Patent ID: 11954751
Assignee: STRESS ENGINEERING SERVICES, INC.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
providing at a worksite an elevated working implement, wherein the elevated working implement comprises a leg and a force transmissive structure associated with the leg, wherein the force transmissive structure comprises a sensor to facilitate detection of force transmitted through the leg;
detecting, with the sensor of the elevated working implement, use of the elevated working implement by an operator based upon the detection of force transmitted through the leg;
wirelessly transmitting, via a short-range communication protocol, information associated with the use, as determined by the detecting, from the elevated working implement to a mobile communications device in possession of the operator at the worksite;
wirelessly transmitting data over a communications network, by the mobile communications device to a scoring computing system, wherein the data comprises:
an identity of the operator; and
a characteristic of operation, wherein the characteristic of operation has been determined based upon the information and represents a manner by which the operator has used the elevated working implement;

generating a plurality of alerts, wherein each of the plurality of alerts is in response to determining that the characteristic of operation is unsafe; and
generating a score representing the operator's behavior for safety based upon the data; wherein:
the score is cumulative based upon multiple instances of the data received over time, with each instance of the data relating to a respective one of the plurality of alerts; and
the score accounts for an accumulation of violation correction responses made by the operator within a predetermined time following each respective one of the plurality of alerts.