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Garage door monitoring system

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Inventors: Tsui, Gallen Ka Leung;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Pham; Toan
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm:

A system and method for monitoring a garage door position from a remote location. A local sensor detects the position of a garage door and provides this information to a local transmitter. The transmitter is capable of generating a signal indicating the garage door position, where the signal can be detected by a remote receiver. In one embodiment, infrared sensors are used to detect the garage door position, while in another embodiment trigger switches detect the direction in which the garage door is moving.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The invention provides a system and method for monitoring a position of a panel.
The method comprises sending a sensor signal to a transmitter where the sensor signal is provided by a sensor detecting a status of the panel, receiving said sensor signal by the transmitter, sending a position signal from said transmitter to a remote receiver, said position signal corresponding to the status of the panel, and providing a position indicator from said remote receiver corresponding to said status of the panel.
In one embodiment, the sensor signal is provided by an infrared emitter operating with an infrared receiver, said infrared emitter and infrared receiver to detect a status of the panel.
Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed herein.

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