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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2003
Applicant:
Thomas E. Wallace, Charlotte, NC (US);
Inventor:
Thomas E. Wallace, Charlotte, NC (US);
Assignee:
A la Cart, Inc., Charlotte, NC (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 1/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Systems and methods for gathering data, representative of food condition information, from a plurality of remote locations and providing the information to a user together with information about the locations from which the information was gathered. The sensors may be grouped into a plurality of zones, and the food information may be presented to the user on the basis of the zone in which the respective sensor is located. A sensor's actual location may be compared to its expected location and the results provided to a user, and an alarm may be generated if the sensor's actual location differes from its expected location.