Patent ID: 11932185
Assignee: THOR TECH, INC.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H  E  G  Y | IPC B  E  G  H

Claim 5:
6. A control system, the control system comprising:
a smart vehicle, the smart vehicle comprising an Internet of Things (IoT) controller, a router, and one or more smart vehicle features communicatively coupled to the IoT controller, the router comprising a router identification card configured to provide wireless access as a wireless local area network (LAN) connection;
a smart mobile device comprising a software application tool including a user interface, the software application tool comprising a processor, the software application tool paired with the IoT controller;
network interface hardware configured to facilitate communication between the smart mobile device and the smart vehicle over a network connection, wherein the network connection comprises one of the wireless LAN connection and a wireless wide area network (WAN) connection; and
a non-transitory computer readable storage communicatively coupled to the processor, the non-transitory computer readable storage comprising instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the control system to
determine a LAN performance metric of the wireless LAN connection,
determine a WAN performance metric of the wireless WAN connection,
compare the LAN performance metric and the WAN performance metric to determine which of the wireless LAN connection or the wireless WAN connection comprises an optimal network connection at a second time based on device control, diagnostics, monitoring, telemetry, or combinations thereof, wherein the instructions to determine which of the wireless LAN connection or the wireless WAN connection comprises the optimal network connection comprise instructions to (i) determine a line-of-sight (LOS) determination indicative of whether the smart vehicle feature is within a LOS of a user of the smart mobile device to satisfy a LOS requirement, and (ii) determine the wireless LAN connection comprises the optimal network connection when the LOS determination satisfies the LOS requirement,
apply application tool switch logic based on the optimal network connection to determine whether to switch the network connection at the second time to the optimal network connection,
automatically switch the network connection to the optimal network connection based on the application tool switch logic when the network connection is one of the wireless LAN connection and the wireless WAN connection and the optimal network connection is the other of the wireless LAN connection and the wireless WAN connection,
receive, by the software application tool, environmental inputs with respect to the smart vehicle,
apply control logic based on the environmental inputs and the one or more smart vehicle features, and
control operation via the user interface of the software application tool of at least one of the one or more smart vehicle features based on the applied control logic, the environmental inputs, and the optimal network connection.