Distributed Ledger for Modular Vehicle Component Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
The complexity of tracking and managing modular vehicle components in fleets, including their location, compatibility, and valid/invalid combinations, poses challenges in optimizing fleet operations and preventing undesirable transactions.
Innovation Solution
A distributed ledger system, such as a blockchain network, is used to track and authenticate transactions of modular vehicle components, ensuring valid combinations, preventing incompatibilities, and maintaining a secure, transparent, and immutable record of component interactions and locations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a distributed ledger system is implemented to track modular vehicle components, then tracking precision and transaction authentication are improved, but system complexity and implementation costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments tracking responsibilities by creating individual ledger entries for each modular vehicle component (base, top, interface) while maintaining a distributed ledger across multiple nodes. This segmentation allows precise tracking of each component's location, status, and transactions without requiring a monolithic complex system, as each node independently validates and records component-specific data.
2Reliability
If distributed ledger technology is used to authenticate component combinations, then combination validity and fleet security are improved, but operational time and processing overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-registering valid component combinations and compatibility rules in the distributed ledger before actual assembly operations occur. When components need to be combined, the system simply validates against pre-stored compatibility data rather than performing complex real-time analysis, significantly reducing operational time while maintaining high reliability in combination validity.
3Loss of information
If real-time tracking of all modular components is implemented, then fleet management visibility is improved, but data storage requirements and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and stores only essential tracking information (component ID, location, status, combination history) in the distributed ledger, rather than storing complete component specifications and all possible data attributes. This selective extraction maintains comprehensive fleet management visibility while minimizing data storage requirements by recording only the minimum necessary information for tracking and authentication purposes.
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AI summary
The disclosure is directed to, among other things, distributed ledger systems for modular vehicles. The disclosure may involve receiving, at a first ledger associated with a first node, information regarding an interaction between the first node and a second node. The same transaction information may also be received at a second ledger associated with the second node, as well as ledgers associated with any other number of nodes. The first node, second node, and any other number of nodes may be modular vehicle components. Additionally, the first ledger, second ledger, and any other number of ledgers include a set of the same information. The first node, second node, and third node may be nodes on a distributed ledger network.