Vehicle Sensor-Based Emergency Notification System
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Solution Overview
Problem
In hit-and-run accidents, identifying the perpetrator and notifying emergency services efficiently is challenging due to lack of reliable information from witnesses and high costs of acquiring data from surveillance cameras, leading to potential delays in medical assistance.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that uses sensor data from vehicles involved in an emergency event to determine vehicle behavior, generating notification data based on changes in speed, lane, location, and traffic signal data, and transmitting alerts to appropriate recipients.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual notification by victims or observers is used, then emergency services can be alerted, but the notification may be inaccurate or delayed due to human error, blame-shifting, or critical injury preventing SOS calls
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables vehicles to automatically detect collisions through onboard sensors and generate emergency notifications without human intervention. The sensor suite detects impact forces, deployment of safety features, and vehicle behavior changes, allowing the vehicle itself to report the emergency event accurately and immediately, eliminating delays caused by injured victims unable to call for help.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual notification methods with an automated electronic sensing and communication system. Sensors detect physical collision parameters and automatically transmit data through communication interfaces to emergency services, substituting human observation and reporting with mechanical detection and electronic transmission for improved accuracy and speed.
2Loss of information
If information is acquired from traffic and surveillance cameras to identify perpetrators, then identification may be possible, but it is too expensive to acquire such information
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts essential identification information directly from the perpetrator's vehicle through onboard sensors that detect and record vehicle behavior, location, and identification data at the time of the emergency event. This eliminates the need to acquire expensive external surveillance footage by capturing the necessary information directly at the source.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses relatively inexpensive onboard vehicle sensors rather than expensive external surveillance infrastructure. The sensor suite and communication system represent a cost-effective approach to capturing perpetrator identification information compared to deploying and accessing traffic camera networks.
3Loss of information
If witness information is used to identify perpetrators, then identification may be obtained, but the information may not prove reliable
Solution Approach 1:
The system replaces unreliable human witness testimony with objective mechanical sensor data. The onboard sensors automatically record vehicle behavior, location, and identification information, providing reliable, tamper-resistant evidence that does not depend on human memory, perception, or willingness to testify accurately.
4Measurement precision
If comprehensive sensor data collection is implemented to detect emergency events and determine vehicle behavior, then accurate emergency notification can be generated, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses a multi-functional sensor suite where the same sensors serve multiple purposes: detecting collisions, determining vehicle behavior, identifying emergency events, and providing perpetrator information. This universal approach reduces overall system complexity compared to having separate specialized systems for each function.
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AI summary
A method, a system, and a computer program product for generating emergency event notification data are disclosed herein. The method, for example, comprises determining an emergency event, based on first sensor data. The method further includes determining vehicle behavior of a first vehicle, based on the determined emergency event and generating the emergency event notification data corresponding to the emergency event, based on the determined vehicle behavior. The method may further include transmitting at least one emergency event notification to at least one recipient, based on the generated emergency event notification data.