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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2018
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation, Wilmerding, PA (US);
Jeffrey D. Kernwein, Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Craig Karl Green, Jefferson Hills, PA (US);
Jerrid D. Chapman, Belle Vernon, PA (US);
Sathya Vagheeswar Venkatasubramanian, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
A switch reporting device including at least one display screen, a high resolution camera, a code reader, at least one memory and one or more processors, the switch reporting device configured to determine a position of an unmonitored switch in a railway by capturing an image of one or more portions associated with the unmonitored switch, generating switch position data based on the image of one or more portions associated with the unmonitored switch, and updating a switch position record for the unmonitored switch with the switch position data. The switch reporting device includes one or more mobile computers or an EOT device for monitoring and reporting switch position data for an unmonitored switch.