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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2001
Theodore S. Rappaport, Salem, VA (US);
Roger R. Skidmore, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Praveen Sheethalnath, San Diego, CA (US);
Theodore S. Rappaport, Salem, VA (US);
Roger R. Skidmore, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Praveen Sheethalnath, San Diego, CA (US);
Motorola. Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A method and system for creating, using, and managing a three-dimensional digital model of the physical environment combines outdoor terrain elevation and land-use information, building placements, heights and geometries of the interior structure of buildings, along with site-specific models of components that are distributed spatially within a physical environment. The present invention separately provides an asset management system that allows the integrated three-dimensional model of the outdoor, indoor, and distributed infrastructure equipment to communicate with and aggregate the information pertaining to actual physical components of the actual network, thereby providing a management system that can track the on-going performance, cost, maintenance history, and depreciation of multiple networks using the site-specific unified digital format.