Abstract: A passive alert system is provided for vehicles traveling along a predetermined travel route. The vehicles are equipped with vehicle processing systems which are in communication with a remote server. The remote server acquires information pertaining to conditions along the travel route, such as weather and traffic conditions, and determines if these conditions are of a nature which warrants reporting them to the vehicle processing systems.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 24, 2003
Date of Patent:
June 20, 2006
Assignee:
MobileAria
Inventors:
Peter A. Thayer, Victor Shao, Subramanian Mahesh
Abstract: A system for tracking a fleet of vehicles, such as trucks or aircraft, includes a set of vehicle processing systems associated with each vehicle. Each vehicle processing system receives a travel route matrix from a remote server, and generates periodic vehicle position information which is compared with a propagating wave associated with different segments, or corridors, of the matrix. When the vehicle position is determined to lie outside the propagating wave and a geo-corridor at a particular point in time, alerts are sent to the server notifying the server of same. Corrective action can then be taken, such as remotely disabling the vehicle, or alerting a fleet manager.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 27, 2002
Date of Patent:
December 14, 2004
Assignee:
MobileAria
Inventors:
Peter A. Thayer, Alexander Babichev, Milind M. Dange, Subramanian Mahesh