US 12,066,979 B2
Intelligent and automated review of industrial asset integrity data
Alok Gupta, San Ramon, CA (US); John Spirtos, Boston, MA (US); Robert Schwaber, Boston, MA (US); Andrew Chappell, San Ramon, CA (US); Ashish Jain, Menlo Park, CA (US); and Alex Tepper, Norwalk, CT (US)
Assigned to General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US)
Filed by General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US)
Filed on Nov. 9, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/092,558.
Application 17/092,558 is a continuation of application No. 15/591,871, filed on May 10, 2017, granted, now 10,866,927.
Prior Publication US 2021/0133149 A1, May 6, 2021
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/00 (2023.01); G01M 11/08 (2006.01); G06F 16/16 (2019.01); G06Q 10/20 (2023.01)
CPC G06F 16/164 (2019.01) [G01M 11/081 (2013.01); G06Q 10/20 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for inspecting an industrial asset, comprising:
a drone configured to travel along a flight path and acquire, via one or more sensors, inspection data during an inspection of an industrial asset;
an industrial asset inspection platform communicatively coupled to the drone, the industrial asset inspection platform comprising
a meta-data inspection data store containing electronic records associated with the industrial asset, the electronic records representing hierarchical components and subcomponents of the industrial asset and defining one or more points of interest of the asset;
an inspection plan data store containing electronic records associated with an inspection plan for the industrial asset;
a communication device configured to receive the inspection data from the drone;
an inspection information data store configured to receive the inspection data from the communication device; and
at least one computer processor operatively coupled to at least one memory, wherein the processor is configured to:
access information in the meta-data inspection data store to generate the inspection plan, including an association of the one or more sensors with each of the one or more points of interest,
store information about the inspection plan in the inspection plan data store,
determine the flight path based on the inspection plan,
receive, via the communication device, the inspection data from the one or more sensors,
provide a visual representation of the industrial asset to a user interface display communicatively coupled to the processor, and
generate, via a smart tagging algorithm, within the visual representation, one or more smart tags defining an association of the one or more points of interest with inspection data corresponding to the one or more points of interest based on the received inspection data and the inspection plan.