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US 2020/0351901 A1Published application
Vehicle connectivity unit
AssigneeAveopt, Inc.
InventorArthur Kahn
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Abstract
A vehicle connectivity unit includes at least one transmitter/receiver for establishing and maintaining communications with a system for controlling and/or monitoring vehicles and/or traffic over at least two different communications infrastructures, at least one sensor for measuring and reporting a performance characteristic of communication over the different communications infrastructures, and a controller for selecting an active communications infrastructure based on the measured performance characteristic.
Claims9
A vehicle connectivity unit, comprising:
- at least one transmitter/receiver for communications via at least two different communications infrastructures selected from wireless telephone communications, satellite communications, and other telecommunications channels;
- at least one sensor for measuring a performance characteristic of each of the selected communications infrastructures and for generating a signal indicative of the measured performance characteristic;
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- a controller for receiving the signals from the at least one sensor and selecting an active communications infrastructure based on the signals from the at least one sensor.
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