US 12,080,108 B1
System for monitoring vehicles for wear and anomalous events using wireless sensing devices
Hendrik J Volkerink, Palo Alto, CA (US); and Ajay Khoche, West San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Trackonomy Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 11, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/670,420.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/148,602, filed on Feb. 11, 2021.
Int. Cl. G07C 5/00 (2006.01); B60C 11/24 (2006.01); H04W 4/38 (2018.01)
CPC G07C 5/008 (2013.01) [B60C 11/246 (2013.01); H04W 4/38 (2018.02)] 20 Claims
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1. A system comprising:
a plurality of tape nodes associated with a vehicle, each tape node of the plurality of tape nodes being adhered to respective positions on the a vehicle, each tape node of the plurality comprising a time-of-flight sensor oriented downward from the vehicle, and wherein the captured sensor data is time-of-flight data captured by the time-of-flight sensor, and each tape node of the plurality configured to perform operations comprising:
capturing, by the tape node, sensor data describing a condition of the vehicle, the sensor data comprising time-of-flight sensor data, and
transmitting, by the tape node, the captured sensor data to a gateway node attached to the vehicle; and
the gateway node attached to the vehicle and associated with the vehicle, wherein the gateway node is configured to perform operations comprising:
receiving from the plurality of tape nodes, the captured sensor data describing the condition of the vehicle;
calculating a current height above ground for different portions of the vehicle based at least in part on the received time-of-flight data from the plurality of tape nodes;
determining, based on the calculated current heights above ground, that the vehicle has experienced an anomalous event, and
transmitting a notification of the anomalous event to a user of the system.