Peer-to-peer air analysis and treatment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9933790-B2
Application number	US-201615180693-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 13, 2016
Priority date	Jun 15, 2015
Publication date	Apr 3, 2018
Grant date	Apr 3, 2018

Abstract

A method is disclosed comprising drawing air into a robotic vapor device, exposing the drawn air to a sensor to detect one or more constituents in the drawn air, determining first measurement data for the one or more constituents of the drawn air via the sensor, transmitting the first measurement data to a one or more of a plurality of vapor devices via a peer-to-peer network, receiving second measurement data from the one or more of the plurality of vapor devices via the peer-to-peer network, determining one or more vaporizable materials to vaporize based on the first measurement data and the second measurement data, and dispensing a vapor comprised of the one or more vaporizable materials.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An apparatus comprising:
an intake, configured to receive air from an area around the apparatus;
a pump coupled to the intake, configured for drawing the air into the apparatus via the intake;
a sensor, coupled to the pump, configured for detecting one or more constituents in the drawn air;
a network access device configured for participating in a peer-to-peer network comprised of a plurality vapor devices;
a processor, configured for,
generating first measurement data based on the detected one or more constituents,
transmitting the first measurement data via the network access device to the peer-to-peer network,
receiving second measurement data via the network access device from the peer-to-peer network, and
determining one or more vaporizable materials to vaporize based on the first measurement data and the second measurement data;

a vaporizer component, coupled to the processor, configured for vaporizing the one or more vaporizable materials to create a vapor; and
a vapor output, coupled to the vaporizer component, configured for expelling the vapor into the area around the apparatus.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the pump comprises at least one of a variable stroke piston, variable stroke bellows, an intake fan, osmosis intake structure, or a gas pump.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the sensor comprises at least one of a gas sensor circuit, a true/false test strip, a PH sensor, a frequency reading device, a temperature reading device, a magnetic sensor, an imaging sensor, a gas chromatograph, a mass spectrometer, or a combination thereof.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first measurement data comprises a concentration of the detected one or more constituents in proximity to the apparatus.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the second measurement data comprises a concentration of the detected one or more constituents in proximity to one or more of the plurality of vapor devices.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured for causing the network access device to scan for the peer-to-peer network in response to an event.

7. The apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the event comprises one or more of the first measurement data exceeding a threshold, a system reboot, a system initialization, an elapse of a time period, or receiving a signal from a user.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising a filtration component, coupled to the processor, configured to filter air drawn into the apparatus by the pump.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the processor is further configured for determining whether to engage the filtration component based on the first measurement data and the second measurement data.

10. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the filtration component comprises electrostatic plates, ultraviolet light, a HEPA filter, or combinations thereof.

11. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the filtration component is remote from the apparatus and the processor causes the remote filtration component to filter air by communicating with the remote filtration component or a Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning (HVAC) system via the network access device.

12. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the vaporizer component is remote from the apparatus and the processor causes the remote vaporizer component to vaporize the one or more vaporizable materials by communicating with the remote vaporizer component or a Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning (HVAC) system via the network access device.

13. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising a memory element configured for storing the data.

14. The apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the memory element is configured for storing an air treatment protocol and wherein the processor is configured for comparing the first measurement and the second measurement data to an air treatment protocol.

15. The apparatus of claim 14 , wherein the air treatment protocol comprises one or more of, a target concentration for the one or more one or more constituents, a minimum threshold concentration for the one or more one or more constituents, a maximum threshold concentration for the one or more one or more constituents.

16. A method comprising:
drawing air into a robotic vapor device;
exposing the drawn air to a sensor to detect one or more constituents in the drawn air;
determining first measurement data for the one or more constituents of the drawn air via the sensor;
transmitting the first measurement data to a one or more of a plurality of vapor devices via a peer-to-peer network;
receiving second measurement data from the one or more of the plurality of vapor devices via the peer-to-peer network;
determining one or more vaporizable materials to vaporize based on the first measurement data and the second measurement data; and
dispensing a vapor comprised of the one or more vaporizable materials.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein determining first measurement data for the one or more constituents of the drawn air via the sensor comprises at least one of gas chromatography, mass spectrometry, electrochemical detecting, carbon nanotube detecting, infrared absorption, or semiconductor electrochemical sensing.

18. The method of claim 16 , wherein the first measurement data comprises a concentration of the detected one or more constituents in proximity to the apparatus.

19. The method of claim 16 , wherein the second measurement data comprises a concentration of the detected one or more constituents in proximity to one or more of the plurality of vapor devices.

20. The method of claim 16 , further comprising engaging a filtration component based on the first measurement data and the second measurement data.

Assignees

• Lunatech Llc

Inventors

• Blackley Jonathan Seamus

Classifications

• H04L67/12

  specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks · CPC title

• G01N33/0036

  specially adapted to detect a particular component (physical analysis of gaseous biological material G01N33/497) · CPC title

• G01N33/0011

  Sample conditioning (preparing specimens for investigation G01N1/28) · CPC title

• H04L67/104

  Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks · CPC title

• A24F40/40

  Constructional details, e.g. connection of cartridges and battery parts · CPC title