Real-time alert mechanism for monitoring and controlling field assets via wireless and internet technologies

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7139616
SERIAL NO

11119640

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An apparatus and system are disclosed for real-time monitoring and control of field assets. A monitoring device may be coupled to a field asset to determine the occurrence of one or more error conditions. Error conditions may be detected either as they occur or by testing the field asset at timed intervals. Upon detection of one or more error conditions, the monitoring device may initiate one or more corrective sequences to resolve the error condition. Alternatively, the monitoring device may notify a network operations center of the detected error condition. Users may access the network operations center via an Internet-enabled remote device. From the Internet-enabled remote device, the user may view status information concerning one or more field assets. The user may also use the Internet-enabled remote device to instruct the network operations center to issue commands to be executed by the monitoring device such that the error conditions on the field asset may be corrected.

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  • CRANE MERCHANDISING SYSTEMS, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Cortes, Miguel A San Antonio, TX 5 123
May, James Alan Austin, TX 2 79
Needel, William I Austin, TX 2 117

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