Emergency safety service system and method using telematics system

• US 7,271,716 B2
• Filed: 07/05/2005
• Issued: 09/18/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai AMCO Company Limited (Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai AMCO Company Limited (Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Nou, Seong Taeg
• Primary Examiner(s): Hofsass; Jeffery
• Assistant Examiner(s): LAU, HOI CHING
• Application Number:
  US11/160,677
• Publication Number:
  US 20060033615A1
• Time in Patent Office: 805 Days
• Field of Search: 340/539.13, 340/506, 340/436, 340/438, 701/45, 701/46, 701/12, 701/36, 701/129, 701/213, 701/117
• US Class Current: 340/539.13
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19647 Systems specially adapted for intrusion detection in or around a vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/006 Alarm destination chosen according to type of event, e.g. in case of fire phone the fire service, in case of medical emergency phone the ambulance
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12

Abstract

An emergency safety service system and method using the telematics system is provided. The emergency safety service system includes: a telematics device for capturing an image from a peripheral situation, collecting condition information and position information, and generating an emergency safety information signal; a service providing server for receiving the emergency safety information signal, detecting and analyzing the position information, retrieving the nearest rescue teams to the accident car, and generating and transmitting an emergency safety request signal; and a rescue team terminal for alarming that there is an emergency safety request, detecting the position information, and displaying a position of the accident car.

Claims

1. An emergency safety service system using a telematics system having a mobile communication network, the system comprising:

a telematics device for, on the generation of an accident notification signal resulting from a traffic accident, capturing an image from a peripheral situation of an accident scene, collecting condition information and position information of an accident car, and generating an emergency safety information signal having the condition information, the position information, and the captured image;

a service providing server for receiving the emergency safety information signal through the mobile communication network, recognizing and analyzing the position information from the emergency safety information signal, retrieving the nearest rescue teams to the accident car, and generating and transmitting an emergency safety request signal having the position information to the retrieved rescue teams through an Internet network; and

a rescue team terminal for, on the reception of the emergency safety request signal through the Internet network, alarming that there is an emergency safety request, recognizing the position information from the emergency safety request signal, and displaying a position of the accident car,

wherein the service providing server comprises;

a communication module for receiving the emergency safety information signal through the mobile communication network;

an accident analysis module for recognizing and analyzing the vehicle diagnosis information, the position information, and the image information from the emergency safety information signal under a predetermined control, generating a vehicle condition report, a vehicle position report, and image analysis information, and retrieving the nearest rescue teams to the accident car, from the position information;

a second storage unit for storing the detected vehicle diagnosis information, position information and image information, and storing an IP (Internet Protocol) mapping table for the rescue teams;

a data communication module for communicating data with the Internet network; and

a controller for generating the emergency safety request signal having the vehicle condition report, the vehicle position report and the image analysis information, retrieving IPs of the retrieved rescue teams from the mapping table, and outputting the emergency safety request signal, using the retrieved IPs, to the data communication module through the Internet network.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the telematics device comprises:

a map database for storing map data;

a GPS (global positioning system) receiver for receiving GPS signals from a plurality of artificial satellites;

a position information processor for computing a position of the accident car from the GPS signals and map-matching the computed position to the map data to generate the position information;

a plurality of digital cameras installed outside and inside of the car;

an image processor for collecting images from the digital cameras, and generating image information;

a plurality of sensors installed outside and inside of the car, and measuring a condition of the car;

a vehicle condition detector for receiving condition measurement values from the sensors, and generating vehicle diagnosis information;

a key input unit having an emergency safety service key;

an interface unit connected with a UART (Universal Asynchronous Transceiver and Receiver) of a mobile communication terminal, and interfacing signals communicated through the mobile communication network;

a first storage unit for storing the vehicle diagnosis information, the image information, and the position information under a predetermined control; and

a telematics controller for receiving and storing the vehicle diagnosis information, the image information and the position information in the first storage unit, and generating and outputting an emergency safety information signal having the vehicle diagnosis information, the image information and the position information to the interface unit.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein the accident notification signal is generated by pressing the emergency safety service key of the key input unit.

4. The system according to claim 2, wherein the accident notification signal is inputted from any one of the plurality of sensors.

5. The system according to claim 4, wherein the sensor generating the accident notification signal senses the activation of an airbag.

6. The system according to claim 2, wherein the image processor further comprises a jack connector connecting with a portable camera.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein the accident analysis module comprises:

a vehicle condition analyzer for detecting the vehicle diagnosis information from the emergency safety information signal, checking a degree of a vehicle emergency situation from the detected vehicle diagnosis information, and generating the vehicle condition report;

a vehicle position analyzer for detecting the position information from the emergency safety information signal, generating the vehicle position report, and retrieving the nearest rescue teams to the car; and

an image information analyzer for detecting and analyzing the image information from the emergency safety information signal.