Systems and methods for verifying railcar location

A computer-implemented method for verifying a rail car location, comprising:

• establishing, based on determining a car location of the rail car, a geofence based on the car location;
• adjusting, based on the geofence, a car load state sensor interval for a spring sensor;
• determining, according to the car load state sensor interval, based on calculating spring usage of a spring associated with the spring sensor, an expected spring height of the spring;
• measuring, using the spring sensor, an actual spring height of the spring;
• determining, based on a comparison of the expected spring height and the actual spring
• height satisfying a threshold, a car load state change for a rail car;
• determining, based on the car load state change, an indicated car location;
• identifying an event corresponding to the car load state change, wherein the event comprises an event location, corresponding to the indicated car location;
• overriding a low-power operating mode in response to determining that the car load state change is a high priority event, the override including controlling a short-range communication device to transmit data about the car load state change;
• and
• verifying the car location based on the event location corresponding to the indicated car location and location information.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform steps comprising:

• establishing, based on determining a car location of a rail car, a geofence based on the car location;
• adjusting, based on the geofence, a car load state sensor interval for a spring sensor;
• determining, based on calculating spring usage of a spring associated with the spring sensor, an expected spring height of the spring;
• measuring, using the spring sensor, an actual spring height of the spring;
• determining, based on a comparison of the expected spring height and the actual spring height satisfying a threshold, a car load state change for a rail car;
• determining, based on the car load state change, an indicated car location;
• identifying an event corresponding to the car load state change, wherein the event comprises an event location, corresponding to the indicated car location;
• overriding a low-power operating mode associated with the processor in response to determining that the car load state change is a high priority event, the override including controlling a short-range communication device to transmit data about the car load state change;
• and
• verifying the car location based on the event location corresponding to the indicated car location and location information.