Patent ID: 7864039

Claim:
A passenger monitoring and control system comprising: at least one sensor system positioned proximate a respective one of a plurality of passengers in a vehicle, said sensor system configured to monitor at least one of an environment immediately surrounding the respective passenger and biometrics of the respective passenger and generate sensor data indicative of a state of the passenger; and a processing system communicatively coupled to at least one of said sensor systems, said processing system configured to receive the sensor data, said processing system comprises: an ontology and reasoning module configured to model at least one of the plurality of passengers, reason about the received sensor data associated with the at least one of the plurality of passengers and reason about the relationships between the received sensor data to fuse the data into contextual information for the overall at least one of the plurality of passengers; and a contextual analyzer configured to transmit the received sensor data to said ontology and reasoning module and to store the information into a contextual information database.