Tracking extra-vehicular technician progress in a network monitoring system

A computer-implemented method, said method being performed by a processor on a mobile device and comprising:

• determining that a test instrument has been disconnected from a vehicle's equipment;
• tracking locations as the test instrument moves around a vicinity of the vehicle;
• and
• transmitting the tracked locations to a remote server such that the server can correlate leakage signal measurements from the test instrument with the tracked locations to track a technician's progress outside the vehicle.

A system comprising:

• a non-transitory storage medium storing computer program instructions;
• and
• one or more processors configured to execute the computer program instructions to cause the system to perform operations comprising:
• detecting a walkout mode of a test instrument when the test instrument is undocked from a vehicle's equipment to allow a technician to perform leakage signal measurements outside the vehicle;
• receiving a first data stream of location information from a mobile device associated with the technician;
• receiving a second data stream of leakage signal measurement from the test instrument carried by the technician;
• and
• associating the location information from the mobile device and the leakage signal measurements from the test instrument, thereby tracking the technician's progress outside the vehicle.