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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2020
Elkay Manufacturing Company, Downers Grove, IL (US);
Edward Locke, Elmhurst, IL (US);
William Hamilton, Downers Grove, IL (US);
Franco Savoni, Geneva, IL (US);
Damon D. Shaw, Stillman Valley, IL (US);
Raymond T. Hecker, Elmhurst, IL (US);
Joel E. Leiser, Freeport, IL (US);
Ellen Sajdak (Felicelli), Naperville, IL (US);
Trevor Robert Smouter, Waterloo, CA;
Timothy Scott Edward Hiller, Waterloo, CA;
Elkay Manufacturing Company, Downers Grove, IL (US);
Abstract
A networked system for providing and maintaining a set of liquid dispenser stations is described. The fluid dispensers communicate with a managing/supervisory cloud server via an interposed base station. The fluid dispensers communicate locally with the base station via wireless communication network links. The base station operates as an accumulator of status/usage information provided by the dispenser stations and bridge for passing information and control commands between the cloud server and the individual dispenser stations. The dispenser stations are configured with control processors (controllers) to facilitate performing a variety of local control operations associated with dispensing liquids that have been cooled (or heated) prior to dispensing by the dispenser stations. Additionally, the dispenser stations cooperatively operate with the cloud server (via the base station) to support a variety of real time control and maintenance operations relating to the dispenser stations operating at potentially thousands of distinct geographic locations.