Vehicle and local area security system communications

1. A computer program product for monitoring exterior security of a vehicle having a computer system for implementing a function of the vehicle when the vehicle is located beyond a vicinity of a local area security system, the function based upon a sensor signal from a vehicle sensor sensing a motion of at least one object exterior to the vehicle, a method for monitoring exterior security of the vehicle comprising:

a tangible non-transitory computer-readable storage medium; and

computer program instructions for

determining the vehicle location to be within the vicinity of the local area security system;

periodically enabling the vehicle sensor to consume power from a vehicle battery at a periodic rate for producing the sensor signal;

in response to the vehicle sensor being enabled

monitoring the sensor signal from the vehicle sensor to identify motion of an object exterior to the vehicle; and

communicating a sensor information signal based upon the sensor signal to the local area security system and the vehicle sensor identifying motion of the object exterior to the vehicle using at least one of an acoustic receiver, an acoustic transceiver, an infrared sensor, an infrared transceiver RADAR, LiDAR, LaDAR, and a video camera.

2. The computer program product according to claim 1 wherein the computer system determines that the sensor signal is indicative of an absence of a potential threat to the vehicle and the communicating communicates the sensor information signal based upon the determined absence of the potential threat to the vehicle.

3. The computer program product according to claim 1 wherein the sensor signal is indicative of a presence of a potential threat to the vehicle and the method further comprises

including the presence of the potential threat to the vehicle within the sensor information signal.

4. The computer program product according to claim 1 wherein the sensor signal is indicative of a presence of a potential threat to the vehicle and the method further comprises:

determining a presence of a potential threat within the vicinity of the local area security system based upon the sensor signal, and

including the determined presence of the potential threat within the sensor information signal.

5. The computer program product according to claim 1 further comprising:

enabling the vehicle sensor to consume power from a battery included within the vehicle to produce the sensor signal;

coupling to a second vehicle located within the vicinity of the local area security system, the second vehicle having a second vehicle sensor providing a second sensor information signal to the local area security system; and

conserving battery power by disabling the vehicle sensor to consume power from the battery based upon the sensor information signal being determined to be redundant to the second sensor information signal.

6. The computer program product according to claim 1

wherein the periodic rate for periodically enabling the vehicle sensor to consume power from the vehicle battery is at a first periodic rate for producing the sensor signal;

coupling to a second vehicle located within the vicinity of the local area security system, the second vehicle having a second vehicle sensor for providing a second sensor information signal to the local area security system; and

periodically enabling the second vehicle sensor to consume power from a vehicle battery at a second periodic rate less than the first periodic rate for producing the sensor signal, the second periodic rate based upon the coupling, wherein power consumption from the vehicle battery of the second vehicle is reduced at the second periodic rate relative to the first periodic rate.

7. The computer program product according to claim 6 further comprising

periodically enabling the vehicle sensor to consume power from the vehicle battery at a third periodic rate greater than the second periodic rate based upon the second sensor information signal indicating a detection of a potential threat within the vicinity of the local area security system.

8. The computer program product according to claim 1 wherein the vehicle includes another sensor for affirmatively identifying a presence of a non-threat within a vicinity of the vehicle, the method further comprising:

determining a presence of a potential threat within the vicinity of the local area security system based upon the sensor signal;

affirmatively identifying the presence of the non-threat within the vicinity of the vehicle based upon the other sensor; and

including the identified presence of the non-threat within the sensor information signal.

9. The computer program product according to claim 1 method further comprising:

determining a presence of a potential threat within the vicinity of the local area security system based upon the sensor signal;

coupling to a second vehicle located within the vicinity of the local area security system, the second vehicle having a second vehicle sensor for affirmatively identifying a presence of a non-threat within a vicinity of the local area security system based upon the second vehicle sensor; and

excluding the determined presence of the potential threat from the sensor information signal based upon the second vehicle identifying the presence of the non-threat.

10. The computer program product according to claim 1 further comprising:

coupling to a second vehicle located within the vicinity of the local area security system, the second vehicle having a second vehicle sensor providing second sensor information to the vehicle;

determining a presence of a potential threat within the vicinity of the local area security system based upon the sensor signal and the second sensor information; and

including the determined presence of the potential threat within the sensor information signal.

11. The computer program product according to claim 1 wherein the vehicle sensor includes at least one of an acoustic receiver, an acoustic transceiver, an infrared sensor, an infrared transceiver, a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, a precipitation detector, a smoke sensor, a magnetometer, an accelerometer, a gyroscopic sensor, a proximity sensor, a radio receiver, a radio transceiver, and an ambient light detector.

12. The computer program product according to claim 1 further comprising including a live signal representation of the sensor signal within the sensor information signal.

13. The computer program product according to claim 12 further comprising:

determining a presence of a potential threat within the vicinity of the local area security system based upon the sensor signal, and

including the determined presence of the potential threat within the sensor information signal.

14. The computer program product according to claim 1 further comprising:

determining a failure in the local area security system; and

broadcasting a defect signal based upon the failure.

15. The computer program product according to claim 1 further comprising:

wirelessly coupling to a second vehicle located within the vicinity of the local area security system, the second vehicle having a second vehicle sensor providing a second sensor information signal to the local area security system; and

communicating the sensor information to the second vehicle such that the second vehicle communicates a signal based upon the sensor information signal to the local area security system.

16. The computer program product according to claim 15 wherein the vicinity of the local area security system is enlarged based upon the second vehicle wirelessly coupling with the vehicle.

17. A method for monitoring exterior security of a vehicle having a computer system for implementing a function of the vehicle when the vehicle is located beyond a vicinity of a local area security system, the function based upon a sensor signal from a vehicle sensor sensing a motion of at least one object exterior to the vehicle, the method comprising:

determining the vehicle location to be within the vicinity of the local area security system;

periodically enabling the vehicle sensor to consume power from a vehicle battery at a periodic rate for producing the sensor signal;

in response to the vehicle sensor being enabled

monitoring the sensor signal from the vehicle sensor to identify motion of an object exterior to the vehicle; and

communicating a sensor information signal based upon the sensor signal to the local area security system and the vehicle sensor identifying motion of the object exterior to the vehicle using at least one of an acoustic receiver, an acoustic transceiver, an infrared sensor, an infrared transceiver RADAR, LiDAR, LaDAR, and a video camera.

18. The method of claim 17 further comprises:

performing biometric recognition on the object being monitored; and

in response to an identity of the object not found, communicating the sensor information signal based upon the sensor signal to the local area security system as a potential threat.

19. The computer program product according to claim 1 further comprises:

performing biometric recognition on the object being monitored; and

in response to an identity of the object not found, communicating the sensor information signal based upon the sensor signal to the local area security system as a potential threat.