DISTRIBUTED VEHICULAR DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

• US 20170032589A1
• Filed: 07/27/2016
• Published: 02/02/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2015
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: ZAGAJAC, Jovan Milivoje, MIANOWSKI, Piotr
• Application Number:
  US15/221,175
• Publication Number:
  US 20170032589A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/0232 for measuring vehicle parameters and indicating critical, abnormal or dangerous conditions
• 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: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
• 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: H04L 67/566 Grouping or aggregating service requests, e.g. for unified processing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

An orchestration manager is provided. The orchestration manager is provided for instigating on demand vehicle information exchange between a plurality of vehicles and a remote server. The orchestration manager is configured to: queue, prioritize and send data requests to one or more vehicles, process data received from the, or each, vehicle; and deliver data request responses to the remote server.

Claims

1. An orchestration manager, for instigating on demand vehicle information exchange between a plurality of vehicles and a remote server;

wherein the orchestration manager is configured to;

queue, prioritize and send data requests to one or more vehicles, process data received from the, or each, vehicle; and

deliver data request responses to the remote server.

2. The orchestration manager according to claim 1, further configured to share information with an information customer.

3. The orchestration manager according to claim 1, being deployed within a cloud computing system.

4. A system for collating and processing data from a plurality of vehicles, the system comprising:

an orchestration manager for processing the data from the plurality of vehicles, each vehicle comprising

a plurality of sensors for obtaining data indicative of a status of at least one parameter of the vehicle;

a memory for storing the data obtained from at least a subset of the plurality of sensors;

a processor configured to process and analyze at least a proportion of the data to create meta-data;

one or more communication devices configured to receive a data query from a remote server; and

a controller configured to select data or meta-data to respond to the query and further configured to identify one of the communication devices by which to send the data or meta-data and also to schedule transfer of the data to the remote server.

5. The system according to claim 4, wherein the sensors measure one or more engine parameters including fuel level, percentage NOx conversion, selective catalytic reduction (SCR) temperature, catalytic converter temperature, diesel particulate filter (DPF) filter status, oil level, or battery charge level.

6. The system according to claim 4, wherein the sensors measure one or more vehicle parameters including vehicle speed, vehicle location, or proximity to adjacent vehicle.

7. The system according to claim 4, wherein the sensors measure one or more user parameters including number of people in the vehicle, radio station playing in the vehicle, CO level in a cabin of a vehicle, or temperature in the cabin of a vehicle.

8. The system according to claim 4, wherein one of the communication devices is a modem.

9. The system according to claim 4, wherein one of the communication devices is configured to communicate via a Wireless Local Area Network.

10. The system according to claim 4, further comprising an information aggregation manager which is configured to process the data received from one or more vehicles.

11. The system according to claim 4, further comprising a request processor which is configured to compute an aggregate response to the original data request based on the data received from the vehicles.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein the request processor is further configured to analyze the request and create a message to be sent to one or more vehicles.

13. The system according to claim 12, further comprising a fleet manager and privacy manager configured to determine a subset of vehicles that should receive the message.

14. The system according to claim 4, further comprising a communication manager configured to verify authenticity of a data request.

15. A method comprising:

storing data obtained from one or more vehicle sensors measuring at least one parameter of a vehicle;

receiving a data query from a remote server;

selecting data or meta-data to respond to the query;

identifying a communication device by which to send the data or meta-data; and

scheduling transfer of the data to the remote server.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the sensors measure one or more engine parameters including fuel level, percentage NOx conversion, selective catalytic reduction (SCR) temperature, catalytic converter temperature, diesel particulate filter (DPF) filter status, oil level, or battery charge level.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the sensors measure one or more vehicle parameters including vehicle speed, vehicle location, or proximity to adjacent vehicle.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the sensors measure one or more user parameters including number of people in the vehicle, radio station playing in the vehicle, CO level in a cabin of the vehicle, or temperature in the cabin of the vehicle.

19. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

processing the data received from one or more vehicles;

computing an aggregate response to the original data request on based on the data received from the vehicles; and

analyzing the request and creating a message to be sent to one or more vehicles.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising determining a subset of vehicles to receive the message.