SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING REMOTE VEHICLE DRIVE CONDITION

• US 20120112897A1
• Filed: 04/05/2011
• Published: 05/10/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group), Kia Motors Corporation (Kia Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group), Kia Motors Corporation (Kia Corp.)
• Inventors: Oh, Chi Nam, Kang, Kyung Hwan
• Application Number:
  US13/080,065
• Publication Number:
  US 20120112897A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/439
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/12 Speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/622 by satellite navigation
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/1012 Zone surveillance means, e.g. parking lots, truck depots
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/207 with respect to certain areas, e.g. forbidden or allowed areas with possible alerting when inside or outside boundaries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/72 Electric energy management in electromobility
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/16 Information or communication technologies improving the operation of electric vehicles

Abstract

A remote vehicle drive condition monitoring system and a method thereof are provided. The remote vehicle drive condition monitoring system, includes: a vehicle information center configured to receive a set value for monitoring a vehicle drive condition from a user and report a vehicle drive monitoring result to the user; a vehicle terminal configured to receive the set value from the vehicle information center and transmit the vehicle drive monitoring result to the vehicle information center; and a monitoring unit configured to monitor whether a vehicle violates the set value and output the vehicle drive monitoring result.

Claims

1. A remote vehicle drive condition monitoring system, comprising:

a vehicle information center receiving a set value for monitoring a vehicle drive condition from a user and reporting a vehicle drive monitoring result to the user;

a vehicle terminal receiving the set value from the vehicle information center and transmitting the vehicle drive monitoring result to the vehicle information center; and

a monitoring unit monitoring whether a vehicle violates the set value and outputting the vehicle drive monitoring result.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the set value is selected from a group consisting of a driving day, a driving date, an allowable driving time, a prohibited driving zone, or driving speed.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the set value comprises a monitoring term and a monitoring time-period.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the set value further comprises a monitoring term and a monitoring time-period.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the monitoring unit reports a first violation to the vehicle information center when the vehicle exceeds a set speed wherein the set value is for vehicle speed, and the monitoring unit checks whether speed of the vehicle is less than or equal to the set speed, and stops reporting of the violation and counting of the monitoring time-period when the speed of the vehicle is less than or equal to the set speed in the checking time.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the monitoring unit reports a first violation to the vehicle information center and checks whether the vehicle is beyond a set allowable driving zone when the vehicle travels in a non-allowable driving zone, wherein the set value is an allowable driving zone, and the monitoring unit checks whether the vehicle is beyond the allowable driving zone, and continuously reports violations when the vehicle travels in a boundary zone in the checking time, and stops reporting of the violation when the vehicle travels within the set allowable driving zone.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the monitoring unit stops reporting of the violation and continuously stops the reporting of violation although the vehicle travels in the boundary zone when the vehicle travels in a set allowable driving zone at the checking time, and the monitoring unit again starts the reporting of violation when the vehicle again travels in a non-allowable driving zone.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the vehicle information center reports the vehicle drive monitoring result to the user through one of a electronic-mail, a short message service (SMS), a multimedia messaging service (MMS), a telephone, or a website.

9. The system of claim 2, wherein the vehicle information center reports the vehicle drive monitoring result to the user through one of a group consisting of an electronic-mail (email), a short message service (SMS), a multimedia messaging service (MMS), a telephone, or a website.

10. The system of claim 5, wherein the monitoring unit checks whether the vehicle violates a set value in real time when the monitoring time-period is not set.

11. The system of claim 6, wherein the monitoring unit checks whether the vehicle violates a set value in real time when the monitoring time-period is not set.

12. A method of monitoring a remote vehicle drive condition, comprising:

receiving a set value for monitoring a vehicle drive condition from a user at a vehicle information center;

transmitting the set value to a vehicle by the vehicle information center;

applying the set value to the vehicle and monitoring whether the vehicle violates the set value by a monitoring unit within the vehicle; and

transmitting the monitoring result to the vehicle information center.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

checking whether a current time is within a monitoring term by the vehicle, and performing the monitoring when the current time is the monitoring term.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

reporting the monitoring result to the user by the vehicle information center.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the vehicle information center reports the vehicle drive monitoring result to the user through one of a group consisting of an electronic-mail (email), a short message service (SMS), a multimedia messaging service (MMS), a telephone, or a website.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein monitoring whether the vehicle violates the set value further comprises reporting a first violation to the vehicle information center when the vehicle is beyond set speed, wherein the set value is a vehicle speed, and monitoring whether the vehicle violates the set value further comprises checking whether the speed of the vehicle is less than or equal to the set speed, and stopping reporting of the violation and stopping counting of the monitoring time-period when the speed of the vehicle is less than or equal to the set speed in the checking time.

17. The method of claim 12, wherein monitoring whether the vehicle violates the set value further comprises reporting a first violation to the vehicle information center and checking whether the vehicle has traveled beyond a set allowable driving zone when the vehicle travels in a set non-allowable driving zone wherein the set value is the allowable driving zone, and monitoring whether the vehicle violates the set value further comprises checking whether the vehicle is beyond the allowable driving zone, and continuously reporting violation when the vehicle travels in a boundary zone within the checking time, and stopping reporting of the violation when the vehicle travels in the set allowable driving zone.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein monitoring whether the vehicle violates the set value further comprises stopping reporting of the violation and continuously stopping the reporting of violation although the vehicle travels in the boundary zone when the vehicle travels in a set allowable driving zone at the checking time, and monitoring whether the vehicle violates the set value again further comprises starting the reporting of violation when the vehicle travels in a non-allowable driving zone.

19. The method of claim 12, wherein the set value is selected from a group consisting of a driving day, a driving date, an allowable driving time, an allowable driving zone, a prohibited driving zone, or driving speed.

20. The method of claim 15, wherein the set value is selected from a group consisting of a driving day, a driving date, an allowable driving time, an allowable driving zone, a prohibited driving zone, or driving speed.