Moving vehicles in a smart environment

• US 10,580,301 B2
• Filed: 04/16/2019
• Issued: 03/03/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kiomars Anvari
• Original Assignee: Kiomars Anvari
• Inventors: Anvari, Kiomars
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Tan Q
• Application Number:
  US16/386,124
• Publication Number:
  US 20190311625A1
• Time in Patent Office: 322 Days
• Field of Search: 701301
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/878 Combination of several spaced transmitters or receivers of known location for determining the position of a transponder or a reflector G01S13/874 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/931 of land vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/933 of aircraft or spacecraft
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/13 Receivers
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0112 from the vehicle, e.g. floating car data [FCD]
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/012 from other sources than vehicle or roadside beacons, e.g. mobile networks
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0125 Traffic data processing
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/163 involving continuous checking
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/164 Centralised systems, e.g. external to vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/165 for passive traffic, e.g. including static obstacles, trees
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/166 for active traffic, e.g. moving vehicles, pedestrians, bikes
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/0008 with other aircraft
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/0013 with a ground station
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/0043 Traffic management of multiple aircrafts from the ground G08G5/003 takes precedence; data processing specially designed for resource management, e.g. scheduling or allocating time, human or machine resources G06Q10/06
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/04 Anti-collision systems
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/045 Navigation or guidance aids, e.g. determination of anti-collision manoeuvers radar or analogous systems specially adapted for anti-collision between aircraft G01S13/933
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 7/02 Anti-collision systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/38 : for collecting sensor information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 : for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 : Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

Smart environments represent the next evolutionary development step in transportation systems. Like any functioning organism, the smart environment relies first and foremost on sensory data from the real world. Sensory data comes from multiple sensors of different modalities in distributed locations. Sensors used by various moving, flying and stationary objects exchange information through broadcasting or indirectly through public or private networks. The information helps various moving vehicles and stationary objects coexist and operate freely without any interruption, interference, and collision.

Claims

1. a smart environment comprising:

a plurality of moving vehicles, flying vehicles, and stationary objects and a base station each with a wireless transceiver to transmit and receive an information data;

said information data is a broadcast data or a communication data;

said base station belongs to at least one of a 5^th generation (5G) and beyond network, a WiFi (wireless fidelity) network, and a proprietary wireless network;

said wireless transceiver used by said plurality of moving vehicles, flying vehicles, and stationary objects acts as an internet of things (IoT) and is identified by an IP (Internet Protocol) address that is an IP4 or an IP6;

said plurality of moving vehicles, flying vehicles, and stationary objects use said wireless transceiver or said IoT to communicate over the air with said base station to exchange IEEE1588 (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering standard

     1588) protocol signals in order to achieve a clock synchronization and obtain a time of the day;

said base station in said information data dynamically transmits to said IoT or said wireless transceiver indentified by said IP address and used by said plurality of moving vehicles, flying vehicles, and stationary objects an absolute time to transmit and receive said broadcast data;

said wireless transceiver or said IoT has a transmitter propagation time which is a time said information data travels through its transmitter up to its antenna port and a receiver propagation time which is a time said information data travels from its antenna port to a detector;

said information data carries a time stamp which shows the time of the day the information data was sent by said wireless transceiver;

said wireless transceiver retrieves said time stamp and said transmitter propagation time embedded in said broadcast data received from another said wireless transceiver and uses its own said receiver propagation time and said time of the day at said detector to calculate an over the air propagation time for said broadcast data;

said IoT or said wireless transceiver uses said over the air propagation time for said broadcast data to calculate a distance and an approaching speed between two said IoTs or said wireless transceivers in order to avoid a collision;

said information data exchanged between said IoTs or said wireless transceivers and between said base station and said IoTs or said wireless transceivers helps said plurality of moving vehicles, flying vehicles, and stationary objects coexist in said smart environment and operate freely without any interruption, an interference, and said collision.

2. The smart environment of claim 1, wherein a stationary object within said plurality of moving vehicles, flying vehicles, and stationary objects is a tree, a lamp post, a small cell, a building, a statue and other stationary objects.

3. The smart environment of claim 1, wherein a moving vehicle within said plurality of moving vehicles, flying vehicles, and stationary objects is a robot, a human with body armor, an automobile, a boat, a bicycle, a motorcycle and other moving vehicles.

4. The smart environment of claim 1, wherein a flying vehicle within said plurality of moving vehicles, flying vehicles, and stationary objects is a helicopter, a small plane, a flying human, a flying robot, a glider, a flying car, a drone, and other flying vehicles.

5. The smart environment of claim 1, wherein said broadcast data includes at least one of said IP address, said time stamp, said transmitter propagation time, an estimated mass of said moving vehicle, or said flying vehicle and a type of said moving vehicle, said flying vehicle, and said stationary object.

6. The smart environments of claim 1, wherein said wireless transceiver as an alternative to said IEEE1588 uses GPS (global positioning system) to achieve said clock synchronization and obtain said time of the day.

7. The smart environment of claim 1, wherein said IoT or said wireless transceiver uses said approaching speed and said estimated mass of said moving vehicle or said flying vehicle within said plurality of moving vehicles, flying vehicles, and stationary objects to calculate a force of an impact.

8. The smart environment of claim 1, wherein said IoT or said wireless transceiver communicates with said base station to obtain at least one of said time of the day, said clock synchronization and said IP address at power up.

9. The smart environment of claim 1, wherein a communication link between said IoT or said wireless transceiver and said base station uses Ethernet protocol.

10. The smart environment of claim 1, wherein said IP address for said IoT or said wireless transceiver used by said moving vehicle, said flying vehicle, or said stationary object is assigned at manufacturing.

11. The smart environment of claim 1, wherein said IoT or said wireless transceiver receives the absolute time for its transmission, reception, communication and broadcasting from said base station.

12. The smart environment of claim 1, wherein said absolute time is derived from said time of the day said IoT or said wireless transceiver obtains from said base station.

13. The smart environment of claim 1, wherein said absolute time is first microsecond in a millisecond, or nth microsecond after the start of said millisecond in said time of the day.