Recording system and apparatus including user-defined polygon geofencing
AssigneeInvisible Intelligence Incorporated
InventorsRonald Paul COTE, John Arthur GUIMOND
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Abstract
A system and apparatus for recording and archiving diverse communications over radio transmissions. The system and apparatus enables unattended airports within a geofenced area to generate a useful archive of all radio communications made by Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) equipped aircraft and ground personnel. A combination of hardware and software components are provided to record and store radio transmissions in computer files. Recording archiving and reporting of received and stored data includes aircraft identification, location and heading and other data, including time-based data within one or more user-defined polygons.
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A system for unattended or non-towered airport management, the system comprising:
- a user interface for defining one or more geofenced areas about an airport, each geofenced area denoted by a user-defined virtual boundary defining a mathematically predetermined airspace of horizontal and vertical extent;
- a radio device for receiving multiple radio transmissions from one or more radio transmission sources located within the one or more geofenced areas, wherein at least one of the multiple radio transmissions is a radio transmission that includes a unique signature element, the unique signature elements corresponding to aircraft identity data from an Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast Out (ADS-B Out) equipped aircraft uniquely trackable within the one or more geofenced areas;
- a signal interface connected to the radio device, the signal interface including an ADS-B receiver capable of receiving the unique signature element including aircraft identity data from the ADS-B Out equipped aircraft;
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- a computing device connected to the signal interface, the computing device generating an output report corresponding to each of the multiple radio transmissions;
- wherein the output report indicates operational counts within each of the one or more user-defined geofenced areas based on the aircraft identity data from ADS-B Out equipped aircraft operating within each geofenced area, and
- wherein ADS-B Out GPS and altitude information received in the ADS-B Out data is used to exclude from the output report aircraft operations within each user-defined geofenced area about the airport.
A method for unattended or non-towered airport management, comprising:
- providing a user interface for defining one or more geofenced area about an airport, each geofenced area denoted by a user-defined virtual boundary defining a mathematically predetermined airspace of horizontal and vertical extent;
- receiving, from one or more radio transmission sources located within the geofenced area, radio transmissions from the one or more radio transmission sources located within the one or more geofenced areas, wherein at least one of the multiple radio transmissions is a radio transmission that includes a unique signature element,
- the unique signature element corresponding to aircraft identity data from an Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast Out (ADS-B Out) equipped aircraft uniquely trackable within the one or more geofenced areas;
- receiving, at a signal interface connected to the radio device, the unique signature element including the aircraft identity data from one or more ADS-B Out equipped aircraft;
- a computing device connected to the signal interface, the computing device generating an output report corresponding to each of the multiple radio transmissions;
- wherein the output report includes operational counts within the geofenced area of the airport;
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- wherein the output report indicates operational counts within each of the one or more user-defined geofenced areas about the geofenced area of the airport based on the aircraft identity data from ADS-B Out equipped aircraft operating within each geofenced area, and
- wherein ADS-B Out GPS and altitude information received in the ADS-B Out data is used to exclude from the output report aircraft operations within each user-defined geofenced area about the airport.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.