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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2005
Filed:
May. 19, 2000
Nicholas E. Smith, Oak Park, IL (US);
Nicholas E. Smith, Oak Park, IL (US);
Navteq North America, LLC, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A method and system for collecting meteorological data. A plurality of vehicles travel on roads in a geographic region. Each of the vehicles includes sensor equipment that senses at least one meteorological condition. The sensor equipment may be used to support other vehicle systems, such as vehicle safety systems or a vehicle navigation system. Each of the vehicles includes a program run on a computing device in the vehicle that prepares messages containing data indicative of the one or more meteorological conditions sensed by the sensor equipment. The messages are sent wirelessly from the vehicle to a meteorological data collection service that collects the data and uses the data for weather modeling or forecasting.