EP4488966A1 - Procédés et unités de véhicule pour transmettre des informations à une entité de réseau - Google Patents

Procédés et unités de véhicule pour transmettre des informations à une entité de réseau Download PDF

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EP4488966A1
EP4488966A1 EP24186326.5A EP24186326A EP4488966A1 EP 4488966 A1 EP4488966 A1 EP 4488966A1 EP 24186326 A EP24186326 A EP 24186326A EP 4488966 A1 EP4488966 A1 EP 4488966A1
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Björn WECK
Sanna HALLBERG
Tomas ELLINGSSON
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07C—TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
    • G07C5/00—Registering or indicating the working of vehicles
    • G07C5/008—Registering or indicating the working of vehicles communicating information to a remotely located station
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07C—TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
    • G07C5/00—Registering or indicating the working of vehicles
    • G07C5/08—Registering or indicating performance data other than driving, working, idle, or waiting time, with or without registering driving, working, idle or waiting time
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07C—TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
    • G07C5/00—Registering or indicating the working of vehicles
    • G07C5/08—Registering or indicating performance data other than driving, working, idle, or waiting time, with or without registering driving, working, idle or waiting time
    • G07C5/0841—Registering performance data
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08C—TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS FOR MEASURED VALUES, CONTROL OR SIMILAR SIGNALS
    • G08C17/00—Arrangements for transmitting signals characterised by the use of a wireless electrical link
    • G08C17/02—Arrangements for transmitting signals characterised by the use of a wireless electrical link using a radio link

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  • the present disclosure relates generally to methods and vehicle units for transmitting information to a network entity.
  • vehicle unit shall mean a digital unit capable of gathering information relating to the vehicle.
  • Examples of such information may be a geographical location, driving hours, distance travelled, start time, finish time, rest time, driver name, starting location and finishing location, exhaust measurements, fuel consumption, temperature data from vehicle or cargo sensors, opening and closing of cargo doors or operation of other vehicle systems, e.g. cranes and lifts etc.
  • vehicle related information data or vehicle information data, or vehicle information
  • vehicle information can further be driving video, driver identity, speed information, position information, time information, environment information, etc.
  • One example of a vehicle unit is a digital tachograph, capable of recording and digitally compiling and storing the vehicle data including driving times and rest periods as well as periods of other work and availability taken by the driver of a heavy vehicle.
  • the vehicle unit is normally located in the cabin of the vehicle, where the vehicle unit is arranged in the instrument board, so that the vehicle operator may operate the vehicle unit in adjacency to start or stop of a journey.
  • the vehicle unit is connected to one or more sensors, where the sensors are capable of measuring, for instance, the motion of the wheels or other parameters.
  • a motion sensor is attached to the gearbox of the vehicle to receive pulses, i.e. speed and movement information, which is sent to the tachograph.
  • Bluetooth wireless technology standard with a master/slave architecture. Setting up connections between a pair of devices in the network is carried out by the devices being initially paired.
  • a separate Bluetooth module, or adapter also known as a "dongle" connected to the vehicle unit, enables the transmission of data from the vehicle unit to a separate connected network entity such as e.g. a hand held device.
  • the network entity needs to ask for updated data from the other Bluetooth device, i.e. pulling data from the Bluetooth device to initiate a transmission of data.
  • a drawback with this is that it creates lots of radio traffic in the cab environment and also higher current consumption in battery powered units.
  • Bluetooth Low Energy compared to classic Bluetooth, is intended to provide considerably reduced power consumption and cost while maintaining a similar communication range.
  • a method performed by a vehicle unit for transmitting information to a network entity comprising: recording vehicle information data; transmitting recorded vehicle information data to the network entity, wherein the transmission of recorded vehicle information data to the network entity is carried out without a request of data by the network entity.
  • the method further comprises: receiving configuration information from the network entity; the transmitting of the recorded vehicle information data is performed according to the received configuration information.
  • the vehicle information data comprises vehicle driving data.
  • the vehicle unit is a tachograph.
  • the vehicle unit is operative for communicating with the network entity via Bluetooth Classic or Bluetooth Low Energy, BLE.
  • the configuration information comprises vehicle information type, transmitting frequency and/or transmitting condition.
  • a vehicle unit for transmitting information to a network entity, wherein the vehicle unit is communicatively connected to the network entity, the vehicle unit comprises a processing circuitry and a memory, the memory containing instructions executable by the processing circuitry, whereby the vehicle unit is operative for: recording vehicle information data; transmitting recorded vehicle information data to the network entity, wherein the transmission of recorded vehicle information data to the network entity is carried out without a request of data by the network entity.
  • the vehicle unit is further operative for: receiving configuration information from the network entity; the transmitting of the recorded vehicle information data is performed according to the received configuration information.
  • the vehicle information data comprises vehicle driving data.
  • the vehicle unit is a tachograph.
  • the vehicle unit is operative for communicating with the network entity via Bluetooth Classic or Bluetooth Low Energy, BLE.
  • the configuration information comprises vehicle information type, transmitting frequency and/or transmitting condition.
  • a computer program comprising instructions, which, when executed by a processing circuitry of a vehicle unit for transmitting information to a network entity, wherein the vehicle unit is communicatively connected to the network entity, causes the vehicle unit to perform the method according to above embodiments.
  • a carrier containing the computer program according to previous embodiment wherein the carrier is one of an electronic signal, an optical signal, a radio signal, an electric signal, or a computer readable storage medium.
  • a vehicle comprises at least one vehicle unit according to any one of the above embodiments.
  • a vehicle 500 can be equipped with a vehicle unit 10.
  • the vehicle 500 can be any kind of vehicle, e.g., car, truck, bus, etc.
  • the vehicle unit 10 can be a tachograph and operative for recording vehicle information data.
  • the vehicle unit 10 may comprise a display unit 12, e.g., a screen.
  • the size of the display unit 12 is limited and may not able to display all the vehicle information data recorded by the vehicle unit 10. Therefore, the vehicle unit 10 is communicatively connected to a network unit 20, and send the recorded vehicle information data to the network unit 20, so that user can access the vehicle information data via the network entity 20.
  • a method is performed by a vehicle unit 10 for transmitting information to a network entity 20, wherein the vehicle unit 10 is communicatively connected to the network entity 20.
  • the method comprises: recording 202 vehicle information data; transmitting 206 recorded vehicle information data to the network entity 20, wherein the transmission of recorded vehicle information data to the network entity 20 is carried out without a request of data by the network entity 20.
  • the vehicle unit 10 proactively transmits vehicle information data to the network entity 20, even if the network entity 20 does not ask for it.
  • the transmission of recorded vehicle information data to the network entity 20 is carried out without a preceding request of data by the network entity 20.
  • the network entity 20 may be a network device of any kind of wireless communication network.
  • the network entity 20 may also be a network device of any kind of wired communication network.
  • the network entity 20 can be a user equipment (UE), or a network server, or a cloud device.
  • the network entity 20 may have a display unit, so that the user can see the vehicle information data on the display unit of the network entity 20.
  • the vehicle unit 10 records vehicle information data.
  • vehicle information data can all kinds of vehicle related information, e.g., driving activities, driving video, driver identity, speed information, position information, time information, environment information, etc.
  • the vehicle unit 10 proactively transmits the recorded vehicle information data to the network entity 20, without receiving a request of the network entity 20. So that the network entity 20 automatically receives vehicle information data sent from the vehicle unit 10.
  • the network entity 20 does not need to send any data request to the vehicle unit 20. Instead, the vehicle information data is automatically sent to the network entity 20 so that the user can check it directly, e.g., via the display unit of the network entity 20.
  • the network entity 20 since the network entity 20 does not need to send a data request to the vehicle unit 10 for vehicle information data, the interaction messages between the vehicle unit 10 and the network entity 20 are reduced, so that the bandwidth and energy consumption of the whole system is reduced. More bandwidths can be saved for the transmission of the vehicle information data.
  • the method further comprises receiving 204 configuration information from the network entity 20; the transmitting 206 of the recorded vehicle information data is performed according to the received configuration information.
  • the network entity 20 send configuration information to the vehicle unit 10 and controls the way of transmitting the vehicle information data. This will be discussed further in following text.
  • the vehicle information data comprises vehicle driving data.
  • the vehicle unit 10 is a tachograph.
  • the vehicle unit 10 is operative for communicating with the network entity 20 via Bluetooth Classic or Bluetooth Low Energy, BLE.
  • the configuration information comprises vehicle information type, transmitting frequency and/or transmitting condition.
  • the network entity 20 can set the vehicle information type, transmitting frequency and/or transmitting condition via the configuration information.
  • the configuration information can indicate the vehicle unit 10 to transmit specific types of vehicle information data, e.g., driving video, speed data. Other types of vehicle information data are not proactively transmitted to the network entity 20.
  • the configuration information can indicate that the vehicle unit 10 transmits vehicle information data proactively every minute, every five minutes, every hour, etc.
  • the configuration information can indicate that the vehicle unit 10 transmits vehicle information data proactively when the vehicle is driving in a specific area, or when the outside temperature of the vehicle is below a threshold, etc.
  • the transmission of the vehicle information data can be customized and individualized.
  • a vehicle unit 10 for transmitting information to a network entity 20 is disclosed.
  • the vehicle unit 10 is communicatively connected to the network entity 20, the vehicle unit 10 comprises a processing circuitry 403 and a memory 404, the memory 404 containing instructions executable by the processing circuitry 403, whereby the vehicle unit 10 is operative for: recording vehicle information data; and transmitting recorded vehicle information data to the network entity 20, wherein the transmission of recorded vehicle information data to the network entity 20 is carried out without a request of data by the network entity 20.
  • the transmission of recorded vehicle information data to the network entity 20 is carried out without a preceding request of data by the network entity 20.
  • the vehicle unit 10 is further operative for: receiving configuration information from the network entity 20; the transmitting of the recorded vehicle information data is performed according to the received configuration information.
  • the vehicle information data comprises vehicle driving data.
  • the vehicle unit 10 is a tachograph.
  • the vehicle unit 10 is operative for communicating with the network entity 20 via Bluetooth Classic or Bluetooth Low Energy, BLE.
  • the configuration information comprises vehicle information type, transmitting frequency and/or transmitting condition.
  • a vehicle comprises at least one vehicle unit 10 according to any one of the above embodiments.
  • the vehicle unit 10 may further comprise a communication unit 402, which may be considered to comprise conventional means for wireless communication with other devices, such as a transceiver for wireless transmission and reception of signals.
  • the instructions executable by said processing circuitry 403 may be arranged as a computer program 405 stored e.g. in said memory 404.
  • the processing circuitry 403 and the memory 404 may be arranged in a sub-arrangement 401.
  • the sub-arrangement 401 may be a micro-processor and adequate software and storage therefore, a Programmable Logic Device, PLD, or other electronic component(s)/processing circuit(s) configured to perform the methods mentioned above.
  • the processing circuitry 403 may comprise one or more programmable processor, application-specific integrated circuits, field programmable gate arrays or combinations of these adapted to execute instructions.
  • the computer program 405 may be arranged such that when its instructions are run in the processing circuitry, they cause the vehicle unit 10 to perform the steps described in any of the described embodiments of the vehicle unit 10 and its method.
  • the computer program 405 may be carried by a computer program product connectable to the processing circuitry 403.
  • the computer program product may be the memory 404, or at least arranged in the memory.
  • the memory 404 may be realized as for example a RAM (Random-access memory), ROM (Read-Only Memory) or an EEPROM (Electrical Erasable Programmable ROM).
  • a carrier may contain the computer program 405.
  • the carrier may be one of an electronic signal, an optical signal, an electromagnetic signal, a magnetic signal, an electric signal, a radio signal, a microwave signal, or computer readable storage medium.
  • the computer-readable storage medium may be e.g. a CD, DVD or flash memory, from which the program could be downloaded into the memory 404.
  • the computer program may be stored on a server or any other entity to which the vehicle unit 10 has access via the communication unit 402. The computer program 405 may then be downloaded from the server into the memory 404.

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