Real-Time Inbound Trip Automation Through Shipment Location Monitoring
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Existing trip monitoring systems rely on manual trip creation, leading to errors and inefficiencies, particularly in high-volume scenarios, consuming significant internal resources and increasing operational disruptions.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for real-time inbound trip automation and event monitoring that automatically creates trips based on predefined rules, utilizing monitoring devices to track product attributes and locations, ensuring accurate trip creation and destination determination.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If manual trip creation is used, then operational control is maintained, but trip creation accuracy deteriorates and errors increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service trip creation by automatically generating trips based on monitoring device activation data. The server autonomously matches detected locations with origin locations from trip automation rules, creates trips without manual intervention, and populates trip details automatically, eliminating human error while maintaining operational control
Solution Approach 2:
Trip automation rules are pre-configured with origin locations, product mappings, and destination criteria before shipment. When monitoring devices activate, the system immediately executes the pre-defined rule logic to create trips, ensuring accuracy through pre-planned parameters rather than manual entry at the time of shipment
2Productivity
If manual trip creation is used, then resource consumption is high, but productivity is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs self-service trip creation where the server automatically processes monitoring device data, matches locations, creates trips, and manages trip details without requiring internal staff intervention. This eliminates the labor resources previously needed for manual trip creation while increasing trip creation throughput and productivity
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously receives feedback from monitoring devices about product location and status, automatically adjusts trip creation based on this real-time data, and updates trip information dynamically. This closed-loop feedback mechanism enables high-speed automated trip creation that adapts to actual shipment conditions without manual resource input
3Productivity
If automated trip creation is implemented, then trip creation speed increases, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The server acts as an intermediary layer between monitoring devices and trip management functions. It receives raw location data from monitoring devices, automatically matches it with pre-configured trip automation rules, and generates trips without requiring complex integration logic elsewhere in the system. This intermediary approach simplifies overall system architecture while enabling high-speed automated trip creation
Solution Approach 2:
The trip creation system is segmented into independent modular components: monitoring device activation detection, location entity detection, trip automation rule matching, trip object instantiation, and product mapping. Each module operates independently with well-defined interfaces, enabling high processing speed through parallelization while keeping individual components simple and manageable
Data Source
Figure 1
Figure 2
Figure 3
AI summary
Described herein is a system (100) for real-time inbound trip automation and event monitoring for shipments. The system (100) comprises one or more products (112) associated with one or more shipments, one or more monitoring devices (114) assigned to the one or more shipments and affixed to the one or more products (112). Each of the monitoring devices (114) is configured to monitor attributes and a location of the one or more products (112). The system (100) comprises a server (102) configured to receive a set of data packets pertaining to a predefined trip automation rule defined for an inbound trip for the one or more shipments, detect a location of the one or more monitoring devices (114), and automatically create the trip for the one or more shipments associated with the activated monitoring devices (114) upon a positive matching of the detected location with the predefined origin and mark the detected location as an origin for the created trip.