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US 2025/0358915 A1Published application
System and method for railroad smart flasher lamps
AssigneeBNSF Railway Company
InventorRoss M. Sterling
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AssigneeBNSF Railway Company
InventorRoss M. Sterling
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A smart lamp system and method for monitoring a status of LEDs. The system can provide LED status monitoring using a logic controller communicating with at least one strip of LEDs. The system can utilize the logic controller to assign a unique identifier (ID) to the at least one strip of LEDs based on a physical position of a plurality of dual-inline package (DIP) switches incorporated within a smart lamp housing. The system can provide a hardware architecture to interface the logic controller with a power-line communication (PLC) transceiver. The system can establish a communication protocol between the PLC transceiver and a PLC receiver to efficiently communicate the statuses of the LEDs. The logic controller can generate a payload including a binary representation of the unique ID of the smart lamp and the statuses of the LEDs and transmit the payload to the PLC transceiver.
A smart lamp system configured to monitor a status of light-emitting diodes (LEDs), comprising:
A smart lamp system configured to monitor a status of light-emitting diodes (LEDs), comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.