A system for making public a scale includes a device for capturing a weight from the scale and hardware for storing the weight and associating the weight with the scale (in some embodiments, the weight is periodically transferred to a server for central storage). There is a user interface for directing an operator having a vehicle to the scale and mechanisms for determining that the operator, and hence the vehicle, are located on the scale. Once on the scale, a weigh-bill is generated from the weight and the weigh-bill is communicated to the operator

The invention provides a system (100a) for tracking infant development, the system comprising: a portable device (101) including a camera and a processing unit, and a weighing scale (102), preferably comprising a wireless transceiver; wherein the weighing scale is configured to measure the weight of an infant and to transmit the measured weight information to the portable device; and wherein the portable device is configured to capture (401) an image of the infant; combine the received weight information and information derived from the image of the infant to obtain (404) infant development statistics; and store (403) the image and the obtained infant development statistics in a storage; wherein the information derived from the image includes at least one of the height of the infant and the head circumference of the infant. The invention further provides a portable device, a weighing scale, and a computer readable medium.

A fish weight capture system accurately captures and records the number and weight of each fish caught by fishermen through a geographic area. The system uses a series of dispersed kiosks such that each kiosk weighs each fish processed by the kiosk and captures and image and other information about the fish. The data about each fish is recorded within the kiosk and is transmitted to a central computer and stored within a database. The data received from each kiosk allow a regulatory agency to determine the number and weight of each fish type taken and set appropriate rules and regulations based on this data.

This invention relates generally to electronics, mechanics, and software, and more specifically, to systems and methods for wirelessly monitoring a brochure box. In one embodiment, the invention includes an apparatus that provides for remote content monitoring, the apparatus including a receptacle, the receptacle configurable to storing content; and a sensor node, the sensor node disposed proximate to the receptacle, the sensor node associated with a unique identifier, the sensor node configurable to monitor the existence of any stored content, the sensor node configurable to transmit a signal containing the unique identifier to a remote device, the signal being any of a cellular, satellite, and wireless network signal.

A system includes a vehicle having a rear bumper and a trailer hitch assembly having a hitch trailer ball; a trailer having a tongue adapted to engage with the hitch trailer ball and a platform configured to carry a load; and a monitoring system having a computer, a sensor operably associated with the computer and configured to measure a weight of the load carried by the trailer, and an alarm operably associated with the computer and configured to notify a user as a predetermined weight threshold is reached.

A method for measuring feed flow, feed is moved through a flexible pipe using a flexible auger operably positioned within the pipe. Feed flow through a metered section (309) of the flexible pipe is metered using a feed meter (304) attached to the flexible pipe. The feed meter includes load cell (312) configured to detect strain induced by feed mass within the metered section (309). Metering feed includes providing a measure of mass flow of the feed, using the load cell (312), when the feed moves through the metered section (309).

A portable weighing system includes: a portable table; a battery disposed on the portable table and that includes an external charge port configured to receive power for charging the battery; a scale that is disposed on the portable table, that receives power from the battery by wire, and that measures weights of objects, respectively, placed on the scale; a user interface module disposed on the portable table and configured to receive the measured weights of the objects, respectively, from the scale by wire from the scale; and a cellular hotspot module disposed on the portable table and configured to: receive the measured weights of the objects, respectively, wirelessly from the user interface module; and transmit the measured weights of the objects, respectively, via a cellular network.

A system and method for a weight monitoring system attached to a toilet, whereby one or more force sensors positioned on the underside of a toilet seat of a toilet measure weight before and after a session on the toilet such that the data may be sent to a mobile application for tracking losses and gains.

Methods and apparatus to identify loads lost from vehicles are disclosed. An example apparatus to identify a load lost from a vehicle includes at least one memory, machine readable instructions, and processor circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to determine a first load carried by the vehicle at a first time, determine a second load carried by the vehicle at a second time after the first time, identify a lost load occurrence in response to a load difference between the first load and the second load satisfying a lost load threshold, and generate an alert indicative of the lost load occurrence.

Methods and apparatus to identify loads lost from vehicles are disclosed. Example instructions cause programmable circuitry to at least determine a first load carried by a vehicle at a first time based on first signals from at least one of pressure sensors or ride height sensors, determine a second load carried by the vehicle at a second time later than the first time based on second signals from at least one of the pressure sensors or the ride height sensors, cause a lost load alert to be presented to an operator of the vehicle in response to the second load being less than the first load by at least a lost load threshold, and at least one of activate hazard lights or limit an output of an engine of the vehicle in response to the second load being less the first load by at least the lost load threshold.