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US 2015/0145705 A9Published application
Maintenance Decision Support System and Method for Vehicular and Roadside Applications
AssigneeConcaten, Inc.
InventorsChristopher J. Rennie, Kevin K. Groeneweg
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Abstract
A method and system are provided in which maintenance vehicles collect information from sensors and operators, forward the collected information to a server, and, in response, receive maps and operator instructions.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- (a) receiving from a plurality of snow maintenance vehicles a plurality of sets of collected information, each of the sets of collected information comprising a snow maintenance vehicle physical location and at least one of weather and road conditions in an area of the respective snow maintenance vehicle;
- (b) processing, by a server, the received sets of collected information to (i) provide a map associated with a physical location of a. selected snow maintenance vehicle and (ii) determine an instruction for the selected snow maintenance vehicle and/or route;
- (c) providing the map and the instruction to a user;
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- (d) wherein at least one of the following is true:
- (d1) the sets of collected information are sent to a. data scrubbing server that identifies bad sets of collected information, said had sets of collected information containing information that is incomplete or inaccurate, and wherein the data scrubbing server corrects or deletes the bad sets of collected information before forwarding the sets of collected information to the server for processing;
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- (d2) the sets of collected information are directed through one or more auxiliary servers before the sets of collected information are sent to the server for processing.
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A system, comprising:
- a server operable to:
- (a) receive from a plurality of snow maintenance vehicles, a plurality of sets of collected information, each of the sets of collected information comprising a snow maintenance vehicle physical location and at least one of weather and road conditions in an area of the respective snow maintenance vehicle;
- (b) process the received sets of collected information:
- (i) to provide a map associated with a physical location of a selected snow maintenance vehicle;
- (ii) to determine an instruction for the selected snow maintenance vehicle and/or route;
- (c) provide the map and the instruction to a user;
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- (d) wherein at least one of the following is true:
- (d1) the sets of collected information are sent to a data scrubbing server that identifies bad sets of collected information, said bad sets of collected information containing information that is incomplete or inaccurate, and wherein the data scrubbing server corrects or deletes the bad sets of collected information before forwarding the sets of collected information to the server for processing;
- or
- (d2) the sets of collected information are directed through one or more auxiliary servers before the sets of collected information are sent to the server for processing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.