W.w. Grainger, Inc.

Jerry Shim

Ghikhan Blossfeld-Lau

Yang Xu

Geoffry Arthur Westphal

Brice Klein

Alessia Serafino

Mary Bee Pietrowicz

Svetlana Kharlamova

Yashaswini Madhavan

Norman Lee

Murtaza Haider

Eun Sem Kil

Kelsey Heffren

Lindsay Hai

Ray “Qianyu” Rui

Xiaoyue Chen

An inventory management system includes a beacon or button connected to a warehouse server. The beacon buttons are placed in or near a product storage area with a number of products. The beacon has a controller and a transceiver to communicate with a server. There is a user input on the front of the beacon and several sensors able to detect a user identity and interaction with the products. When the user input is triggered, the beacon sends a message to the warehouse server including a user identity and other sensor data. Additionally, the beacon includes an energy harvester configured to power the beacon from ambient or user provided energy.

Power harvesting inventory management system with identity verification

A system and method for allowing a user to quickly access product information and/or commerce functionalities as related to one or more products that are associated with an electronic document, such as a web page, that is currently being viewed by the user in an electronic document viewing program, such as an Internet browser.

Manufacture for providing access to product information and related functionalities

A sensor housing system is used to monitor the lifetime of a motor or other device. A protected housing shields a microprocessor and several sensors. The device communicates to a user information about the health of the motor or other device using thermal, vibrational, or other measurements. The information is compared to a baseline which provides a warning threshold. Once the threshold is passed, the microprocessor can alert the user that the motor or other device is about to fail.

Methods and apparatus for securing a sensor to a monitored device

Motor sensor housing

Housing for a smart motor sensor

Cap for a smart motor sensor

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Park Ridge, IL, United States of America

Jerry Shim