Map-Viewing Interface for Centralized Utility Data Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Facility managers and maintenance personnel face challenges in ascertaining the current status and configuration of infrastructure due to scattered and discrepancies in facility management documents, such as blueprints and maintenance reports, which are often located across various locations and departments.
Innovation Solution
A computing system with a map-viewing interface that displays geo-positioned graphical representations of structures and utilities, allowing for centralized data management, editing, and work order assignment, ensuring accurate and up-to-date information access.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If facility management documents are scattered across various locations and departments, then document storage flexibility is improved, but information accessibility and consistency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent consolidates scattered facility management documents into a single centralized location (cloud-based platform), merging previously distributed documents across different departments and locations into one accessible repository, thereby improving information accessibility while maintaining storage flexibility
Solution Approach 2:
The centralized platform serves multiple functions: storing documents, providing access to all authorized users, enabling collaboration, and maintaining version control, making it a universal solution that replaces multiple separate document storage locations
2Loss of information
If multiple facility management documents are reviewed simultaneously, then comprehensive information access is improved, but operational complexity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent overlays multiple display layers containing different facility management documents (blueprints, photos, videos, work orders) onto a single map interface, allowing comprehensive information access in one unified view rather than requiring separate document reviews
Solution Approach 2:
The patent organizes multiple documents across vertical display layers that can be selectively viewed or overlaid on the map, adding a dimensional organization structure that simplifies accessing comprehensive information without overwhelming the user
3Adaptability or versatility
If display layers are editable by multiple entities, then collaboration capability is improved, but data consistency and control deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies different permission levels to different display layers, allowing some layers to be editable by multiple entities while others remain restricted, enabling collaboration where needed while maintaining control and consistency where required
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides version control and change tracking mechanisms that monitor edits to display layers, ensuring data consistency is maintained even when multiple entities collaborate on editable layers
Data Source
AI summary
A computing system is configured to generate a map-viewing interface including a display window visually presenting one or more display layers associated with a mapping site therein. Each of the display layers corresponds to a graphical representation of at least one structure and/or utility present at the mapping site and each of the display layers is associated with geo-positional data to establish a relative position of each of the display layers within the display window. A file tag is displayed within the display window of the map-viewing interface and is associated with a file accessible to the computing system and including data relating to one of the structures and/or utilities present at the mapping site. The file is associated with geo-positional data to establish a position of the file tag within the display window relative to each of the display layers instantaneously being visually presented within the display window.