Service verification for a rear loading refuse vehicle
AssigneeThe Heil Co.
InventorsBrian Huston Ham, Kelly Lee Genzer, Anthony Romano
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Abstract
A service verification system for a rear loading refuse vehicle includes a motion sensor on a tailgate of the refuse vehicle. The motion sensor is configured to sense refuse being loaded into a tailgate hopper and to provide a time-stamped triggering signal corresponding to a refuse loading event. An onboard processor is configured to receive the triggering signal and evaluate other sensor data to correlate the refuse loading event with an entity.
Claims21
1-26. (canceled)
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- receiving a triggering signal, wherein the triggering signal represents detected motion in a sensory zone comprising at least part of a volume of a hopper of a refuse vehicle;
- determining that the triggering signal represents a refuse loading event comprising at least one object entering the hopper;
- and
- correlating the refuse loading event with an entity.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing software comprising instructions executable by one or more computers which, upon such execution, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
- receiving a triggering signal, wherein the triggering signal represents detected motion in a sensory zone comprising at least part of a volume of a hopper of a refuse vehicle;
- determining that the triggering signal represents a refuse loading event comprising at least one object entering the hopper;
- and
- correlating the refuse loading event with an entity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.