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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2016
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
David Terry Trayhan, Jr., Greenville, SC (US);
Hua Zhang, Greer, SC (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the disclosure include systems, methods, and program products for evaluating the condition of a component using an acoustic sensor embedded within a lighting device. A system according to the present disclosure can include a first lighting device configured to illuminate an area of an industrial plant; a first acoustic sensor embedded within the first lighting device and configured to detect an acoustic signature of a component in the industrial plant; a computing device communicatively connected to the first acoustic sensor and configured to evaluate a condition of the component in the industrial plant based on the acoustic signature.