Patent ID: 11959235
Assignee: LINDSAY TRANSPORTATION SOLUTIONS, LLC
Field: Civil engineering (Other fields)
Classification: CPC E  B  G | IPC B  E  G

Claim 15:
16. A method of moving road barriers, the method comprising:
picking up the road barriers from a road surface with an entry snout of a barrier transfer machine;
transporting the road barriers from the entry snout to an exit snout of the barrier transfer machine with a conveyor system;
placing the road barriers back onto the road surface with the exit snout;
sensing locations of the road barriers as they are placed onto the road surface with a sensor mounted on the barrier transfer machine;
storing location data representative of the locations of the road barriers as they are placed onto the road surface onto a memory, the location data for each of the road barriers including a plurality of coordinates corresponding to ends and a center of the road barrier;
storing temporal data representative of a date and time the road barriers were placed on the road surface onto the memory so that the temporal data data is mapped to the location data, the location data and temporal data being a first entry;
generating a searchable log of the location data and temporal data via the memory;
adding location data and temporal data to the searchable log each time the road barriers are repositioned on the road surface while retaining all previously stored location data and temporal data such that the searchable log forms an evidentiary chain of locations of the road barriers going back to the first entry;
after the road barriers have been repositioned on the road surface, querying the searchable log via the temporal data; and
outputting location data based on the query to determine a location of one of the plurality of road barriers at a date or time represented by the temporal data.