Wireless Sensor Interface Aggregating Machine Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional wireless machine data sensing systems experience processing delays due to disjointed components and cellular latency, which hinder real-time monitoring of machine operating characteristics.
Innovation Solution
A self-contained apparatus with receiver circuitry, wireless sensor interface circuitry, processing circuitry, and a touchscreen display that allows for the selection and monitoring of specific sensors, aggregating and analyzing data to provide real-time graphical user interface feedback on machine operating characteristics.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional wireless machine data sensing systems use disjointed components for sensor setup, data measurement, data analysis and display, then the system can cover all functional requirements, but processing delays occur because of handshaking requirements and cellular latency
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines sensor setup, data measurement, data analysis, and display functions into a single integrated wireless machine data sensing system. The system includes a controller that consolidates previously disjointed components, enabling real-time data processing and display without handshaking delays between separate systems. This integration maintains full functional coverage while eliminating processing delays associated with multiple independent components communicating through cellular networks.
2Productivity
If a wireless machine data sensing system includes a wireless sensor data aggregator in the machine and a data collection center located at a back office, then data can be collected and processed, but interaction between disjointed components results in processing delays
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the data collection and processing functions from the back office location and integrates them directly into the machine's controller. The controller now performs data aggregation, analysis, and display functions locally, eliminating the need for data to be transmitted to and from a remote back office. This extraction of functions from the distributed architecture resolves the handshaking delays while maintaining complete data collection capability.
3Ease of operation
If conventional systems use cellular latency for data transmission, then wireless communication is achieved, but real-time monitoring of machine operating characteristics is hindered
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from external cellular network communication to an internal dimension of data processing by implementing all sensor setup, data collection, analysis, and display functions within the machine's own controller. This dimensional shift from external to internal processing eliminates reliance on cellular network speed, enabling real-time monitoring while maintaining wireless operation. The system processes data locally rather than transmitting it over cellular networks, resolving the speed limitation.
Data Source
AI summary
An apparatus to wirelessly monitor selected sensors of a machine having a plurality of sensors includes a touchscreen display configured to display a graphical user interface (GUI) and a processor or processing circuitry that receives and analyzes data wirelessly transmitted from the selected sensors. Selection of the sensors can include display on the GUI of a first user input to receive a selection to select the machine from a predetermined list of machines, a second user input to receive an input to identify and monitor one or more operating characteristics of the machine, and a third user input to receive one or more inputs to individually associate sensor identifiers with graphics corresponding to the candidate sensor selection locations to select the sensors from which to receive and analyze data to monitor the one or more operating characteristics of the machine.