Patent ID: 11953341
Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 9:
10. A device for acquiring, offering, and transmitting vehicle-based sensor data of a route section, wherein the vehicle-based sensor data includes environment data acquired by a vehicle of a vehicle swarm traveling on the route section and offered to a back-end computer, comprising:
environment sensors for recording vehicle-based sensor data;
a data aggregator for storing and arranging the vehicle-based sensor data acquired by the environment sensors; and
a vehicle-based control circuit for controlling the data aggregator and for communication with the back-end computer, the control circuit configured to:
report available types of vehicle-based sensor data relating to the route section currently being traveled on to the back-end computer;
receive, via a bidirectional communication channel between the vehicle-based control circuit and the back-end computer, a request from the back-end computer for at least one selected type of vehicle-based sensor data selected from the available types of vehicle-based sensor data;
in response to the received request for the at least one selected type of vehicle-based sensor data, control the data aggregator to collect and aggregate vehicle-based sensor data collected by at least one of the environment sensors associated with the at least one selected type of vehicle-based sensor data; and
transmit, via a unidirectional communication channel between the vehicle-based control circuit and the back-end computer, the requested and collected vehicle-based sensor data to the back-end computer, wherein the unidirectional communication channel is distinct from the bidirectional communication channel.