Stephen C Humphrey

US Patent:

20170297592, Oct 19, 2017

Filed:

Apr 13, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/097913

Inventors:

- Albertville AL, US
Gregory Richard Bessler - Summerdale PA, US
Stephen Harold Humphrey - Pleasant Hill MO, US

Assignee:

Progress Rail Services Corporation - Albertville AL

International Classification:

B61L 15/00
B61L 15/00
B61L 15/00
B61L 25/02
B61L 27/00
B61L 27/00
G06Q 40/08

Abstract:

A event recorder system carried on-board a locomotive may include a controller configured to receive data from one or more of a train management system, a cab signaling system, an energy management system, an exhaust aftertreatment monitoring system, a braking system, a communications management system, and an operator fatigue or distraction monitoring system. The data may include one or more of video data, audio data, sensor output data, GPS map data, scanned image data of an operator in a cab of the locomotive, and operational data associated with operation of the locomotive during a trip. The controller may be configured to synchronize the data based on a common attribute associated with all of the data received by the controller, receive from a user one or more customizable parameters predetermined to be indicative of one or more of a system-related characteristic or behavior associated with any one or more of the systems from which the controller receives data, and generate a system notification based on an indication of one or more of a system-related characteristic or behavior that one of falls outside of a predetermined range of system-determinable parameters, or indicates a trend in one or more system-determinable parameters that deviates from an expected trend in the one or more system-determinable parameters.