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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2013
Jonathan David Murphy, Friday Harbor, WA (US);
Jonathan David Murphy, Friday Harbor, WA (US);
AKTIEBOLAGET SKF, Gothenburg, SE;
Abstract
Systems and methods for collecting and/or managing data are provided. The system includes a plurality of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags attached to a plurality of machines. Each of the plurality of RFID tags includes a tag ID. The system also includes a mobile data collector configured to take a measurement of one or more operating conditions of the plurality of machines and to read the tag ID from a proximal one of the plurality of RFID tags. The system also includes a computing device including a processor and a memory storing a database, the database associating the tag ID of each of the plurality of RFID tags with the one of the plurality of machines to which it is attached. Further, the computing device is configured to receive the measurement and the tag ID from the mobile data collector and analyze the one or more operating conditions.