Vehicle Alarm Communication Module with GPS and Text Messaging
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicle alarm systems lack integrated communication capabilities for real-time vehicle location tracking and emergency messaging, limiting user convenience and safety.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle alarm communication module that integrates text-messaging and GPS functionality, allowing users to track their vehicle's location via a television interface and send distress messages with GPS coordinates to emergency services.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If text-messaging and GPS functionality are integrated into the vehicle alarm system, then user convenience and emergency response capability are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines text-messaging capability, GPS location tracking, and vehicle alarm functionality into a single integrated communication module. This merging of previously separate functions (alarm system, text messaging device, GPS tracker) into one unified device provides users with comprehensive security and tracking capabilities while eliminating the need for multiple separate devices, thereby improving ease of operation despite the increased internal complexity of the integrated system.
2Ease of operation
If real-time vehicle location tracking is implemented, then user convenience is improved, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The GPS location tracking system operates periodically rather than continuously, sending location updates at predetermined time intervals or when the vehicle reaches specific locations. This periodic operation provides users with timely location information for convenience while significantly reducing energy consumption compared to continuous tracking, as the GPS receiver and communication transceiver remain inactive during intervals between updates.
3Reliability
If text-to-911 emergency messaging is provided, then emergency response capability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The communication module serves multiple functions: it acts as a vehicle alarm system, a GPS tracker, a text messaging device, and an emergency 911 alert system. By designing a universal device that performs all these functions through integrated components and software, the patent improves emergency response capability without proportionally increasing complexity, as the same hardware infrastructure (transceiver, GPS receiver, processor) supports multiple functions simultaneously.
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AI summary
The vehicle alarm communication module is a communication device that is adapted to work with and be integrated into vehicle alarm system. The vehicle alarm communication module incorporates text-messaging capability into vehicle alarm system. The vehicle alarm communication module is able to text changes in a location of the vehicle to a video receiver box that can be accessed through a television to allow users to see the location of their car. In addition, the vehicle alarm communication module provides text to 911 capability, which allows the user to send a text message to participating emergency services organizations containing a distress message and the GPS location of the vehicle. The vehicle alarm communication module comprises a control box, a key fob, and a station box.