Patent ID: 8360343

Claim:
A mobile fluid delivery system for delivering fluid to a site using one or more mobile fluid delivery machines, the system comprising: a site computing system comprising mission instructions identifying a sequence of path segments on the site and corresponding fluid delivery amounts allocated to the path segments; and a mobile fluid delivery machine comprising: a tank storing fluid; at least one spray head configured to spray the stored fluid onto the site based on a fluid delivery command received from an operator of the mobile fluid delivery machine; an operator interface receiving input from the operator indicative of the fluid delivery command; a display device; a communication device receiving fluid delivery mission instructions from the site computing system; a location device that determines the location of the mobile fluid delivery machine on the site; a fluid delivery system comprising a controller and memory storing computer program instructions that the controller executes to: determine whether the location of the fluid delivery machine corresponds to a path segment of the sequence; identify the fluid delivery amount allocated to that path segment based on the mission instructions when it is determined that the location of the fluid delivery machine corresponds to a path segment in the sequence determine an actual amount of fluid delivered to the path segment based on the fluid delivery command received from the operator; and control the display device to display a representation of a comparison of the actual fluid delivery amount to the identified fluid delivery amount allocated to the path segment based on the mission instructions.