System and method for tracking installed equipment and deploying spare parts
First Claim
1. A method of tracking installed equipment on a network and spare parts for servicing said installed equipment, said method comprising:
- identifying, via a reader of known geographic location, a unique identifier for each piece of equipment within said reader'"'"'s range;
collecting, through said network, said unique identifier and status information indicative of an operational status of said each piece of equipment;
correlating, based on said unique identifier, the geographic location of said each piece of equipment and said status information indicative of the operational status of said each piece of equipment.
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Abstract
There is disclosed a system and method of tracking installed equipment and deploying spare parts. In an embodiment, each piece of equipment may includes a unique electronic identifier configured to be accessible over a data network, and accessible locally via a RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) network. The unique identifier may be read utilizing a RFID reader of known geographic location. Any installed equipment and spare parts deployed in the vicinity of the RFID reader may be identified by their respective unique identifiers, and their geographic location may be tracked and collected at a networked data collection server. Status information for each unit of installed equipment may also be tracked and correlated with the geographic location at the data collection server. Spare parts may be deployed, or redeployed, based on the collected status information for each unit, and the geographic location as identified by the RFID reader.
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20 Claims
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1. A method of tracking installed equipment on a network and spare parts for servicing said installed equipment, said method comprising:
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identifying, via a reader of known geographic location, a unique identifier for each piece of equipment within said reader'"'"'s range;
collecting, through said network, said unique identifier and status information indicative of an operational status of said each piece of equipment;
correlating, based on said unique identifier, the geographic location of said each piece of equipment and said status information indicative of the operational status of said each piece of equipment. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A system for tracking installed equipment on a network and spare parts for servicing said installed equipment, comprising:
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means for identifying, via a reader of known geographic location, a unique identifier for each piece of equipment within said reader'"'"'s range;
means for collecting, through said network, said unique identifier and status information indicative of an operational status of said each piece of equipment;
means for correlating, based on said unique identifier, the geographic location of said each piece of equipment and said status information indicative of the operational status of said each piece of equipment. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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