Field Device Monitoring With AR Navigation for Abnormal Device Location
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Solution Overview
Problem
In IT infrastructures with numerous hardware devices, maintenance personnel face challenges in efficiently locating problematic devices due to time-consuming manual inspections and exposure to harmful environments, leading to potential health risks and resource inefficiencies.
Innovation Solution
A monitoring system utilizing Building Information Model (BIM) and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies to provide real-time state data and navigation assistance for maintenance personnel, enabling them to quickly locate abnormal devices and reduce manual inspection time.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If manual inspection methods are used to monitor hardware devices, then maintenance personnel can directly observe and diagnose device states, but the inspection process becomes time-consuming and laborious
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual mechanical inspection with an automated sensing system that uses sensors to detect device states. The sensing apparatus automatically collects data from hardware devices, eliminating the need for maintenance personnel to physically inspect each device while maintaining accurate detection of device states.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-monitoring of hardware devices through automated sensing apparatus that continuously collect and analyze device state data without human intervention. The system automatically identifies abnormal devices and provides location information, allowing the monitoring process to serve itself without requiring manual inspection.
2Reliability
If manual inspection of each hardware device is performed, then comprehensive monitoring coverage is achieved, but the complexity and labor requirements increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The sensing apparatus is designed as a universal monitoring system that can detect multiple types of hardware devices simultaneously using the same sensing mechanisms. The system performs multiple functions including data collection, abnormality detection, and location identification through a single integrated platform, reducing overall system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines multiple inspection functions into a single unified sensing system. Instead of using separate tools for different inspection tasks, the system integrates sensing, data processing, and device location identification into one cohesive apparatus that monitors all hardware devices comprehensively.
3Productivity
If maintenance personnel spend extended time in the IT infrastructure environment, then thorough inspections can be performed, but exposure to electromagnetic radiation and low-temperature conditions adversely affects health
Solution Approach 1:
The sensing apparatus acts as an intermediary between the maintenance personnel and the hardware devices. It collects all necessary inspection data automatically, eliminating the need for personnel to physically enter and spend time in the harmful IT infrastructure environment. The system mediates the inspection process remotely, protecting personnel from electromagnetic radiation and low-temperature exposure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces human physical presence in the inspection process with automated sensing systems. The sensing apparatus performs all inspection tasks that would otherwise require personnel to be physically present in the harmful environment, substituting mechanical and electronic sensing systems for human inspectors.
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AI summary
The present disclosure relates to a method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for monitoring a field device. For example, a method for monitoring a field device is provided. The method may include receiving facility information data associated with locations of a group of field devices and a sensing data set acquired by a sensing apparatus arranged near the group of field devices. The method may further include determining, according to a determination that sensing data associated with at least one field device in the group of field devices in the sensing data set is abnormal, a target location of the at least one field device based on the facility information data. In addition, the method may further include generating navigation information from a source location where a user is located to the target location.