Temperature-sensitive vehicle occupancy detection and alert system

摘要

A temperature-sensitive vehicle occupancy detection and alert system. The system alerts users when a young child is left unattended in a vehicle in order to prevent the young child from being exposed to dangerously high or low temperatures within the interior of the vehicle. The system utilizes sensor data captured by a plurality of different sensors, including at least one occupancy sensor, at least one temperature sensor, and at least one distance sensor. The system applies logic to the captured sensor data to determine whether to alert a user as to the fact that an occupant has been left unattended and to control various functions of the automobile that would allow individuals external to the vehicle to rescue the occupant from the dangerous conditions or provide relief to the child from the conditions, including by unlocking the vehicle's doors, lowering the vehicle's windows, and/or activating the vehicle's temperature control system.

主权项

1. An occupancy detection computer system for a vehicle, comprising:
one or more processors; a non-transitory computer readable medium operatively connected to said one or more processors; logic stored in said non-transitory computer readable medium that, when executed by said one or more processors from the computer readable medium, causes said computer system to detect the presence of an occupant within a vehicle interior and trigger at least one alarm if said occupant is left unattended, by at least:
monitoring for the presence of said occupant within said vehicle interior via at least one occupancy sensor;monitoring the distance between the vehicle and a fob via at least one distance sensor;monitoring the temperature within said vehicle interior via at least one temperature sensor;if said vehicle interior is occupied and said fob exceeds a maximum distance tolerance from the vehicle, triggering an emergency mode;if said emergency mode is triggered, activating a fob alarm unit and a vehicle alarm unit; andif said emergency mode is triggered and said vehicle interior falls outside a temperature tolerance range, activating a supplemental emergency mode.