VEHICLE CONDITION MONITORING AND REPORTING

• US 20140203952A1
• Filed: 03/21/2014
• Published: 07/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: The Boeing Co.
• Original Assignee: The Boeing Co.
• Inventors: Harrison, John E., Kinney, David S., Millar, James L., Smith, Matthew D.
• Granted Patent: US 9,359,087 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/945
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 45/00 Aircraft indicators or protectors not otherwise provided for camouflage F41H3/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0808 Diagnosing performance data testing of vehicles G01M17/00; testing of electrical installation on vehicles G01R31/005
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/00 Alarms responsive to a single specified undesired or abnormal condition and not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 23/00 Alarms responsive to unspecified undesired or abnormal conditions

Abstract

A method includes receiving, at a computing device, vehicle condition data from a vehicle monitoring system of a vehicle. The method also includes analyzing the vehicle condition data based on a trigger table, and based on a determination that the vehicle condition data satisfies a particular trigger condition specified in the trigger table, adding an entry in an alert evaluation queue.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at a computing device, vehicle condition data from a vehicle monitoring system of a vehicle;

analyzing the vehicle condition data based on a trigger table; and

based on a determination that the vehicle condition data satisfies a particular trigger condition specified in the trigger table, adding an entry in an alert evaluation queue.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

retrieving the entry from the alert evaluation queue by an alert evaluation processor;

analyzing the entry based on an alert definition table; and

based on a determination that the entry satisfies a particular alert condition specified in the alert definition table, generating an alert based on the particular alert condition.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the alert evaluation processor is configured to call one or more evaluation programs based on the particular alert condition.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein generating the alert includes sending a report to a remote computing device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the vehicle condition data is received via a wireless transmission from the vehicle.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the vehicle condition data is analyzed by comparing fields of the vehicle condition data to logical rules defined in entries of the trigger table.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the alert evaluation queue is a first-in-first-out queue.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein analysis of the vehicle condition data based on the trigger table is performed asynchronously with analysis of the entry based on an alert definition table.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the particular trigger condition indicates receipt of a message from a specific airline, receipt of a message from a specific model of aircraft, receipt of a message from a specific aircraft, receipt of a message from a first aircraft associated with a specified group of aircraft, receipt of a message indicating that a particular aircraft associated with the vehicle condition data has left a gate, has left ground, has landed, has entered the gate, receipt of a specific aircraft condition monitoring system report, receipt of an aircraft communications addressing and reporting system message, receipt of a flight deck effect, receipt of a maintenance message, or a combination thereof.

10. A system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory accessible to the processor, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to cause the processor to perform operations comprising;

receiving vehicle condition data from a vehicle monitoring system of a vehicle;

analyzing the vehicle condition data based on a trigger table; and

based on a determination that the vehicle condition data satisfies a particular trigger condition specified in the trigger table, adding an entry in an alert evaluation queue.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the operations further comprise adding a trigger condition to the trigger table by adding a row to the trigger table.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the operations further comprise:

retrieving the entry from the alert evaluation queue by an alert evaluation processor;

analyzing the entry based on an alert definition table; and

based on a determination that the entry satisfies a particular alert condition specified in the alert definition table, generating an alert based on the particular alert condition.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the operations further comprise adding an alert condition to the alert definition table by adding a row including information to invoke one or more evaluation programs to the alert definition table.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the entry based on the alert definition table is analyzed by invoking one or more stand-alone evaluation programs based on the particular alert condition.

15. The system of claim 12, wherein generating the alert includes sending a report to a remote computing device.

16. The system of claim 12, wherein analysis of vehicle condition data based on the trigger table is performed asynchronously with analysis of the entry based on the alert definition table.

17. The system of claim 10, wherein the vehicle condition data is analyzed by comparing fields of the vehicle condition data to logical rules defined in entries of the trigger table.

18. The system of claim 10, wherein the alert evaluation queue is a first-in-first-out queue.

19. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

receiving vehicle condition data from a vehicle monitoring system of a vehicle;

analyzing the vehicle condition data based on a trigger table; and

based on a determination that the vehicle condition data satisfies a particular trigger condition specified in the trigger table, adding an entry in an alert evaluation queue.

20. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 19, wherein the operations further comprise:

retrieving the entry from the alert evaluation queue by an alert evaluation processor;

analyzing the entry based on an alert definition table; and

based on a determination that the entry satisfies a particular alert condition specified in the alert definition table, generating an alert based on the particular alert condition.