Patent ID: 11952021
Assignee: MOW EQUIPMENT SOLUTIONS, INC.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A system to facilitate monitoring and control of a railway maintenance assembly, the system comprising:
a railway workhead component monitor adapted to be disposed at a railway maintenance assembly, the railway workhead component monitor configured to perform:
monitoring one or more conditions of at least a portion of the railway maintenance assembly, wherein the monitoring comprises:
identifying a distance of the railway maintenance assembly from one or more other assemblies or a reference point along a railway; and
based at least in part on the distance and a threshold specified for a particular duration, identifying a maintenance action to be performed within a time boundary or a relocation action to be performed to relocate the railway maintenance assembly;

based at least in part on the monitoring, storing monitoring data corresponding to operations of the railway maintenance assembly;
generating reporting data based at least in part on the stored monitoring data; and
communicating a wireless communication to a railway device controller that is remote from the railway maintenance assembly, the wireless communication comprising the reporting data.