METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR APU DATA ACQUISITION AND ACTIONS FROM COMBINED SOURCES AND USER INCENTIVES FOR USE

• Main Authors: Weiss, Michael R, Srnec, Matthew
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 04.07.2019
• Subjects: ADVERTISING; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND,DEAF OR MUTE; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDEDFOR ELSEWHERE; CHECKING-DEVICES; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DIAGRAMS; DISPLAY; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; GLOBES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PLANETARIA; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; SEALS; TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION; TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL; VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISEPROVIDED FOR; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS

Methods, system, and user interface for collecting, combining, analyzing, providing feedback on APU data and external data are disclosed. The disclosed embodiments can help to track the quality of the APU, to improve the APU, and to make the APU better. The disclosed embodiments can help to improve APU reliability and to set service (or maintenance) intervals. The disclosed embodiments can help to establish a robust APU operating profile and provide a low cost, flexible, and high data-yield solution that can benefit the APU manufactures (or designers, maintainers) and the APU end users. The disclosed embodiments can also provide a low-cost data acquisition from the external devices and the APU through the use on an incentive-based user interface. The disclosed embodiments can utilize the existing mobile device display as HMI and the existing mobile device data plan and network connections as the data channel.