US 12,337,653 B2
Vehicle-based air quality and noise level sampling for use with offboard mapping software
Sharon Hornstein, Pardes Hanna (IL); and Klaus Trangbaek, Ein Vered (IL)
Assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC, Detroit, MI (US)
Filed by GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC, Detroit, MI (US)
Filed on Feb. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/590,256.
Prior Publication US 2023/0241942 A1, Aug. 3, 2023
Int. Cl. B60H 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60H 1/008 (2013.01) [B60H 1/00742 (2013.01); B60H 1/00771 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A host vehicle for use with a remote processing station (RPS) configured to generate a pollution report from a global set of pollution data, the host vehicle comprising:
a vehicle body;
a vehicle telematics unit (VTU) in wireless communication with the RPS, and connected to the vehicle body;
a sensor suite, including an acoustic sensor and/or an air quality sensor respectively configured for collecting a pollution data sample at a current location of the host vehicle, the pollution data sample including an ambient noise level and/or an ambient air quality level, wherein the global set of pollution data includes the pollution data sample and additional pollution data samples from one or more additional host vehicles;
an electronic control unit (ECU) in communication with the VTU and the sensor suite, wherein the ECU is configured to selectively transmit the pollution data sample to the RPS in response to a predetermined set of conditions, via operation of the VTU;
wherein the predetermined set of conditions include the pollution data sample being taken when the host vehicle is unoccupied;
wherein the predetermined set of conditions includes a lack of data, in accordance with predetermined collection criteria, from a region in which the host vehicle is currently located; and
wherein the RPS is programmed to store a history of pollution reports for a given region of operation on a computer-readable storage medium, as historic data, and to generate a model of noise pollution and air pollution for the given region of operation using the historic data and not using current data when a calculated uncertainty level regarding the current data is greater than a predetermined threshold uncertainty level, wherein the sensor suite includes the acoustic sensor and the air quality sensor, and the ECU is configured to receive the pollution report from the RPS, including receiving the historic data.