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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2017
Abb Schweiz Ag, Baden, CH;
Leonardo Dorea Mascarenhas, Agawam, MA (US);
Tapas Ranjan Rout, Hyderabad, IN;
Rafael Enrique Higuera, Durham, NC (US);
ABB Schweiz AG, Baden, CH;
Abstract
A communications and processing module is provided. The communications and processing module is electrically coupleable to a circuit breaker to provide the circuit breaker with additional capabilities. The communications and processing module includes a housing, at least one electrical contact positioned in the housing, an output lug positioned in the housing, wherein an electrical path is defined between the at least one electrical contact and the output lug, at least one sensor positioned in the housing and operable to sense at least one operating condition of the circuit breaker, and at least one communications interface positioned in the housing and communicatively coupled to the at least one sensor, the communications interface operable to receive data from the at least one sensor that is indicative of the at least one sensed operating condition to facilitate exporting the received data to a remote computing device.