Dynamic routing intelligent vehicle enhancement system

Abstract

Embodiments of the invention provide a dynamic routing intelligent vehicle enhancement system and method. Intelligent land buoys can be proximately disposed to roadways. Each of the intelligent land buoys can gather situational awareness information about the roadways and one or more vehicles traveling thereon. The intelligent land buoys can compress the situational awareness information. One or more remote computer servers can receive the compressed situational awareness information from the plurality of intelligent land buoys, decompress it, and process the decompressed situational awareness information. The one or more remote computer servers can generate vehicle operational intelligence information based at least on the decompressed situational awareness information, and can transmit the vehicle operational intelligence information to the plurality of intelligent land buoys and/or directly to one or more autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicles.

1 . A dynamic routing intelligent vehicle enhancement system, comprising:
 a plurality of intelligent land buoys that are proximately disposed to a plurality of roadways, each of the intelligent land buoys being configured to gather situational awareness information about the roadways and one or more vehicles traveling thereon, and to compress the situational awareness information; and   one or more remote computer servers communicatively coupled to the plurality of intelligent land buoys and configured to receive the compressed situational awareness information from the plurality of intelligent land buoys, to decompress the situational awareness information, to process the decompressed situational awareness information, to generate vehicle operational intelligent information based at least on the decompressed situational awareness information, and to transmit the vehicle operational intelligence information to the plurality of intelligent land buoys.   
     
     
         2 . The dynamic routing intelligent vehicle enhancement system of  claim 1 , wherein the intelligent land buoys are configured to transmit a beacon including the vehicle operational intelligence information to the one or vehicles. 
     
     
         3 . The dynamic routing intelligent vehicle enhancement system of  claim 1 , wherein the one or more vehicles include at least one of an autonomous vehicle or a semi-autonomous vehicle. 
     
     
         4 . The dynamic routing intelligent vehicle enhancement system of  claim 1 , wherein the vehicle operational intelligence information includes dynamic vehicle routing information. 
     
     
         5 . The dynamic routing intelligent vehicle enhancement system of  claim 1 , wherein the vehicle operational intelligence information includes a predictive awareness alert indicating a time period within which an occupant in a particular vehicle form among the one or more vehicles is advised to take operational control of the particular vehicle. 
     
     
         6 . The dynamic routing intelligent vehicle enhancement system of  claim 1 , wherein the plurality of intelligent land buoys are configured to be located at an elevation that is higher than tops of the one or more vehicles, and to transmit a beacon including the vehicle operational intelligence information toward the one or more vehicles. 
     
     
         7 . The dynamic routing intelligent vehicle enhancement system of  claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of intelligent land buoys further comprises:
 one or more short range radio transceivers configured to receive, from the one or more vehicles, at least a first portion of the situational awareness information about the roadways and the one or more vehicles traveling thereon;   a processor configured to compress the first and second portions of the situational awareness information and;   one or more long range radio transceivers configured to transmit, to the one or more remote computer servers, the compressed situational awareness information.   
     
     
         8 . The dynamic routing intelligent vehicle enhancement system of  claim 7 , wherein the first portion of the situational awareness information includes at least one of a vehicle identification or a service set identification (SSID). 
     
     
         9 . The dynamic routing intelligent vehicle enhancement system of  claim 7 , wherein:
 the first portion of the situational awareness information includes a service set identification (SSID); and   the plurality of intelligent land buoys are configured to detect a first location of a particular vehicle from among the one or more vehicles associated with the SSID and to detect a second location of the particular vehicle from among the one or more vehicles associated with the SSID.   
     
     
         10 . The dynamic routing intelligent vehicle enhancement system of  claim 9 , wherein:
 the plurality of intelligent lad buoys are configured to transmit the first location information and the second location information to the one or more remote computer servers; and;   the one or more remote computer servers are configured to determine a speed of the particular vehicle based at least on the first location information and the second location information.   
     
     
         11 . The dynamic routing intelligent vehicle enhancement system of  claim 7 , wherein the first portion of the situational awareness information includes at least on e of road temperature, wheel slippage information, or pothole presence information. 
     
     
         12 . The dynamic routing intelligent vehicle enhancement system of  claim 7 , wherein each of the plurality of intelligent land buoys further comprises:
 one or more infrared cameras configured to receive at least a third portion of the situational awareness information about the roadways and the one or more vehicles traveling thereon.   
     
     
         13 . The dynamic routing intelligent vehicle enhancement system of  claim 12 , wherein each of the plurality of intelligent land buoys further comprises:
 one or more motion detectors configured to receive at least a fourth portion of the situational awareness information about the roadways and the one more vehicles traveling thereon; and   one or more temperature sensors configured to receive at least a fifth portion of the situational awareness information about the roadways and the one or more vehicles traveling thereon.   
     
     
         14 . The dynamic routing intelligent vehicle enhancement system of  claim 13 , wherein each of the plurality of intelligent land buoys is configured to receive at least a sixth portion of the situational awareness information from at least one of an inductive traffic sensor or a strain gauge. 
     
     
         15 . The dynamic routing intelligent vehicle enhancement system of  claim 7 , wherein each of the plurality of intelligent land buoys further comprises:
 identification logic configured to identify, based at least on the situational awareness information, the presence of a traffic obstruction.   
     
     
         16 . The dynamic routing intelligent vehicle enhancement system of  claim 15 , wherein each of the plurality of intelligent land buoys further comprises:
 tracking logic configured to track, based at least on the situational awareness information, the presence, position, and speed of the traffic obstruction.   
     
     
         17 . The dynamic routing intelligent vehicle enhancement system of  claim 16 , wherein the traffic obstruction includes at least one of a vehicle, a pedestrian, an animal, road debris, or an object. 
     
     
         18 . The dynamic routing intelligent vehicle enhancement system of  claim 1 , wherein:
 the plurality of intelligent land buoys are configured to gather the situational awareness information about each of a plurality of route segments, and to compress the situational awareness information about each of a plurality of route segments, and to compress the situational awareness information about each of the plurality of route segments into a corresponding route segment impedance score;   the plurality of intelligent land buoys are configured to transmit the route segment impedance scores to the one or more remote computer servers;   the one or more remote computer servers are configured to aggregate a first portion of the route segment impedance scores associated with a first route between a first geographic location and a second geographic location, to aggregate a second portion of the route segment impedance scores associated with a second route between the first geographic location and the second geographic location, and to aggregate N portions of the route segment impedance scores associated with corresponding N routes between the first geographic location and the second geographic location.   
     
     
         19 . They dynamic routing intelligent vehicle enhancement system of  claim 18 , wherein:
 the one or more remote computer servers are configured to select from among the aggregated N portions a present lowest aggregated impedance score associated with a particular one route from among the N routes; and   the one or more remote computer servers are configured to transmit a present lowest impedance route selection to the plurality of intelligent land buoys based at least on the present lowest aggregated impedance score.   
     
     
         20 . They dynamic routing intelligent vehicle enhancement system of  claim 18 , wherein:
 the one or more remote computer servers are configured to select from among the aggregated N portions a predicted future lowest aggregated impedance score associated with a particular one route from among the N routes, wherein the predicted future score is based at least on a history of prior impedance scores; and   the one more remote computer servers are configured to determine a predicted lowest impedance route selection based at least on the predicted future lowest aggregated impedance score, and to transmit the selection to the plurality of intelligent land buoys.   
     
     
         21 - 25 . (canceled)