Abstract: A method of operating a battery powered telemetric device configured with a processor, a sensor to measure data to indicate the contents or usage of a product within an asset generating sample data, data storage, at least one battery and a transmitter, includes keeping in the data storage at least one instance of previous data samples represented in a previously transmitted packet, awakening the telemetric device at variable time intervals programmed according to pre-determined user-defined characteristics so that the sensor provides sample data to the data storage to indicate the contents or usage of the product within the asset wherein the telemetric device is otherwise asleep to minimize battery drain, storing all the sample data since the transmission of the previously transmitted packet and the kept at least one instance of previous data samples represented in the previously transmitted packet in the data storage as all the stored sample data, transmitting a packet including representations of the conten

Abstract: A method of operating a battery powered telemetric device configured with a processor, a sensor to measure data to indicate the contents or usage of a product within an asset generating sample data, data storage, at least one battery and a transmitter, includes keeping in the data storage at least one instance of previous data samples represented in a previously transmitted packet, awakening the telemetric device at variable time intervals programmed according to pre-determined user-defined characteristics so that the sensor provides sample data to the data storage to indicate the contents or usage of the product within the asset wherein the telemetric device is otherwise asleep to minimize battery drain, storing all the sample data since the transmission of the previously transmitted packet and the kept at least one instance of previous data samples represented in the previously transmitted packet in the data storage as all the stored sample data, transmitting a packet including representations of the conten

Abstract: A method of operating a battery powered telemetric device configured with a processor, a sensor to measure data to indicate the contents or usage of a product within an asset generating sample data, data storage, at least one battery and a transmitter, includes keeping in the data storage at least one instance of previous data samples represented in a previously transmitted packet, awakening the telemetric device at variable time intervals programmed according to pre-determined user-defined characteristics so that the sensor provides sample data to the data storage to indicate the contents or usage of the product within the asset wherein the telemetric device is otherwise asleep to minimize battery drain, storing all the sample data since the transmission of the previously transmitted packet and the kept at least one instance of previous data samples represented in the previously transmitted packet in the data storage as all the stored sample data, transmitting a packet including representations of the conten

Abstract: A method of operating a battery powered telemetric device configured with a processor, a sensor to measure data to indicate the contents or usage of a product within an asset generating sample data, data storage, at least one battery and a transmitter, includes keeping in the data storage at least one instance of previous data samples represented in a previously transmitted packet, awakening the telemetric device at variable time intervals programmed according to pre-determined user-defined characteristics so that the sensor provides sample data to the data storage to indicate the contents or usage of the product within the asset wherein the telemetric device is otherwise asleep to minimize battery drain, storing all the sample data since the transmission of the previously transmitted packet and the kept at least one instance of previous data samples represented in the previously transmitted packet in the data storage as all the stored sample data, transmitting a packet including representations of the conten

Abstract: A telemetric device configured to specify a particular stored change threshold value, receive and store sample data received from the sensor, wherein the stored sample data comprises previous sample data, a representation of which was transmitted in a previous transmission, and recent sample data collected since the previous transmission, determine a corresponding change value wherein the corresponding change value is the difference between at least one instance of the recent sample data and at least one instance of the previous sample data, compare the corresponding change value with the specified particular stored change threshold value to determine whether the corresponding change value is equal to or exceeds the specified particular stored change threshold value and trigger the transmitter to transmit a representation of the at least one instance of the recent sample data when the corresponding change value is equal to or exceeds the specified particular stored change threshold value.

Abstract: A telemetric electronic device configured with a processor, having an interface between the telemetric electronic device and an asset, the asset configured to contain a contained product, a transmitter coupled to the processor; a sensor coupled to the processor, the sensor configured to provide sample data to indicate contents level or usage of the contained product, wherein the processor is configured to: specify a particular stored change threshold value, receive and store sample data received from the sensor, wherein the stored sample data comprises previous sample data, a representation of which was transmitted in a previous transmission, and recent sample data collected since the previous transmission, determine a corresponding change value wherein the corresponding change value is the difference between at least one instance of the recent sample data and at least one instance of the previous sample data, compare the corresponding change value with the specified particular stored change threshold value t