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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2020
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Robert B. Kleve, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Eric L. Reed, Livonia, MI (US);
John R. Van Wiemeersch, Novi, MI (US);
FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
Crowd-sourcing of vehicles and smart listening devices is used for neighborhood monitoring. A cluster server is configured within a public network to maintain a cluster directory identifying cluster members including a neighborhood of smart listening devices and user vehicles, wherein the neighborhood is associated with a cluster of dwellings. The surroundings of the smart listening devices and the user vehicles are monitored using sensors in the smart listening devices and the user vehicles. Upon detecting an alerting event with one of the sensors, a corresponding one of the smart listening devices and the user vehicles that detected the alerting event initiates a message to another cluster member based on the cluster directory. The cluster member receiving the message initiates its own responsive action to the alerting event.