Infrastructure monitoring devices, systems, and methods
AssigneeMueller International, LLC
InventorsGregory E. Hyland, Robert Paul Keefe, Marietta Edmunds Zakas, Clayton Robert Barker
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Abstract
An infrastructure monitoring assembly includes a housing mountable on a fire hydrant of an infrastructure system; and a sensor coupled to the housing, the sensor configured to sense at least one condition of a fluid within the infrastructure system. An infrastructure monitoring system includes a fire hydrant of an infrastructure system; a housing mountable on the fire hydrant of the infrastructure system; and a sensor coupled to the housing, the sensor configured to sense at least one condition of a fluid within the infrastructure system.
Claims15
An infrastructure monitoring assembly comprising:
- a housing comprising an exterior wall and mountable on a fire hydrant of an infrastructure system, the housing configured to engage with threading of the fire hydrant, the exterior wall defining a hole;
- an antenna cover defining a cavity and comprising a material configured to allow signals to transmit therethrough;
- an antenna extending through the hole of the exterior wall of the housing and within the cavity of the antenna cover;
- a communications device connected to the antenna and positioned within the housing;
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- a sensor connected to the communications device and coupled to the housing, the sensor configured to sense at least one condition of a fluid within the infrastructure system;
- wherein the housing is further configured to isolate the sensor from any fluid exterior to the housing;
- wherein the housing comprises an enclosure;
- and
- wherein the housing is a nozzle cap.
An infrastructure monitoring assembly comprising:
- a housing comprising internal components and an exterior wall and mountable on a fire hydrant of an infrastructure system, the exterior wall defining a hole, the housing configured to
- engage with threading of the fire hydrant, and
- isolate the internal components from any fluid exterior to the housing;
- an antenna cover defining a cavity and comprising a material configured to allow signals to transmit therethrough;
- an antenna extending through the hole of the exterior wall of the housing and within the cavity of the antenna cover;
- and
- a monitoring device coupled to the housing, the monitoring device configured to monitor at least one condition of a medium transported within the infrastructure system;
- wherein the housing is a nozzle cap, wherein the nozzle cap is constructed from a particular material, and wherein the antenna cover is constructed from a different material than the particular material of the nozzle cap.
An infrastructure monitoring system comprising:
- a fire hydrant in an infrastructure system;
- a housing comprising internal components and an exterior wall and mountable on the fire hydrant of the infrastructure system, the exterior wall defining a hole, the housing configured to
- engage with threading of the fire hydrant, and
- isolate the internal components from any fluid exterior to the housing;
- a sensor coupled to the housing, the sensor configured to sense at least one condition of a fluid within the infrastructure system;
- an antenna cover defining a cavity and comprising a material configured to allow signals to transmit therethrough;
- and
- an antenna extending through the hole of the exterior wall of the housing and within the cavity of the antenna cover;
- wherein the housing is a nozzle cap, wherein the nozzle cap is constructed from a particular material, and wherein the antenna cover is constructed from a different material than the particular material of the nozzle cap.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.