Cargo monitoring

• US 9,842,287 B2
• Filed: 08/19/2016
• Issued: 12/12/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Geoforce Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Cartasite Incorporated (Geoforce Incorporated)
• Inventors: Armitage, David L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lynch, Sharon
• Application Number:
  US15/242,360
• Publication Number:
  US 20160358054A1
• Time in Patent Office: 480 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01F 23/284 Electromagnetic waves
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 17/0022 arrangements or provisions for transferring data to distant stations, e.g. from a sensing device "transfer between computer elements G06F13/00 "; data-transmission H04L
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/06037 multi-dimensional coding
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/1417 2D bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0428 wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/77 Graphical identity

Abstract

Systems, software, and methods are provided for accurate service, transaction, and cargo monitoring. An example system and/or method may include calibrating a wireless sensor, connecting a user device to a wireless sensor, obtaining initial information for a first process at least in part from the wireless sensor, obtaining subsequent information about at least the first process, and using a portion of the initial information about the first process and the subsequent information about the first process to create a dynamic report involving the first process.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

a handheld user device wirelessly receiving initial information regarding a level of a fluid substance within an asset of a vehicular system from a quick response (QR) code generated at least in part from a sensor operably connected to the asset;

the handheld user device receiving subsequent information about the level within the asset at least in part from a second QR code generated at least in part from the sensor after a first process has occurred at the asset, wherein the first process comprises adjusting the level within the asset; and

using at least a portion of the initial information and the subsequent information to create a dynamic report involving the first process,

wherein the initial information or the subsequent information comprises global positioning information.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising the handheld user device obtaining second initial information about the asset after a second process has occurred at the asset.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising the handheld user device obtaining second subsequent information about the asset after the second process.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising the handheld user device calibrating the sensor.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the asset comprises a liquid tank and the sensor comprises a tank level sensor.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the dynamic report comprises at least one of customer, time, and location information.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting the dynamic report to a cloud-based application.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the asset comprises at least one of a truck, machinery, tank, valve, well, pump, and distribution unit.

13. The method of claim 1 further comprising using information inputted to the handheld user device to create the dynamic report.

8. A system for monitoring service, comprising:

a computing system including a handheld user device and a quick response (QR) code creation system;

a sensor operably connected to an asset, the sensor configured to wirelessly and communicationally couple to the computing system and transmit information about the asset to the computing system, the computing system configured to create a quick response (QR) code related to the information about the asset;

the handheld user device configured to obtain initial information regarding a level of a fluid substance with the asset from an initial QR code generated at least in part from the sensor, obtain subsequent information about the level within the asset from a subsequent QR code generated at least in part from the sensor after at least a first process has occurred at the asset, wherein the first process comprises adjusting the level within the asset, and use a portion of the initial information and the subsequent information to create a dynamic report involving the first process,

wherein the initial information or the subsequent information comprises global positioning information.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the handheld user device is further configured to transmit the dynamic report to a server.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the sensor comprises a tank level sensor.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the dynamic report comprises a trip ticket or invoice.