Method for maintaining systems, in particular machines in warehouses
AssigneeDematic Corp.
InventorDaniel Jarr
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Abstract
A method for maintaining, commissioning and checking systems in warehouses, where a service technician has sight of the system in question and, by way of a mobile computer, makes wireless contact with the controller of the system in order to take control thereof, where taking control by the mobile computer is permitted by a central controller only if the service technician can have sight contact with the corresponding system, for which purpose localization services of a local radio network are used for the determination of the position and/or of the orientation of the mobile computer of the service technician.
Claims17
A method for maintaining, commissioning and checking systems in warehouses by permitting a mobile computer of and transported by a service technician that makes wireless contact with a controller of the system take control of the system, said method comprising:
- determining a position and/or an orientation of the mobile computer of the service technician in a warehouse by way of localization services of a private local radio network;
- confirming the system in the warehouse for which control is sought is visible by the service technician based on the determined position and/or orientation of the mobile computer;
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- permitting via a central controller the mobile computer to take control of the system upon said confirming the system is visible by the service technician based on the determined position and/or the orientation of the mobile computer of the service technician;
- wherein the private local radio network is installed in the warehouse and the system in the warehouse comprises a conveying system, a warehousing system, an order picking system and/or a sorting system.
A method for maintaining, commissioning and checking systems in warehouses by permitting a mobile computer of and transported by a service technician that makes wireless contact with a controller of the system take control of the system, said method comprising:
- determining the position of the mobile computer of the service technician in a warehouse by way of localization services of a local radio network;
- confirming the system in the warehouse for which control is sought is visible by the service technician based on the determined position of the mobile computer;
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- permitting via a central controller the mobile computer to take control of the system upon said confirming the system is visible by the service technician based on the determined position of the mobile computer of the service technician;
- wherein the local radio network is installed in the warehouse and the system in the warehouse comprises a conveying system, a warehousing system, an order picking system and/or a sorting system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.