Autonomous Dashboard-Mounted In-Cabin Thermal, Acoustic, and Kinetic Sentry System with Direct Emergency Services Escalation

Current automotive occupant detection relies heavily on pressure-sensitive weight sensors embedded within vehicle seats. These systems suffer from fatal limitations: they fail to detect occupants who crawl onto floorboards, are located between seats, or are positioned outside the direct sensor footprint. Furthermore, existing systems do not offer an active, post-locking autonomous sentinel mode that bridges the gap between local vehicle detection and external municipal emergency response (911), leaving trapped occupants entirely dependent on passive bystander intervention.