Method of operating a system for precisely locating an asset point in a physical plant
AssigneeAktiebolaget Skf
InventorJohannes Izak BOERHOUT
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Abstract
A method of operating a system for precisely locating an asset or measurement point in a physical plant is provided. The steps of operating the system include providing a hand held device having an application disposed thereon; forming a wireless mesh with a plurality of transmitters located at known locations disposed throughout the physical plant; enabling the hand held device to triangulate to a precise location in the physical plant by virtue of the application and wireless mesh; overlaying the precise triangulated location on an asset map displayed on the hand held device, and displaying accurately both the particular asset and particular assets location by knowing its precise location overlaid onto the asset map.
Claims19
A method of operating a system for precisely locating an asset or measurement point in a physical plant, comprising the steps of:
- providing a hand held device having an application disposed thereon;
- forming a wireless mesh with a plurality of transmitters located at known locations disposed throughout the physical plant;
- enabling the hand held device to triangulate to a precise location in the physical plant by virtue of the application and wireless mesh;
- overlaying the precise triangulated location on an asset map displayed on the hand held device, and
- displaying accurately both the particular asset and particular assets location by knowing its precise location overlaid onto the asset map.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.