Patent ID: 11861820
Assignee: RDI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 11:
12. A system for collecting predictive maintenance (PdM) data to establish a condition of equipment in industrial plants or civil structures that utilizes one or more intelligent data acquisition units (DAUs), each of which is configured to survey multiple locations where equipment or structures to be evaluated are present using a set of instruments mounted to the DAU(s), comprising:
a PdM database defining the equipment or civil structure under test and further defining a combination of sensors in a sensor payload to apply to each item of equipment or civil structure monitored on a survey;
a DAU configured to perform surveys on distinct types of equipment with a processor and a memory that stores collected and measured PdM data; and
a computer program operating in said processor;
that communicates with the DAU to automatically screen data collected by the DAU to extract features specific to faults of the equipment or civil structure under test, wherein each acquisition device is configured to collect PdM data specific to at least one specific type of equipment being monitored as specified in the PdM database; and
based on data collected by the DAU, automatically determines a presence of suspect conditions, selectively stores information corresponding to the condition of the equipment or civil structure under test on the DAU to be communicated to the PdM database for archival, or wirelessly transmits the collected PdM data to the PdM database for processing and archival.