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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2016
New York Air Brake, Llc, Watertown, NY (US);
Sean Adams, Elk Grove, CA (US);
Mark Fugate, Colleyville, TX (US);
New York Air Brake, LLC, Watertown, NY (US);
Abstract
A system that determines state of a locomotive and transmits the occurrence of any predetermined events to an off-board system. The onboard subsystem includes an event detection module programmed to receive data defining the state of a locomotive to determine whether the received state of the locomotive comprises an event as well as a transmission module programmed to transmit to an off-board subsystem data defining a status. An onboard database have reference variable values is used to compare the existing state of the locomotive to predetermined events. If an event is determined to have occurred, the occurrence of the event is transmitted to the off-board system.