# US 2020/0226902 A1 · Multipurpose event detection sensor and payload alert system > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2020/0226902 A1 - Document ID: US20200226902A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 16/807,073 - Filed: 2020-03-02 - Published: 2020-07-16 - Earliest claimed: 2015-12-30 - Assignees: Bmmpr - Applicants: Bmmpr - Inventors: Marko Mandaric; Heath Clement Oyama - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20200226902A1 ## CPC - G08B 19/00: Alarms responsive to two or more different undesired or abnormal conditions, e.g. burglary and fire, abnormal temperature and abnormal rate of flow - G08G 1/205: {Indicating the location of the monitored vehicles as destination, e.g. accidents, stolen, rental} - G06F 9/44: Arrangements for executing specific programs - G06F 9/445: Program loading or initiating (bootstrapping G06F9/4401; security arrangements for program loading or initiating G06F21/57) - G07C 5/0841: {Registering performance data (recording measured values G01D; information storage G11B)} - G08B 21/182: {Level alarms, e.g. alarms responsive to variables exceeding a threshold} - G08B 25/08: using communication transmission lines {(G08B13/19658, G08B21/0286, G08B25/016 take precedence)} - G08B 25/10: using wireless transmission systems {(G08B25/009 takes precedence)} - B60R 25/102: a signal being sent to a remote location, e.g. a radio signal being transmitted to a police station, a security company or the owner - B60R 2025/1016: {Remote signals alerting owner or authorities, e.g. radio signals} - G07C 5/008: {communicating information to a remotely located station (transmission systems for measured values G08C)} - G08B 13/04: by breaking of glass - G08B: SIGNALLING SYSTEMS, e.g. PERSONAL CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS - G08G: TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS (guiding railway traffic, ensuring the safety of railway traffic B61L; arrangement of road signs or traffic signals E01F9/00; radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for traffic control G01S13/91, G01S15/88, G01S17/88; {radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for anti-collision purposes G01S13/93, G01S15/93, G01S17/93}) - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - G07C: TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE - B60R: VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR ## Abstract Embodiments of the present invention are generally directed towards providing a multipurpose event detection sensor and a communications means for delivering a payload notification. In particular, embodiments of the present invention are configured to provide a system comprising a sensor capable of detecting events, such as vibrations of varying forms and amplitude, generating an alert based on certain parameters of those events and transmitting that alert to a remote system via a communications means. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An event detecting sensor and alert apparatus, comprising: a power bus; one or more processor, operably connected to the power bus to receive from the power bus electrical power and a sensor data signal; one or more sensor, operably connected to the power bus to receive from the power bus electrical power and send a data signal through the power bus; and, a memory, operably coupled with the one or more processor, the memory encoding data and processor executable program instructions, that when executed by the one or more processor, cause the one or more processor to perform operations comprising: receive from the power bus a data signal sent by the sensor through the power bus; detect the occurrence of an event determined as a function of the received data signal; and, send to a remote processing system an event message payload generated as a function of the detected event. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more sensor further comprises an accelerometer. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more sensor further comprises a capacitive touch sensor. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the data signal sent through the power bus further comprises a message start phase, a message content phase, and a message end phase. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the capacitive touch sensor is operably connected to the power bus to receive electrical power and send the sensor data signal through the power bus, and wherein the data signal sent through the power bus further comprises a signal voltage superimposed with the power bus supply voltage. ### Claim 6 (depends on 4) The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the operations performed by the one or more processor further comprise determining a valid message has been received through the power bus when the message start phase, the message content phase, and the message end phase have been received without error by the processor. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the apparatus further comprises a right angle adapter configured to connect a vehicle diagnostic port to a printed circuit board operably retaining an accelerometer, wherein the printed circuit board includes a connector operably coupled with the right angle adapter, and wherein the printed circuit board is not in physical contact with the diagnostic port. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the apparatus further comprises printed circuit board connector pins formed in a right angle, with the longitudinal dimension of the connector pins joined to the circuit board disposed substantially perpendicular to the plane of the main printed circuit board major surface. ### Claim 9 (depends on 7) The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the apparatus is installed in a vehicle diagnostic port, wherein the plane of the event detecting sensor and alert system main printed circuit board major surface is disposed substantially perpendicular to a plane tangential to each vehicle wheel at the point on each wheel at which, if the vehicle were resting on the vehicle's wheels on a flat surface, that point on each wheel would contact the flat surface on which the vehicle could rest. ### Claim 10 (depends on 7) The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the apparatus further comprises the center of the integrated circuit retaining the accelerometer disposed at least one centimeter from the printed circuit board connector pins closest to the right angle adapter. ### Claim 11 An event detecting sensor and alert apparatus, comprising: one or more processor; one or more sensor, operably connected to the one or more processor; and, a memory, operably coupled with the one or more processor, the memory encoding data and processor executable program instructions, that when executed by the one or more processor, cause the one or more processor to perform operations comprising: determine when the vehicle has been parked, based on data from the one or more sensor; in response to determining the vehicle has been parked, receive new sensor data from the one or more sensor for a predetermined period of time; update a baseline environmental noise floor model by adding the new baseline sensor data to the model, to determine the new baseline environmental noise floor modeled at the location and time the vehicle was parked; detect the occurrence of an event determined as a function of live sensor data filtered as a function of the updated baseline environmental noise floor model; and, send to a remote processing system an event message payload generated as a function of the detected event. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the one or more sensor further comprises an accelerometer. ### Claim 13 (depends on 11) The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the one or more sensor further comprises a barometric pressure sensor. ### Claim 14 (depends on 11) The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the apparatus further comprises a wireless mesh network interface operably connected to the one or more processor to govern communication with each vehicle of a plurality of other vehicles, and the operations performed by the one or more processor further comprise sending the updated baseline environmental noise floor model to another vehicle of the plurality of other vehicles. ### Claim 15 (depends on 11) The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the apparatus further comprises a wireless mesh network interface operably connected to the one or more processor to govern communication with each vehicle of a plurality of other vehicles, and the operations performed by the one or more processor further comprise: receiving a baseline environmental noise floor model from each vehicle of the plurality of other vehicles; creating a macro environmental noise floor model based on fusing each of the baseline environmental noise floor models received from each vehicle of the plurality of other vehicles; and, providing macro environmental noise floor model access to a decision maker, to generate predictive analytic output based on live sensor data captured by the plurality of vehicles. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the decision maker is selected from the group consisting of geology research organization, and weather research organization. ### Claim 17 An event detecting sensor and alert apparatus in each vehicle of a plurality of vehicles, the apparatus comprising: one or more processor; one or more accelerometer, operably connected to the one or more processor; a wireless mesh network interface operably connected to the one or more processor to govern communication with each other vehicle of the plurality of vehicles; and, a memory, operably coupled with the one or more processor, the memory encoding data and processor executable program instructions, that when executed by the one or more processor, cause the one or more processor to perform operations comprising: receive sensor data from the accelerometer; detect the occurrence of an event determined as a function of the sensor data; and, send to another vehicle of the plurality of vehicles an event message payload generated as a function of the detected event. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the wireless mesh network further comprises a multi-accessory sub-gigahertz wireless mesh network. ### Claim 19 (depends on 17) The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the operations performed by the one or more processor further comprise: detect for one vehicle a hard braking event determined as a function of sensor data from the accelerometer located in the hard braking vehicle; in response to detecting the hard braking event by the braking vehicle, send, by the braking vehicle to another vehicle of the plurality of vehicles driving behind the braking vehicle telemetry indicating hard braking by a vehicle ahead; receive, by the another vehicle of the plurality of vehicles driving behind the braking vehicle, the telemetry; and, in response to the telemetry received by the another vehicle of the plurality of vehicles driving behind the braking vehicle, slow down the vehicle driving behind the braking vehicle. ### Claim 20 (depends on 17) The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the apparatus further comprises machine learning and artificial intelligence trained to recognize normal and anomalous traffic patterns determined as functions of historical sensor data characterizing traffic scenario outcomes identified based on mathematical and statistical models, and the operations performed by the one or more processor further comprise: determining if a traffic pattern determined for at least one vehicle is statistically consistent with normal traffic; and, in response to determining the traffic pattern is not consistent with normal traffic, sending telemetry to other vehicles behind the at least one vehicle, wherein the telemetry indicates the other vehicles should increase following distance.