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US 10,774,488 B2Granted
Vehicle with internal and/or external monitoring
AssigneeFederal Signal Corporation
InventorScott Thomas Rohrbaugh
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Abstract
A street sweeper configured to clean a street can include: at least one broom or sprayer configured to clean a street, a street surface deviation detection device coupled to the street sweeper, the street surface deviation detection device being configured to detect visual signatures of defects in a surface of the street; and a position device to measure the position of the street sweeper, wherein the position device is programmed to send the position to a central server.
Claims20
A street sweeper configured to clean a street, the street sweeper comprising:
- at least one broom or sprayer configured to clean a street;
- a street surface deviation detection device coupled to the street sweeper, the street surface deviation detection device being configured to detect visual signatures of defects in a surface of the street;
- and
- a position device to measure a position of the street sweeper, wherein the position device is programmed to send the position to a central server;
- wherein the central server generates a road map that indicates positions of street surface defects on the road map based on position information provided by the position device and the detected visual signatures of defects provided by the street surface deviation detection device.
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A system, comprising:
- a street sweeper configured to clean a street, the street sweeper including a meter module to detect a consumption of water by the street sweeper, wherein the meter module is programmed to quantify an amount of water used by the street sweeper and to send the amount of water to a central server;
- a street surface deviation detection device coupled to the street sweeper, the street surface deviation detection device being configured to detect visual signatures of defects in a surface of the street;
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- the central server programmed to receive the amount of water.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.