Vehicle occupancy sensor systems and methods

A vehicle occupancy monitoring system comprising:

• at least one processor disposed in a vehicle, the at least one processor operatively coupled to at least one presence sensor, to at least one environmental sensor, and to a memory;
• an occupancy monitoring component that collects and processes occupancy data from the at least one presence sensor within the vehicle to determine an occupancy status;
• an environmental conditions component that collects and processes environmental data from the at least one environmental sensor to determine an environmental status;
• a detection logic that receives and processes the occupancy status and the environmental status to correlate the occupancy status and the environmental status to output an occupancy pattern signature;
• a threshold identifier that receives and retains the occupancy pattern signature from the detection logic and compares the occupancy pattern signature with a predetermined value of parameters that define a threshold to determine a dangerous environmental condition when the threshold is exceeded, and to determine a safe environmental condition when the threshold is not exceeded;
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• an artificial intelligence (AI) module that operates to execute a set of instructions responsive to the determination a dangerous environmental condition by the threshold identifier, and to take at least one mitigation action responsive to such determination, such at least one mitigation action including,
• taking into account the determination of whether the vehicle is in a confined space, operating at least one vehicle system to mitigate the determined dangerous environmental condition,
• such operation including, responsive to a determination that the vehicle is in a confined space, one of turning off the ignition of the vehicle (if on) and keeping the ignition of the vehicle off (if not on).