Mobile Device Visualization for Industrial Equipment Information Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
In industrial settings, technicians face inefficiencies and errors due to the need for multiple visits and communication with back-end control centers to access digital information for equipment maintenance, often resulting in equipment misidentification and operational errors.
Innovation Solution
A system that allows real-time access to digital information using a mobile device, integrating context-specific data onto a visualization of the industrial area, eliminating the need for phone communication and multiple visits, and dynamically updating information based on work assignments, with features detected and identified on-site without transmitting raw video or image data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a technician communicates with a back-end control center using a mobile phone or makes multiple physical visits to access digital information, then the technician can access equipment information, but this results in loss of time and increased productivity costs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a visual copy or representation of the industrial area with objects, allowing technicians to access information about equipment without physically visiting each location. The visual representation serves as a virtual copy that can be queried remotely, eliminating the need for multiple physical visits and reducing time loss.
Solution Approach 2:
The visual representation acts as an intermediary between the technician and the physical equipment. Instead of directly accessing equipment on-site or communicating through phone calls, the technician queries the visual representation which mediates the information transfer, enabling remote access to digital information associated with objects in the industrial area.
2Reliability
If a technician makes multiple physical visits to equipment for maintenance assignments, then the technician can access and update information, but this increases loss of time and reduces productivity
Solution Approach 1:
The system maintains an accurate visual copy of the industrial area with objects that can be queried remotely. This visual representation stores and displays equipment information, allowing technicians to access and update data without physically visiting each equipment location, thereby maintaining information accuracy while significantly improving productivity by eliminating multiple trips.
Solution Approach 2:
The visual representation is pre-configured with the ability to store, display, and query information about objects in the industrial area. This preliminary setup allows technicians to perform information access and updates remotely before physically arriving at equipment locations, streamlining the maintenance process and reducing time loss.
3Measurement precision
If raw video or image data is transmitted for object identification, then accurate identification can be achieved, but this increases data transmission requirements and processing complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the necessary visual features or characteristics of objects from the full video or image data, rather than transmitting the complete raw data. By taking out only the essential visual information needed for identification and storing it in the visual representation, the system achieves accurate object identification while significantly reducing data transmission requirements and processing complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
Displaying information associated with an object is described herein. One method includes determining attributes associated with an object, visualizing the object using a mobile device, detecting, by the mobile device, the attributes from the visualization, and receiving, by the mobile device, information associated with the object in response to the detection of attributes.