Monitoring usage and adjusting operational characteristics of physical assets

A system for monitoring usage of a physical asset to automatically lock the physical asset, the system comprising:

• a plurality of asset sensor devices, each asset sensor device attached to a physical asset in a defined physical area and continuously capturing temperature data and x-y-z coordinate displacement data associated with the physical asset;
• at least one reference sensor device, the reference sensor device continuously capturing temperature data of the defined physical area;
• a server computing device coupled to the plurality of asset sensor devices and the at least one reference sensor device, the server computing device comprising a memory for storing computer-executable instructions and a processor that executes the computer-executable instructions to:
• continuously monitor, for each asset sensor device during one or more time intervals, the captured temperature data and the captured x-y-z coordinate displacement data of the asset sensor device;
• continuously apply, for each asset sensor device during the one or more time intervals, a set of triggers to the captured temperature data and the captured x-y-z coordinate displacement data of the asset sensor device to determine whether a change event occurred for the physical asset, the change event associated with one trigger in the set of triggers;
• record, for each asset sensor device during the one or more time intervals, the temperature data and the x-y-z coordinate displacement data of the asset sensor device when a change event occurred for the physical asset, the recording continuing until the temperature data associated with the physical asset matches the temperature data associated with the defined physical area and the x-y-z coordinate displacement data associated with the physical asset returns to zero;
• determine that the physical asset should be locked based upon the recorded temperature data and the recorded x-y-z coordinate displacement data for each of the asset sensor devices during the one or more time intervals;
• generate instructions comprising a lock event of the physical asset;
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• transmit the instructions to a remote computing device associated with the physical asset,
• the remote computing device executing the instructions to automatically activate a locking mechanism for one or more control devices on the physical asset to render the physical asset inoperable until a maintenance of the physical asset is complete.