Patent ID: 9716971
Date: 2017-07-25
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of evaluating a piece of equipment of a power transmission or distribution system, the method comprising: identifying a geographical area including a presumed faulty piece of equipment with a central computer system, the presumed faulty piece of equipment being a piece of equipment of the power transmission or distribution system comprising masts and/or power poles, power lines and/or overhead lines, transformers, breakers and switches, and the geographical area being identified by a condition of electricity supply in the geographical area; determining a contact at the geographical area comprising registering a person at the central computer system, receiving GPS coordinates of a mobile device of the person in the central computer system, and determining the person by checking whether the GPS coordinates of the mobile device are at the geographical area; sending a first request to the mobile device for inspecting local equipment in the geographical area to the contact, wherein the request includes GPS coordinates of the presumed faulty piece of equipment and a request for annotation; guiding the contact with the mobile device to the presumed faulty piece of equipment by the GPS coordinates; taking a picture with the mobile device, via the contact, of the presumed faulty piece of equipment; annotating the picture on the mobile device, as to whether the presumed faulty piece of equipment is faulty or not according to an opinion of the contact; determining GPS coordinates with the mobile device of the contact, when taking the picture; transmitting the picture from the mobile device to the central computer system; sending a second request for evaluating the presumed faulty piece of equipment together with the picture and annotation to a selected person from a group of registered persons for analysis; and transmitting an analysis result from the selected person to the central computing system.