公开(公告)号：US20250069509A1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-27

申请号：US18726259

申请日：2022-11-14

Applicant: VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES, INC.

Inventor： Michael Mollenhauer ,  Jean Paul Talledo Vilela ,  Elizabeth White ,  Christopher A Cox ,  Nazila Roofigari-Esfahan ,  Sidhant Singhal

IPC: G08G1/16 ,  G08B7/06 ,  G08B21/02 ,  G08B25/00 ,  G08B25/01 ,  G08B25/10 ,  G08B31/00 ,  H04W4/02 ,  H04W4/021 ,  H04W4/44 ,  H04W4/90

Abstract: Various embodiments of a system and method for a smart work zone are described. In one example, the system includes smart cone devices configured to transmit smart cone device localization data, a wearable device comprising a processor configured to transmit worker localization data of a worker wearing the garment device and to receive an alert, and a base station. The base station includes an internal edge computing system configured to process the smart cone device localization data to define a virtual geofence boundary of a safe area, process the worker localization data, broadcast a location of the worker wearing the wearable device, and in response to a vehicle or the worker approaching the virtual geofence boundary, provide an alert to at least one of: the worker wearing the wearable device, a passing motorist, or a connected and automated vehicle (CAV).