Abstract: Flow computers having wireless communication protocol interfaces and related methods are disclosed. In one example, a method involves receiving a request to be sent to a wireless device in a network of wireless devices, the request to be received via a remote terminal unit application executed on a processor within a flow computer, and communicating the request to the wireless device via a communications interface module, the communications interface module to be communicatively coupled to the processor via a backplane contained within a housing of the flow computer, the backplane to provide communications according to a high speed data bus communications protocol.

Abstract: Flow computers having wireless communication protocol interfaces and related methods are disclosed. In one example, a method involves receiving a request to be sent to a wireless device in a network of wireless devices, the request to be received via a remote terminal unit application executed on a processor within a flow computer, and communicating the request to the wireless device via a communications interface module, the communications interface module to be communicatively coupled to the processor via a backplane contained within a housing of the flow computer, the backplane to provide communications according to a high speed data bus communications protocol.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for determining an associated occupant class for a vehicle occupant from an image of a vehicle interior. An image characterizer (154) determines a centroid of the image of the vehicle occupant is determined and produces an image representative signal that represents the image data as a series of discrete values according to its position relative to the determined centroid. A frequency domain transform (156) converts the image representative signal to a frequency domain to produce a plurality of coefficients. A pattern recognition classifier (56) determines an associated output class for the occupant utilizing at least two of the plurality of coefficients. A controller interface (58) regulates an actuatable occupant restraint device according to the determined output class.