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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2011
John Brand, Melbourne, FL (US);
Jared Cooper, Melbourne, FL (US);
Wolfgang Daum, Erie, PA (US);
Daniel Ballesty, Erie, PA (US);
John Brand, Melbourne, FL (US);
Jared Cooper, Melbourne, FL (US);
Wolfgang Daum, Erie, PA (US);
Daniel Ballesty, Erie, PA (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are described for monitoring different conditions that are simultaneously or concurrently experienced by different vehicles in the same consist and using the monitored conditions to locally change operations of one or more of the vehicles. In accordance with one embodiment, operations data related to one or more vehicles of the consist is acquired from one or more of plural different locations in the consist. The operations data and location data related to where the operations data is acquired are communicated to a first vehicle of the consist. Command data is formed based on the operations data and the location data. The command data directs at least one of the vehicles in the consist to change one or more operations of the at least one of the vehicles. The command data is transmitted to one or more of the vehicles of the consist.