FIELD OF THE DISCLOSURE

This disclosure relates generally to sensor hubs and, more specifically, to temperature probe hubs.

BACKGROUND

A temperature probe may be used to sense and/or measure the temperature of a food item as the food item is actively being cooked. For example, a temperature probe inserted into a piece of meat may sense and/or measure the temperature of the meat as the meat is cooked via heat generated by a cooking device (e.g., a grill, an oven, etc.). The temperature probe may include and/or be connected to a probe cable, and the probe cable may include and/or be connected to a jack plug configured to be plugged into a jack of a processing device having an associated display.

When the temperature probe is connected to the processing device, temperature data sensed and/or measured by the temperature probe may be presented on the display of the processing device for viewing by an end user. The temperature data may additionally or alternatively be wirelessly transmitted from the processing device to a remotely located computing and/or communication device (e.g., a smartphone, a tablet, a laptop computer, a desktop computer, a server, a wireless access point, etc.) which may subsequently process, display, and/or further transmit the received temperature data or some derivation thereof.

The processing device described above may in some instances be implemented as a temperature probe hub configured to simultaneously receive a plurality of jack plugs of a corresponding plurality of temperature probes. In such implementations, the display of the temperature probe hub is typically configured to present temperature data corresponding to each of the temperature probes that are connected to the temperature probe hub. In some implementations, the display of the temperature probe hub may simultaneously present the temperature data for all of the connected temperature probes. In other implementations, the display of the temperature probe hub may present temperature data for a selected one of the connected temperature probes at any given time, with the selected one of the connected temperature probes being determined based on an input communicated from an end user to the temperature probe hub via a user interface of the temperature probe hub.

