Method and system for an emergency location information service (E-LIS) from automated vehicles

摘要

A method and system for determining and verifying a location of a network device of an automated vehicle (i.e., driverless, etc.) and/or an occupant of an automated vehicle in emergency situations from automated vehicles. The method and system provide a current physical geographic location for the automated vehicle or mobile devices of an occupant and/or of occupant of an automated vehicle in an emergency situation such as an accident, health, fire, terrorist attack, military incident, weather, flood event, etc. and forwarding the current physical geographic location to a legacy 911 network, a Emergency Services IP networks (ESInet) or text-to-911 Short Message Services (SMS) networks to alert emergency responders.

主权项

1. A method for locating an automated vehicle during an emergency with an emergency information system (E-LIS), comprising:
receiving on a server application on a server network device with one or more processors a wireless emergency message or a text-to-911 message with current location information from a vehicle location application on an automated vehicle with one or more processors via a wireless communications network indicating an emergency event has occurred, the automated vehicle comprising an automated transportation vehicle capable of sensing its own environment and safely navigating without human driver input; determining from the server application a current set of 3D (X, Y, Z) geo-space coordinates for the automated vehicle with the current location information extracted from the received text-to-911 message including text-to-911 location information or extracted from the received wireless emergency message including audiovisual location information, Global Positioning System (GPS), Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi), Wi-Fi Aware, Bluetooth, near field communications (NFC), machine-to-machine (M2M) communications or cell tower location information collected automatically on the automated transportation vehicle while sensing its own physical environment and safely navigating without human driver input; determining on the server application with the determined current set of 3D (X, Y, Z) geo-space coordinates a current physical geographic location for the automated vehicle; sending from the server application an emergency response message or a 911-to-text response message including the determined current physical geographic location for the automated vehicle via a second communications network to a desired emergency response server with one or more processors; and displaying in real-time on the server network device or another server network device with one or more processors on a graphical map the determined current physical geographic location for the automated vehicle for one or more desired emergency response agencies.