Integrated Helmet Validation for Shared Mobility Vehicles
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Solution Overview
Problem
The shared vehicle ecosystem faces challenges in safety, including accidents, injuries, and deaths due to inadequate safety measures, such as unsanitary and unvalidated helmet usage, lack of integration with vehicles, and reliance on human intervention for deployment and maintenance, which are inefficient and ineffective.
Innovation Solution
Integrating safety devices and sensors directly into personal mobility vehicles, enabling communication with the vehicle and management system for real-time monitoring and validation, automated deployment, and maintenance, reducing labor and ensuring continuous safety protocols.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If safety devices are deployed manually with human intervention, then deployment can be performed, but labor intensity increases and efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables safety devices to be automatically deployed and retrieved through integrated mechanisms. The vehicle system itself performs the deployment action through automated latching mechanisms that engage safety devices without requiring manual human intervention, thereby eliminating labor-intensive operations while maintaining deployment functionality.
2Reliability
If safety devices are not integrated with the vehicle system, then device complexity is reduced, but safety monitoring and validation capability is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates safety devices directly with the vehicle system through combined structural elements. The safety device becomes part of the vehicle assembly, with integrated latching mechanisms and communication systems that enable automatic deployment, monitoring, and validation. This merging ensures reliable safety validation while the integration is designed to be seamless rather than adding apparent complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates continuous feedback mechanisms where sensors monitor safety device status, proper engagement, and operational conditions. This feedback loop validates safety conditions in real-time and communicates with the vehicle control system, ensuring reliable safety assurance through automated monitoring and validation protocols.
3Reliability
If manual helmet sanitation and restocking is performed, then safety devices can be maintained, but time consumption and labor requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary sanitation and preparation of safety devices during previous vehicle service cycles. Safety devices are pre-sanitized and pre-positioned in the vehicle system before they are needed, eliminating the need for time-consuming manual sanitation operations during active service periods. This advance preparation ensures maintenance reliability while minimizing time loss.
4Loss of information
If safety devices are not communicatively coupled to the vehicle system, then device complexity is reduced, but ability to monitor and validate safety usage is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The communication system is designed with multi-functionality, serving both safety validation purposes and general vehicle control functions. The same communication infrastructure and data channels are used for multiple purposes including safety device status monitoring, rider behavior tracking, and vehicle operation control. This universal approach prevents information loss without requiring separate dedicated communication systems that would increase complexity.
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AI summary
A safety integrated electrically powered vehicle (SIPV) apparatus comprising an electric vehicle further comprising at least an integrated safety control apparatus wherein the integrated safety control apparatus polls a plurality of sensors to detect current SIPV data related to safe use, a communication link to an integrated safety control apparatus to transmit a plurality of data representative of the current use of a SIPV, and receive from the SIPV system at least an instruction received from the integrated safety control apparatus via the communication link to direct a plurality of control units on the SIPV to modify current operation parameters to bring the SIPV back to a safe use.