Wire Diagram Tagging System
First Claim
1. A method for collecting and storing electrical wiring diagram data comprising:
- providing a plurality of electrical components installed in an electrical system;
for each electrical component in said plurality of electrical components;
associating with said each electrical component a tag having a memory containing a unique identifier for said tag;
receiving said unique identifier by a smart device;
entering, using said smart device, metadata describing said each electrical component;
transmitting, using said smart device, to a data server said unique identifier and at least some of said entered metadata;
storing in a non-volatile computer-readable storage medium a dataset for said each electrical component, said created dataset comprising an indication of said transmitted unique identifier, and said indication being associated in said created dataset with an indication of at least of some at least some of said transmitted entered metadata.
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Abstract
Systems and methods for creating a data representation of the structure of an electrical system or network. Wireless tags, such as RFID tags, near field communication tags, and other short-range wireless communication technologies, are used to uniquely identify discrete components of the electrical network, and user-provided metadata is associated with each tag, generally using a software application on a smart device which is in communication with the tags. Metadata necessarily includes the links between tags. The smart device communicates with a data server to create, update, and retrieve the user-supplied data to and from a remote storage system.
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19 Claims
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1. A method for collecting and storing electrical wiring diagram data comprising:
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providing a plurality of electrical components installed in an electrical system; for each electrical component in said plurality of electrical components; associating with said each electrical component a tag having a memory containing a unique identifier for said tag; receiving said unique identifier by a smart device; entering, using said smart device, metadata describing said each electrical component; transmitting, using said smart device, to a data server said unique identifier and at least some of said entered metadata; storing in a non-volatile computer-readable storage medium a dataset for said each electrical component, said created dataset comprising an indication of said transmitted unique identifier, and said indication being associated in said created dataset with an indication of at least of some at least some of said transmitted entered metadata. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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