Edge Computing Safety Management with Dynamic Geofencing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional safety management in marine environments relies on paper documents, leading to clerical overload, procedural compliance mistakes, and a lack of real-time monitoring, making it challenging to enforce safety laws and manage operational risks effectively.

Innovation Solution

An integrated platform for managing safety and risk using edge computing devices to collect and process data from sensors and user devices, identifying hazardous conditions and health conditions, and generating dynamic geofencing areas based on these conditions to enhance compliance and situational awareness.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If paper documents are used for safety management, then compliance with safety laws can be maintained, but clerical overload and procedural compliance mistakes increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesafety complianceVSAvoidclerical overload

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces the mechanical paper-based document system with an automated digital platform that uses sensors, edge computing devices, and electronic workflows to collect, process, and enforce safety compliance data, eliminating manual clerical operations while maintaining regulatory compliance

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service safety management by automatically collecting data from sensors, generating compliance reports, and tracking safety metrics without requiring manual intervention, allowing the system to serve itself in maintaining safety standards

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Ease of manufacture

If paper-based safety management is used, then implementation is simple, but real-time monitoring capability is lost

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveimplementation simplicityVSAvoidreal-time monitoring

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces edge computing devices as intermediaries between sensors and the central platform, enabling real-time data processing and monitoring while maintaining system simplicity through distributed intelligence that operates autonomously at the edge

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Stability of the object's composition

If conventional safety approaches are used, then existing processes are maintained, but enforcement of safety laws becomes difficult

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprocess continuityVSAvoidsafety law enforcement

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements continuous feedback loops where sensors monitor safety conditions, the platform analyzes compliance data, and automated workflows enforce safety laws by providing real-time alerts, corrections, and documentation, making enforcement systematic and traceable

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

4Device complexity

If manual safety management is used, then system complexity is low, but productivity in safety compliance decreases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesystem complexityVSAvoidsafety compliance efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments safety management into modular functional components including sensor data collection, edge computing processing, workflow automation, and compliance reporting, allowing each segment to operate independently and efficiently while contributing to overall safety productivity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS12394520B2Systems and methods for operations and incident management

Publication Date: 2025.08.19 SOL X PTE LTD

AI summary

The present disclosure provides methods and systems for managing safety and risk in a remote workplace. The method may comprise: collecting, via a local network, data stream from one or more sensors and a user device; transmitting the data stream to an edge computing device via the local network, wherein the data stream is stored in a local database; processing, at the edge computing device, the data stream to identify a hazardous condition and a health condition of a user associated with the user device; and automatically generating a dynamic geofencing area in the remote workplace base at least in part on the hazardous condition and the health condition.