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

Claim 24:
25. A system for collecting predictive maintenance (PdM) data to establish a condition of equipment in industrial plants or civil structures based on measurements collected from a fleet of data acquisition units (DAUs) that operate under control of a PdM server, comprising:
a PdM database defining the equipment or civil structure under test and a manner by which it will be monitored;
one or more DAUs with an onboard processor and memory for storage of individual video image frames that is capable of collecting PdM data specific to the equipment or civil structure under test and configured to communication wirelessly; and
a PdM server that accesses the PdM database and communicates with one or more DAUs to exchange data, with one or more technicians that service the DAUs, and with one or more analysts who review the PdM data;
a computer program operating in said PdM server that operates to:
maintain a status of each DAU in the fleet,
wherein the computer program assigns surveys due to be performed to individual DAUs in a manner to optimize a number of surveys completed and a service life of the DAUs in the fleet and provides an alert to one or more technicians to perform service on a DAU as needed or provides an alert to one or more analysts that new data has arrived and identify machines that exhibit suspect conditions.