Method and system for providing individual information about a coordinate measuring device
AssigneeLeica Geosystems AG
InventorsMarkus Steiner, Philip Kim
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Abstract
Computer system and computer-implemented method comprising: providing a digital-twin database comprising individual digital twins for a multitude of coordinate measuring devices; assigning an individual code to each of the multitude of coordinate measuring devices; providing on a first coordinate measuring device the assigned code; and pairing the first device with a mobile device, the pairing comprising capturing the individual code of the first device and sending the captured individual code together with an identifier, verifying the sent individual code and storing the identifier of the mobile device assigned to the digital twin of the first device.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method for providing information about an individual coordinate measuring device to an owner or a user of the coordinate measuring device, the method comprising:
- providing, in a computational environment, a digital-twin database comprising individual digital twins for a multitude of coordinate measuring devices, each individual digital twin comprising information about the respective individual coordinate measuring device;
- assigning an individual code to each of the multitude of coordinate measuring devices;
- providing the individual code of a first coordinate measuring device on the first coordinate measuring device;
- and
- pairing the first coordinate measuring device with a mobile device of the owner or user of the first coordinate measuring device, particularly wherein the mobile device is a smartphone or a tablet computer,
- wherein the pairing comprises:
- capturing, by the mobile device, the individual code of the first coordinate measuring device;
- establishing a remote data connection between the mobile device and the computational environment;
- sending the captured individual code together with an identifier of the mobile device or of a user of the mobile device from the mobile device to the computational environment via the established data connection;
- and
- verifying, at the computational environment, the sent individual code and, in case of a positive result of the verification, storing the identifier of the mobile device assigned to the digital twin of the first coordinate measuring device,
- wherein the method further comprises:
- sending a request from the mobile device to the computational environment for information about the first coordinate measuring device together with the identifier of the mobile device;
- and
- determining a validity of the request based on the stored identifier and the sent identifier;
- wherein, if the request is determined to be valid, the method further comprises:
- retrieving the requested information from the individual digital twin of the first coordinate measuring device and sending the requested information to the mobile device;
- and
- providing the information about the first coordinate measuring device on a display of the mobile device to the user of the mobile device.
A computer system for providing information about an individual coordinate measuring device to an owner or user of the individual coordinate measuring device, the system comprising one or more server computers, wherein the one or more server computers comprise memory for storing a digital-twin database, the digital-twin database comprising individual digital twins for a multitude of coordinate measuring devices, each individual digital twin comprising information about the respective individual coordinate measuring device, wherein the computer system is configured:
- to receive from the mobile device via a remote data connection an individual code of a first coordinate measuring device together with an identifier of the mobile device or of a user of the mobile device;
- to verify the sent individual code and, in case of a positive result of the verification, to store the identifier of the mobile device in the digital-twin database assigned to the digital twin of the first coordinate measuring device;
- to receive from the mobile device via the remote data connection a request for information about the first coordinate measuring device together with the identifier of the mobile device;
- to determine a validity of the request based on the stored identifier and the received identifier;
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- to provide, if the request is determined to be valid, the requested information from the individual digital twin of the first coordinate measuring device to the mobile device via the remote data connection.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.