Mobile Communication Nodes for Traffic Risk Areas

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current systems face challenges in efficiently reducing communication delays and enhancing traffic safety by effectively managing traffic risks and communication loads in areas with high vulnerability and congestion, particularly where rapid vehicle deceleration, collisions, or high communication loads occur.

Innovation Solution

A system comprising a server connected to mobile communication terminals and vehicles, which identifies areas of high traffic risk and communication load, and instructs automated mobile objects to re-route and provide communication services, thereby reducing communication delays and enhancing safety by moving communication resources to areas of need.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of time

If communication resources are concentrated in fixed base stations, then infrastructure cost is reduced, but communication delays increase in areas with high traffic risk or congestion

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication delayVSAvoidcommunication resource distribution complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies dynamics by transforming fixed base stations into mobile communication devices (automated vehicles) that can dynamically relocate to areas of high communication load or traffic risk. This mobility allows the system to adapt communication resource distribution in real-time, reducing communication delays in congested areas without requiring a complete overhaul of infrastructure

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The server acts as an intermediary that coordinates the movement and communication allocation of mobile communication devices. It receives communication load information, determines optimal destinations for mobile devices, and manages the overall distribution strategy, thereby simplifying the complexity of direct peer-to-peer coordination among mobile devices

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Productivity

If mobile communication devices are deployed to areas of high communication load, then communication delays are reduced, but the complexity of managing and coordinating these devices increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication service efficiencyVSAvoidsystem coordination complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback mechanisms where mobile communication devices report their status, location, and communication load information back to the server. The server uses this feedback to continuously optimize the deployment and routing of mobile devices, creating a closed-loop control system that improves communication service efficiency while managing coordination complexity through automated decision-making

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

Mobile communication devices are equipped with autonomous capabilities to provide communication services independently once deployed. They can autonomously establish connections, manage local communication protocols, and serve users in their designated areas without requiring constant centralized control, thereby reducing the overall system coordination complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Reliability

If automated mobile objects are instructed to re-route to provide communication services, then traffic safety is enhanced, but the control and coordination requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetraffic safetyVSAvoidcontrol simplicity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The automated mobile objects serve multiple functions simultaneously: they perform their primary transportation role while also providing mobile communication services and acting as safety monitoring nodes. This multi-functionality allows the system to enhance traffic safety through existing infrastructure without requiring separate dedicated safety devices, thereby maintaining operational simplicity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS20240080711A1System, method, and computer readable storage medium
Publication Date: 2024.03.07 HONDA MOTOR CO LTD
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AI summary

A system includes a first specifying unit which specifies, from among a plurality of areas, an area where a mobile communication terminal is present and a traffic risk is higher than a predetermined value, and an instruction unit which instructs, in order to cause a mobile object performing mobile communication with the mobile communication terminal to carry out the mobile communication of the mobile communication terminal, the mobile object to move to the area specified by the first specifying unit. A method includes specifying, from among a plurality of areas, an area where a mobile communication terminal is present and a traffic risk is higher than a predetermined value, and instructing, in order to cause a mobile object performing mobile communication with the mobile communication terminal to carry out the mobile communication of the mobile communication terminal, the mobile object to move to the area specified by the pacifying.