Method and apparatus for augmented virtual models and orienteering

A method of monitoring a stated condition of a structure, the method comprising the steps of:

• a) affixing two or more wireless tranceivers to reference positions within the structure;
• b) securing a sensor to a sensor position within the structure, said sensor capable of wireless communication with the two or more wireless transceivers;
• c) wirelessly communicating between the two or more wireless transceivers and the sensor to generate a data set;
• d) generating a set of positional coordinates for the sensor based upon the data set;
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• e) displaying on a visual display screen, a user interface indicating a location of the sensor represented upon a visual display representation from an augmented virtual model referenced to the positional coordinates within the structure, wherein the postional coordinated comprise X, Y and Z coordinates;
• f) generating a first table comprising conditions present in the structure precedent to deployment of the structure;
• g) with the sensors, transducing a physical condition in the structure to a digital representation;
• h) recording a time registration in a controller, the time registration indicating when the physical condition within the structure was transduced into a digital representation;
• i) operating the controller to compare the digital representation of the physical conditions within the structure with a condition present in the structure precedent to deployment of the structure;
• j) operating the controller to determine how the condition present in the structure at a given time compares with the condition present in the structure precedent to deployment of the structure, based upon the transducing of the physical condition in the structure to a digital representation of the physical condition and the time registration;
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• k) displaying on a visual display screen, a user interface indicating how the condition present in the structure at a given time compares with the condition present in the structure precedent to deployment of the structure.

A method of determining a physical state of a structure, the method comprising the steps of:

• a) generating with a controller a first table comprising values pertaining to conditions within the structure and an alphanumeric scaled rating for different ranges of the values pertaining to conditions within the structure;
• b) generating in the controller a second table comprising measured values of the conditions within the structure, wherein the measured values are generated via the steps of:
• i) affixing multiple wireless transceivers to reference positions within the structure;
• ii) securing a sensor to a position within the structure;
• iii) wirelessly communicating between the sensor and the multiple wireless transceivers to generate a data set;
• iv) with the controller, generating a set of positional coordinates for the sensor based upon the data set;
• v) with the sensor, generating measured values of a condition within the structure via transducing of a sensor state to a digital value;
• vi) recording a time registration in the controller indicating when each of the measured values of the condition within the structure was measured;
• c) with the controller, associating a respective alphanumeric scaled rating from the first table with each of the measured values of the condition within the structure;
• d) with the controller, generating an aggregate alphanumeric scaled rating for the structure based upon a weighted combining of the respective alphanumeric scaled ratings associated with each measured value;
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• e) displaying on a visual display screen a user interface comprising the aggregate alphanumeric scaled rating for the structure.