Randall D Thompson

US Patent:

20170054923, Feb 23, 2017

Filed:

Aug 18, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/240414

Inventors:

- Holly Ridge NC, US
Randall Douglas Thompson - North Topsail Beach NC, US

International Classification:

H04N 5/33
G01R 31/02
G06K 9/00
G01J 5/00

Abstract:

According to one aspect, a method for remote monitoring of electrical equipment includes acquiring a set of data points, each data point representing a temperature associated with a piece of electrical equipment or a component thereof, assigning each data point to one or more groups of data points, and defining an alarm metric for each group. Each group's alarm metric may be defined independently of other group's metrics. The defined alarm metrics are used to determine the health of the electrical equipment. The data may be determined from virtual probes within an infrared sensor and/or received from RFID devices containing temperature sensor, which are attached to or near the equipment to be monitored, for example. The methods described herein do not require conversion of sensor data into temperature values, and thus obviate the need for expensive sensors and/or computationally demanding conversion, compensation, and calibration routines.