US 11,702,081 B2
System and method for road condition monitoring
Xue Bai, Novi, MI (US); Rajeev Chhajer, Powell, OH (US); Brian Mills Nutwell, Dublin, OH (US); Jose I. Herrero Zarzosa, Powell, OH (US); Ehsan Moradi-Pari, Dublin, OH (US); Kathiravan Natarajan, Ypsilanti, MI (US); and Abolfazl Hajisami, Farmington Hills, MI (US)
Assigned to HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 7, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/784,840.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/813,635, filed on Mar. 4, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/805,493, filed on Feb. 14, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0262438 A1, Aug. 20, 2020
Int. Cl. B60W 40/06 (2012.01); G08G 1/01 (2006.01); G08G 1/048 (2006.01); G08G 1/16 (2006.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01)
CPC B60W 40/06 (2013.01) [G06V 20/588 (2022.01); G08G 1/0112 (2013.01); G08G 1/048 (2013.01); G08G 1/161 (2013.01); B60W 2552/00 (2020.02); B60W 2756/10 (2020.02)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method for road condition monitoring, comprising:
receiving a plurality of third party requests from a plurality of third party servers, wherein each of the plurality of third party requests includes a query for data with parameters defining characteristics of the data;
determining a desired connected vehicle that is capable of capturing a highest quality of the data from a plurality of connected vehicles based on technological capabilities of each of the plurality of connected vehicles according to the plurality of third party requests;
receiving roadway data from the desired connected vehicle based on the plurality of third party requests;
determining a roadway condition based on the roadway data;
calculating a data price for the roadway data as a function of data granularity of the roadway data and based on the roadway condition, wherein the data granularity is a level of data transformation from raw roadway data to transformed roadway data;
transmitting the data price to the plurality of third party servers;
receiving a plurality of bids for the roadway data from a plurality of third party servers;
determining a winning bid from the plurality of bids wherein the winning bid is a highest bid from the plurality of bids;
executing a data transaction for the roadway data according to the winning bid; and
transmitting the roadway data to a third party server from the plurality of third party servers associated with the winning bid, and wherein the third party server controls dispatch of one or more vehicles using the roadway data.