Patent ID: 8120473
Filing Date: 2012-02-21
Classification: G08G,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: (a) receiving over a wireless network, from a plurality of snow maintenance vehicles and by a server, a plurality of sets of collected information, each of the collected sets of information comprising a respective snow maintenance vehicle physical location and at least one of weather and road conditions in an area of the respective snow maintenance vehicle; (b) processing, by the server, the received collected information to (i) provide a map associated with a physical location of a selected snow maintenance vehicle and (ii) determine an instruction for the selected snow maintenance vehicle and/or route; and (c) providing, over the wireless network the map and an instruction to a user in the selected snow maintenance vehicle, wherein the map is visually displayed to the user and wherein the instruction comprises one or more of a dispatch command, an alarm based on a temporal trend in weather conditions, an alarm based on a difference in weather conditions, an alarm based on a temporal trend in road conditions, an alarm based on a difference in road conditions, a snow plow setting, a mixture of materials being applied to a road surface, and an amount of materials being applied to the road surface.