Method and Apparatus for Predictive Vehicle Preconditioning
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsFling Tseng, Hsin-hsiang Yang, Aed M. Dudar, Dimitar Petrov Filev, Johannes Geir Kristinsson
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Abstract
A system includes a processor configured to access a schedule of vehicle start times. The processor is also configured to select a scheduled key-on time, when a current time is within a tunable proximity to the scheduled key-on time. Further, the processor is configured to determine if a present vehicle-related temperature warrants vehicle preconditioning and precondition the vehicle until preset preconditioning settings are established.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a processor configured to:
- access a schedule of likely vehicle start times;
- select a scheduled key-on time from the schedule, having a likelihood of occurrence, based on observed vehicle usage, above a tunable threshold, when a current time is within a tunable proximity to the scheduled key-on time and;
- determine if a present vehicle-related temperature warrants vehicle preconditioning;
- and
- precondition the vehicle until preset preconditioning settings are established.
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- analyzing a time interval to determine whether a key-on event occurred;
- updating a record of key-on events with a key-on event occurrence/non-occurrence to establish a key-on likelihood during the time interval;
- assembling a schedule of a plurality of predicted key-on time intervals based on predicted key-on likelihood during each predicted key-on time interval;
- and
- notifying a driver of any determined deviances between the assembled schedule and a driver-input key-on event schedule.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, storing instructions that, when executed, cause a processor to perform a method comprising:
- analyzing a time interval to determine whether a key-on event occurred;
- updating a record of key-on events with a key-on event occurrence/non-occurrence to establish a key-on likelihood during the time interval;
- assembling a schedule of a plurality of predicted key-on time intervals based on predicted key-on likelihood during each predicted key-on time interval;
- and
- notifying a driver of any determined deviances between the assembled schedule and a driver-input key-on event schedule.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.