CPC H04L 67/12 (2013.01) [G07C 3/02 (2013.01); B60K 31/00 (2013.01); B60K 31/18 (2013.01); B60Y 2200/11 (2013.01); B60Y 2200/12 (2013.01); B60Y 2200/126 (2013.01); B60Y 2200/13 (2013.01); B60Y 2200/30 (2013.01); B60Y 2200/40 (2013.01); B60Y 2200/50 (2013.01); B60Y 2200/90 (2013.01); G06Q 2240/00 (2013.01); G07C 5/008 (2013.01); G08G 1/00 (2013.01); Y04S 40/18 (2018.05)] | 67 Claims |
1. A method for use with a wire pair that is part of, or connectable to, a network in a vehicle, the wire pair concurrently carrying Direct Current (DC) power and bi-directional digital data signals that is carried over a frequency band that is above the DC power using Frequency Division Multiplexing (FDM), the method comprising:
executing a software, by a processor in the vehicle;
sensing, by a sensor in the vehicle, a first phenomenon, and providing, by the sensor, a value responsive to the first phenomenon;
receiving, by the processor from the sensor, the value;
transmitting, by a transceiver in the vehicle that is controlled by the processor, the value to the wire pair via a connector that is connectable to the wire pair;
powering the transceiver and the processor from the DC power via the connector; and
uniquely identifying the processor in the network using a digital address,
wherein the connector, the sensor, the processor, and the transceiver are enclosed in a single enclosure mountable in the vehicle.
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