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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2015
Raytheon Bbn Technologies Corp., Cambridge, MA (US);
Stephen D. Milligan, Stow, MA (US);
Dale Gordon Robertson, Billerica, MA (US);
Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
According to one aspect, embodiments of the invention provide a method for providing power to a distributed sensor system, the method comprising providing power from at least one port of an interface unit to a first port of a first sensor unit of at least one of a plurality of sensor strings, powering up the first sensor unit, forwarding power from a second port of the first sensor unit to a first port of a second sensor unit of the at least one of the plurality of sensor strings, powering up the second sensor unit, monitoring the plurality of sensor strings for a fault condition, and in response to detecting a fault condition in a first sensor string of the plurality of sensor strings, providing power from a second one of the plurality of sensor strings to the first sensor string.