System and Method for Providing Real-Time Dangerous Road Information Based on USN

• US 20090289812A1
• Filed: 12/26/2005
• Published: 11/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Jang, Byung-Tae, Lee, Eun-Kyu, Kim, Min-Soo
• Application Number:
  US12/085,148
• Publication Number:
  US 20090289812A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/905
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096716 where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096758 where no selection takes place on the transmitted or the received information
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096783 where the origin of the information is a roadside individual element
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/164 Centralised systems, e.g. external to vehicles

Abstract

Provided is a system and method for providing dangerous road information based on a Ubiquitous Sensor Network (USN) in real-time. The system includes: a dangerous road zone information sensing unit having a sensing function for sensing diverse information in a dangerous road zone and a computing function for extracting dangerous road information by analyzing the sensed information; a dangerous road zone information transmitting unit for transmitting the extracted dangerous road information through a short distance wireless network; a dangerous road zone information collecting unit for collecting the transmitted dangerous road information and checking duplication elimination and unification of the dangerous road information; and a dangerous road zone information providing unit for providing the dangerous road information collected and processed in the dangerous road zone information collecting unit to a Telematics vehicle approaching to the dangerous road zone in real-time through wireless communication.

Claims

1. A system for providing dangerous road information in real-time based on Ubiquitous Sensor Network (USN), comprising:

a dangerous road zone information sensing means having a sensing function for sensing diverse information in a dangerous road zone and a computing function for extracting dangerous road information by analyzing the sensed information;

a dangerous road zone information transmitting means for transmitting the extracted dangerous road information through a short distance wireless network;

a dangerous road zone information collecting means for collecting the transmitted dangerous road information and checking duplication elimination and unification of the dangerous road information; and

a dangerous road zone information providing means for providing the dangerous road information collected and processed in the dangerous road zone information collecting means to a Telematics vehicle approaching to the dangerous road zone in real-time through wireless communication.

2. The system as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

a dangerous road zone information storing means for storing the dangerous road information collected and processed in the dangerous road zone information collecting means to use the dangerous road information in a real-time vehicle service and a periodic traffic information service.

3. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the wireless network is formed by including the dangerous road zone information sensing means and the dangerous road zone information transmitting means in each sensor node, and arranging a plurality of sensor nodes according to a sensing range and a wireless communication range of the sensor node.

4. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the dangerous road zone information sensing means senses candidate information which threatens safety of a vehicle in the dangerous road zone based on the sensing function for sensing diverse information including temperature, humidity, heat and infrared rays, and extracting the dangerous road information by unifying and analyzing the sensed candidate dangerous road information and the dangerous road zone environment based on the computing function.

5. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the dangerous road zone information transmitting means transmits the dangerous road information according to a dualization fixed routing method.

6. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the dangerous road zone information collecting means collects all dangerous road information transmitted from the dangerous road zone information transmitting means and performs functions of duplication check for searching whether the collected dangerous road information is the same as the pre-collected information, a unification check for searching whether the collected dangerous road information can be united into one information, and a simplifying function for changing the collected dangerous road information into information of a simple format to provide the collected dangerous road information to the vehicle.

7. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the dangerous road zone information providing means provides the dangerous road information by simultaneously using a method for providing the dangerous road information directly to the vehicle through the wireless communication and a method for indirectly providing the same dangerous road information on the VMS.

8. A method for providing dangerous road information in real-time based on a Ubiquitous Sensor Network (USN), comprising the steps of:

a) sensing candidate dangerous road information for dangerous road information

b) extracting dangerous road information from the sensed candidate dangerous road information;

c) transmitting the extracted dangerous road information through a wireless network;

d) collecting the transmitted dangerous road information and performing duplication elimination, unification and simplification; and

e) providing the collected and processed dangerous road information to a Telematics vehicle approaching to a dangerous road zone environment in real-time.

9. The method as recited in claim 8, further comprising the step of:

f) storing the collected and processed dangerous road information to be used for the dangerous road information in a real-time vehicle service and a periodic traffic information service.

10. The method as recited in claim 8, wherein in the step c), the dangerous road information is transmitted according to a dualization fixed routing method.