Disclosed is a sensor mat for determining a seat occupation situation of a vehicle seat. Said sensor mat comprises a plurality of sensor cells which can be allocated to a sitting area of the vehicle seat and are configured and interconnected in such a way that an output signal of the sensor mat varies in accordance with the seat occupation situation. At least one first sensor cell and a second sensor cell are interconnected to a pair of sensor cells such that the output signal of the sensor mat exceeds or lies below a predefined threshold value independently of the triggering state of the other sensor cells when the first and the second sensor cell are triggered simultaneously.

An automotive vehicle has arranged therein a vehicle seat and is equipped with an occupant detection system for detecting whether an occupant is present on the vehicle seat, the system including a first antenna electrode arranged in the seat and a sensing circuit associated with the seat where the sensing circuit includes an oscillation circuit connected to the first antenna electrode for applying to the first antenna electrode a first oscillating signal and a current detection circuit also connected to the first antenna electrode for determining a first current flowing in the first antenna electrode in response to the first oscillating signal being applied, the first current indicating whether an occupant is present on the vehicle seat, where the vehicle is further equipped with an appliance including an appliance control device arranged in the vehicle compartment at a location where it can be operated by an occupant of the seat and the occupant detection system is configured for detecting whether the occupant attempts to interact with the appliance control device, in particular, the occupant detection system includes a second antenna electrode arranged together with the appliance control device, and an oscillator is operatively connected to the second antenna electrode for applying a second oscillating signal to the second antenna electrode and the current detection circuit is configured for determining a second current flowing in the first antenna electrode in response to the second oscillating signal being applied to the second antenna electrode where the second current thus indicates whether an occupant of the vehicle seat has a part of their body proximate to the appliance control device.

The present invention relates to a capacitive device (2) in a motor vehicle for detecting the presence of an occupant inside the vehicle, said device comprising a first electrode (20) separated from a second electrode (21) by a dielectric material (22) so as to form a capacitive sensor, said capacitive sensor being arranged on a surface of a component of the vehicle, a voltage generator (23) arranged to generate an AC voltage between said first and second electrodes (20, 21), and a current measurement circuit (24) arranged to measure the current between the second electrode and an exposed conductive part of the vehicle, the presence of said occupant near said component being a function of the measured current.

An example operation includes one or more of monitoring, via a vehicle, a behavior of an occupant of the vehicle, responsive to the behavior being above a threshold, generating via an application of the vehicle, a first suggested action intended for the occupant based on the behavior and an amount the behavior is above the threshold, monitoring, by the vehicle, whether the first suggested action is being performed by the occupant, determining an alternate action is being performed by the occupant, generating a second suggested action based on the alternate action and the first suggested action, and providing a value to an occupant device associated with the occupant responsive to the second action being detected by the transport.

An example operation includes one or more of determining, by a vehicle, that an occupant assist application is operating in the vehicle to assist a vehicle occupant during vehicle operation, determining, by the vehicle, that an unsafe driving condition is likely to occur via a monitoring application, prior to a time that the unsafe driving condition is expected to occur, ceasing, by the vehicle, the occupant assist application, and executing, by the vehicle, a driving assist application to assist with the vehicle operation during the unsafe driving condition.

An example operation includes one or more of accessing, by an application providing assistance to a vehicle, sensor data associated with an environment inside and outside of a vehicle and profile data associated with a vehicle occupant, determining, by the application, an initial condition of the vehicle occupant based on the sensor data and the profile data, responsive to the initial condition being above a health condition threshold, accessing, by the application, health data associated with the vehicle occupant from a mobile device, determining, by the application, an updated condition of the vehicle occupant based on the health data, creating, by the application, an alert to notify the occupant based on the updated condition and one or more current driving conditions of the vehicle identified by the sensor data, and performing, by the vehicle, one or more vehicle actions based on the alert and the one or more current driving conditions.

An example operation establishes a communication link between a first vehicle and a computing node. The system then identifies the data to be transmitted from the computing node to the first vehicle, considering that a portion of this data is already stored on a second vehicle. As the second vehicle is determined to be in proximity to the first vehicle, the system transmits the portion of the data stored on the second vehicle to the first vehicle. The remaining portion of the data is transmitted directly from the computing node to the first vehicle, completing the data transfer when the vehicles are in close proximity.

In an example, a vehicle seat sensor system includes a vehicle seat, a flexible seat sensor, and an electronics unit. The vehicle seat includes a seat surface. The flexible seat sensor is disposed within a deformable distance from the seat surface and includes one or more signal electrodes, one or more ground electrodes, one or more dielectric layers, and one or more capacitors. Each capacitor is formed by a combination of a corresponding signal electrode and a corresponding ground electrode with a corresponding dielectric layer positioned between the corresponding signal electrode and the corresponding ground electrode. The electronics unit is connected to the flexible seat sensor and is configured to electrically communicate with the flexible seat sensor. The flexible seat sensor is configured to provide a capacitive output proportional to an amount of pressure applied to the flexible seat sensor.

An example operation includes one or more of determining data to be provided to a vehicle, determining data to be retrieved from the vehicle, determining a route for the vehicle based on an amount of time the data is provided to the vehicle and the data is retrieved from the vehicle, a speed of the vehicle, and a location of at least one computing node that is configured to provide and retrieve the data.

An example operation includes one or more of receiving information at a vehicle in proximity to a first node from the first node, sending information from the vehicle to the first node, analyzing the sent information by the first node, determining by the first node that the vehicle will be in proximity to an adjacent node to the first node, after the vehicle is no longer in proximity to the first node, receiving the analyzed information from the first node at the adjacent node, constructing information related to the received analyzed information at the adjacent node, and sending the constructed information to the vehicle from the adjacent node.