Parked Vehicle Security Monitoring With ANN Threat Classification

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing vehicle maintenance schedules are often inconvenient and fail to predict component failures proactively, leading to potential safety hazards during vehicle operation.

Innovation Solution

Implementing an artificial neural network (ANN) system in vehicles to analyze sensor data for predictive maintenance, using unsupervised learning to recognize normal operating patterns and detect anomalies, with computations offloaded to a data storage device to reduce processor burden.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional maintenance schedules are used, then maintenance can be performed regularly, but component failures cannot be predicted proactively leading to safety hazards

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevehicle safetyVSAvoidreactive maintenance delay
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by continuously monitoring sensor data and training neural networks to predict component failures before they occur. The ANN analyzes patterns in sensor inputs during normal vehicle operation to identify early signs of component degradation, enabling maintenance to be scheduled proactively rather than reactively after failures occur.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback loops where sensor data from vehicle components is continuously fed into the neural network, which adjusts its predictions based on incoming data patterns. The system learns from historical sensor data and failure patterns, refining its predictive accuracy over time through continuous feedback from actual vehicle operation and maintenance outcomes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If an artificial neural network system is implemented to analyze sensor data, then predictive maintenance capability is improved, but processor burden increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepredictive maintenance accuracyVSAvoidprocessor energy consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the computational workload by dividing sensor data processing into distinct neural network layers and operations. The ANN processes sensor inputs through multiple layers (input layer, hidden layers, output layer) with each layer handling specific feature extraction tasks, distributing the computational burden across multiple processing stages rather than requiring peak performance from a single processor unit.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies partial action by selectively processing only the most critical sensor data and features relevant to component failure prediction. Rather than analyzing all sensor inputs at full resolution continuously, the ANN focuses computational resources on key predictive features and anomalies, reducing overall processor energy consumption while maintaining prediction accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS12574478B2Security operations of parked vehicles
Publication Date: 2026.03.10 LODESTAR LICENSING GROUP LLC
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AI summary

Systems, methods and apparatus of vehicle security operations during parking. For example, a vehicle includes: a proximity sensor configured to detect presence of an object approaching the vehicle when the vehicle is in a parking state; at least one camera configured to monitor surroundings of the vehicle when the vehicle is in the parking state; and an artificial neural network configured to extract identification information of the object from images generated by the camera and determine a security classification of the presence of the object. The identification information is stored in the vehicle and/or transmitted to a server or a mobile device, in response to the security classification being in a predefined category.