Patent ID: 9626811
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: B60L,G01R,G07C,H04L,H04W,Y02T

Claim:
1. A method of automatically providing a warning notification to a plurality of vehicles, where each vehicle of said plurality of vehicles utilizes an on-board controller comprising a central processing unit (CPU) and a memory, and wherein said on-board controller of each vehicle of said plurality of vehicles is coupled to a plurality of on-board sensors, the method comprising: monitoring a set of battery pack characteristics with said plurality of on-board sensors, said set of battery pack characteristics selected from the group consisting of a battery pack operating temperature, a state-of-charge (SOC) and a discharge rate, wherein each vehicle of said plurality of vehicles monitors said set of battery pack characteristics with said on-board controller; monitoring a set of ambient environmental conditions with said plurality of on-board sensors, said set of ambient environmental conditions selected from the group consisting of an ambient temperature, a precipitation level, a humidity level, an atmospheric pressure, and an elevation, wherein each vehicle of said plurality of vehicles monitors said set of ambient environmental conditions with said on-board controller; transmitting a data log comprising said set of battery pack characteristics and said set of ambient environmental conditions concurrent with said set of battery pack characteristics to a central processing system, wherein each vehicle of said plurality of vehicles performs said transmitting step utilizing said on-board controller; analyzing a plurality of data logs, said plurality of data logs comprised of said data log received from each vehicle of said plurality of vehicles, wherein said central processing system performs said analyzing step, and wherein said analyzing step further comprises comparing each set of battery pack characteristics corresponding to each data log of said plurality of data logs to a set of desired operating characteristics; identifying each occurrence of a fault event within said plurality of data logs, wherein said fault event occurs when at least one of said set of battery pack characteristics falls outside of said set of desired operating characteristics, wherein said central processing system performs said identifying step; comparing a plurality of fault events corresponding to said plurality of data logs, wherein said central processing system performs said step of comparing said plurality of fault events; identifying a subset of said plurality of fault events, wherein said ambient environmental conditions concurrent with each fault event of said subset of said plurality of fault events are analogous; and transmitting said warning notification to each vehicle of said plurality of vehicles when a numerical value corresponding to a number of fault events comprising said subset of said plurality of fault events exceeds a preset value, wherein said step of transmitting said warning notification is performed by said central processing system, and wherein said warning notification identifies said fault event of said subset of said plurality of fault events and said ambient environmental conditions concurrent with said fault event.