Monitoring Installation Collaboration Interface for Task Distribution
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Solution Overview
Problem
In large monitoring systems, managing complex monitoring tasks across multiple areas becomes inefficient due to independent operation of monitoring personnel, leading to potential overloading and duplicate efforts, as existing systems lack effective communication and task distribution mechanisms.
Innovation Solution
A monitoring installation with a collaboration device that assigns unique user IDs to monitoring personnel, allowing for real-time communication and task distribution by displaying user information and collaboration data on a shared graphical user interface, enabling users to visualize and manage tasks more efficiently across the monitoring area.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If multiple monitoring personnel operate independently in large monitoring systems, then the system can cover large monitoring areas, but task management becomes inefficient and personnel may be overloaded or duplicate efforts
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the independent operations of multiple monitoring personnel into a coordinated system by displaying collaboration data (user IDs, status information, location) on the same graphical user interface. This allows monitoring personnel to see what others are doing and coordinate their efforts, eliminating duplicate monitoring and optimizing task distribution across the large monitoring area.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides real-time feedback to monitoring personnel by displaying collaboration data that shows which areas are already being monitored and by whom. This feedback mechanism enables personnel to adjust their monitoring tasks dynamically, avoiding redundant efforts and ensuring efficient coverage of the entire monitoring area.
2Device complexity
If monitoring personnel work independently without communication mechanisms, then the system structure remains simple, but task distribution and coordination become problematic
Solution Approach 1:
The graphical user interface serves multiple functions: it displays the monitoring area model, shows collaboration data from multiple personnel, provides user identification, and enables task coordination. By making the interface multi-functional, the system achieves effective coordination without adding separate complex communication systems.
3Productivity
If the system displays detailed collaboration data for all users, then task distribution becomes more effective, but the interface complexity and information overload increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system displays collaboration data selectively based on relevance to each monitoring personnel's assigned area and current tasks. Rather than showing all user information uniformly, the interface adapts to display only the most pertinent collaboration data for each user's context, maintaining effectiveness while reducing information overload.
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AI summary
In spacious areas or building complexes, it is customary to use monitoring systems that comprise monitoring cameras and other monitoring sensors that record monitoring data and forward said monitoring data to a monitoring control centre or the like for the purpose of evaluation. Depending on the size of the monitored area, the complexity of the monitoring system can increase to a great extent. Upwards of a certain size of monitoring area, it is necessary for several monitoring persons also to be employed in parallel in order to inspect the monitoring data. A monitoring installation 1 for a monitoring area B having a plurality of monitoring stations 3a, b, c, d for users 6a, b, c, d of the monitoring installation 1, wherein the monitoring installation 1 is designed to assign a respective user ID ID_6a, ID_6b, ID_6c, ID_6d to the users 6a, b, c, d of the monitoring installation 1, wherein the monitoring stations 3a, b, c, d each have a display device 8a, b, c, d, wherein the monitoring stations 3a, b, c, d are designed to present a user interface 9a, b, c for the monitoring installation 1 having a model 10 of the monitoring area 10 on the display device 8a, b, c, d, and having a collaboration device 12, wherein the collaboration device 12 is designed to show a first of the user IDs ID_6a from a first monitoring station 3a together with an associated piece of user information as collaboration data with the model 10 on the user interface 9a, b, c of at least one second monitoring station 3b, c, is proposed.