VEHICLE IMPACT SENSOR AND NOTIFICATION SYSTEM
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Abstract
The present disclosure involves systems, software, sensors, and applied solutions for detecting incidents associated with a vehicle, where sensors associated with the vehicle identify impacts or proximity alerts to other vehicles and objects and record information related to those detected incidents. The recorded information can be immediately communicated to interested parties of the person or entity (e.g., emergency responders, business contacts) associated with the vehicle, or alternatively, stored for inspection at the vehicle and reviewed at a destination along the vehicle'"'"'s route. In one example method, operations include detecting an incident associated with a monitored vehicle, where detecting the incident comprises receiving an alert from at least one sensor associated with the vehicle, identifying a location of the vehicle in response to the detection, and storing a record of the detected incident, where the record includes the identified location of the vehicle and a time associated with the detected incident.
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21 Claims
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1. (canceled)
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2. A computerized method performed by one or more processors, the method comprising:
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detecting proximity alerts associated with a monitored vehicle, where detecting the proximity alerts comprises receiving an alert from at least one proximity sensor associated with the monitored vehicle, the monitored vehicle associated with a plurality of proximity sensors operable to determine when a proximity threshold is violated by an outside object or vehicle relative to the monitored vehicle, the proximity threshold comprising a particular distance from the monitored vehicle, and wherein detecting the proximity alerts includes; detecting, by the at least one proximity sensor and prior to an impact, an object or vehicle nearing the monitored vehicle within the particular distance associated with the proximity threshold; and triggering a proximity alert in response to the detection; determining, within a particular period of time, whether a plurality of received proximity alerts are triggered without a detected impact; and in response to determining that a number of received proximity alerts within the particular period of time without a detected impact exceed an alert threshold number; identifying at least one party to notify of the plurality of received proximity alerts; and automatically sending a notification of the plurality of received proximity alerts to the at least one identified party. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A system comprising:
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one or more processors; and a computer-readable medium storing instructions executable by the one or more processors to perform operations comprising; detecting proximity alerts associated with a monitored vehicle, where detecting the proximity alerts comprises receiving an alert from at least one proximity sensor associated with the monitored vehicle, the monitored vehicle associated with a plurality of proximity sensors operable to determine when a proximity threshold is violated by an outside object or vehicle relative to the monitored vehicle, the proximity threshold comprising a particular distance from the monitored vehicle, and wherein detecting the proximity alerts includes; detecting, by the at least one proximity sensor and prior to an impact, an object or vehicle nearing the monitored vehicle within the particular distance associated with the proximity threshold; and triggering a proximity alert in response to the detection; determining, within a particular period of time, whether a plurality of received proximity alerts are triggered without a detected impact; in response to determining that a number of received proximity alerts within the particular period of time without a detected impact exceed an alert threshold number; identifying at least one party to notify of the plurality of received proximity alerts; and automatically sending a notification of the plurality of received proximity alerts to the at least one identified party. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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21. A non-transitory computer storage medium encoded with a computer program, the program comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more computers, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
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detecting proximity alerts associated with a monitored vehicle, where detecting the proximity alerts comprises receiving an alert from at least one proximity sensor associated with the monitored vehicle, the monitored vehicle associated with a plurality of proximity sensors operable to determine when a proximity threshold is violated by an outside object or vehicle relative to the monitored vehicle, the proximity threshold comprising a particular distance from the monitored vehicle, and wherein detecting the proximity alerts includes; detecting, by the at least one proximity sensor and prior to an impact, an object or vehicle nearing the monitored vehicle within the particular distance associated with the proximity threshold; and triggering a proximity alert in response to the detection; determining, within a particular period of time, whether a plurality of received proximity alerts are triggered without a detected impact; and in response to determining that a number of received proximity alerts within the particular period of time without a detected impact exceed an alert threshold number; identifying at least one party to notify of the plurality of received proximity alerts; and automatically sending a notification of the plurality of received proximity alerts to the at least one identified party.
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