Emergency Identification via Mobility IoT Reliability Weightings

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Solution Overview

Problem

Emergency response resources are often overwhelmed during crises, making it difficult to accurately forecast and allocate necessary resources, leading to incomplete responses that fail to mitigate emergencies effectively.

Innovation Solution

A system utilizing a network interface and control subsystem with processors and memory to analyze data from remote devices, determine performance metrics, and generate reliability weightings, which identifies emergency characteristics and predicts future scenarios to dynamically allocate resources from various entities, enhancing response efficiency.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If multiple data sources from remote devices are utilized to analyze emergency events, then the accuracy of emergency identification is improved, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveemergency identification accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the complex data processing task by dividing it into distinct functional modules: data collection from multiple remote devices, performance metric identification, reliability weighting determination, and emergency characteristic identification. Each module handles a specific aspect of the data processing pipeline, making the overall system more manageable despite handling multiple data sources

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The control subsystem acts as an intermediary between the multiple remote devices and the emergency identification process. It receives communications from various devices, processes their data through standardized procedures, and produces unified emergency characteristics. This intermediary layer simplifies the integration of heterogeneous data sources by providing a common processing framework

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If reliability weightings are determined based on performance metrics of remote devices, then the quality of emergency data is improved, but the processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata qualityVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary identification of performance metrics for each remote device before the emergency analysis process. By pre-establishing the performance metrics and reliability weightings based on historical device performance, the system avoids calculating these values in real-time during emergency events, thus reducing processing time while maintaining data quality

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts the importance parameters (reliability weightings) of different data sources based on their performance metrics. Devices with higher performance metrics receive greater weightings in the emergency identification process, allowing the system to prioritize high-quality data and process it more efficiently while maintaining overall data quality

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Productivity

If resources are allocated dynamically based on predicted emergency scenarios, then the response efficiency is improved, but the forecasting complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresponse efficiencyVSAvoidforecasting complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary forecasting of emergency scenarios by analyzing current emergency characteristics and predicting future developments. Resource allocation plans are prepared in advance based on these predictions, allowing rapid deployment when emergencies escalate. This preliminary action enables efficient response without requiring complex real-time decision-making during critical moments

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The resource allocation system is designed to be dynamic and adaptive. It continuously monitors emergency characteristics and adjusts resource allocation predictions in real-time based on changing conditions. The system can scale resource requirements up or down depending on the evolving emergency scenario, providing flexibility without requiring a fixed complex framework

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS11399270B2Emergency identification based on communications and reliability weightings associated with mobility-as-a-service devices and internet-of-things devices
Publication Date: 2022.07.26 TOYOTA MOTOR ENG & MFG NORTH AMERICA INC
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AI summary

Apparatuses, systems, and methods relate to technology to identify first performance metrics associated with a first plurality of remote devices, determine first reliability weightings based on the first performance metrics, and identify one or more characteristics of an emergency based on the first reliability weightings and data from a first plurality of communications, where the first plurality of communications are associated with the first plurality of remote devices.