Systems and methods are disclosed for monitoring the distance of wearable nodes140 from a police vehicle 100 and controlling vehicle operations based upon the distance exceeding a threshold. A police vehicle includes first beacons 110 positioned on a chassis of the police vehicle and second beacons 112 positioned on a lightbar of the police vehicle. The chassis beacons and/or the lightbar beacons are used to track the distance from the vehicle of one or more wearable nodes 140 associated with a police officer 142. This can be achieved by using received signal strength values from the node(s). Responsive to the distance satisfying a first threshold, the police vehicle will lock doors and roll up windows. If the distance then satisfies a second, closer, distance, the doors will unlock. Alerts relating to cabin temperature, approaching objects, seat occupancy can be provided either to the wearable node or be output via directly the vehicle depending on whether or not the node is detected to be in the vehicle. The invention ensures that a police vehicle is secured even when a police officer leaves their vehicle in a hurry, perhaps in pursuit of a suspect.


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    Title :

    Police vehicle monitor



    Publication date :

    2018-02-21


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    G07C TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS , Zeit- oder Anwesenheitskontrollgeräte / B60Q ARRANGEMENT OF SIGNALLING OR LIGHTING DEVICES, THE MOUNTING OR SUPPORTING THEREOF OR CIRCUITS THEREFOR, FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL , Anordnung von Signal- oder Beleuchtungsvorrichtungen, deren Einbau oder Halterung oder deren Schaltkreise bei Fahrzeugen allgemein / B60R Fahrzeuge, Fahrzeugausstattung oder Fahrzeugteile, soweit nicht anderweitig vorgesehen , VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR



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