Vehicle and personal service monitoring and alerting systems

• US 8,909,415 B1
• Filed: 08/31/2012
• Issued: 12/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/02/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Chadwick Todd Hawley
• Original Assignee: Chadwick Todd Hawley
• Inventors: Hawley, Chadwick Todd
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Tan Q
• Application Number:
  US13/600,321
• Time in Patent Office: 830 Days
• Field of Search: 701/32.3, 701/31.42, 701/33.2, 701/468, 455/404.1
• US Class Current: 701/32.3
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 29/188 Data fusion; cooperative systems, e.g. voting among different detectors
• 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 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72421 with automatic activation of emergency service functions, e.g. upon sensing an alarm
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/38 for collecting sensor information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/50 for emergency connections

Abstract

A portable multi-modal physics and environmental based signature information collection, analysis, and alerting apparatus, device and method capable of operating independently of vehicle diagnostic or alerting systems. Device uses algorithms and models to calculate, determine, and detect signature anomalies from accelerometer and other imbedded sensors for anomaly response to individual situations within the Automotive Global Information Grid. Wireless infrastructure provisioning of uniquely identified publisher and subscriber Automotive Network Centric Enterprise Services host subscriber and device holder as a persistent publisher presenting signature information on operational and environmental status and conditions. Onboard signature collection and anomaly detection device supports ISO MME and manufacture defined data formats, standard crash analysis algorithms based on ISO, SAE, FMVSS, CMVSS, EuoNCAP. Communications infrastructure is multi-modal providing auto alert capabilities. Machine to machine interface employs W3C standard telematics, event mark-up language, and the wireless communications utilizes cell phone, satellite, and other communications platforms.

Claims

1. A portable multi-modal emergency situation anomaly detection and response system comprising:

a) a portable subscriber device in a motor vehicle having a multi-mode signature sensor and processing suite receiving data from said sensor responsive to a component of said motor vehicle to automatically detect anomalies and emergency situations within said motor vehicle;

b) said device having a motor vehicle external sensor in communication with said multi-mode signature sensor and processing suite receiving environmental data external to the motor vehicle for receiving and analyzing abnormalities external to said motor vehicle;

c) a communications infrastructure in said device providing two way communication between a subscribing vehicle user in said motor vehicle and a global information grid, said communications infrastructure for publishing sensor information from the vehicle'"'"'s internal and external sensors to said remote global information grid, said remote information grid collecting, analyzing, modeling natural and human behavior, and configured to alert the subscriber device and user in said motor vehicle identifying and reporting non-obvious relationships and events that are precursors to a significant event of interest, and countermeasures to be taken to prevent or moderate said previously defined behavior;

d) a global positioning system in said device for determining the real time location of the sensor enabled vehicle; and

e) said portable device being movable by said subscriber user from one motor vehicle to another motor vehicle, said device containing all of said sensors and said communication infrastructure.

2. The portable multi-modal emergency situation anomaly detection and response system of claim 1, providing a plurality of vehicle component sensors and processing suites for a plurality of vehicle components for analyzing the plurality of sensors for vehicle component abnormalities.

3. The portable multi-modal emergency situation anomaly detection and response system device of claim 1, providing a plurality of external vehicle sensors and processing suites for analyzing environmental data external to the motor vehicle.

4. The portable multi-modal emergency situation anomaly detection and response system device of claim 1, whereby said device containing all of said sensors and said communication infrastructure, and said portable device being movable by said subscriber user from one motor vehicle to another motor vehicle, said subscriber user is able to access all features of said multi-modal emergency situation anomaly detection and response system in said another motor vehicle.

5. The portable multi-modal emergency situation anomaly detection and response system device of claim 1 wherein said processing suite includes anomaly and event models to support analyzing abnormalities onboard the vehicle.

6. The portable multi-modal emergency situation anomaly detection and response system device of claim 2 wherein said global information grid includes a call center for providing said alert to said subscriber device and user, and also to alert first responders to the location of a crash scene and also to project to medical staff the potential for injury.

7. The portable multi-modal emergency situation anomaly detection and response system device of claim 1 in which said remote global information grid receives input from advertisers, restaurants, gas stations and other service and product providers.

8. The portable multi-modal emergency situation anomaly detection and response system device of claim 1 wherein said sensor data is taken from the group of temporal, intensity, frequency, temperature, pressure and geospatial.

9. The portable multi-modal emergency situation anomaly detection and response system device of claim 8 wherein said data is used to create component analytic models.

10. The portable multi-modal emergency situation anomaly detection and response system device of claim 9 wherein said analytic models form a basis for determining component anomalies.