Driver Evaluation Server Using Air Quality Sensors

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Solution Overview

Problem

The internal air quality of corporate vehicles, such as taxis, can be polluted by fine dust and smoking, leading to decreased passenger satisfaction, and there is a need for a method to evaluate drivers based on the vehicle's environment to improve service quality.

Innovation Solution

A driver evaluation method using a control server that receives air quality data from sensors to determine the vehicle's state as smoking, air pollution, or normal, adjusts evaluation scores, and notifies drivers and passengers, while also determining driver evaluation scores based on received driving grades, with penalties applied for non-compliance.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If driver evaluation is based solely on traditional metrics, then evaluation process is simple, but passenger satisfaction and service quality cannot be properly improved

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice qualityVSAvoidevaluation system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple evaluation dimensions (air quality data from sensors, passenger ratings, smoking detection) into a unified driver evaluation system. The control server integrates data from air quality sensors, smoking detectors, and passenger terminal ratings to comprehensively assess driver performance, thereby improving service quality through multi-factor evaluation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The evaluation system serves multiple functions: it monitors air quality, detects smoking, collects passenger feedback, and generates comprehensive driver evaluations. The control server acts as a universal platform that handles various data types and evaluation scenarios, making the system adaptable to different service quality assessment needs.

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

2Object-affected harmful factors

If air quality monitoring is implemented to improve passenger satisfaction, then service quality improves, but system complexity and cost increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveair qualityVSAvoidmonitoring system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The control server acts as an intermediary that receives and processes data from air quality sensors, smoking detectors, and passenger terminals. It consolidates this information and generates unified evaluation results, simplifying the overall system architecture while enabling comprehensive air quality monitoring and driver evaluation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms where passenger ratings and air quality data are continuously collected and used to adjust driver evaluations. The control server processes incoming data and provides feedback to the evaluation system, enabling dynamic adjustment of driver scores based on real-time air quality conditions and passenger satisfaction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS12198089B2Driver evaluation management method and control server using the same
Publication Date: 2025.01.14 HYUNDAI MOTOR CO LTD
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AI summary

An embodiment driver evaluation method performed by a control server includes receiving air quality data from a sensor in a vehicle, determining an internal state of a vehicle as a smoking state, an air pollution state, or a normal state based on the air quality data, transmitting a driving grade range to a passenger terminal, the driving grade range having an adjusted evaluation score reduced by at least one level from a reference score as a highest point in response to the determined internal state being the smoking state, determining a driver evaluation score for driving of the vehicle based on a driving grade in response to the driving grade within the driving grade range being received from the passenger terminal, and storing the driver evaluation score in a database.