US Patent:
20110074596, Mar 31, 2011
Inventors:
Eric Frohlick - Hillssboro OR, US
Xiaofan Chen - San Jose CA, US
Srinivas Eerpina - Sunnyvale CA, US
Ronaldo J. Guarin - San Jose CA, US
William D. Angell - El Dorado Hills CA, US
International Classification:
G08B 5/00
H04W 4/12
G06F 15/16
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.