MUMBAI, India, Jan. 23 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641001771 A) filed by Dr. M. G. R. Educational & Research Institute, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on Jan. 7, for 'all-weather edge-based thermal vehicle and pedestrian detection system and method.'
Inventor(s) include Dr. Preetha Mary George; Dr. B. Swapna; and Dr. N. S. Shubhashree.
The application for the patent was published on Jan. 23, under issue no. 04/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure relates to an AIoT-based all-weather vehicle detection system (100) and a corresponding method (400) for operation under low-visibility conditions including fog, rain, dust, smoke, and low light. The system (100) comprises a sensor and edge processing module (102) including a thermal sensing unit (202) configured as a low-resolution infrared sensor array and a microcontroller unit (204) configured to perform edge-level thermal preprocessing and deterministic inference without cloud dependency. Processed thermal data and inference results are encoded by a data packet encoder (212) into compact structured packets and transmitted via a wireless bridge module (104) operating in an access-point mode (302) or a station mode (306). The method (400) includes acquiring (402), preprocessing (404), inferring (406), encoding (408), transmitting (410), decoding (412), reconstructing (414), and presenting (416) thermal information on a mobile device (308). The invention enables low-latency, bandwidth-efficient vehicle and pedestrian detection in adverse visibility environments."
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