Patent ID: 11862904
Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A method for monitoring multiple cable connections between a trailer and a vehicle, the method comprising:
configuring a trailer cable monitoring device that is disposed within the vehicle for monitoring a set of cable connections of a trailer cable, and a breakaway trailer cable between the trailer and the vehicle by:
monitoring statuses of the set of cable connections based on connection data generated by a set of multimodal sensors integrated with the vehicle;
initiating a monitor function upon detection of a presence of the trailer connected to the vehicle by at least one sensor of the set of multimodal sensors integrated with the vehicle; and
determining statuses of cable connections by fusing together using an information fusion algorithm one or more types of signal data from the set of multimodal sensors comprising optical signal data, radio signal data, and range signal data.