Patent ID: 8635013

Claim:
An automotive cooperative geolocation system based on inter-vehicular communication, comprising: a first geolocation system configured to be arranged in a first vehicle equipped with a first inter-vehicular communication system; and a second geolocation system configured to be arranged in a second vehicle equipped with a second inter-vehicular communication system and with an on-board satellite navigation system; the first and second inter-vehicular communication systems being configured to automatically detect other inter-vehicular communication systems within a communication range and to initiate communications between the first and the second inter-vehicle communications systems and the other inter-vehicular communication systems only after detecting the other inter-vehicular communication systems; and the first and second geolocation systems being configured to cooperate with one another for geolocating an event detected by the first geolocation system; the first geolocation system comprising: a first event detection unit configured to detect and identify events that have occurred along a path of the first vehicle; a measurement unit configured to supply information indicating a distance covered by the first vehicle from the detected event; a first electronic processing and control unit configured to generate and transmit, through the first inter-vehicular communication system of the first vehicle, information indicating the detected event and the distance covered by the first vehicle from the detected event; the second geolocation system comprising: a second electronic processing and control unit configured to extract the information transmitted by the first inter-vehicular communication system of the first vehicle and received through the second inter-vehicular communication system to geolocate the detected event in longitude and latitude coordinates based on the distance covered by the first vehicle from the detected event.