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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2010
Eric K. Watson, Crestwood, KY (US);
Timothy A. Hamel, Ashville, NC (US);
Richard Devos, Goshen, KY (US);
Natarajan Venkatakrishnan, Louisville, KY (US);
Charles Dawes, Long Beach, CA (US);
Michael Kello, Louisville, KY (US);
Rajendra Prasad Gottipati, Hyderabad, IN;
Donald Ganiere, Ottawa, IL (US);
Steven Keith Root, Buckner, KY (US);
Eric K. Watson, Crestwood, KY (US);
Timothy A. Hamel, Ashville, NC (US);
Richard DeVos, Goshen, KY (US);
Natarajan Venkatakrishnan, Louisville, KY (US);
Charles Dawes, Long Beach, CA (US);
Michael Kello, Louisville, KY (US);
Rajendra Prasad Gottipati, Hyderabad, IN;
Donald Ganiere, Ottawa, IL (US);
Steven Keith Root, Buckner, KY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system for monitoring an appliance is disclosed. The method includes establishing a wireless communication connection between a communication module in an appliance and a communication network, transmitting operational data in real-time from the appliance to an external monitoring system over the communication network, determining a status of a component of the appliance from the real-time operational data, and if a failure mode of the component is detected, initiating a service protocol corresponding to the component.