DYNAMIC MONITORING OF MOBILE RAILWAY CAR UNDERCARRIAGE

• US 20140025256A1
• Filed: 09/25/2013
• Published: 01/23/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Cartasite Incorporated (Geoforce Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Cartasite Incorporated (Geoforce Incorporated)
• Inventors: Armitage, David L., Kushnir, Gregory Froim, Mason, Mark Alvin, Johnson, Theodore Cutler Jr.
• Application Number:
  US14/037,041
• Publication Number:
  US 20140025256A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/34.4
• CPC Class Codes: B61K 13/00 Other auxiliaries or accessories for railways safety belts or harnesses A62B35/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/10 using a centralized architecture
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/47 using RFID associated with sensors
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/50 using a mobile data collecting device, e.g. walk by or drive by
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/823 where the data is sent when the measured values exceed a threshold, e.g. sending an alarm
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 9/00 Arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station, in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom

Abstract

What is disclosed is a mobile railway car monitoring system. The mobile railway car monitoring system includes a plurality of sensor nodes coupled to an undercarriage portion of a railway car, and a control node coupled to the railway car. Each of the plurality of sensor nodes is configured to monitor the undercarriage portion of the railway car when in motion and transmit information about the undercarriage portion to the control node. The control node is configured to receive the information about the undercarriage portion, process the information to determine a fault condition for the undercarriage portion, and wirelessly report the fault condition to a collection system.

Claims

1-20. -20. (canceled)

21. A mobile vehicle monitoring system, comprising:

a plurality of sensor nodes coupled to an undercarriage portion of a vehicle;

a control node coupled to the vehicle;

wherein each of the plurality of sensor nodes is configured to monitor the vehicle when in motion and transmit information about the vehicle to the control node; and

wherein the control node is configured to receive the information about the vehicle, process the information by at least monitoring for patterns of deviation in the information from a population of sensors comprising each of the plurality of sensor nodes to determine a fault condition for the vehicle, and wirelessly report the fault condition to a collection system.

31. A method of operating a vehicle monitoring system, the method comprising:

in each of a plurality of sensor nodes coupled to an undercarriage portion of a vehicle, monitoring the undercarriage portion of the vehicle when in motion and transmitting information about the undercarriage portion to a control node coupled to the vehicle; and

in the control node, receiving the information about the undercarriage portion, processing the information by at least monitoring for patterns of deviation in the information from a population of sensors comprising each of the plurality of sensor nodes to determine a fault condition for the undercarriage portion, and wirelessly reporting the fault condition to a collection system.