Patent ID: 11954753
Assignee: BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 17:
18. A computer-based tool for automated asset management, the computer-based tool including non-transitory computer readable media having stored thereon computer code which, when executed by a processor, causes a computing device to perform operations comprising:
configuring a mission plan for collecting asset data associated with one or more assets in an intermodal facility based on following parameters:
a type of mission of the mission plan;
a flight route defined by one or more of a flight pattern, an operational area, and a set of waypoints:
a title for the mission plan;
a flight at which the asset data collector is to operate when automatically collecting the asset data:
a focal point altitude which indicates a ground altitude at which the asset data collector is to focus when automatically collecting the asset data;
a video flight speed which indicates a speed at which the asset data collector is to operate when automatically collecting the asset data:
a capture quality at which the asset data collector is to capture the asset data;
one or more advanced parameters, wherein the one or more advanced parameters include one or more of a frame rate for collecting the asset data, a type for the asset data to be automatically collected by the asset data collector, a metadata sampling rate for collecting metadata associate with the asset data, a number of pattern repetitions indicating a number of times a flight pattern associated with the mission plan is to be repeated, a stopping condition indicating a condition which, when determined to be present, causes the mission plan to terminate, and a mission type for the mission plan; and
one or more regulatory parameters, wherein the regulatory parameters include one or more of an indication of an airspace within which the mission plan is to operate, and a low altitude and notification capability indication;

instantiating an asset data collector to automatically collect the asset data associated with the one or more assets, wherein instantiating the asset data collector causes the asset data collector to initiate automatically collecting the asset data associated with one or more assets in the intermodal facility according to the mission plan;
automatically collecting, by the asset data collector, the asset data associated with the one or more assets in the intermodal facility according to the mission plan;
detecting the one or more assets in a set of data of the asset data collected by the asset data collector, wherein detecting the one or more assets in the set of data includes:
analyzing, frame by frame, a plurality of frames of the set of data of the asset data collected by the asset data collector; and
identifying frames, in the plurality of frames, in which the one or more assets appear;

identifying the one or more assets detected in the set of data, wherein identifying the one or more assets includes assigning a respective identification to each of the one or more assets, the respective identification configured to facilitate tracking a respective asset from frame to frame of the frames in which the respective asset appears;
inspecting, based on the set of data in which the one or more assets are detected, the one or more assets to determine a condition of the one or more assets; and
outputting the condition of the one or more assets.