Computer-generated speech device for site survey and maintenance

• US 10,121,470 B2
• Filed: 06/11/2014
• Issued: 11/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: Kamalakannan, Arunkumar, Sundriyal, Shubhankar, Kulkarni, Amit, Ravi, Monica
• Primary Examiner(s): Tzeng, Forrest F
• Application Number:
  US14/302,104
• Publication Number:
  US 20150364138A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,609 Days
• Field of Search: 704260, 704E13011
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06311 Scheduling, planning or task assignment for a person or group
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/00 Speech synthesis; Text to speech systems
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information

Abstract

Computer-generated speech devices for site survey and maintenance, and methods of using the same are described herein. One computer-generated speech device includes a location engine to determine a location of the computer-generated speech device at a site, a solution engine to identify an action to perform associated with one of a plurality of nodes at the site using the location of the computer-generated speech device and input data associated with the plurality of nodes, and a speech engine to broadcast the identified action as computer-generated speech using a speaker component of the computer-generated speech device for a user to perform during a survey and/or maintenance of the site.

Claims

1. A computer-generated speech device for site survey and/or maintenance, comprising:

a location engine to determine a location of the computer-generated speech device at a site;

a solution engine to;

identify, using input data, a plurality of events associated with a plurality of nodes that form a network at the site that require maintenance, wherein the site includes a plurality of regions;

prioritize the plurality of events based on level of criticality, region, and number of events in each region, select an event based on the criticality, the region, and the number of events in each region, and determine directions to guide a user to the event selected;

identify an action for a user to perform during a survey and/or maintenance of the site associated with one of the plurality of nodes at the site using the location of the computer-generated speech device and input the data associated with the plurality of nodes;

identify a new event that has not been previously a part of the plurality of events, wherein the new event occurs during the survey and/or maintenance of the site and prioritize the plurality of events including the new event;

a speech engine to broadcast the identified action as computer-generated speech using a speaker component of the computer-generated speech device for the user to perform during the survey and/or maintenance of the site and to broadcast an alert in response to the priority of the new event; and

a speech recognition engine to process a speech command to determine root cause of the event, received using a microphone component of the computer-generated speech device, wherein the solution engine, in response to the processed speech command, identifies if there is a change in a signal strength between historical data and current data of a node of the plurality of nodes and in response to identifying the change in the signal strength, determines the root cause of the event is a change in infrastructure, and in response to not identifying the change to the signal strength, identifies if there is a change in channel interference between the historical data and the current data of the node and in response to identifying there is a change in channel interference, determines the root cause of the event is an external system interfering at the same channel as the node.

2. The computer-generated speech device of claim 1, wherein the location engine further determines a location of the number of nodes at the site using the input data.

3. The computer-generated speech device of claim 1, wherein the broadcast of the identified action further includes the speech engine to convert the identified action to computer-generated speech.

4. The computer-generated speech device of claim 1, wherein:

the solution engine identifies an event created by the activity of the user while at the site; and

the speech engine broadcast the identified event as computer-generated speech using the speaker component.

5. The computer-generated speech device of claim 1, wherein:

the solution engine;

identifies a first event and a second event; and

prioritizes the first event as a higher priority than the second event based on event data; and

the speech engine broadcasts the first event and directions to a location of the first event as computer-generated speech using the speaker component.

6. A method for surveying and/or maintaining a site using a computer-generated speech device, comprising:

identifying, using input data, a plurality of events associated with a plurality of nodes that form a network at a site that require maintenance, wherein the site includes a plurality of regions;

prioritizing the plurality of events at the site based on level of criticality, region, and number of events in each region, using input data associated with the plurality of nodes and selecting an event based on the criticality, the region, and the number of events in each region;

identifying a new event that has not been previously a part of the plurality of events, wherein the new event occurs during the survey and/or maintenance of the site and prioritizing the plurality of events including the new event;

converting computer-readable instructions associated with the selected event among the plurality of prioritized events to computer-generated speech;

broadcasting the computer-generated speech using a speaker component of the computer-generated speech device to inform a user of the selected event;

broadcasting an alert in response to the priority of the new event;

broadcasting directions, based on the plurality of prioritized events, to a location of the selected event as computer-generated speech using the speaker component to guide the user to the location; and

processing a speech command to determine root cause of the event, received using a microphone component of the computer-generated speech device, in response to the processed speech command, identifying if there is a change in a signal strength between historical data and current data of a node of the plurality of nodes and in response to identifying the change in the signal strength, determining the root cause of the event is a change in infrastructure, and in response to not identifying the change to the signal strength, identifying if there is a change in channel interference between the historical data and the current data of the node and in response to identifying there is a change in channel interference, determining the root cause of the event is an external system interfering at the same channel as the node.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein prioritizing the plurality of events includes using at least one of event data, historical node data, current node data, a location of the computer-generated speech device, and a location of each node associated with the event among the plurality of events.

8. The method of claim 6, including:

converting computer-readable instructions associated with a second event among the plurality of prioritized events to computer-generated speech in response to an input indicating the event is resolved; and

broadcasting the computer-generated speech using the speaker component of the computer-generated speech device to inform the user of the second event.

9. The method of claim 8, including determining the event is resolved based on the input, wherein the input includes at least one of a speech command from the user and automatic updates from the nodes towards the computer-generated speech device.

10. A computer-generated speech device for site survey, comprising:

a location engine to;

determine a location of the computer-generated speech device at a site, wherein the site includes a plurality of regions; and

determine a location of a plurality of nodes at the site;

a solution engine to;

identify an event, among a plurality of events, wherein the event is associated with a node among the plurality of nodes using input data associated with the node;

prioritize the plurality of events based on level of criticality, region, and number of events in each region and select an event based on the prioritization;

identify a new event that has not been previously a part of the plurality of events, wherein the new event occurs during the survey and/or maintenance of the site and prioritize the plurality of events including the new event; and

determine directions to guide a user to the node associated with the selected event using the determined location of the computer-generated speech and the determined location of the node;

a speech engine to;

convert the identified event and determined directions to computer-generated speech; and

broadcast the computer-generated speech and an alert in response to the priority of the new event using a speaker component of the computer-generated speech device; and

a speech recognition engine to process a speech command to determine root cause of the event, received using a microphone component of the computer-generated speech device, wherein the solution engine, in response to the processed speech command, identifies if there is a change in a signal strength between historical data and current data of a node of the plurality of nodes and in response to identifying the change in the signal strength, determines the root cause of the event is a change in infrastructure, and in response to not identifying the change to the signal strength, identifies if there is a change in channel interference between the historical data and the current data of the node and in response to identifying there is a change in channel interference, determines the root cause of the event is an external system interfering at the same channel as the node.

11. The computer-generated speech device of claim 10, wherein

the speech engine:

converts the determined root cause to computer-generated speech; and

broadcasts the computer-generated speech using the speaker component of the computer-generated speech device.

12. The computer-generated speech device of claim 10, where the solution engine:

identifies an event outside a current region of the site; and

in response to the identified event outside the current region, determines directions to a node associated with the event outside the current region using the determined location of the computer-generated speech device and the determined location of the node.