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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2019
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation, Wilmerding, PA (US);
Karen A. Shaw, Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Thomas Paul Spiegelhalter, Jr., Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION, Wilmerding, PA (US);
Abstract
A system is provided that includes a first communication device located at or associated with a determined zone and can accept field data; a second communication device located on or associated with at least one vehicle approaching or traversing the determined zone; and at least one controller or a control system. The controller or control system can receive the field data from the first communication device; convert at least a portion of the field data to a message comprising vehicle data; and provide the vehicle data to a vehicle controller or a vehicle operator, and thereby can control or operate the at least one vehicle based using the provided vehicle data.