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US 12,591,858 B2Granted
Turf maintenance system and methods
AssigneeThe Toro Company
InventorsBrian E. Ries, Jamie J. Feldman, Tony L. Ferguson, Richard D. Gerhardson
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Abstract
A turf maintenance system acquires data from one or more turf systems, generates a dashboard display screen to display the data acquired from the one or more turf systems, and schedules tasks for completing a turf maintenance job based on the acquired data.
Claims18
A turf maintenance system comprising:
- maintenance equipment including:
- a power source;
- a tooling powered by the power source and configured to perform one or more tasks for a turf maintenance job;
- a controller that controls operation of the tooling;
- and
- a wireless communications transceiver operatively connected to the controller, the wireless communications transceiver configured to receive instructions over a network to automatically adjust the operation of the tooling without human intervention;
- a control device including:
- an interface for communicating the instructions over the network to the wireless communications transceiver of the maintenance equipment;
- at least one processing device;
- and
- at least one memory device storing software instructions that, when executed by the at least one processing device, cause the at least one processing device to:
- acquire data from one or more turf systems;
- generate a dashboard display screen to display the data acquired from the one or more turf systems, wherein the dashboard display screen includes a control interface;
- schedule at least one task to the maintenance equipment for completing the turf maintenance job based on the data acquired from the one or more turf systems;
- and
- when an acknowledgment of compliance for the at least one task is not received by the control interface, escalate the at least one task to enforce compliance with the at least one task, wherein escalation of the at least one task includes automatically generating the instructions for remotely adjusting the operation of the maintenance equipment without human intervention by at least one of controlling a clutch to disengage the tooling from the power source, downshifting a gear of the power source, and reducing the RPM of the power source.
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A turf maintenance system comprising:
- maintenance equipment including:
- a power source;
- a tooling powered by the power source and configured to perform one or more tasks for a turf maintenance job;
- a controller that controls operation of the tooling;
- and
- a wireless communications transceiver operatively connected to the controller, the wireless communications transceiver configured to receive instructions over a network to automatically adjust the operation of the tooling without human intervention;
- a control device including:
- an interface for communicating the instructions over the network to the wireless communications transceiver of the maintenance equipment;
- at least one processing device;
- and
- at least one memory device storing software instructions that, when executed by the at least one processing device, cause the system to:
- acquire data on an area within a turf site from one or more of a weather service system, a task management system, an asset tracking system, an irrigation system, and turf devices installed at the turf site;
- generate a dashboard display screen to display the data on the area within the turf site acquired from one or more of the weather service system, the task management system, the asset tracking system, the irrigation system, and the devices installed at the turf site, wherein the dashboard display screen includes a control interface;
- adjust a scheduled task for the area within the turf site based on the acquired data;
- and
- when an acknowledgment of compliance for the scheduled task is not received by the control interface, escalate the scheduled task to enforce compliance with the scheduled task, wherein escalation of the scheduled task includes automatically generating the instructions for remotely adjusting the operation of the maintenance equipment without human intervention by at least one of controlling a clutch to disengage the tooling from the power source, downshifting a gear of the power source, and reducing the RPM of the power source.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.