Blockchain Parking Information Sharing for Fleet Vehicles
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Solution Overview
Problem
Finding a reliable and efficient method for sharing parking information between fleet vehicles in urban areas, where existing online information is often outdated and unreliable, leading to vehicles circling multiple times to find a spot.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle-based system that uses a camera and sensors to detect parking spaces, generates a parking message with location and size information, broadcasts it to a blockchain network within a predefined geo-fence, and rewards the reporting vehicle upon successful occupation of the space by another fleet vehicle.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If online parking information is used, then parking information is available, but the information is outdated and unreliable
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables vehicles to autonomously detect parking spaces using their own cameras and sensors, and self-report the information to the blockchain network without relying on external servers or third-party providers, ensuring real-time and reliable information
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a feedback mechanism where vehicles that successfully occupy a parking space confirm the information accuracy, and the reporting vehicle receives a reward. This creates a self-validating loop that ensures information reliability
2Reliability
If vehicles search for parking spaces manually, then parking spaces can be found, but vehicles have to circle around areas multiple times consuming time and energy
Solution Approach 1:
Vehicles detect and report parking spaces in advance before other vehicles arrive. The blockchain network stores this preliminary information, allowing searching vehicles to navigate directly to confirmed available spaces without circling
Solution Approach 2:
The blockchain network acts as an intermediary that collects, validates, and distributes parking space information from reporting vehicles to searching vehicles, eliminating the need for manual searching and circling
3Reliability
If a blockchain network is implemented for real-time parking information sharing, then parking information reliability is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Fleet vehicles serve multiple functions: they are both the sensors that detect parking spaces and the nodes that validate and store information on the blockchain network. This eliminates the need for separate infrastructure components
Solution Approach 2:
The blockchain network is maintained and validated by the fleet vehicles themselves through their existing infrastructure, rather than requiring external blockchain infrastructure providers, simplifying the overall system architecture
Data Source
AI summary
A vehicle includes a controller, programmed to responsive to detecting a parking space via a camera, generate a parking message including location information about the parking space; broadcast the parking message to fleet vehicles within a predefined geo-fence, each of the fleet vehicles serving as a node of a blockchain network; and receive a predefined reward, via the blockchain network, from one of the fleet vehicles having successfully occupied the parking space.