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App. No. 17/733,624

ANOMALY DETECTION FOR REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS

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App. No.
17/733,624
Abstract

In various embodiments, a process for providing anomaly detection for refrigeration systems includes receiving telemetry data of one or more refrigeration systems, including measured temperature values and setpoint temperature values; processing the telemetry data to determine machine learning input data based at least in part on at least a portion of the measured temperature values and at least a portion of the setpoint temperature values; and using one or more hardware processors to apply the machine learning input data to a trained anomaly detection machine learning model to determine periodic anomaly metrics. The process provides an automatically determined indication based at least in part on at least a portion of the periodic anomaly metrics.

Claims (41)

1 . A method, comprising:

receiving telemetry data of one or more refrigeration systems, including measured temperature values and setpoint temperature values;

processing the telemetry data to determine machine learning input data based at least in part on at least a portion of the measured temperature values and at least a portion of the setpoint temperature values;

using one or more hardware processors to apply the machine learning input data to a trained anomaly detection machine learning model to determine periodic anomaly metrics; and

providing an automatically determined indication based at least in part on at least a portion of the periodic anomaly metrics.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the telemetry data is collected by one or more sensors associated with the one or more refrigeration systems.

3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein at least one of the one or more sensors is a component included in the one or more refrigeration systems.

4 . The method of claim 2 , wherein at least one of the one or more sensors is configured to measure an ambient condition external to the one or more refrigeration systems.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the telemetry data is collected periodically and continuously.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein processing the telemetry data to determine the machine learning input data includes at least one of: transforming categorical variables, forward filling, determining relative values, or normalizing values.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the periodic anomaly metrics includes at least one of: an anomaly score or an anomaly count.

8 . The method of claim 7 , further comprising generating an anomaly alert in response to the anomaly score exceeding a score threshold for a threshold period of time; wherein:

the threshold period of time is based at least in part on the anomaly count; and

the automatically determined indication is based at least in part on the generated anomaly alert.

9 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the anomaly detection machine learning model is trained using self-supervised learning.

10 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the anomaly detection machine learning model includes an autoencoder.

11 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising processing at least a portion of the periodic anomaly metrics including by categorizing an anomaly metric based at least in part on a threshold to predict a likelihood of an equipment failure within a threshold failure time.

12 . The method of claim 1 , wherein providing the automatically determined indication includes outputting the indication to a user interface of a diagnostic tool.

13 . The method of claim 1 , wherein providing the automatically determined indication includes outputting, on a user interface, anomaly data and refrigeration-dependent data.

14 . The method of claim 13 , wherein the refrigeration-dependent data includes work order data.

15 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the automatically determined indication is provided on a graph.

16 . The method of claim 15 , wherein providing the automatically determined indication includes displaying information associated with a user-selected point in time on the graph.

17 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising training the anomaly detection machine learning model including by:

receiving a set of datapoints;

for each datapoint in the set of datapoints:

determining an anomaly score, and

determining whether to update an anomaly count based on whether the anomaly score meets a score threshold; and

determining a predictive alert based at least in part on the anomaly count;

wherein the automatically determined indication is based at least in part on the predictive alert.

18 . The method of claim 17 , wherein determining the predictive alert based at least in part on the anomaly count includes generating the predictive alert in response to the anomaly count being above a count threshold.

19 . A system, comprising:

a communication interface configured to receive telemetry data of one or more refrigeration systems, including measured temperature values and setpoint temperature values; and

a processor coupled to the communication interface and configured to:

process the telemetry data to determine machine learning input data based at least in part on at least a portion of the measured temperature values and at least a portion of the setpoint temperature values;

use one or more hardware processors to apply the machine learning input data to a trained anomaly detection machine learning model to determine periodic anomaly metrics; and

provide an automatically determined indication based at least in part on at least a portion of the periodic anomaly metrics.

20 . A computer program product embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium and comprising computer instructions for:

receiving telemetry data of one or more refrigeration systems, including measured temperature values and setpoint temperature values;

processing the telemetry data to determine machine learning input data based at least in part on at least a portion of the measured temperature values and at least a portion of the setpoint temperature values;

using one or more hardware processors to apply the machine learning input data to a trained anomaly detection machine learning model to determine periodic anomaly metrics; and

providing an automatically determined indication based at least in part on at least a portion of the periodic anomaly metrics.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 20, 2023
From: FORTIVE CORPORATION
To: ACCRUENT LLC
Reel/Frame 063029/0232 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 1, 2022
From: TIERNAN, CARTER DECEW; SINGHATWADIA, BASANT; PEKAREK, ROSEMARY ELAINE
To: FORTIVE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 060426/0732 →