Vehicle emergency broadcast
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsDaniel A. Makled, Michael Mcquillen, Gopichandra Surnilla
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Abstract
A communication system for a vehicle includes an accelerometer, and a controller electrically coupled to the accelerometer and configured to respond to a signal indicative of an accident of the vehicle. The controller's response to the signal includes activating an emergency mode, requesting biometric data of occupants of the vehicle, and transmitting data identifying the vehicle, a location of the vehicle and a time of activation, and biometric data.
Claims19
A vehicle communication system comprising:
- an accelerometer;
- and
- a controller programmed to,
- in response to a signal from the accelerometer indicative of an accident of a vehicle, activate an emergency mode, request biometric data of occupants of the vehicle, and cause a first message including data identifying the vehicle, a location of the vehicle, a time of activation of the emergency mode, and biometric data received in response to the request to be transmitted to off-board the vehicle, and
- in response to receipt of a second message from a source remote from the vehicle and that identifies a location of the source, inhibit re-broadcast of the second message to off-board the vehicle until expiration of a delay period that is defined by an elevation of the vehicle and a distance between the vehicle and source exceeds a predefined threshold.
A vehicle comprising:
- a biometric sensor;
- an RF transceiver;
- and
- at least one controller programmed to,
- in response to activation of an emergency mode, request biometric data of occupants of the vehicle, and transmit a first message to off-board the vehicle via the RF transceiver that includes data identifying the vehicle, a location of the vehicle, a time of activation of the emergency mode, and biometric data received from the sensor in response to the request, and
- in response to receipt of a second message from a source remote from the vehicle, inhibit re-broadcast of the second message to off-board the vehicle until expiration of a delay period that is defined by an elevation of the vehicle.
A method of broadcasting a vehicular emergency message comprising:
- receiving biometric data of occupants of a vehicle from a sensor;
- detecting an emergency event associated with the vehicle;
- assigning an emergency type associated with the emergency event;
- transmitting a first message to off-board the vehicle that includes the biometric data, the emergency type, a location, a time, an identification of the vehicle, and route data in response to the emergency event;
- and
- inhibiting re-broadcast of a second message received from a source remote from the vehicle until expiration of a delay period that is defined by an elevation of the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.