Replacement cartridge filter with pleated filter media, automatic filter media advance and wireless communications

A replacement filter deployed within a flow channel comprising:

• a housing having a first frame member of an at least two frame members and a second frame member of an at least two frame members that are detachable with an at least one exposure slot formed within the housing by the at least two frame members;
• an at least one filter media storage area within the housing, having unexposed, folded, pleated filter media stored therein, the unexposed folded, pleated filter media being pleated, folded, and stacked to be compactly held within the at least one filter media storage area;
• an at least one motor coupled to a power supply and in communication with a controller, the at least one motor moving an at least one movement member that advances an unexposed portion of the compactly held pleated, folded, and stacked pleated filter media into the at least one exposure slot, expanding and exposing the unexposed portion of the pleated filter media to the flow channel while retaining the pleats and creating an exposed portion of the at least one pleated filter media with an at least one processing module and an at least one transceiver module and the controller communicating with the at least one sensor, the at least one sensor communicating data to the processing module and the controller, and the transceiver module transmitting data from the filter to a network or a storage device;
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• a containment area, wherein the exposed portion of the pleated filter media is collected folded, restacked and compactly stored and retained within the containment area.