Data processing: measuring – calibrating – or testing – Measurement system – Remote supervisory monitoring
Patent
1997-11-26
1999-12-14
Assouad, Patrick
Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing
Measurement system
Remote supervisory monitoring
34087001, 370280, 710 8, 709217, 709220, G06F 1740
Patent
active
06002996&
ABSTRACT:
A networked sensor system that simultaneously acquires, processes, and transmits sensor data under the control of a central processing unit. The system includes sensors connected to sensor processing modules. The sensor processing modules are serially coupled together and to the central processing unit by a fiber optic network. The central processing unit can change the sensor sampling rate by changing a global clock rate, can describe the number and layout of sensor processing modules and their associated sensors allowing for reconfiguration in accordance with a desired application, and can download code to the sensor processing modules for modifying processing functions for a given application. The global clock also allows for synchronous sampling throughout the network. Sensor gain in the sensor processing modules is dynamically programmed by the central processing unit.
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Burks Gregory L.
Fort Dennis E.
Spencer Erika L. S.
Widmer Hans P.
Assouad Patrick
Krivak Carla Magda
The Johns Hopkins University
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