COMPUTER-GENERATED SPEECH DEVICE FOR SITE SURVEY AND MAINTENANCE

• US 20150364138A1
• Filed: 06/11/2014
• Published: 12/17/2015
• 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
• Granted Patent: US 10,121,470 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 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.

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 input data.

3. The computer-generated speech device of claim 1, including a microphone component to capture speech commands from the user.

4. 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.

5. The computer-generated speech device of claim 1, wherein the solution engine prioritizes a plurality of events in response to identifying the plurality of events at the site.

6. 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.

7. 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.

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

identifying a plurality of events at a site, wherein each of the plurality of events are associated with a node among a plurality of nodes at the site;

prioritizing the plurality of events at the site using input data associated with the plurality of nodes;

converting computer-readable instructions associated with an 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 event; and

broadcasting directions to a location of the event as computer-generated speech using the speaker component to guide the user to the location.

9. The method of claim 8, 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.

10. The method of claim 8, including processing a speech command from the user to query the computer-generated speech device to see what happened and what caused the event.

11. The method of claim 10, including determining a root cause of the event in response to the processed speech command.

12. The method of claim 8, including broadcasting an alert as computer-generated speech in response to an identified new event at the site with a priority outside a threshold priority.

13. The method of claim 8, 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.

14. The method of claim 13, 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.

15. 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; and

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

a solution engine to;

identify an event associated with a node among the plurality of nodes using input data associated with the node; and

determine directions to the node 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 using a speaker component of the computer-generated speech device; and

a speech recognition engine to process a speech command received using a microphone component of the computer-generated speech device.

16. The computer-generated speech device of claim 15, 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 the node.

17. The computer-generated speech device of claim 16, wherein:

the solution engine, in response to identifying the change in the signal strength, determines the root cause of the event is a change in infrastructure at the location; and

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.

18. The computer-generated speech device of claim 17, wherein:

the solution engine, 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 current data.

19. The computer-generated speech device of claim 18, wherein:

the solution engine, 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; and

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.

20. The computer-generated speech device of claim 15, 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.