Vehicle flood detection
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsMahmoud Yousef Ghannam, Aed M. Dudar, David James Tippy, Darren Lee
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Abstract
Method and apparatus are disclosed for vehicle flood detection. An example vehicle includes an engine, a humidity sensor, a GPS receiver to determine a vehicle location, a communication module, and a control module. The control module is to collect, via the humidity sensor, a humidity measurement within the engine and collect a humidity level of the vehicle location. The control module also is to identify a flooding event when the humidity measurement exceeds the humidity level by a predetermined threshold and record the flooding event with a remote server via the communication module.
Claims18
A vehicle comprising:
- an engine;
- a humidity sensor;
- a GPS receiver to determine a vehicle location;
- a communication module;
- and
- a control module to:
- collect, via the humidity sensor, a humidity measurement within the engine in response to detecting a flood characteristic;
- collect a humidity level of the vehicle location;
- identify a flooding event when the humidity measurement exceeds the humidity level by a predetermined threshold;
- and
- record the flooding event with a remote server via the communication module.
A method comprising:
- determining a vehicle location via a GPS receiver;
- collecting, via a humidity sensor, an engine humidity measurement responsive to detecting a flood characteristic;
- collecting a humidity level of the vehicle location via a vehicle communication module;
- identifying, via a processor, a flooding event responsive to determining the engine humidity measurement exceeds the humidity level by a predetermined threshold;
- and
- recording, via the vehicle communication module, the flooding event with a remote server.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.