US Patent:
20140331557, Nov 13, 2014
Inventors:
Rik Bruns - Belvidere IL, US
Ron Seyk - Algonquin IL, US
Anders Sivebaek Nielsen - Kirke Hyllinge, DK
Rene' Joergensen - Charlottenlund, DK
Assignee:
BTR CONTROLS, INC. - Elgin IL
International Classification:
E05F 15/20
E05F 15/10
Abstract:
A system for integrating industrial doors into a total system for monitoring and control of a building, warehouse or group of buildings. Controllers for each door motor have absolute position shaft encoders that provide the exact shaft position to a controller system that allows real-time control of torque and current. Each motor controller can communicate bidirectionally over a wireless (or wired) network with other controllers and/or with one or more designated locations. Each controller can provide data over the network from any sensor or data collection device at the controller, motor or door. A program executing on a PC, laptop, tablet, smartphone can communicate with any or all of the controllers, integrate control of multiple doors, perform statistical analysis on collected data from each door and provide real-time security functions as well as long term trend data, energy usage and loss and predictive analytics.