Patent attributes
Embodiments of a method and non-transitory computer readable mediums for vehicle data collection are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method for vehicle data collection includes receiving, at a cloud computing system, vehicle data that indicates a location of a vehicle and a data reporting mode of the vehicle, determining, by the cloud computing system, whether the vehicle is located in an alerting zone using the vehicle data, determining, by the cloud computing system, if the data reporting mode of the vehicle needs to be changed based on the alerting zone determination, and generating, by the cloud computing system, a policy message for transmission to the vehicle when the data reporting mode needs to be changed, where the policy message indicates an updated data reporting mode of the vehicle.