Connected Vehicle Routing for Automated Item Transfer Triggers

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Solution Overview

Problem

Vehicles operate independently of smart devices and user activities, leading to increased fuel consumption and inefficient item transfers, as they lack seamless integration with user devices and entity systems, affecting performance and connectivity.

Innovation Solution

A system that provides dynamic control and real-time routing of vehicles for item transfers, using computer processors, memory, and network communication devices to construct dynamic item files, transmit control signals, and initiate resource transfers through sensors and communication networks, ensuring efficient and secure operations without impacting vehicle performance.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Use of energy by moving object

If vehicles operate independently without integration with smart devices and user activities, then vehicle system simplicity is maintained, but fuel efficiency deteriorates and connectivity is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefuel efficiencyVSAvoidsystem integration complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Use of energy by moving objectVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The vehicle system is designed to perform multiple functions beyond basic transportation, including item collection, delivery, and integration with smart device ecosystems. The vehicle can serve as both a personal transport and an automated logistics unit, allowing it to optimize routes that combine personal travel with item transfers, thereby improving fuel efficiency without requiring a separate dedicated delivery vehicle

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables automatic item file construction, trigger identification, and control signal transmission without requiring manual user intervention for each item transfer task. The vehicle autonomously monitors its location, identifies when items should be collected or delivered based on pre-set conditions, and executes transfers automatically, reducing the operational complexity burden on the user while improving overall system efficiency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Productivity

If vehicles lack integration with user devices and entity systems, then ease of operation is maintained, but item transfer efficiency deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveitem transfer efficiencyVSAvoidsystem operation simplicity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-constructs item files associated with users and automatically identifies transfer triggers based on vehicle location and user activity data before actual item transfers are needed. This preliminary setup allows the vehicle to be ready for immediate item collection or delivery when triggers occur, significantly improving item transfer efficiency while requiring minimal real-time user input

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

An automated control system acts as an intermediary between the vehicle, user devices, and entity systems. This intermediary automatically processes item file construction, trigger identification, and control signal transmission, enabling seamless integration and efficient item transfers without requiring users to manually coordinate between multiple systems, thus maintaining ease of operation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Adaptability or versatility

If vehicles are not connected to user activities and smart devices, then device complexity is reduced, but connectivity and resource management deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconnectivity and integration capabilityVSAvoidintegration architecture complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The vehicle system is designed to interface with multiple types of devices and systems including smart phones, smart devices, entity systems, and item files through a unified integration architecture. This universal interface capability allows the vehicle to adapt to different user configurations and transfer scenarios without requiring separate integration solutions for each device type, enhancing connectivity while managing complexity through standardization

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system automatically constructs item files, identifies triggers, and transmits control signals without requiring manual configuration or complex user setup. This self-configuration capability allows the vehicle to adapt to different users and scenarios autonomously, improving connectivity and versatility while keeping the user-facing complexity low

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS10990109B2Integrated connectivity of devices for resource transmission
Publication Date: 2021.04.27 BANK OF AMERICA CORP
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AI summary

The preset invention relates to a system for integrated connectivity of devices to provide dynamic control and real-time routing of a vehicle for item transfer and vehicle performance. The system is configured for constructing a dynamic item file comprising one or more items associated with a user. The system is configured to identify an item collection initiation trigger and transmit an order placement control signal to an entity system of an item entity to initiate item transfer of the one or more items at a predetermined time interval. The system is configured to direct the vehicle to a first parking location associated with the geographic location parameter of the item entity. In addition, using a sensor device of the vehicle such as a weight sensor, an RFID sensor and/or a visual capture device, the system is structured to identify that the one or more items are located in the vehicle.