Wireless e-signoff system

• US 10,564,637 B2
• Filed: 10/05/2017
• Issued: 02/18/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: Ravindranath, Balasubramanyam, Pisharam, Sreekumar Thekkuttu, Goldstein, David B., Udipi, Ranga
• Primary Examiner(s): Shaawat, Mussa A
• Application Number:
  US15/726,182
• Publication Number:
  US 20190107834A1
• Time in Patent Office: 866 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0022 characterised by the communication link data switching networks in general H04L12/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/33 using certificates
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063114 Status monitoring or status determination for a person or group
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0815 providing single-sign-on or federations

Abstract

An electronic signoff system for vehicle departure readiness is provided which may include, but is not limited to, a wireless e-signoff management system, the wireless e-signoff management system configured to generate a workflow for a turnaround of the vehicle, transmit one or more tasks to each of a plurality of personal electronic devices, receive an indication that one of the tasks has been completed when the personal electronic device reads a task completion component associated with the task, update a dashboard corresponding to the workflow after each task is completed, transmit a notification to any subscribing electronic device, the notification including the data from the dashboard, receive, from an electronic device associated with the turnaround coordinator, final signoff notification when the vehicle is ready to depart, and transmit the final signoff notification to the at least one of the subscribing electronic devices.

Claims

1. An electronic signoff system for vehicle departure readiness, comprising:

a wireless e-signoff management system comprising a processor and a memory, the wireless e-signoff management system configured to;

generate a workflow for a turnaround of the vehicle, the workflow comprising a plurality of tasks that are associated with the departure of the vehicle;

transmit, via a communication system, one or more of the plurality of tasks to each of a plurality of personal electronic devices corresponding to personnel responsible for completing the one or more of the plurality of tasks;

receive, from at least one of the plurality of personal electronic devices, an indication that one of the plurality of tasks has been completed when the personal electronic device reads a task completion component associated with the one of the plurality of tasks;

update a dashboard corresponding to the workflow after each of the plurality of tasks is completed;

transmit a notification to any subscribing electronic device, the notification including the data from the dashboard;

analyze, for each uncompleted transmitted task, a task performance, the task performance based upon an outstanding task time of each uncompleted transmitted task, and an average time each transmitted task normally takes to complete;

assign additional personnel to the uncompleted transmitted task when the outstanding task time of the uncompleted transmitted task exceeds the average time each transmitted task normally takes to complete by a predetermined amount;

receive, from an electronic device associated with a turnaround coordinator, final signoff notification when the vehicle is ready to depart; and

transmit the final signoff notification to the at least one of the subscribing electronic devices.

2. The electronic signoff system of claim 1, wherein each task completion component is proximate to a task system corresponding to one or more of the plurality of tasks.

3. The electronic signoff system of claim 2, wherein each personal electronic device further comprises a near field communication reader and the task completion component is a radio frequency identification tag.

4. The electronic signoff system of claim 2, wherein each task completion component transmits a code associated with a respective task when one of the plurality of personal electronic devices is within communication range of a respective task completion component.

5. The electronic signoff system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of personal electronic devices is a wearable electronic device.

6. A method for operating an electronic signoff system, comprising:

receiving, by a wireless e-signoff management system, a task list for a turnaround of a vehicle from a coordination system;

generating, by the wireless e-signoff management system, a workflow for the vehicle based upon the received task list, the workflow including an order in which the tasks from the task list may be completed based on available resource;

distributing, by the wireless e-signoff management system, at least one task from the task list to each of a plurality of personnel electronic devices based upon the generated workflow;

receiving, by the wireless e-signoff management system from at least one of the plurality of personal electronic devices, an indication that one of the tasks is a completed task when the at least one of the plurality of personal electronic devices is within communication range of a task completion component, the task completion component being mounted to a task system;

transmitting, by the wireless e-signoff management system, the completed task to the coordination system;

analyze, for each uncompleted transmitted task, a task performance, the task performance based upon an outstanding task time of each uncompleted transmitted task, and an average time each transmitted task normally takes to complete;

assign additional personnel to the uncompleted transmitted task when the outstanding task time of the uncompleted transmitted task exceeds the average time each transmitted task normally takes to complete by a predetermined amount;

receiving, by the wireless e-signoff management system, a final signoff from the coordination system when all of the tasks in the task list are completed tasks; and

transmitting, by the wireless e-signoff management system, the final signoff to the vehicle.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein each task completion component is a radio frequency identification tag.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein each task completion component transmits a code associated with a respective task when one of the plurality of personal electronic devices is within communication range of a respective task completion component.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein at least one of the plurality of personal electronic devices is a wearable electronic device.

10. The method of claim 6, further comprising distributing, by the wireless e-signoff management system, at least one task from the task list to one of the plurality of personal electronic devices when a prerequisite task is complete.

11. An electronic signoff system for vehicle departure readiness, comprising:

a plurality of vehicles, each vehicle comprising;

a plurality of task systems associated with tasks; and

a plurality of task completion components, each task completion components mounted on the vehicle proximate to one of the plurality of task systems; and

a wireless e-signoff management system comprising a processor and a memory, the wireless e-signoff management system configured to;

generate a workflow for a turnaround of each of the plurality of vehicles based upon available resources and a least one business rule, the workflow comprising a plurality of tasks that are associated with the departure of the plurality of vehicles;

transmit, via a communication system, one or more of the plurality of tasks to each of a plurality of personal electronic devices corresponding to personnel responsible for completing the one or more of the plurality of tasks;

receive, from at least one of the plurality of personal electronic devices, an indication that one of the plurality of tasks has been completed when the personal electronic device reads a corresponding one of the plurality of task completion components associated with the one of the plurality of tasks;

update a dashboard corresponding to the workflow for each of the plurality of vehicles after each of the plurality of tasks corresponding to a respective vehicle is completed;

transmit a notification to any subscribing electronic device, the notification including the data from the dashboard;

analyze, for each uncompleted transmitted task, a task performance, the task performance based upon an outstanding task time of each uncompleted transmitted task, and an average time each transmitted task normally takes to complete;

assign additional personnel to the uncompleted transmitted task when the outstanding task time of the uncompleted transmitted task exceeds the average time each transmitted task normally takes to complete by a predetermined amount;

receive, from an electronic device associated with a turnaround coordinator, final signoff notification when a respective one of the plurality of vehicles is ready to depart; and

transmit the final signoff notification for the respective one of the plurality of vehicles to the at least one of the subscribing electronic devices.

12. The electronic signoff system of claim 11, wherein each task completion component is equipped a radio frequency identification tag.

13. The electronic signoff system of claim 11, wherein each task completion component transmits a code associated with a respective task when one of the plurality of personal electronic devices is within communication range of a respective task completion component.

14. The electronic signoff system of claim 11, wherein at least one of the plurality of personal electronic devices is a wearable electronic device.