Communicaton systen and method for infrastructure fault detection with coordinated public safety and enterprise notification

An enterprise portable radio, comprising:

• a controller having a processor configured to:
• request, from a server, permission to access both sensor based enterprise fault data and sensor based public safety fault data associated with a particular infrastructure of interest (PII);
• and
• receive, from the server and in response to the request, a combined public safety (PS) and enterprise notification, the combined PS and enterprise notification providing access to both the sensor based enterprise fault data and the sensor based public safety fault data when a weighted cumulative total, determined by the server, of all detected enterprise faults and detected PS faults exceeds a predetermined cumulative total associated with the PII, the combined PS and enterprise notification providing user selectable retrieval of parsed sensor data for each identified enterprise fault and each identified PS fault.

A communication system, comprising:

• a server configured to:
• receive a plurality of parsed sensor data bundles (PSDBs) each parsed sensor data bundle (PSDB) identifying a detected fault condition of a particular infrastructure of interest (PII);
• and
• generate a first rating for each detected fault condition based on predetermined enterprise fault thresholds and predetermined public safety (PS) fault thresholds associated with the PII;
• determine a second rating based on a weighted cumulative total of all the detected fault conditions which exceed the predetermined enterprise fault thresholds and predetermined PS fault thresholds;
• a portable radio in communication with the server, the portable radio receiving one notification, from a plurality of notifications, comprising:
• an enterprise-only notification in response to the first rating exceeding the predetermined enterprise fault threshold, the enterprise-only notification comprising parsed sensor data for the detected enterprise fault, along with an enterprise user selectable option to view raw enterprise data associated with the detected enterprise fault;
• a PS-only notification in response to the first rating exceeding the predetermined PS threshold, the PS notification including parsed sensor data for the detected PS fault, along with a user selectable option to view raw PS data associated with the detected PS fault;
• and
• a combined PS & enterprise notification in response to the second rating exceeding a predetermined cumulative threshold, the combined PS and enterprise notification comprising user selectable retrieval of the parsed sensor data for each detected enterprise and PS faults.

A communication system, comprising:

• one or more sensors coupled to one or more infrastructure items;
• a computing device having a processor and a fault detection and bundling analytics engine providing first-tier processing, the processor configured to:
• receive real-time raw sensor data inputs from the one or more sensors, the real-time raw sensor data containing information on at least one of the one or more infrastructure items;
• identify a particular infrastructure item (PII) from the real-time raw sensor data;
• detect one or more fault conditions for the PII;
• generate, via the analytics engine, a parsed sensor data bundle (PSDB) to identify each fault condition associated with the PII;
• communicate the PSDB bundle to a prioritization engine (PE);
• a second computing device having a second processor and a prioritization engine providing second-tier processing, the second processor and prioritization engine configured to:
• receive the PSDB;
• generate a first rating for each detected fault condition by comparing each fault to a diagnostic profile, the diagnostic profile including fault thresholds for enterprise and fault thresholds for public safety;
• determine a second rating based on a weighted cumulative total for all detected enterprise faults and all detected PS faults for the PII;
• compare the second rating to a predetermined cumulative threshold;
• and
• generate an enterprise-only notification in response to the first rating exceeding the enterprise fault threshold, the enterprise-only notification including parsed sensor data for the detected enterprise fault along with enterprise user selectable option to view raw enterprise data associated with the enterprise fault;
• generate a PS-only notification in response to the first rating exceeding PS threshold the PS-only notification including parsed sensor data for PS fault along with a user selectable option to view raw PS data associated with PS fault;
• and
• generate a combined PS & enterprise notification in response to a weighted cumulative total of all detected faults reported in the received PSDB(s) which exceed the PS and enterprise thresholds for the identified particular PII, the combined PS and enterprise notification including selectable retrieval of parsed sensor data for each identified enterprise fault and each identified PS fault along with a user selectable option to view raw sensor data associated with each identified PS and enterprise fault.

A method, comprising:

• receiving, at a computing device, at least one of a plurality of real-time raw sensor data inputs from at least one sensor source of a plurality of sensor sources, the real-time raw sensor data containing information on at least one or more infrastructure items;
• identifying a particular infrastructure item (PII) from the real-time raw sensor data;
• detecting one or more fault conditions for the PII;
• generating a parsed sensor data bundle (PSDB) identifying each fault condition associated with the PII;
• communicating the PSDB bundle to a prioritization engine (PE);
• generating a first rating for each detected fault by comparing each detected fault to an associated diagnostic profile, the diagnostic profile including fault thresholds for enterprise and fault thresholds for public safety (PS);
• determining a second rating based on a weighted cumulative total of all detected faults of enterprise and PS for the PII;
• comparing the second rating to a predetermined cumulative threshold stored in the diagnostic profile;
• generating an enterprise-only notification in response to the first rating exceeding the enterprise fault threshold, the notification including parsed sensor data for the detected enterprise fault along with enterprise user selectable option to view the real-time raw sensor data associated with the enterprise fault;
• generating a PS-only notification in response to the first rating exceeding PS threshold, the notification including parsed sensor data for the detected PS fault along with a user selectable option to view the real-time raw sensor data associated with the identified PS fault;
• generating a combined PS and enterprise notification in response to the second rating exceeding predetermined cumulative threshold, the combined notification including user selectable retrieval of the parsed sensor data for each of enterprise and PS faults;
• and
• generating a further user selectable option to view the real-time raw sensor data associated with each identified PS fault and enterprise fault.