Modular sensing systems and methods
AssigneeNavio International, Inc.
InventorsErnest C. Brown, John A. Jarrell
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Abstract
A modular approach is provided for sensing and responding to detected activity or an event in a region that can be implemented quickly and easily using existing city infrastructure to establish a grid of sensors and detectors to provide localized or wide area coverage. The approach provides a turnkey solution or smart city in a box that can be adapted to different situations and needs to provide communications functionality and/or a desired or customized functionality for a wide range of different applications.
Claims20
A modular sensing system for sensing an activity or an event in a region, the system comprising:
- a base station comprising:
- (i) a communication module to provide communication functionality over a network, (ii) an electrical plug or receptacle to interchangeably and releasably mate with a counterpart electrical plug or receptacle of each of a plurality of application modules thereby allowing for installation of a different application module selected from the plurality of application modules, wherein the plurality of application modules provide functionality for a plurality of different sensing applications, wherein the functionality is selected from the group consisting of unmanned aerial vehicle communication or management;
- autonomous ground vehicle communication or management;
- threat detection or alerting to detected threats;
- imaging or monitoring features;
- weather sensing or weather alerts, environmental sensing or environmental alerts;
- traffic monitoring or traffic alerts;
- activity sensing or activity alerts;
- disturbance sensing or disturbance alerts;
- weapon sensing or alerting to detected weapons;
- terror sensing or alerting to detected activity indicating possible terror attacks;
- earthquake movement sensing or earthquake alerts;
- smoke and fire sensing or smoke and fire alerts;
- civil unrest and riot detection or alerting to civil unrest and riots;
- natural disaster sensing or alerting to detected natural disasters;
- accident sensing or accident alerts;
- other communications;
- roadway construction monitoring;
- building or structure construction monitoring;
- impaired driver monitoring or impaired driver alerts;
- intersection violation monitoring or intersection violation alerts, shot identification or suspect tracking;
- communications repeater;
- wireless internet provision;
- vehicle information logging;
- parking monitoring;
- pollution monitoring;
- alerts to or from third parties or to or from government agencies;
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- an application module of the plurality of application modules comprising, (i) a wireless communication module to enable communication with the base station or a remote entity, (ii) ne or more sensors for capturing sensory data according to the respective functionality, (iii) one or more processors programmed to provide the functionality for a target sensing application of the plurality of different sensing applications based at least in part on the sensory data, (iv) the counterpart electrical plug or receptacle to be releasably connected to the base station, and (v) an another electrical plug or receptacle to stack a different application module.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.