Vehicles can employ onboard telematic monitoring devices to collect vehicle and operation data, such as for improved vehicle fleet management. Such telematic monitoring devices are dependent on power from a vehicle, such that data collection and communication can be interrupted if a telematic monitoring device is disconnected or has a poor connection. The present disclosure relates to battery devices, which provide power to telematic monitoring devices as needed in order to maintain data collection and communication, or other more limited functionality. The present disclosure also relates to systems including battery devices, and methods for operating battery devices. The present disclosure also relates to detecting temperature of batteries, as well as emergency input and messages for telematic monitoring systems.

A vehicle computer can be programmed to detect, in a vehicle, one of a plurality of variations, based on data received from one or more vehicle sensors or a vehicle interface, to transmit, to a remote computer, variation data including the detected variation and a version of software in the vehicle computer, wherein the variation data identifies the detected variation and the version of the software, to receive, from the remote computer, a response including that a software update is identified based on the detected variation, and upon identifying the software update, to download and install the software update in the vehicle computer.

An autonomous vehicle (AV) includes features that allows the AV to comply with applicable regulations and statues for performing safe driving operation. An example system for an AV includes a communications gateway device. The communications gateway device includes a plurality of modules each configured for different communication mediums or applications. In particular, the plurality of modules includes a first module for communicating with a remote computer. Via the first module, vehicle operational data is reported to the remote computer, and instructional data is received from the remote computer. The modules further include a second module for communicating with devices located within a vicinity external to the vehicle, and a third module configured to communicate with subsystems located within the vehicle. The example AV system includes a second communications gateway device that is configured to be redundant.

A control apparatus includes a controller configured to select, depending on a type of vehicle data obtained by monitoring a state of a vehicle, a driver or an owner of the vehicle as an authorized party who grants permission to provide the vehicle data to a third party other than the driver and the owner, and notify the selected authorized party of information prompting for the permission.

An occupant-dependent setting system for a vehicle includes a setting processor, a server apparatus, and first and second authentication processors. The setting processor provides the vehicle with setting to make occupant-dependent setting available in the vehicle. The server apparatus includes a server memory that holds personalized setting data regarding an occupant to be on board the vehicle. The first authentication processor authenticates the occupant on board the vehicle. The second authentication processor authenticates a combination of the occupant on board the vehicle and the vehicle, on the condition that the occupant on board the vehicle is authenticated by the first authentication processor. On the condition that the combination of the occupant and the vehicle is authenticated by the second authentication processor, the setting processor acquires the personalized setting data from the server memory and provides the vehicle with the setting.

A vehicle setting system includes an occupant data acquisition processor, a server apparatus including a provisional generation processor, a provisional acquisition processor, and a setting processor. The occupant data acquisition processor acquires or estimates physical data regarding an occupant on board the vehicle, at least in a case with absence of a setting value for the occupant held in a vehicle memory of a vehicle. The provisional generation processor acquires the physical data regarding the occupant, and generates a provisional setting value for the relevant occupant. The provisional acquisition processor acquires the provisional setting value. The setting processor records, in a vehicle memory of the vehicle, the provisional setting value as the setting value for the occupant, and provides the vehicle with setting of the provisional setting value.

Systems and methods for vehicle lifecycle management using onboard vehicle onboard data capture devices are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of vehicle lifecycle management may include: enrolling, by a vehicle lifecycle computer program executed by an electronic device, a vehicle in a vehicle lifecycle management service; receiving, by the vehicle lifecycle computer program, a request to initiate a vehicle lifecycle event; enabling, by the vehicle lifecycle computer program, a telematics unit in the vehicle; receiving, by the vehicle lifecycle computer program, vehicle attributes from the telematics unit; requesting, by the vehicle lifecycle computer program, vehicle condition data from an on-board vehicle management computer program; receiving, by vehicle lifecycle computer program, the vehicle condition data from the on-board vehicle management computer program; receiving, by the vehicle lifecycle computer program, a request to terminate the vehicle lifecycle event; and disabling, by the vehicle lifecycle computer program, the telematics unit.

A method for predicting performance of a vehicle NVH system based on deep learning is provided. The method includes preprocessing learning data collected for each channel associated with noise and vibration while driving, learning a model forming a correlation function between multiple inputs and multiple outputs corresponding to the preprocessed learning data using an artificial neural network, and predicting performance using a vehicle NVH system model formed through the learned model.

A testing system for interfacing with a vehicle diagnostic system and performing a diagnostic test on a vehicle. The testing system includes a housing configured to at least partially retain a processor in circuit communication with test circuitry configured to selectively communicate with vehicle's onboard diagnostic system via a test cable. The test cable retrieves diagnostic data from the onboard diagnostic system, and the processor performs a diagnostic test which is sent to an output device for displaying the test results. Results are transmitted to a computing device comprising an application system having an interpreter for displaying diagnostic data on a display of the computing device.

Value-based data transmission in an autonomous vehicle, comprising: acquiring sensor data from a plurality of sensors of the autonomous vehicle, the sensor data comprising a plurality of portions; determining, for each portion of the sensor data, a value based on one or more objects identified in the sensor data; determining, based on the values for the sensor data, an upload policy; and transmitting, based on the upload policy, one or more portions of the sensor data to a server.