Geofencing System for Impound Yard Vehicle Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current geofencing technologies fail to effectively notify vehicle owners or stakeholders when vehicles are towed to impound yards, leading to excessive daily fees due to unawareness, and lack efficient mechanisms to prevent financial fraud from prolonged vehicle storage.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for geofencing impound yards, where geofences are set around impound yards and associated with vehicles, triggering notifications to users upon entry and accurately recording cumulative time and charges to prevent fraudulent financial charges.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If geofencing is implemented to track vehicles, then vehicle location monitoring capability is improved, but notification timeliness and fraud prevention effectiveness deteriorate due to lack of specific impound yard detection
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the geofencing system into two distinct components: a general geofencing system for tracking vehicle location and a specific impound yard geofence system for detecting vehicle entry into impound yards. This segmentation allows the general system to provide continuous location monitoring while the specific impound yard geofence triggers immediate notifications, thereby resolving the contradiction between information completeness and notification timeliness.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent establishes impound yard geofences in advance at known impound yard locations before vehicles are towed. When a vehicle enters these pre-established geofences, immediate notifications are triggered. This preliminary setup ensures that as soon as a vehicle is towed to an impound yard, the system can detect it and notify stakeholders without delay, solving the notification timeliness problem.
2Reliability
If cumulative time recording is implemented, then financial fraud prevention is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the cumulative time recording function with the existing geofence notification system. The same geofence infrastructure that provides location tracking and notifications is extended to also record the time a vehicle enters and remains in the impound yard geofence. This merging eliminates the need for a separate complex time-tracking system while providing both fraud prevention and continued notification capabilities through a unified system.
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AI summary
A method and system for geofencing of vehicle impound yards. One or more geofences around impound yards are selected. The one or more geofences are associated with one or more vehicles. When a vehicle enters the geofenced area, a user (e.g., an individual, car dealer, finance company, etc.) is immediately notified to prevent excessive impound financial charges. If a vehicle is left in a geofence area, a cumulative time duration and a cumulative finance charge are accurately recorded to reduce or prevent financial fraud.