Method and system for utilizing vehicle odometer values and dynamic compliance

• US 10,475,258 B1
• Filed: 12/30/2017
• Issued: 11/12/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Platform Science, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Platform Science, Inc.
• Inventors: Son, Don, Kopchinsky, Scott, Kennedy, John C., Fields, Jacob
• Primary Examiner(s): Soe, Kyaw Z
• Application Number:
  US15/859,380
• Time in Patent Office: 682 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 22/00 Measuring distance traversed on the ground by vehicles, persons, animals or other moving solid bodies, e.g. using odometers, using pedometers
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 22/025 Differential odometers
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0841 Registering performance data recording measured values G01D; information storage G11B
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/085 using electronic data carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/20 Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/48 for in-vehicle communication

Abstract

A system and method vehicle dynamic compliance and utilizing multiple vehicle odometer values is disclosed herein. The system comprises a vehicle (210) comprising an on-board computer (232) with a memory (231) having a vehicle identification number (233), a connector plug (235), and an motorized engine (234), a connected vehicle device (130) comprising a processor, a WiFi radio, a BLUETOOTH radio, a memory, and a connector for mating with the connector plug of the vehicle (210), and a mobile device (110) comprising a graphical user interface (335), a processor (310), a WiFi radio (307), a BLUETOOTH radio (306), and a cellular network interface (308).

Claims

1. A system for utilizing multiple vehicle odometer values, the system comprising:

a vehicle comprising an on-board computer with a memory having a vehicle identification number (VIN), a connector plug, a motorized engine, an odometer component from an engine source, an odometer component from a dashboard source, an odometer component from a chassis source, and an odometer component from a transmission source;

a connected vehicle device (CVD) comprising a processor, a WiFi radio, a BLUETOOTH radio, a memory, and a connector for mating with the connector plug of the vehicle;

a mobile device comprising a graphical user interface, a processor, a WiFi radio, a BLUETOOTH radio, and a cellular network interface; and

a server;

wherein each of the odometer component from an engine source, the odometer component from a dashboard source, the odometer component from a chassis source, and the odometer component from a transmission source generates an odometer value;

wherein the CVD generates a delta value for odometer value relative to a control odometer value;

wherein the CVD monitors the odometer value from each of the odometer component from an engine source, the odometer component from a dashboard source, the odometer component from a chassis source, and the odometer component from a transmission source;

wherein the CVD generates a new odometer value for one of the odometer component from an engine source, the odometer component from a dashboard source, the odometer component from a chassis source, and the odometer component from a transmission source, and the CVD modifies the odometer value by the delta value to generate the new odometer value.

2. The system according to claim 1 wherein the mobile device is a tablet computer.

3. The system according to claim 1 wherein the control odometer value is from an odometer value of one of the odometer component from an engine source, the odometer component from a dashboard source, the odometer component from a chassis source, and the odometer component from a transmission source.

4. The system according to claim 1 wherein the vehicle is a delivery truck.

5. The system according to claim 1 wherein the WiFi network uses an 802.11 communication protocol.

6. The system according to claim 1 wherein the CVD obtains a vehicle identification number (VIN) from the on-board computer and transmits the VIN with the new odometer value to the server.

7. A method for utilizing multiple vehicle odometer values, the method comprising:

generating an odometer value from an odometer component from an engine source of a vehicle;

generating an odometer value from an odometer component from a dashboard source of the vehicle;

generating an odometer value from an odometer component from a chassis source of the vehicle;

generating an odometer value from an odometer component from a transmission source of the vehicle;

generating a delta value for an odometer value relative to a control odometer value at a CVD, the CVD comprising a processor, a WiFi radio, a BLUETOOTH radio, a memory, and a connector for mating with the connector plug of the vehicle;

monitoring at the CVD the odometer value from each of the odometer component from an engine source, the odometer component from a dashboard source, the odometer component from a chassis source, and the odometer component from a transmission source;

generating a new odometer value for one of the odometer component from an engine source, the odometer component from a dashboard source, the odometer component from a chassis source, and the odometer component from a transmission source, and modifying the odometer value by the delta value to generate the new odometer value; and

transmitting to the new odometer value to a server using a mobile device wirelessly connected to the CVD.

8. The method according to claim 7 wherein the mobile device is a tablet computer.

9. The method according to claim 7 wherein the control odometer value is from an odometer value of one of the odometer component from an engine source, the odometer component from a dashboard source, the odometer component from a chassis source, and the odometer component from a transmission sources.

10. The method according to claim 7 wherein the vehicle is a delivery truck.

11. The method according to claim 7 wherein the WiFi network uses an 802.11 communication protocol.

12. The method according to claim 7 wherein the CVD obtains a vehicle identification number (VIN) from the on-board computer and transmits the VIN with the new odometer value to the server.