Granted Patent B2

US 12,238,616 · App. 17/951,365 · Granted Feb 25, 2025

Inventors: Ilya Alexander Eliashevsky (Milford, CT); Landon Benjamin Register (Lewisville, TX); Jonathan Lee Jackson (Charlotte, NC); Thomas Richard Pankake (Prospect, CT)

Assignee: Insight Direct USA, Inc.

H04W4/029

Abstract

Claims (62)

1. An asset tracking system comprising:

a tracking device associated with a mobile asset, the tracking device configured via a set of device configurations;

a centralized device management platform including one or more processors in communication with the tracking device; and

computer-readable memory encoded with instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the asset tracking system to:

receive location data corresponding to a location of the tracking device;

evaluate the location data to identify a zone corresponding to a physical region that includes the location of the tracking device;

compare an identified zone with a set of location-based rules to identify a rule associated with the identified zone;

update the set of device configurations with a device configuration that is associated with an identified rule, wherein:

the device configuration that is associated with the identified rule is different from a pre-existing device configuration that is defined in the set of device configurations;

the pre-existing device configuration that is defined in the set of device configurations and the device configuration that is associated with identified rule include a first and second signal type, respectively;

the second signal type is different from the first signal type; and

one of the first signal type and the second signal type is a cellular network signal; and

sync an updated set of device configurations to the tracking device to reconfigure the tracking device based on the identified rule.

2. The asset tracking system of claim 1 , wherein the set of device configurations defines, for the tracking device, at least one of:

an asset type identification;

a location data reporting frequency;

a signal type for transmitting the location data; and

whether a sensor component of the tracking device is enabled or disabled.

3. The asset tracking system of claim 1 , wherein the pre-existing device configuration that is defined in the set of device configurations and the device configuration that is associated with identified rule include a first and second location data reporting frequency, respectively; and wherein the second location data reporting frequency is different from the first location data reporting frequency.

4. The asset tracking system of claim 1 and further comprising:

an output engine;

wherein the output engine determines when the identified rule is associated with a notification; and

wherein the output engine communicates the notification to one or more groups of users.

5. The asset tracking system of claim 1 , wherein the tracking device is communicatively connected to at least one of a temperature sensor, a pressure sensor, and a thermal imaging device.

6. The asset tracking system of claim 1 , wherein the set of device configurations is stored as a digital twin of the tracking device; and wherein the digital twin is accessible by both the centralized device management platform and the tracking device.

7. A method of tracking mobile assets using a centralized device management platform that is remote from the mobile assets, the method comprising:

receiving location data corresponding to a location of a tracking device that is associated with a mobile asset, the tracking device configured via a set of device configurations;

evaluating the location data by a computer-based rules engine of the centralized device management platform to identify a zone corresponding to a physical region that includes the location of the tracking device;

comparing, by the rules engine, an identified zone with a set of location-based rules to identify a rule associated with the identified zone;

updating the set of device configurations with a device configuration that is associated with an identified rule, wherein:

a pre-existing device configuration that is defined in the set of device configurations and the device configuration that is associated with identified rule include a first and second signal type, respectively;

the second signal type is different from the first signal type; and

one of the first signal type and the second signal type is a cellular network signal; and

syncing an updated set of device configurations to the tracking device.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein syncing the updated set of device configurations to the tracking device further includes:

reconfiguring the tracking device based on the identified rule; and

changing a functionality of the tracking device.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein changing the functionality of the tracking device further includes at least one of:

changing an asset type identification;

changing a location data reporting frequency;

changing a signal type for transmitting the location data; and

changing an enabled or disabled state of a sensor component of the tracking device.

10. The method of claim 7 , wherein the pre-existing device configuration that is defined in the set of device configurations and the device configuration that is associated with identified rule include a first and second location data reporting frequency, respectively; and wherein the second location data reporting is different from the first location data reporting frequency.

11. The method of claim 7 and further comprising:

determining, by an output engine, that the identified rule is associated with a first notification; and

communicating the first notification, by the output engine, to a group of users.

12. The method of claim 11 and further comprising:

determining, by the output engine, that the identified rule is associated with a second notification; and

communicating the second notification, by the output engine, to a subset group associated with the group of users.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the first notification is different from the second notification.

14. The method of claim 12 , wherein the first notification is communicated at a first frequency and the second notification is communicated at a second frequency.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the second frequency is greater than the first frequency.

16. The method of claim 12 and further comprising:

determining, by the output engine, that the identified rule is associated with a third notification; and

communicating the third notification, by the output engine, to a super group associated with the group of users;

wherein the third notification includes overall asset tracking trend information.

17. The method of claim 7 , wherein the set of device configurations is stored as a digital twin of the tracking device.

18. The method of claim 17 , wherein updating the set of device configurations further includes accessing the digital twin by the centralized device management platform; and wherein syncing the updated set of device configurations to the tracking device further includes accessing the digital twin by the tracking device.

19. The method of claim 7 and further comprising:

determining if a threshold related to presence of the tracking device in the identified zone has been exceeded.

20. The method of claim 19 , wherein the threshold is a distance that the tracking device has traveled within the identified zone; or

wherein the threshold is a duration that the tracking device has been in the identified zone, and determining if the threshold related to presence of the tracking device in the identified zone has been exceeded further includes determining if consecutive location data transmissions from the tracking device correspond to a same zone.

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