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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2017
Afero, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Scott Zimmerman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Daniel Altin, San Francisco, CA (US);
Joe Britt, Los Altos, CA (US);
Afero, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Abstract
A Internet of Things (IoT) system and method for a beverage distribution system. For example, one embodiment of a system comprises: a set of Internet of Things (IoT) devices configured at different locations within a beverage distribution system, each IoT device having a sensor to detect a current condition at its respective location within the beverage distribution system, each of the IoT devices having a wireless network interface and configured to transmit data associated with the current conditions over a network; and an IoT cloud service to receive the data transmitted by the set of IoT devices and to implement a set of rules specified for maintenance, problems and failure conditions associated with the beverage distribution system, the IoT cloud service to determine, based on the rules, whether the data indicates a compliance violation, problem, or failure condition and, if so, to generate a notification and/or recommendation for an action to be taken with respect to the compliance violation, problem, or failure condition.