The Boeing Company

David B Blackwell

Kevin Yong Ung

Marc Rollo Matsen

Arun Ayyagari

Brian Jay Tillotson

Bradley James Mitchell

Charles Briggs Spinelli

Tamaira Emily Ross

Steven Craig Venema

James T Farricker

Daniel A Hendricks

Brenda K Carlson

Peter E Herley

Richard R Rocks

Everett A Westerman

Craig Farris Battles

Karl Loren Johnson

Gary E Georgeson

Anil Kumar

Jason Philip Bommer

William Preston Geren

William Phillip Coop

Winfeng Li

Donald K Dabelstein

Kenneth Porad

Gloria J Nickson

Mahesh G Seetharamu

Rajesh Doda

Kristina A Chinn

Alekzander Hao Xu

Brian K Ramberg

Tamaira E Ross

William P Coop

Steven C Venema

Data is remotely collected from a plurality of fasteners in response to a query signal wirelessly transmitted by a reader. Each of the fasteners includes a sensor for measuring a parameter related to the stress on the fastener. A device adapted to be attached to each of the fasteners receives the query signal, activates the sensor to measure the parameter and wirelessly transmits the data including the parameter to the reader.

Wireless collection of fastener data

A method and apparatus for managing parts. Location information is displayed for a part on an aircraft on a mobile device. A determination is made as to whether the part is present in a location using a sensor system in the mobile device when the mobile device is in a zone including the location. A presence of the part in the location is indicated in response to the part being present in the location.

Aircraft part control system

A system for data synchronization of intermittently connected sensors may include an RFID system and an information management system. The system may also include an application to insure integrity of data retrieved or posted between the RFID system and the information management system.

Data synchronization and integrity for intermittently connected sensors

A system for tracking objects that include radio frequency identification (RFID) tags associated therewith. The system including a structure substantially defining an enclosure, a reflective interior of the enclosure configured for the reflection of radio signals, at least one conveyor belt that transports the objects through the structure, at least one RFID reader panel inside the structure, wherein the at least one RFID reader panel transmits a radio signal into the interior of the structure such that the radio signal will reflect off of the interior of the structure to increase a probability that the RFID tags associated with the objects that enter the structure are read, and an operator terminal that receives and stores information regarding read RFID tags from the at least one reader panel.

Systems, methods, and apparatus for RFID tag detection

Systems and methods for configuration management in an article of manufacture disclosed. In one embodiment, a system for documenting a configuration of an article of manufacture includes an identifier positioned on the article of manufacture. A local positioning system is used to determine a positional location of the identifier on the article of manufacture. A multifunction apparatus configured to interactively communicate with the identifier and the local positioning system is present that is operable to communicate configuration information to the identifier.

Systems and methods for configuration management

Methods and systems for structural and component health monitoring are provided. A system includes a plurality of sensor systems positioned about an object to be monitored and a processing system communicatively coupled to at least one of said plurality of sensor systems wherein the processing system includes an ontology and reasoning module configured to model the object to be monitored, reason about the received sensor data associated with the object to be monitored and reason about the relationships between the received sensor data to fuse the data into contextual information for the overall object to be monitored and a contextual analyzer configured to transmit the received sensor data to said ontology and reasoning module and to store the information into a contextual information database.

Methods and systems for monitoring structures and systems

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David B Blackwell