Monitoring availability of facility equipment
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
- running, on a mobile computing device, an application to support a walk-through inspection of equipment within a facility;
downloading, to the mobile computing device, questions for each piece of equipment for assessing a current state of each piece of equipment;
reading, with a code reader of the mobile computing device, machine-readable codes that are collocated with respective pieces of equipment along the walk-through inspection;
retrieving the questions based at least in part on the machine-readable codes being read with the code reader;
presenting, on a display of the mobile computing device, the questions along with fields or choices for answering the questions;
receiving, via an input device of the mobile computing device, user input indicating answers to the questions; and
presenting, on the display of the mobile computing device, an auditing notification for a user logged into the application based at least in part on deriving, from times at which the machine-readable codes were read, an order in which the user visited multiple stops along the walk-through inspection, as compared to a predetermined order of the multiple stops.
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a platform for monitoring the availability of facility equipment. The platform may include a facility equipment monitoring tool with access to configuration data for one or more facilities. The platform allows for deployment of a mobile client application across a plurality of mobile devices to facilitate performance of walk-through inspections (i.e., rounds) of equipment within respective facilities, and to provide real-time equipment availability indicators and other status indicators via a user interface of the application. The data collected during walk-through inspections may be logged and uploaded to a central server system and stored in a data repository. The platform may further provide a network-accessible monitoring dashboard for viewing real-time, and historical, data regarding the walk-through inspections performed at various facilities, and an administrative user interface to update configuration data in the data repository of the central server system.
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20 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
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running, on a mobile computing device, an application to support a walk-through inspection of equipment within a facility; downloading, to the mobile computing device, questions for each piece of equipment for assessing a current state of each piece of equipment; reading, with a code reader of the mobile computing device, machine-readable codes that are collocated with respective pieces of equipment along the walk-through inspection; retrieving the questions based at least in part on the machine-readable codes being read with the code reader; presenting, on a display of the mobile computing device, the questions along with fields or choices for answering the questions; receiving, via an input device of the mobile computing device, user input indicating answers to the questions; and presenting, on the display of the mobile computing device, an auditing notification for a user logged into the application based at least in part on deriving, from times at which the machine-readable codes were read, an order in which the user visited multiple stops along the walk-through inspection, as compared to a predetermined order of the multiple stops. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A mobile computing device comprising:
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one or more processors; memory storing an application that is executable by the one or more processors to support walk-through inspections of equipment within a facility; and a code reader to capture machine-readable codes that are collocated with respective pieces of equipment along a walk-through inspection; wherein the application, when executed by the one or more processors, is configured to; present, on the mobile computing device, questions for assessing current respective states of the respective pieces of equipment in response to the machine-readable codes being captured by the code reader; receive answers to the questions that are provided via user input to the mobile computing device; and present an auditing notification for a user logged into the application based at least in part on deriving, from times at which the machine-readable codes were captured, an order in which the user visited multiple stops along the walk-through inspection, as compared to a predetermined order of the multiple stops. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A computer-implemented method comprising:
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executing, on a mobile computing device, an application to support a walk-through inspection of equipment within a facility; reading, with a code reader of the mobile computing device, machine-readable codes that are collocated with respective pieces of equipment along the walk-through inspection; presenting, on the mobile computing device, questions for assessing current respective states of the respective pieces of equipment; receiving, via user input to the mobile computing device, answers to the questions; and presenting, on the mobile computing device, an auditing notification for a user logged into the application based at least in part on an order in which the user visited multiple stops along the walk-through inspection, as compared to a predetermined order of the multiple stops, the order in which the user visited the multiple stops having been derived from times at which the machine-readable codes were read with the code reader. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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