System and method of maintaining traffic apparatus location information
AssigneeVer-Mac
InventorsSerge Beaudry, Alexandre Langlois
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Abstract
A system and method of acquiring and maintaining location information associated with traffic apparatus deployed in connection with a traffic flow monitoring or regulation system are disclosed. In some implementations, an apparatus identifier may distinguish a particular traffic apparatus from others that are deployed in proximity, and a functional identifier may define a functionality of the particular traffic apparatus; positioning, orientation, and movement or acceleration data may also be provided for real-time or near real-time system applications. These apparatus data may be used to derive and to maintain a record of location data associated with each traffic apparatus deployed in a particular application.
Claims9
A method of acquiring and maintaining location information associated with a traffic apparatus;
- said method comprising:
- affixing a beacon system to the traffic apparatus, the beacon system operative to broadcast apparatus data associated with a function of the traffic apparatus to a remote device integrated into equipment borne by a road crew member;
- capturing the apparatus data responsive to a measure of a peak signal strength of the beacon system identified by the remote device;
- autonomously computing location data associated with the traffic apparatus, wherein said autonomously computing comprises deriving the location data as a function of a distance between the traffic apparatus and the remote device responsive to said capturing without input from the road crew member;
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- responsive to said autonomously computing, recording both the function of the traffic apparatus and a location in space at which the traffic apparatus is deployed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.