General Electric Company

Robert Alan Wetzel

Patrick Joseph Venneman

John Erik Hershey

Emad Andarawis Andarawis

Kenneth Brakeley Welles

David Michael Davenport

Rahul Bhotika

Prescott Logan

Robert Mitchell

A method and apparatus for controlling a site-specific activity at a plurality of remote locations, for example, the inspection of geographically remote equipment or the gathering of data for a census. A mobile operator transports a portable tool to a plurality of locations where a site-specific activity is to be conducted. The portable tool includes a location detection device. Processing of data using the portable tool is enabled only when the portable tool is located proximate a designated site, as determined by the location detection device. In various embodiments, the enabled site-specific activity may include data recordation, data transmission, data reception, data processing, and/or the display of a data entry form.

Method and apparatus for controlling site-specific operations

A device for conducting rail car inspections including an inspection module, an imaging module, a scanner module, a location module, a printer module and a communication module.

Enhanced recordation device for rail car inspections

A method and apparatus for controlling a site-specific activity at a plurality of remote locations, for example, the inspection of geographically remote equipment or the gathering of data for a census. A mobile operator transports a portable tool () to a plurality of locations where a site-specific activity is to be conducted. The portable tool includes a location detection device (). Processing of data using the portable tool is enabled only when the portable tool is located proximate a designated site, as determined by the location detection device. In various embodiments, the enabled site-specific activity may include data recordation, data transmission, data reception, data processing, and/or the display of a data entry form.

A system () and method for recording inspection data for geographically remote equipment assets. A portable inspection data recording device () is transported by a mobile inspector to a plurality of locations of equipment () to be inspected. The data recording device includes a location detection device (), and a unique equipment identifier is associated with each remote equipment location, so that travel instructions may be displayed for directing the inspector to the location of selected equipment. Recordation of inspection data for selected equipment is enabled only when the portable inspection data recording device is located proximate the selected equipment. Data recordation may be enabled by displaying an equipment-specific data recordation form on input/output display () having selected data field automatically populated in response to the selected unique equipment identifier.

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Robert Alan Wetzel