Methods and arrangements for sensors

US9648476B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Intel Corporation · US

Inventors

• Eric Frohlick · Hillsboro, US
• Xiaofan Chen · San Jose, US
• Srinivas Eerpina · Sunnyvale, US
• Ronaldo J. Guarin · San Jose, US
• William D. Angell · Cameron Park, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 31, 2013
• Grant date: May 9, 2017
• Expiry date: Dec 31, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04Q2209/823
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Generally, smart sensors, logic to process messages from smart sensors, and smart sensor systems are described herein. Embodiments may comprise logic such as hardware and/or code to communicate events as messages via a messaging system to post the messages to a messaging account. The messaging system may be a texting service like Twitter™ that captures the messages and then re-broadcasts the messages, e.g., immediately as a tweet or a cellular text message. In some embodiments, the smart sensor comprises a communications module with a Twitter™ application program interface (API) on a communications platform with a software/hardware framework to interconnect with one or more pluggable monitors with sensors. In other embodiments, the communications module may be integrated with one or more monitors. Further embodiments comprise a smart-device, which can provide status updates and event notifications to a user.