Smart Parent Sign for Industrial Asset Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Industrial facilities face security risks and impracticality in using internet connections for asset control due to hacking concerns and the need for multiple smart parent signs, which is undesirable and impractical.
Innovation Solution
A smart parent sign system that uses local wireless communication between a portable smart device and smart parent signs corresponding to parent and child assets, avoiding cellular connections and enabling interactive maintenance, clearance, and operation procedures without internet access, utilizing electronic processors with memory, transceivers, and power managers to manage asset information and procedures.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If internet connections are used for asset control, then operational capability is improved, but security risk increases due to hacking concerns
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the communication functionality from the cloud-based internet connection model and places it locally within the facility. The server is deployed on-premises rather than relying on external internet connections, thereby maintaining operational capability while eliminating the security vulnerability of external hacking access.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a local server as an intermediary between portable devices and asset management systems. This intermediary enables operational capabilities previously requiring internet connections while isolating the system from external hacking risks by mediating all communications through a secure local infrastructure.
2Measurement precision
If a smart parent sign is provided for each asset, then asset management precision is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple child asset tags under a single parent sign, allowing one parent sign to manage multiple child assets. This consolidation maintains precise asset management capabilities while reducing the total number of devices required, thereby lowering system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The parent sign is designed with multi-functionality to serve as the primary management interface for multiple child assets. This universal approach allows a single device to perform asset management functions for several assets, improving precision without proportionally increasing device complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A smart parent sign is provided for assisting in performing an interactive procedure utilizing assets that include asset identifiers in an industrial facility. The smart parent sign includes information for a parent asset and for a group of child assets with child tags disposed nearby. The smart parent sign includes an electronic processor having a memory, a transceiver, a parent asset identifier; and a power manager. The electronic processor is configured to provide data from the memory corresponding to at least one of the child assets that corresponds to one of the child tags to a portable smart device. The electronic processor is also configured to provide procedures for the parent and child assets to the portable smart device.