Ensuring Security on the Fueling Forecourt

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2021374413-A1
Application number	US-202016885946-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	May 28, 2020
Priority date	May 28, 2020
Publication date	Dec 2, 2021
Grant date	—

Abstract

In one aspect, data characterizing a video feed acquired by a camera oriented toward and including a field of view of a forecourt of a fueling station can be received. The video feed can be monitored for hazards, and the monitoring of the video feed can include performing automatic hazard detection on the video feed using at least one predictive model that predicts a presence of a hazard within the forecourt of the fueling station. A command can be transmitted in response to the detecting of the presence of the hazard within the forecourt of the fueling station. Related apparatus, systems, methods, techniques, and articles are also described.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method comprising:
receiving data characterizing a video feed acquired by a camera oriented toward and including a field of view of a forecourt of a fueling station; monitoring the video feed for hazards, the monitoring including performing automatic hazard detection on the video feed using at least one predictive model that predicts a presence of a hazard within the forecourt of the fueling station; and transmitting a command in response to detecting the presence of the hazard within the forecourt of the fueling station.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
comparing an object present within the forecourt of the fueling station to at least one model object, the model object associated with the hazard; determining a similarity measure for the object, the similarity measure indicative of a degree to which the object matches the model object; and transmitting an indication in response to the similarity measure exceeding a predetermined threshold.

3 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
generating a notification indicative of the hazard presence based on the provided command; and providing the notification to an end user device.

4 . The method of claim 3 , wherein the end user device is an interactive display of a forecourt controller configured to manage the operation of the fueling station, and the notification comprises a prompt configured to be presented on the display.

5 . The method of claim 3 , wherein the end user device is a mobile device in operable communication with a forecourt controller configured to manage the operation of the fueling station, the mobile device including an interactive display, and the notification comprises a prompt configured to be presented on the display.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the command is provided to a fire suppression system which causes the fire suppression system to activate at least one sprinkler to dispense a fire extinguishing agent, the fire suppression system disposed in the forecourt.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the command is provided to an alarm system having at least one speaker oriented toward the forecourt, the command causing an audio message to be provided via the at least one speaker, the audio message indicative of the hazard presence.

8 . The method of claim 7 , wherein the alarm system includes at least one strobe lamp oriented toward the forecourt, and the command causes the strobe lamp to illuminate to thereby indicate the hazard presence.

9 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising deactivating at least a portion of the fueling station in response to receiving the command.

10 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the receiving, the determining, and the generating is performed by at least one data processor forming part of at least one computing system.

11 . A system comprising:
at least one data processor; and memory storing instructions configured to cause the at least one data processor to perform operations comprising:
receiving data characterizing a video feed acquired by a camera oriented toward and including a field of view of a forecourt of a fueling station;
monitoring the video feed for hazards, the monitoring including performing automatic hazard detection on the video feed using at least one predictive model that predicts a presence of a hazard within the forecourt of the fueling station; and
transmitting a command in response to detecting the presence of the hazard within the forecourt of the fueling station.

12 . The system of claim 11 , the operations further comprising:
comparing an object present within the forecourt of the fueling station to at least one model object, the model object associated with the hazard; determining a similarity measure for the object, the similarity measure indicative of a degree to which the object matches the model object; and transmitting an indication in response to the similarity measure exceeding a predetermined threshold.

13 . The system of claim 11 , the operations further comprising:
generating a notification indicative of the hazard presence based on the provided command; and providing the notification to an end user device.

14 . The system of claim 13 , wherein the end user device is an interactive display of a forecourt controller configured to manage the operation of the fueling station, and the notification comprises a prompt configured to be presented on the display.

15 . The system of claim 13 , wherein the end user device is a mobile device in operable communication with a forecourt controller configured to manage the operation of the fueling station, the mobile device including an interactive display, and the notification comprises a prompt configured to be presented on the display.

16 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the command is provided to a fire suppression system which causes the fire suppression system to activate at least one sprinkler to dispense a fire extinguishing agent, the fire suppression system disposed in the forecourt.

17 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the command is provided to an alarm system having at least one speaker oriented toward the forecourt, the command causing an audio message to be provided via the at least one speaker, the audio message indicative of the hazard presence.

18 . The system of claim 17 , wherein the alarm system includes at least one strobe lamp oriented toward the forecourt, and the command causes the strobe lamp to illuminate to thereby indicate the hazard presence.

19 . The system of claim 11 , the operations further comprising deactivating at least a portion of the fueling station in response to receiving the command.

20 . A non-transitory computer program product storing instructions which, when executed by at least one data processor forming part of at least one computing system, cause the at least one data processor to implement operations comprising:
receiving data characterizing a video feed acquired by a camera oriented toward and including a field of view of a forecourt of a fueling station; monitoring the video feed for hazards, the monitoring including performing automatic hazard detection on the video feed using at least one predictive model that predicts a presence of a hazard within the forecourt of the fueling station; and transmitting a command in response to detecting the presence of the hazard within the forecourt of the fueling station.

Assignees

• Wayne Fueling Systems Llc

Inventors

• Fieglein Henry
• Singh Kalpit
• Chinnaswamy Rohith
• Hairston Hob

Classifications

• G06V20/41 Primary

  Higher-level, semantic clustering, classification or understanding of video scenes, e.g. detection, labelling or Markovian modelling of sport events or news items (segmenting video sequences G06V20/49) · CPC title

• G06V20/176

  Urban or other man-made structures · CPC title

• G08B3/10

  using electric transmission; using electromagnetic transmission · CPC title

• G08B13/19645

  Multiple cameras, each having view on one of a plurality of scenes, e.g. multiple cameras for multi-room surveillance or for tracking an object by view hand-over · CPC title

• G08B13/19691

  Signalling events for better perception by user, e.g. indicating alarms by making display brighter, adding text, creating a sound · CPC title