Blockchain Vehicle Battery Usage Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for tracking vehicle battery usage provide limited insights into a battery's history, making it difficult to assess its residual value, especially when the battery is recycled or transferred between vehicles.
Innovation Solution
A blockchain-based system that uses sensors to detect operating parameters of a vehicle's battery, identifies critical events, and aggregates this information in a central server to provide a detailed and immutable usage history.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If traditional logging methods are used to track battery age and charge cycles, then the tracking system is simple to implement, but the understanding of battery usage history is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments battery usage tracking into multiple dimensions: basic metrics (age, charge cycles) and detailed operating parameters (temperature, voltage, current, state of charge). This segmentation allows comprehensive information capture while organizing data into manageable categories that can be stored and analyzed systematically in the blockchain structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces sensors as intermediary devices between the battery and the tracking system. These sensors continuously monitor and capture detailed operating parameters, converting physical battery states into digital data that can be stored in the blockchain. This intermediary layer enables comprehensive tracking without requiring direct complex interaction with the battery itself.
2Measurement precision
If detailed battery usage tracking is implemented, then residual value assessment is improved, but the complexity of the tracking system increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a multi-functional tracking system that simultaneously performs multiple tasks: monitoring basic battery metrics, capturing detailed operating parameters, identifying critical events, storing data immutably in blockchain, and enabling residual value assessment. This universal system consolidates what would otherwise require multiple separate systems into a single integrated solution.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms the tracking approach by changing from discrete periodic logging to continuous monitoring of multiple parameters. By tracking temperature, voltage, current, and state of charge continuously and storing them in the blockchain, the system achieves high measurement precision while the immutable nature of blockchain simplifies data verification and management.
3Stability of the object's composition
If battery tracking is maintained across vehicle transfers and recycling, then battery provenance is preserved, but the complexity of tracking across multiple vehicles increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by establishing the blockchain tracking system before the battery is transferred or recycled. All usage data is continuously recorded and stored immutably in advance, creating a complete historical record that automatically follows the battery. This eliminates the need for complex manual tracking procedures when the battery changes vehicles or undergoes recycling.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a digital copy of the battery's usage history in the blockchain that is independent of the physical battery's location or vehicle. This immutable digital twin can be queried and verified by any authorized party, preserving battery provenance and usage history stability without requiring complex physical tracking infrastructure across multiple vehicles.
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AI summary
Apparatus, systems, and methods for tracking vehicle battery usage with a blockchain. One such method includes detecting, using one or more sensors, one or more operating parameters of a vehicle, at least one of the one or more operating parameters being associated with a battery of the vehicle. A battery-critical event is identified based on the detected one or more operating parameters of the vehicle. Information associated with the detected one or more operating parameters of the vehicle is communicated via a network and to a central server; information associated with the detected one or more operating parameters of the vehicle and the identified battery-critical event is aggregated in a blockchain using the central server. The information associated with the detected one or more operating parameters of the vehicle and the identified battery-critical event is queried from the blockchain to ascertain a usage history of the battery.