ADVANCED LAW ENFORCEMENT AND RESPONSE TECHNOLOGY

摘要

Improvements for an ALERT3-type vehicle-based control system (10) are described. The improvements encompass the use of a multiple control unit (60, 64) architecture for more efficient processing of user interface functions and device commands. The improved architecture allows one control unit (60) to manage the control functions for a first device set. The second, or subsequent, control unit (64) offloads the management of device control functions from the first control unit (60). The present invention also describes devices and methods for incorporating the control system (10) into a vehicle data bus (66), such as the IDB.