Sensor information management systems and methods
AssigneeIntertrust Technologies Corporation
InventorYutaka Nagao
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Abstract
This disclosure relates to systems and methods for management of information, including environmental information, obtained by a variety of sensors associated with one or more distributed mobile sensor platforms. In certain embodiments, the geographically transitory nature of a mobile sensor platform may be leveraged to facilitate collection of environmental information over a larger geographic area than that of a fixed sensor platform. Embodiments disclosed herein provide for information consistency and/or quality checking of information obtained by mobile sensor platforms. Further embodiments may be used to incentivize the collection and/or acquisition of certain data via point and/or credit-based compensation.
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A method for collecting environmental information over a geographic area using a mobile sensor platform, the method performed by an information service provider system comprising a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform the method, the method comprising:
- analyzing information included in an environmental information database to identify desired environmental sensor data of interest, the desired environmental sensor data of interest comprising environmental sensor data that is not included in the environmental information database;
- identifying a geographic area associated with the desired environmental sensor data of interest;
- identifying a mobile sensor platform configured to generate the desired environmental sensor data of interest;
- generating, using mapping information included in a mapping database, proposed route information for the mobile sensor platform, the proposed route information specifying an updated route transiting, at least in part, the identified geographic area associated with the desired environmental sensor data of interest;
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- transmitting, from the information service provider system to a system associated with the mobile sensor platform, the proposed route information to update a route of the mobile sensor platform and allow the mobile sensor platform to obtain at least a portion of the desired environmental sensor data of interest while transiting the updated route.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.