System for monitoring and displaying a plurality of tagged telecommunication assets

• US 9,262,048 B1
• Filed: 01/21/2015
• Issued: 02/16/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: UTEC Survey, Inc. (KKR Matterhorn Bidco Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: UTEC Survey, Inc. (KKR Matterhorn Bidco Ltd.)
• Inventors: Brown, Douglas John, Hammond, Gregory, Cahill, David Patrick
• Primary Examiner(s): BROWN, SHEREE N
• Application Number:
  US14/601,508
• Time in Patent Office: 391 Days
• Field of Search: 715/847
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 90/00 Systems or methods specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial or supervisory purposes, not involving significant data processing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies

Abstract

A system for monitoring and displaying a plurality of telecommunication assets on at least one telecommunication structure by creating a customer profile and a library of survey set ups and storing information from independent survey set ups mounted on or proximate to the offshore asset on the administrative data storage. The system includes creating a library of tagged assets for the offshore asset using at least one independent survey set up, wherein each tagged asset has an icon with a hyperlink to a library of images. The system includes identifying placement locations on offshore assets and forming an executive dashboard for display on at least one client device, wherein a virtually positioned icon positioned on an image of the tagged assets presents a hyperlink to the library of survey set ups for that tagged asset, thereby enabling toggling from the image to the library of survey set ups.

Claims

1. A system for monitoring a plurality of telecommunication assets on at least one of a plurality of telecommunication structures, the system comprising:

a. an administrative processor connected to an administrative data storage, wherein the administrative processor is connected to a network;

b. a plurality of independent survey set ups connected to the network, with each of the independent survey set ups directed to a telecommunication asset, each of the independent survey set ups having at least one data capture device, the plurality of independent survey set ups comprising a survey set up processor connected to a survey set up data storage configured to provide temporary or portable memory storage of images from the at least one data capture device, and wherein the at least one data capture device is a camera and at least one of;

a laser survey instrument, a portable laser scanner, and a sonar device;

c. a global positioning system differential receiver/transmitter that connects to a local grid for at least one of the plurality of telecommunication assets, wherein at least one telecommunication structure is a telecommunication facility or a telecommunication tower;

d. computer instructions in the administrative data storage to instruct the administrative processor to create a customer profile and store the customer profile in the administrative data storage;

e. a customer provided origin stored in the customer profile;

f. computer instructions in the administrative data storage to instruct the administrative processor to form a Library of Tagged Telecommunication Assets for the at least one telecommunication structure being monitored using each of the independent survey set ups, wherein the Library of Tagged Telecommunication Assets in the customer profile comprises a plurality of telecommunication assets, each telecommunication asset having an asset tag and an icon with a hyperlink to a Library of Images in the administrative data storage or to a Library of Images in a third party data storage;

g. computer instructions in the administrative data storage to instruct the administrative processor to create a Library of Survey Set Ups capturing information from each of the independent survey set ups mounted on or proximate to the at least one telecommunication structure;

h. computer instructions to identify placement locations of each of the independent survey set ups in a created telecommunication structure local zone system of the telecommunication structure or the local grid of the telecommunication structure enabling each of the independent survey set ups to monitor the plurality of telecommunication assets identified from the a Library of Tagged Telecommunication Assets; and

i. computer instructions forming an executive dashboard for display on at least one client device of a customer, wherein the executive dashboard receives from (i) each of the independent survey set ups and (ii) the Library of Survey Set Ups and displays (a) a customer name or (b) an telecommunication structure name;

wherein the executive dashboard displays an image of each of the telecommunication assets and a virtually positioned icon on each of the telecommunication assets, wherein the virtually positioned icon presents a hyperlink to the Library of Survey Set Ups for that telecommunication asset enabling the customer using the executive dashboard to toggle from the image to the Library of Survey Set Ups for each telecommunication asset being monitored by each of the independent survey set ups;

wherein the executive dashboard displays placement locations of the plurality of telecommunication assets on the telecommunication structure.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising computer instructions in the administrative data storage to instruct the administrative processor to present multiple independent survey set ups simultaneously on the executive dashboard and display multiple telecommunication assets on the executive dashboard.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising computer instructions in the administrative data storage to instruct the administrative processor to provide general information and mapping imagery of a site when an information button is actuated.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising computer instructions to provide a photographic equipment audit listing all telecommunication assets on a telecommunication structure when an audit button is actuated.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising computer instructions in the administrative data storage to instruct the administrative processor to provide an equipment list of all telecommunication assets on a telecommunication structure in a spreadsheet format when an audit spreadsheet button is actuated.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising computer instructions in the administrative data storage to instruct the administrative processor to provide a panoramic photograph of the telecommunication structure, a general site photography, photographs within equipment rooms of a telecommunication structure, photography of equipment cabinets of a telecommunication structure, photographs of antennas of a telecommunication structure, general elevation photography, or combinations thereof when a panoramic and photography button is actuated.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising computer instructions in the administrative data storage to instruct the administrative processor to connect to a third party software for measuring a telecommunication asset using data from the at least one data capture device when a software button is actuated.

8. The system of claim 1, further comprising computer instructions in the administrative data storage to instruct the administrative processor to provide a 360 degree view from each of the independent survey set ups when a flash button is actuated.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising computer instructions in the administrative data storage to instruct the administrative processor to provide a live video feed from security cameras directed at the telecommunication structure when a closed circuit television CCTV button is actuated.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising computer instructions in the administrative data storage to instruct the administrative processor to provide a CAD representation of plans, structural drawings, internal drawings and elevations of the telecommunication structure when a technical drawings button is actuated.

11. The system of claim 1, further comprising computer instructions to add and delete a telecommunication asset to the Library of Tagged Telecommunication Assets using the at least one client device and using a dialog screen to insert or delete an asset name, an asset geolocation, and asset specifications when an add or delete button is actuated.

12. The system of claim 1, further comprising computer instructions in the administrative data storage to instruct the administrative processor to supply current location information from a local coordinate network of assets and identify at least one geographically proximate independent survey set up location in the local coordinate network of assets when a site detail button is actuated.

13. The system of claim 1, further comprising computer instructions in the administrative data storage to instruct the administrative processor to search for a telecommunication asset from the Library of Tagged Telecommunication Assets using an asset name or an asset geolocation.

14. The system of claim 1, further comprising computer instructions in the administrative data storage to add a compass to images from the Library of Tagged Telecommunication Assets, the local coordinate network of assets, or combinations thereof, wherein the compass is aligned to match a designation of north for the telecommunication structure.

15. The system of claim 1, further comprising computer instructions in the administrative data storage to instruct the administrative processor to display a map of the local coordinate network of assets while simultaneously viewing captured data from the at least one data capture device of each of the independent survey set ups.

16. The system of claim 15, further comprising computer instructions in the administrative data storage to instruct the administrative processor to indicate a direction of a field of reference relative to a north of the telecommunication structure in the telecommunication structure local zone system from each of the independent survey set ups using a field of view reference pointer in a plan view.

17. The system of claim 1, further comprising computer instructions in the administrative data storage to instruct the administrative processor to create a plan view of all or a portion of the independent survey set ups from the Library of Survey Set Ups.

18. The system of claim 17, further comprising computer instructions to present the plan view simultaneously with the data from one or more operating independent survey set ups using the executive dashboard.

19. The system of claim 1, wherein the Library of Survey Set Ups comprises:

a. independent survey set up identifiers;

b. individual data capture device identifier codes;

c. a transmission connection description, that indicates how each data capture device transmits data to the network;

d. a time line of the data capture device;

e. a customer name; and

f. a telecommunication structure name.