Metaverse Control Integration for Cross-Organization Railway Operations
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing technologies face challenges in achieving seamless integration and real-time information sharing between different railway companies' controlling devices, particularly in a metaverse environment, due to differing operation formations and specifications, which hinders effective interoperation of moving bodies like trains.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus and method that integrates metaverse controlling devices by acquiring design information, connecting them at a predetermined level, and managing objects within an integrated metaverse environment, allowing real-time information sharing and user-specific access control.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If physical integration of controlling devices is attempted, then information sharing capability is improved, but device complexity and integration difficulty increase due to different operation formations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtual copy (metaverse controlling device) of the physical controlling device. This virtual replica enables information sharing and integration without requiring physical integration of the actual controlling devices, thus avoiding the complexity of integrating different operation formations while maintaining full information sharing capabilities
Solution Approach 2:
The metaverse environment acts as an intermediary layer between different controlling devices. By mediating through this virtual space, the system enables information exchange and integration without direct physical connection, bypassing the complexity of integrating disparate physical systems
2Reliability
If complete physical integration is pursued, then real-time information sharing is achieved, but cost and implementation difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of physically integrating controlling devices, the patent creates virtual replicas in the metaverse environment. This copying approach achieves real-time information sharing functionality without the high costs and complexities of physical integration, making the solution more economically viable
3Adaptability or versatility
If information sharing is enabled between different organizations, then interoperation capability is improved, but information security and access control become more difficult to manage
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments access control by creating organization-specific virtual spaces within the metaverse environment. Each organization's controlling device operates in its own segmented virtual space, allowing interoperation capability while maintaining information security through controlled access boundaries between different organizational spaces
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AI summary
An information processing apparatus (1) for integrating controlling operations with use of a metaverse environment. The apparatus includes a processor (10), a memory (11) used by the processor (10), and a communication interface (12) used by the processor (10). Controlling devices for controlling running of moving bodies belonging to a plurality of organizations are metaverse controlling devices (2A, 2B) provided in the metaverse environment. The processor (10), by executing a predetermined computer program stored in the memory (11), acquires design information associated with the metaverse controlling devices (2A, 2B) via the communication interface (12), stores the acquired design information in the memory (11), constitutes an integrated metaverse by connecting the metaverse controlling devices (2A, 2B) in a predetermined level on the basis of the acquired design information associated with the respective metaverse controlling devices (2A, 2B), and arranges objects used by the metaverse controlling devices (2A, 2B) in the integrated metaverse.