Fluke Corporation

John Neeley

Joseph V Ferrante

Tyler Bennett Evans

Bradey Honsinger

Michael D Stuart

Jordan B Schlichting

Thomas J McManus

Peter A Bergstrom

Lindsey Berdan

Bradley Honsinger

Bradey Hosinger

Michael Devin Stuart

Thomas Mcmanus

A computer-implemented method, system, and computer-readable medium for automatically generating a combined display of measurement data representing a combined measurement, such as a multiphase parameter, includes establishing, by a mobile computing device, communication connections with a plurality of measurement devices configured to generate measurement data. The mobile computing device receives the measurement data generated by the plurality of measurement devices, and in response to information indicative of the measurement data representing related parts of a combined measurement, the mobile computing device automatically groups the measurement data received from the measurement devices and automatically displays the grouped measurement data in a combined display that shares at least one axis of measurement. In at least one embodiment, the combined measurement is a multiphase parameter, such as a three-phase electrical parameter, and the combined display is a graph in which the measurement data shares at least one axis of measurement, such as time.

Automated combined display of measurement data

A method and system for capturing and annotating measurement data includes communicatively connecting a mobile computing device to one or more measurement devices, and receiving measurement data from the one or more measurement devices. The mobile computing device stores the received measurement data and annotates the stored measurement data with metadata. The metadata includes group identifying information that associates the stored measurement data with other data having similar group identifying information. In at least one embodiment, measurement data is automatically associated with the group identifying information based on the measurement data being captured within a predetermined amount of time of each other or within a predetermined distance of each other as determined by a positioning system. The metadata may include, for example, one or more of a time, a location, a test point, a work order, a task list, a job instruction, a technician identifier, a text note, a voice note, an image, a video, and an image annotation.

Capture and association of measurement data

A method, system, and computer-readable medium for sharing measurement data with a remote device includes establishing, by a mobile computing device at an equipment site, a first communication connection with a measurement device that is configured to measure data with respect to equipment at the equipment site. The mobile computing device receives measurement data by way of the first communication connection. While remaining at the equipment site, the mobile computing device receives a request to share the measurement data with a selected contact via a remote device. In response, a second communication connection is established with the remote device, the measurement data to be shared is identified, and the identified measurement data is communicated to the remote device for review by the selected contact. Prior to establishing a communication connection with the remote device, permission to communicate the measurement data to the selected contact may be obtained from a gatekeeper.

Remote sharing of measurement data

A system for measuring a device under test (DUT) includes a computing device and a measurement device that measures an electrical or physical parameter of the DUT. The computing device receives and stores measurement data in a DUT record associated with the DUT. The computing device further obtains a first image of the DUT, displays the first image as a reference image with a first reference frame, receives a live image of the DUT from an image sensor, and displays the live image with a second reference frame that corresponds to the first reference frame. A cursor on the live image moves according to movement of the image sensor relative to the DUT. A second image of the DUT is obtained, wherein the second image is substantially aligned with the reference image based on an alignment of the cursor with the second reference frame. The second image is stored in the DUT record.

Maintenance management systems and methods

A smart phone user captures video and still images of a motor and makes a sound recording of his observations. The images and recordings are tagged with a date/time stamp, a serial number, bar code, matrix code, RFID code, or geolocation and sent wirelessly to an infrared camera. The infrared camera has a collocation application that reads the tag and creates a folder which holds the infrared image and the auxiliary information from the smartphone related to an asset. The collocation program also adds icons to the infrared image. By operating the user interface (not shown) of the infrared camera, the user may select an icon to view the images and listen to the sound recording.

Visible audiovisual annotation of infrared images using a separate wireless mobile device

A method and system for capturing measurement data from a measurement device using a mobile computing device is provided. A mobile computing device is communicatively connected to one or more measurement devices, and receives measurement data from the one or more measurement devices. The mobile computing device stores the received measurement data. In some embodiments, the measurement devices have less storage space than the mobile computing device, and so the mobile computing device is capable of storing more measurements than the measurement devices are capable of storing. The mobile computing device is also capable of presenting the stored measurement data as a graph of a time series of values, which would not be possible using only the measurement device given its smaller memory.

Automatic recording and graphing of measurement data

Systems and techniques for obtaining and maintaining maintenance records for various assets are described. In one embodiment, a computing device may be wirelessly coupled to a measurement device when the computing device is placed in proximity with the computing device. Upon measuring one or more parameters of a device under test (DUT), the measurement device may provide the measured parameters to the computing device in the form of measurement data. In some embodiments, the computing device associates the measured parameters with the corresponding DUT from which the measurements were obtained and provides the associated measured parameter to, for example, a service provider for future access. In another embodiment, the measurement device itself is configured to associate the measurement parameters with the DUT and provide the associated measurement parameters to the service provider.

A method and system for comparing measurements of a device under test (DUT) to measurements taken of similar equipment are provided. The method includes communicatively connecting a mobile computing device to one or more measurement devices, and receiving measurement data from the one or more measurement devices. The mobile computing device determines an equipment identifier of the DUT, and retrieves information associated with the equipment, which may include previous measurements of other devices or reference documents. The mobile computing device presents the retrieved information along with the received measurement data for comparison.

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