US 12,073,728 B2
Method and a system to automatically start and stop a monitoring device
Anup Khandekar, Telangana (IN); Ananthakrishnan N, Telangana (IN); and Ramesh Babu, Telangana (IN)
Assigned to CARRIER CORPORATION, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US)
Filed by Carrier Corporation, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US)
Filed on Nov. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/532,297.
Claims priority of application No. 202011051156 (IN), filed on Nov. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0165161 A1, May 26, 2022
Int. Cl. G08G 1/00 (2006.01); G06Q 10/0832 (2023.01); G06Q 10/0833 (2023.01); G08G 1/052 (2006.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01); H04W 4/021 (2018.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.01)
CPC G08G 1/207 (2013.01) [G06Q 10/0832 (2013.01); G06Q 10/0833 (2013.01); G08G 1/052 (2013.01); H04W 4/021 (2013.01); H04W 4/027 (2013.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.02)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
detecting halt of a vehicle using a first sensor and a second sensor;
communicating with a server after detecting the halt to determine a trip assignment status of a monitoring device placed inside the vehicle;
determining if the vehicle is within a geofence of a trip starting location based on the trip assignment status of the monitoring device;
determining speed of the vehicle after the vehicle is within the geo-fence of the trip starting location; and
automatically starting the monitoring device when the speed of the vehicle reaches above a pre-determined speed,
wherein the monitoring device is configured to be enabled and disabled in order to start and stop monitoring of one or more parameters inside a temperature-controlled unit, such that automatically starting the monitoring devices starts monitoring the one or more parameters inside the temperature-controlled unit of the vehicle;
the method further comprising:
turning-on a cellular network to communicate with the server;
turning-off the cellular network after the trip assignment status of the monitoring device is determined from the server;
activating a global positioning system (GPS) to determine if the vehicle is within the geofence of the trip starting location while the cellular network is turned-off; and
deactivating the GPS after determining if the vehicle is within the geofence of the trip starting location.