Method and system for modeling and managing terrain, buildings, and infrastructure
First Claim
1. An asset management method, comprising the steps of:
- storing, sending, or retrieving information pertaining to at least two different distributed networks of infrastructure equipment, said information being selected from the group consisting of installation data, performance data, infrastructure information, and maintenance data; and
selectively retrieving, displaying, aggregating, or analyzing selected information from said at least two different distributed networks, wherein each of said distributed networks of infrastructure equipment is represented in a site-specific computer database model having computer representations of physical locations and interconnections of the infrastructure equipment stored therein.
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Abstract
A method and system for creating, using, and managing a three-dimensional digital model of the physical environment combines outdoor terrain elevation and land-use information, building placements, heights and geometries of the interior structure of buildings, along with site-specific models of components that are distributed spatially within a physical environment. The present invention separately provides an asset management system that allows the integrated three-dimensional model of the outdoor, indoor, and distributed infrastructure equipment to communicate with and aggregate the information pertaining to actual physical components of the actual network, thereby providing a management system that can track the on-going performance, cost, maintenance history, and depreciation of multiple networks using the site-specific unified digital format.
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58 Claims
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1. An asset management method, comprising the steps of:
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storing, sending, or retrieving information pertaining to at least two different distributed networks of infrastructure equipment, said information being selected from the group consisting of installation data, performance data, infrastructure information, and maintenance data; and
selectively retrieving, displaying, aggregating, or analyzing selected information from said at least two different distributed networks, wherein each of said distributed networks of infrastructure equipment is represented in a site-specific computer database model having computer representations of physical locations and interconnections of the infrastructure equipment stored therein. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A method of generating a computerized model of an environment, said environment including both terrain and at least one building, wherein said terrain surrounds said at least one building, said terrain including a plurality of different objects and features therein, each of which has attributes that impact performance of a distributed network, and said at least one building having a plurality of different objects therein, each of which has attributes that impact performance of said distributed network, comprising the steps of:
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obtaining a terrain model for said terrain, said terrain model being represented by a triangular irregular network;
obtaining a building model of said at least one building, said building model being in a vector format compatible with said triangular irregular network; and
combining said terrain model and said building model to form a composite three dimensional terrain-building representation, said combining step positioning said building model within said terrain model such that outer edges of said building are positioned within said terrain. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A system for generating a computerized model of an environment, said environment including both terrain and at least one building, wherein said terrain surrounds said at least one building, said terrain including a plurality of different terrain features therein, each of which has attributes that impact performance of a distributed network, and said at least one building having a plurality of different objects therein, each of which has attributes that impact performance of the distributed network, said system comprising:
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means for obtaining a terrain model for said terrain, said terrain model being represented by a triangular irregular network;
means for obtaining a building model of said at least one building, said building model being in a vector format compatible with said triangular irregular network; and
means for combining said terrain model and said building model to form a composite three dimensional terrain-building representation, wherein said building model is positioned within said terrain model such that outer edges of said building are positioned within said terrain. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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35. An asset management system, comprising:
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means for storing, sending, or retrieving information pertaining to at least two different distributed networks of infrastructure equipment, said information being selected from the group consisting of installation data, performance data, infrastructure information, and maintenance data; and
means for selectively retrieving, displaying, aggregating, or analyzing selected information from said at least two different distributed networks, wherein each of said distributed networks of infrastructure equipment is represented in a site-specific computer database model having computer representations of physical locations and interconnections of the infrastructure equipment stored therein. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56)
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57. An asset management method, comprising the steps of:
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storing, sending, or retrieving predicted and measured information pertaining to a distributed network of infrastructure equipment, said predicted and measured information being selected from the group consisting of cost data, alarm data, and maintenance data;
selectively retrieving, displaying ,aggregating, or analyzing selected information from said distributed network; and
comparing said predicted information and said measured information, wherein said distributed network of infrastructure equipment is represented in a site-specific computer database model having computer representations of physical locations and interconnections of the infrastructure equipment stored therein.
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58. An asset management system, comprising:
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means for storing, sending, or retrieving predicted and measured information pertaining to a distributed network of infrastructure equipment, said predicted and measured information being selected from the group consisting of cost data, alarm data, and maintenance data;
means for selectively retrieving, displaying, aggregating, or analyzing selected information from said distributed network; and
means for comparing said predicted information and said measured information, wherein said distributed network of infrastructure equipment is represented in a site-specific computer data model having computer representations of physical locations and interconnections of the infrastructure equipment stored therein.
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