Keypad-Enabled GPS Pin Dropping for Survey Efficiency
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for surveying geographic areas for rodents and pests are labor-intensive and inefficient, requiring manual pin dropping and naming on a mobile device during vehicle surveys.
Innovation Solution
A mobile app and specialized keypad system that allows for quick and precise GPS pin dropping by correlating coded input buttons with specific physical items, enabling efficient mapping of geographic locations, with options for color-coded, letter-coded, number-coded, or geometric shape-coded buttons, and the ability to mount the keypad on a vehicle.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual pin dropping and naming is performed during vehicle surveys, then geographic locations can be marked, but the process is labor-intensive and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the keypad device with a mobile application that automatically receives GPS coordinates and drops pins without manual intervention. The system merges the physical keypad input with automated digital processing, eliminating the need for separate manual pin dropping and naming steps while maintaining operational simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical pin dropping operations with an automated electronic system. The mobile application automatically handles pin creation, positioning, and naming based on GPS data and keypad input, substituting manual mechanical actions with automated digital processes that improve efficiency.
2Measurement precision
If multiple physical items need to be identified and mapped, then comprehensive survey data can be collected, but the time required increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses coded buttons as representations or copies of physical items. Instead of physically marking each item, the system uses coded buttons that correspond to specific items, allowing rapid digital recording of location data without time-consuming physical identification and marking processes.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-establishes a code library where physical items are assigned specific codes before the survey begins. This preliminary coding allows surveyors to quickly select and record item locations using pre-defined codes rather than performing identification and documentation in real-time, significantly reducing survey time while maintaining accuracy.
Data Source
AI summary
A specialized keypad and associated mobile application in communication therewith that allows for pre-installed markers that are color-coded to be used to drop GPS pins on a map to identify the presence of those pre-installed markers on a geographical map. The specialized keypad can be attached to a pair of handle bars or on a steering of a vehicle, said vehicle then going into specific geographic locations for the markers identified by the pre-installed markers, such that specific items that correspond to the color coded markers, such that when the colored pin is dropped on the map created by the app, there is no need to take the extra time to identify what the GPS pins are identifying, since the pre-installed application has already color-coded the items to the pins on both the interface with the application on the mobile device as well as the keypad associated therewith.