Vibration notifications received from vibration sensors
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorsLarry Schmidt, Satwant Kaur
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Abstract
Example implementations relate to receiving vibration notifications from vibration sensors. In example implementations, a subset of a plurality of vibration sensors from which vibration notifications are expected may be identified based on a position of a train along a track. The plurality of vibration sensors may be arranged in a predetermined order on the track. Whether vibration notifications have not been received from consecutive, with respect to the predetermined order, vibration sensors in the subset may be determined.
Claims15
A system comprising:
- a plurality of vibration sensors arranged in a predetermined order on a track, wherein each of the plurality of vibration sensors is to:
- generate electrical charge in response to vibrations;
- transmit vibration notifications in response to vibration levels above a threshold level;
- and
- transmit, with each vibration notification, a sensor identification code stored on the respective vibration sensor;
- and
- a receiver module to:
- receive vibration notifications and sensor identification codes from the plurality of vibration sensors;
- identify, based on a position of a train along the track, a subset of the plurality of vibration sensors from which vibration notifications are expected;
- and
- determine whether vibration notifications have not been received from consecutive, with respect to the predetermined order, vibration sensors in the subset;
- wherein the receiver module is communicatively coupled to the plurality of vibration sensors and to the train.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a processor, the machine-readable storage medium comprising:
- instructions to identify, based on a position of a train along a track, a subset of a plurality of vibration sensors from which vibration notifications are expected, wherein the plurality of vibration sensors are arranged in a predetermined order on the track;
- instructions to determine whether vibration notifications have not been received from consecutive, with respect to the predetermined order, vibration sensors in the subset;
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- instructions to trigger an alarm in response to a determination that vibration notifications have not been received from consecutive vibration sensors in the subset.
A method comprising:
- identifying, based on a position of a train along a track, a subset of a plurality of vibration sensors from which vibration notifications are expected, wherein the plurality of vibration sensors are arranged in a predetermined order on the track;
- identifying, based on received sensor identification codes, from which of the vibration sensors in the subset a vibration notification has been received;
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- determining whether vibration notifications have not been received from consecutive, with respect to the predetermined order, vibration sensors in the subset.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.