Sensor information management systems and methods
OwnerYutaka Nagaoinventor
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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.
Claims15
A method performed by a first 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:
- receiving, at an interface of the first system from a first sensor platform, first environmental sensor information generated by a first sensor mounted on the first sensor platform and an indication of an associated first geographic location;
- receiving, at the interface of the first system from a second sensor platform, second environmental sensor information generated by a second sensor mounted on the second sensor platform and an indication of an associated second geographic location;
- determining, based on accessing geographic information included in a mapping database, that the first geographic location and the second geographic location are located within a first threshold distance;
- in response to determining that the first geographic location and the second geographic location are located within the first threshold distance, determining a difference between the first environmental information and the second environmental information;
- comparing the difference between the first environmental sensor information and the second environmental sensor information with an information threshold;
- adjusting at least one of a first weight associated with the first environmental sensor information and a second weight associated with the second environmental sensor information based on the results of the comparison;
- receiving a request from a user system for environmental information relating to a third geographic location;
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- generating a response to the request based on a relative proximity of the third geographic location to the first and second geographic locations, the response being generated based, at least in part, on at least one of the first weight and the second weight;
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- transmitting the response to the user system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.