CAR THEFT PREVENTION USING LONG RANGE WIDE AREA NETWORK

• US 20170197583A1
• Filed: 04/05/2016
• Published: 07/13/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/10/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Traffilog Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Traffilog Ltd.
• Inventors: Izraeli, Robert, Bitton, Assi, Greenberger, Arik
• Granted Patent: US 10,407,022 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/102 a signal being sent to a remote location, e.g. a radio signal being transmitted to a police station, a security company or the owner
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/00 Alarm systems in which the location of the alarm condition is signalled to a central station, e.g. fire or police telegraphic systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04K 2203/16 for telephony
• CPC Class Codes: H04K 2203/18 for wireless local area networks or WLAN
• CPC Class Codes: H04K 2203/22 for communication related to vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H04K 3/222 wherein jamming detection includes detecting the absence or impossibility of intelligible communication on at least one channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04K 3/226 Selection of non-jammed channel for communication spectrum sharing arrangements H04W16/14; selection of wireless resources by user or terminal H04W72/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04K 3/88 related to allowing or preventing alarm transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/48 for in-vehicle communication
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

A method for monitoring a vehicle, the method may include detecting, by a vehicle monitor that is associated with a vehicle, a failure to communicate with a first communication network; storing failure information about a time of the failure and a location of the vehicle in proximity to a detection of the failure; attempting, after the detecting of the failure and by the vehicle monitor, to establish communication with at least one communication network out of the first communication network and a second communication network; wherein the second communication network is a long range wide area network (LoRaWAN) and the first communication network is not a LoRaWAN; and after succeeding to establish communication with a given communication network out of the first and second communication networks, transmitting the failure information over the given communication network.

Claims

1. A method for monitoring a vehicle, the method comprising:

detecting, by a vehicle monitor that is associated with a vehicle, a failure to communicate with a first communication network;

storing failure information about a time of the failure and a location of the vehicle in proximity to a detection of the failure;

attempting, after the detecting of the failure and by the vehicle monitor, to establish communication with at least one communication network out of the first communication network and a second communication network;

wherein the second communication network is a long range wide area network (LoRaWAN) and the first communication network is not a LoRaWAN; and

after succeeding to establish communication with a given communication network out of the first and second communication networks, transmitting the failure information over the given communication network.

2. The method according to claim 1 wherein the first communication network is selected out of a satellite communication network, a cellular network and a local area wireless network (LAWN).

3. The method according to claim 1 wherein the attempting to establish a communication with the first network comprises attempting to establish communication with a LoRaWAN server.

4. The method according to claim 1 wherein the attempting to establish a communication with the first network comprises attempting to establish communication with a LoRaWAN receiver of another vehicle monitor.

5. The method according to claim 1 wherein the attempting to establish a communication with the first network comprises attempting to establish communication with a LoRaWAN transceiver of another vehicle monitor that is configured to monitor another vehicle.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein after succeeding to establish communication with the LoRaWAN transceiver of the other vehicle monitor then transmitting the failure information to the LoRaWAN transceiver of the other vehicle monitor.

7. The method according to claim 1 comprising receiving, by a LoRaWAN transceiver, another vehicle monitor failure information, and attempting to relay the other vehicle monitor information to at least one communication network out of the first communication network and the second communication network.

8. The method according to claim 1 further comprising receiving, by the vehicle monitor, a request sent from a control system, to deactivate the vehicle;

and instructing the vehicle, by the vehicle monitor, to deactivate.

9. The method according to claim 1 further comprising receiving, by the vehicle monitor, a request sent from a control system, to generate an alarm by the vehicle;

and instructing the vehicle, by the vehicle monitor, to generate the alarm.

10. The method according to claim 1 wherein the attempting to establish communication comprises attempting to establish communication only with the second communication network.

11. The method according to claim 1 wherein the attempting to establish communication comprises attempting to establish communication with the first and the second communication networks.

12. The method according to claim 1 wherein the attempting to establish communication comprises attempting to establish communication with the first and the second communication networks at different points of time.

13. The method according to claim 1 comprising attempting, after the detecting of the failure and by the vehicle monitor, to establish communication with a third communication network that differs from the first communication network and the second communication network;

wherein the third communication network is a local area wireless network (LAWN).

14. A non-transitory computer readable medium that stores instructions that once executed by a vehicle monitor, cause the vehicle monitor to execute the steps of:

detecting, by a vehicle monitor that is associated with a vehicle, a failure to communicate with a first communication network;

storing failure information about a time of the failure and a location of the vehicle in proximity to a detection of the failure;

attempting, after the detecting of the failure and by the vehicle monitor, to establish communication with at least one communication network out of the first communication network and a second communication network;

wherein the second communication network is a long range wide area network (LoRaWAN) and the first communication network is not a LoRaWAN; and

after succeeding to establish communication with a given communication network out of the first and second communication networks, transmitting the failure information over the given communication network.

15. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 14 that stores instructions for attempting, after the detecting of the failure and by the vehicle monitor, to establish communication with a third communication network that differs from the first communication network and the second communication network;

wherein the third communication network is a local area wireless network (LAWN).

16. A vehicle monitor, comprising a first transceiver, a second transceiver, a location sensor, a controller and a memory unit;

wherein the controller is configured to detect a failure of the first transceiver to communicate with a first communication network;

wherein the location sensor is configured to generate location information about a location of the vehicle in proximity to a detection of the failure;

wherein the memory unit is configured to store failure information that comprises the location information and timing information that is indicative of a time of the failure;

wherein the second transceiver is configured to attempt, after the detecting of the failure, to establish communication with a second communication network that differs from the first communication network; and

wherein the second transceiver is configured to transmit the failure information over the second communication, after succeeding in establishing communication with the second communication network;

wherein the second communication network is a long range wide area network (LoRaWAN) and the first communication network is not a LoRaWAN.