ASSET FLOOR MAP

• US 20180249298A1
• Filed: 03/31/2017
• Published: 08/30/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/20/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BMC Software Incorporated (KKR & Co., Inc.)
• Original Assignee: BMC Software Incorporated (KKR & Co., Inc.)
• Inventors: JAIN, Priyanka, MARDHEKAR, Sameer, BHAGWAT, Anand
• Granted Patent: US 10,798,538 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 18/24 Classification techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/36 Indoor scenes
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/52 Surveillance or monitoring of activities, e.g. for recognising suspicious objects recognising microscopic objects G06V20/69
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/422 Technical drawings; Geographical maps
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/10 Human or animal bodies, e.g. vehicle occupants or pedestrians; Body parts, e.g. hands
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/33 for indoor environments, e.g. buildings
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

A method includes receiving a floor map indicating a layout of a location, displaying at least a portion of the floor map, capturing signal strength data representing a signal field for at least one position on the floor map, identifying an asset within the layout of the location, determining at least one property that identifies the asset using one of a discovery process using a wireless protocol and an image processing application programming interface (API) configured to classify an image and detect individual within the image, updating the floor map with the asset and the at least one property, and communicating the asset and the at least one property to the remote computing device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, from a remote computing device, a floor map indicating a layout of a location;

displaying, via a display interface of a client device, at least a portion of the floor map;

capturing, using an application of the client device, signal strength data representing a signal field for at least one position on the floor map;

identifying an asset within the layout of the location;

determining at least one property that identifies the asset using one of;

a discovery process using a wireless protocol, and

an image processing application programming interface (API) configured to classify an image and detect individual within the image;

updating the floor map with the asset and the at least one property; and

communicating the asset and the at least one property to the remote computing device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the location is a floor of a building.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the signal strength data representing the signal field is based on a magnetic field footprint captured using a Magnetic Indoor Positioning protocol.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the signal strength data representing the signal field is based on a WIFI signal footprint captured using a captured using a WIFI Indoor Positioning protocol.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein

the asset is a smart device, and

the identifying of the asset includes detecting a communications protocol signal transmitted from the asset.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein

the asset is a smart device, and

the determining of at least one property that identifies the asset includes determining a position of the asset on the floor map including:

determining a position of the client device on the floor map using an Indoor Positioning System (IPS) protocol,

measuring a channel frequency and a signal strength using the wireless protocol, and

using a formula based on a free-space path loss (FSPL), the channel frequency and the signal strength to determine a distance between the client device and the asset.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein

the asset is not a smart device, and

the identifying of the asset includes:

capturing an image of the asset,

using the image processing API to communicate the image to an external tool configured to identify an object using the image, and

receive an asset class associated with the asset from the external tool.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein

the asset is not a smart device, and

the determining of at least one property that identities the asset includes determining a position of the asset on the floor map including:

determining a position of the client device on the floor map using an Indoor Positioning System (IPS) protocol, and

measuring an inclination between at least two heights associated with the asset and use a trigonometric function and the inclination to determine a distance between the client device and the asset.

9. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium including executable code that, when executed by a processor, is configured to cause the processor to:

receive, from a remote computing device, a floor map indicating a layout of a location;

display, via a display interface of a client device, at least a portion of the floor map;

capture, using an application of the client device, signal strength data representing a signal field for at least one position on the floor map;

identify an asset within the layout of the location;

determine at least one property that identifies the asset using one of;

a discovery process using a wireless protocol, and

an image processing application programming interface (API) configured to classify the image and detect individual within the image;

update the floor map with the asset and the at least one property; and

communicate the asset and the at least one property to the remote computing device.

10. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the location is a floor of a building.

11. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the signal strength data representing the signal field is based on a magnetic field footprint captured using a Magnetic Indoor Positioning protocol.

12. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the signal strength data representing the signal field is based on a WIFI signal footprint captured using a captured using a WIFI Indoor Positioning protocol.

13. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein

the asset is a smart device, and

the identifying of the asset includes detecting a communications protocol signal transmitted from the asset.

14. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein

the asset is a smart device, and

the determining of at least one property that identifies the asset includes determining a position of the asset on the floor map including:

determining a position of the client device on the floor map using an Indoor Positioning System (IPS) protocol,

measuring a channel frequency and a signal strength using the wireless protocol, and

using a formula based on a free-space path loss (FSPL), the channel frequency and the signal strength to determine a distance between the client device and the asset.

15. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein

the asset is not a smart device, and

the identifying of the asset includes:

capturing an image of the asset,

using the image processing API to communicate the image to an external tool configured to identify an object using the image, and

receive an asset class associated with the asset from the external tool.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein

the asset is not a smart device, and

the determining of at least one property that identifies the asset includes determining a. position of the asset on the floor map including:

determining a position of the client device on the floor map using an Indoor Positioning System (IPS) protocol, and

measuring an inclination between at least two heights associated with the asset and use a trigonometric function and the inclination to determine a distance between the client device and the asset.

17. A method comprising:

receiving, from a client device, a request for a floor map based on a floor of a building, the floor map indicating a layout of the floor of the building;

in response to receiving the request for the floor map, selecting a floor map from a database configured to store a plurality of maps;

communicating the floor map to the client device;

receiving, from the client device, information related to an asset, the information including at least one property that identifies the asset and a position of the asset on the floor map

in response to receiving the information related to the asset, update a database configured to store data related to a plurality of assets;

generating an annotated floor map based on the asset and the information related to the asset; and

communicating the annotated floor map to the client device.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein

the annotated floor map includes an icon representing the asset and an indicator,

the icon representing the asset is located on the floor map at the position of the asset;

and

the indicator is located on the floor map at the position of the asset and indicates at least one of a type of the asset and a status of the asset.

19. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

discovering linkages to characteristics of the asset, and

adding the linkages for the asset to the database configured to store data related to the plurality of assets.

70. The method of claim 17, wherein the update of the database configured to store data related to the plurality of assets includes one of:

determining whether a record associated with the asset exists;

upon determining a record associated with the asset exists, update the record using the information related to the asset; and

upon determining a record associated with the asset does not exist, generate a new record using the information related to the asset.