Vehicle Infotainment System Beacon Identity Mapping
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current vehicle infotainment systems lack efficient methods to establish secure and personalized data connections for presenting customized content to vehicle occupants based on their identities, while ensuring privacy protection and relevance.
Innovation Solution
A system that uses a beacon device to initiate a data connection with the vehicle's infotainment system, identifying occupants through their mobile devices and mapping their identities to provide targeted, personalized content without direct connection to their devices, utilizing Bluetooth, WiFi, or satellite links for communication.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a direct connection is established between the remote computing device and the mobile device of the occupant, then data transmission can occur, but the occupant's privacy is compromised and their personal device is exposed
Solution Approach 1:
The infotainment system serves as an intermediary device that establishes a data connection between the beacon device and the occupant's mobile device without requiring a direct connection between the remote computing device and the mobile device. This mediator approach allows data transmission while protecting the occupant's privacy by keeping their device isolated from direct external connections.
2Ease of operation
If personalized content is delivered based on occupant identities, then user experience is enhanced, but the system complexity increases due to identity mapping and connection management
Solution Approach 1:
The infotainment system automatically performs identity detection, mapping, and connection establishment without requiring manual user input. The system self-manages the complex processes of identifying occupants, mapping their identities to profiles, and establishing appropriate data connections, thereby enhancing user experience while hiding the underlying complexity from the user.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses strong identification signals (such as Bluetooth identifiers, WiFi connections, or satellite data) to rapidly and reliably identify occupants and establish their identities. This accelerated identification process enables quick personalized content delivery without manual intervention, improving user experience while managing complexity through automated recognition protocols.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple communication protocols (Bluetooth, WiFi, satellite) are supported for vehicle communication, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The infotainment system is designed with multi-functional communication capabilities that support multiple protocols (Bluetooth, WiFi, satellite) within a single integrated system. This universal approach allows the vehicle to adapt to different communication scenarios and occupant preferences while managing complexity through a unified communication framework rather than separate independent systems.
Data Source
AI summary
A system and method configured to establish a communication connection between a vehicle and a remote computing device for data transmission. A beacon device is configured at a location to detect the presence of the vehicle, transmit an identity of the location to the vehicle, and communicate with the vehicle to determine an identity of the vehicle. The vehicle is configured to communicate with mobile devices of occupants of the vehicle. The remote computing device is connected to the beacon device via a data communication network and configured to determine, via the beacon device communicating with the vehicle, identification information of at least one mobile device of at least one occupant of the vehicle, and establish the communication connection between the computing device and the vehicle based at least in part on the identification information and the identity of the vehicle.