GEAR GUARD CAMERA AND BLUETOOTH SENSOR FUSION TO ENHANCE USER EXPERIENCE

Systems and methods are presented herein for improving the response of a vehicle to at least one person or object approaching a vehicle, and more particularly, to a vehicle that uses at least one of sensor data or Bluetooth sensor data to determine a vehicle state and corresponding vehicle responses to at least one person or object approaching a vehicle. A signal strength is of a wireless signal received from a user device is determined. An object is detected based on a sensor configured to collect data corresponding to an environment external to a vehicle. A vehicle state is determined based on the signal strength and the detected object.