Mixed Reality Enforcement Navigation System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current parking enforcement methods rely on static maps and lack real-time data integration, leading to inefficient enforcement and potential biases in citation issuance, particularly affecting underserved communities, with existing solutions failing to provide effective navigation and citation management tools for enforcement officers.
Innovation Solution
A mixed reality-based system that uses augmented reality to provide enforcement officers with real-time navigational cues, dynamically reroutes them based on current location and zone allocations, and integrates license plate scanning for compliance checks and citation issuance, while allowing managers to assign and modify zones.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If static HTML maps with optimized routes are used for parking enforcement, then enforcement personnel can access predicted infraction probabilities and regulatory information, but the system lacks real-time location tracking and real-time behavior incorporation, requiring officers to make manual inferences about enforcement priorities
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms static HTML maps into dynamic augmented reality overlays that update in real-time based on officer location and enforcement status of blocks. The system dynamically adjusts route recommendations as officers move through zones, incorporating real-time behavior such as already-enforced blocks and changing violation probabilities from sensors and public feedback.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the physical enforcement environment by projecting digital route recommendations, zone boundaries, and real-time enforcement status onto the officer's actual surroundings through augmented reality. This virtual overlay mirrors and enhances the physical world without requiring officers to switch between multiple devices or interpret complex static maps.
2Productivity
If fixed routes based on hourly probability predictions are provided, then officers receive guidance on where citations are most likely, but the routes do not update based on real-time location or real-time changes in violation probabilities, increasing the time needed to complete effective enforcement rounds
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements continuous feedback loops where sensor data, public complaints, and real-time enforcement actions update violation probabilities dynamically. The system processes this feedback in real-time and adjusts route recommendations accordingly, allowing officers to respond to changing conditions without manual intervention or time loss for recalibration.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent pre-calculates optimal routes based on historical data and predicted infraction probabilities, then layers real-time adjustments on top of this foundation. This allows the system to provide immediate route guidance while continuously adapting to current conditions, reducing the time officers spend making decisions about where to go next.
3Adaptability or versatility
If manual inference and assumption-making is required for enforcement decisions, then officers have flexibility in judgment, but this leads to inequitable enforcement including predatory enforcement in underserved neighborhoods and inconsistent canvassing, reducing fairness in citation issuance
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary intelligent system that processes objective data from sensors, historical records, and regulatory databases to generate evidence-based enforcement recommendations. This intermediary layer translates raw data into actionable route guidance, reducing reliance on individual officer assumptions while preserving flexibility through adjustable weighting parameters that can be configured for different zones and enforcement priorities.
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AI summary
A method and system for parking enforcement, can include graphically displaying in a graphical user interface, a mixed reality display of data including some augmented reality data including parking enforcement information and real-time navigational cues for a navigation that account for a current location of a parking enforcement officer and one or more zones allocated to the parking enforcement officer, capturing license plate information to determine compliance with curbside regulations, and integrating a payment data source and a citation issuance application to issue a citation based on the license plate information.