Patent Document ID: 9311615
Application ID: 12983556
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for infrastructure asset management, comprising the computer-implemented steps of: providing a set of sensor devices for capturing data about a set of physical assets of an infrastructure; capturing the data about the set of physical assets; encrypting the data about the set of physical assets; receiving, over a network from the set of sensor devices, the data about the set of physical assets as encrypted data, the data comprising external data including environmental weather data and demographics data for each of the set of physical assets, the network comprising at least one of a local area network, a wide area network, a broadband network, or a wireless network; routing the data received from the set of sensor devices to a maintenance analysis tool comprising specifically configured hardware and software components of a computerized infrastructure asset management system, the routing via at least one of Ethernet, wireless network, direct serial connection, parallel connection, USB, and short-distance wireless systems; correlating, by the maintenance analysis tool, historical data, retrieved from a storage system, comprising a manufacturer of each of the set of physical assets, a geographic location of each of the set of physical assets, and at least one weather condition that previously necessitated maintenance for each of the set of physical assets, wherein the storage system comprises at least one of the group: VCRs, DVRs, RAID arrays, USB hard drives, optical disk recorders, flash storage devices, image analysis devices, video enhancement devices, de-interlacers, and scalers; analyzing, by the maintenance analysis tool, the data about the set of physical assets, the historical data, and graphical information system (GIS) data about the set of physical assets to predict maintenance requirements for each of the set of physical assets arising from an anticipated weather condition similar to the at least one weather condition; identifying by the maintenance analysis tool, based on the analyzing, a subset of the set of physical assets, the subset being clustered within a portion of the geographic location, the subset comprising a higher rate of previously necessitated maintenance during the at least one weather condition, as compared to other physical assets within the set, and generating, by the maintenance analysis tool, a maintenance plan for the subset of the set of physical assets based on the analyzing and the identifying, wherein the GIS data comprises location information about each of the set of physical assets represented by one or more layers displayed on a visual map.