Warning Light Device Centralized Monitoring via Universal Interface
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing warning light systems for monitoring multiple technical units face complexity and incompatibility issues, particularly in large workshops with diverse machines and bus systems, making central monitoring challenging and safety-risk prone.
Innovation Solution
A warning light device with multiple warning lamps and signaling columns, each with alternating modules, allows for centralized monitoring by using a uniform electronic system for data and control signal transmission, including wireless communication, and addressable interfaces for efficient state indication and data storage, enabling simpler integration and reduced complexity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If a network with uniform control system is used for central monitoring of multiple technical units, then centralized monitoring capability is improved, but device complexity and incompatibility increase due to diverse machines and bus systems
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a universal interface device as an intermediary between diverse technical units with different bus systems and the central monitoring system. This interface device translates and standardizes communication protocols, enabling centralized monitoring without requiring a uniform control system across all machines. The intermediary handles protocol conversion and data normalization, resolving incompatibility issues while maintaining centralized oversight capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The monitoring system employs a universal interface design that can accommodate multiple bus systems and communication protocols through a single standardized platform. This multi-functional interface device can adapt to various machine types and generations, providing centralized monitoring capability across heterogeneous technical units without requiring separate specialized systems for each machine type.
2Ease of operation
If wireless communication is implemented for remote monitoring of warning lights, then ease of operation and remote accessibility are improved, but reliability and allocation accuracy deteriorate in large workshops with numerous technical units
Solution Approach 1:
The system maintains continuous wireless communication links between warning light devices and mobile receiving devices, ensuring uninterrupted monitoring capability. The continuous data transmission and real-time updating of operating states prevent loss of information and maintain reliable state allocation even in large workshops with numerous technical units, as the system continuously tracks and communicates status changes without interruption.
3Device complexity
If multiple technical units are monitored individually without networking, then device complexity is reduced, but productivity and monitoring efficiency decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple individual warning light monitoring functions into a single integrated networked system. By merging the monitoring capabilities across multiple technical units into one unified network, the system improves productivity and monitoring efficiency while managing complexity through standardized interfaces and modular architecture, allowing operators to monitor multiple units simultaneously rather than individually.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
This solution enables effective, cost-effective, and reliable monitoring of multiple technical units with reduced complexity, improving operational reliability and safety by allowing a single uniform indication system and central observation of operating states, even across different machines and generations.
Implementation Method 1
Each alternating module has an incandescent lamp or one or several light-emitting diodes which are already colored correspondingly
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AI summary
A warning light device having a first warning lamp exhibiting at least one first light unit with at least one first lighting element for visually indicating at least one operating state of a first technical unit having a first electronic control device and having at least one indicating unit for visually indicating at least one operating state, especially several different operating states of the first warning lamp, wherein at least one electronic warning lamp connection is provided for transmitting data and/or control signals at least between the first warning lamp and the indicating unit to provide for the monitoring of several different technical units with considerably less expenditure than in the prior art. This is achieved by the fact the indicating unit is constructed as signaling column having at least one second alternating module with at least one second lighting element.