Infrastructure asset management

US9311615B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Andrew J. Davenport · Bellevue, US
• Wei Shan Dong · Beijing, CN
• Frank D. Fenhagen, IV · Baltimore, US
• Arun Hampapur · Norwalk, US
• Zhong Bo Jiang · Beijing, CN
• Jayant R. Kalagnanam · Tarrytown, US
• Hongfei Li · Briarcliff Manor, US
• Shilpa N. Mahatma · Town of Long Lake, US
• Wei Sun · Beijing, CN
• Lexing Xie · White Plains, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 3, 2011
• Grant date: Apr 12, 2016
• Expiry date: May 12, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q99/00
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An approach for infrastructure asset management is provided. This approach comprises an end-to-end analytics driven maintenance approach that can take data about physical assets and additional external data, and apply advanced analytics to the data to generate business insight, foresight and planning information. Specifically, this approach uses a maintenance analysis tool, which is configured to: receive data about a set of physical assets of an infrastructure, and analyze the data about the set of physical assets to predict maintenance requirements for each of the set of physical assets. The maintenance analysis tool further comprises an output component configured to generate a maintenance plan based on the predicted maintenance requirements for each of the set of physical assets.