System and method for map-based geofencing for emergency vehicle
AssigneeWhelen Engineering Company, Inc.
InventorsGeorge Whelen, Kenneth Lemieux
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Abstract
A system, method and storage medium for providing an emergency vehicle alert includes first device transmitting EV data including a current location of an EV to a management server, management server receiving the EV data from the first device, the management server determining a geofence for the EV at least based on the received EV data and geographical map data near the EV, and management server transmitting the determined geofence to a second device. The first device is associated with the EV, and the second device is associated with the another vehicle.
Claims16
A system for providing an emergency vehicle (EV) alert, comprising:
- a first computing system configured to:
- receive EV data from the EV;
- receive a geographical map data from a storage device;
- define at least one zone on a map rendered using the geographical map data;
- determine a zone, among the at least one zone, to which a current location of the EV belongs;
- determine a geofence for the EV at least based on the EV data and the determined zone on the map;
- transmit the determined geofence to a second computing system associated with another vehicle;
- and
- wherein when the road has a median strip, in a first zone with the median strip, the determined geofence is defined to exclude one or more opposite lanes over the median strip, and in a second zone without the median strip, the determined geofence is defined to include the opposite lanes.
A method for determining a geofence associated with an emergency vehicle (EV), comprising:
- sending EV data from the EV to a first computing system;
- receiving a geographical map data from a storage device at the first computing system;
- define at least one zone on a map rendered using the geographical map data;
- and
- determining a zone, among the at least one zone, to which the current location of the EV belongs;
- determining a geofence for the EV at least based on the EV data and the determined zone on the map;
- and
- adjusting the determined zone based on the presence of an underpass, an overpass;
- or an isolated parallel lane.
A system for providing an emergency vehicle (EV) alert, comprising:
- a computing system associated with another vehicle configured to:
- receive EV data from the EV;
- receive a geographical map data from a storage device;
- define at least one zone on a map rendered using the geographical map data;
- determine a zone, among the at least one zone, to which the current location of the EV belongs;
- determine a geofence for the EV at least based on the EV data and the determined zone on the map;
- and
- wherein when the determined zone includes an underpass or overpass crossing a road over which the EV travels, the determined geofence is defined to exclude the underpass or overpass.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.