WILDFIRE DISCOVERY, MONITORING, AND RESPONSE SYSTEM USING PERSONAL VEHICLES

摘要

A distributed system detects and tracks wildfires using a fleet of automobiles as remote sensing systems. An individual vehicles includes a plurality of sensing subsystems each collecting and evaluating a respective environmental parameter for various autonomous functions such as collision avoidance, lane-keeping, and climate control. Each sensing subsystem analyzes a respective environmental parameter to detect a respective fire-related trigger. A fire response module in the vehicle responds to a respective fire-related trigger from one of the sensing subsystems by fusing data from a plurality of the sensing subsystems. The fire response module uses the fused data to detect whether there is a fire-related event. A wireless communication module communicates with a remote fire response center, and transmits the fused data to the fire response center when a fire-related event is detected. The response center sends notices and detour information for a confirmed fire incident to the wireless communication module.