Mobile machine with improved machine data authentication
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsAli Haidous, Noel W. Anderson, Gurmukh H. Advani
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Abstract
An off-road mobile work machine data capture system includes a robustly-identifiable sensor module having a task sensor that provides a task sensor signal indicative of a task. The system also includes a processor coupled to the robustly-identifiable sensor module that is configured to issue a challenge to the robustly-identifiable sensor module and compare a response from the robustly-identifiable sensor module to an expected response to authenticate the robustly-identifiable sensor module. The processor is further configured to generate an indication of authentication failure if the response from the robustly-identifiable sensor module does not match the expected response.
Claims20
A mobile work machine comprising:
- a robustly-identifiable sensor module having a task sensor that provides a task sensor signal indicative of a task;
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- a processor communicatively coupled to the robustly-identifiable sensor module, the processor being configured to issue a challenge to the robustly-identifiable sensor module and compare a response from the robustly-identifiable sensor module to an expected response to authenticate the robustly-identifiable sensor module, the processor being further configured to generate an indication of authentication failure if the response from the robustly-identifiable sensor module does not match the expected response.
A system for authenticating data of a mobile work machine, the system comprising:
- a remote computer system;
- a first data capture system mounted to an off-road mobile machine, the first data capture system comprising:
- a robustly-identifiable sensor module having a task sensor that provides a task sensor signal indicative of a task;
- a wireless communication module;
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- a processor coupled to the robustly-identifiable sensor module and the communication module, the processor being configured to acquire data from the task sensor signal and transmit the acquired data to the remote computer system using the wireless communication module;
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- a second data capture system disposed to capture additional data relative to operation of the mobile machine and transmit the additional data to the remote computer system;
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- wherein the remote computer system is configured to receive the acquired data from the first data capture system and to receive the additional data from the second data capture system and combine the acquired data and the additional data to generate combined data and wherein the remote computer system is configured to store the combined data in an immutable ledger.
A data capture system for a mobile machine, the data capture system comprising:
- at least one robustly-identifiable task sensor;
- at least one robustly-identifiably processor coupled to the at least one robustly- identifiable task sensor;
- at least one robustly-identifiable location/motion module coupled to the at least one robustly-identifiable processor and configured to provide an indication of at least one of geographic location and relative machine motion;
- at least one robustly-identifiable wireless transceiver operably coupled to the at least one robustly-identifiable processor and configured to securely communicate with a remote device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.