to the new monitoring device.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions which, when executed by at least one processor of a data collection platform comprising a communication interface for communicating with one or more monitoring devices according to a communication protocol, cause the at least one processor to perform a method of configuring the data collection platform to communicate with a new monitoring device, the method comprising:
- receiving, from a user computing device, an instruction to configure the new monitoring device to communicate with the data collection platform;
- identifying, via the communication interface and according to the communication protocol, an address of each of the one or more monitoring devices, the one or more monitoring devices including the new monitoring device;
- sending, to a user computing device, the identified address or addresses of the one or more monitoring devices, such that a first graphical user interface is displayed on the user computing device including the identified address or addresses and prompting a user to change an address of the new monitoring device;
- receiving, from the user computing device, a user input indicating a new address for the new monitoring device;
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- assigning, via the communication interface according to the communication protocol, the new address to the new monitoring device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.