US 12,200,059 B1
Distributed sensing processing systems
Thomas Crowne, Weybridge, VT (US); and Thomas Henck, Huntington, VT (US)
Assigned to Simmonds Precision Products, Inc., Vergennes, VT (US)
Filed by Simmonds Precision Products, Inc., Vergennes, VT (US)
Filed on Feb. 13, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/109,138.
Application 18/109,138 is a continuation of application No. 16/723,105, filed on Dec. 20, 2019, granted, now 11,582,304, issued on Feb. 14, 2023.
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 67/12 (2022.01); H04L 67/10 (2022.01); H04Q 9/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 67/12 (2013.01) [H04L 67/10 (2013.01); H04Q 9/00 (2013.01); H04Q 2213/13034 (2013.01); H04Q 2213/13535 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A smart sensor, comprising:
a plurality of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) configured to receive analog signals from a sensor module;
a plurality of channel modules, each channel module connected to a respective ADC, each channel module comprising a limited data processing module configured to provide initial processing;
a data control module operatively connected to each of the plurality of channel modules and configured to select a selected channel of the plurality of channels to receive initially processed data from the limited data processing module of the selected channel, the data control module configured to interface with external memory to store data to the external memory and/or to read data from the external memory; and
a batch processing module operatively connected to the data control module and configured to receive the initially processed data of the selected channel from the data control module to provide further processing of the initially processed data.