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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2018
Eaton Intelligent Power Limited, Dublin, IE;
QingHui Yuan, Edina, MN (US);
Jeffrey Lowinger, Cleveland, OH (US);
EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED, Dublin, IE;
Abstract
The present disclosure describes a hybrid, wireless sensor network architecture for monitoring, operating, controlling, or maintaining a fluid delivery and distribution system. The architecture includes intelligent fittings locatable at almost any location within the system and that are configured with sensor modules to make measurements of characteristics of a fluid passing therethrough or of component parameters, and with wireless communication modules to wireless communicate the measurements. The intelligent fittings may be used, via strategic location, to convert unintelligent components of the system into intelligent components at a cost lower than that required to replace the unintelligent components with intelligent components. The intelligent fittings may also replace unintelligent fittings to provide supplemental data corresponding to fluid characteristics at desired locations of a fluid delivery and distribution system. The architecture further includes a digital twin of a hybrid, wireless sensor network that may downloaded to controllers for use.