Motorcycle Smart Dashboard Mobile Cloud Data Upload
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Solution Overview
Problem
Older motorcycle models without a built-in communication control unit (CCU) require an additional CCU for implementing data upload and control functions, increasing costs.
Innovation Solution
A method using a smart dashboard with a wireless connection module and a mobile device to gather and transmit control unit data to a cloud server, eliminating the need for an additional CCU by establishing communication between the dashboard and the mobile device, which then uploads the data to the cloud server.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If an additional CCU is installed in older motorcycle models to enable data upload and control functions, then the motorcycle can achieve remote control and data communication capabilities, but the manufacturing cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a mobile device as an intermediary component that bridges the motorcycle's existing control units and the cloud server. Instead of installing a dedicated CCU in the motorcycle, the system uses the mobile device (with its communication module) as the intermediary to handle all data upload and remote control operations, thereby avoiding the cost increase of adding a CCU to the motorcycle.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile device serves multiple functions: it acts as a communication module for data upload, a control interface for remote operations, and a data processing unit. This multi-functional approach eliminates the need for a dedicated CCU in the motorcycle, as the mobile device performs all necessary functions that would otherwise require a separate component.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a CCU with communication module is added to enable cloud data upload, then data communication functionality is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile device serves as an intermediary that handles all communication and cloud connectivity functions. By externalizing these functions to the mobile device, the motorcycle's internal system remains simpler without requiring a dedicated CCU, thus reducing overall system complexity while maintaining cloud data upload capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the communication and cloud connectivity functions from the motorcycle's internal system and places them in the mobile device. This extraction eliminates the need for a CCU in the motorcycle, reducing the number of components and simplifying the overall system architecture.
3Ease of manufacture
If wireless communication is implemented through a mobile device instead of a built-in CCU, then manufacturing cost is reduced, but the communication reliability may be affected
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile device acts as a reliable intermediary with its own dedicated communication module and processor. This intermediary approach ensures stable communication by utilizing the mobile device's robust communication capabilities, which are designed for reliable wireless connectivity, thereby maintaining communication reliability while reducing manufacturing cost.
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AI summary
A method for controlling a motorcycle using a smart dashboard and a mobile device, the smart dashboard including a wireless connection module, the mobile device including a first communication unit for connecting to the smart dashboard and a second communication unit for connecting to a cloud server, the method includes gathering, by the smart dashboard, information associated with control units of the motorcycle, and storing the information as a control unit dataset; establishing, by the first communication unit, a communication with the wireless connection module; transmitting, by the smart dashboard, the control unit dataset to the first communication unit; and transmitting, by the second communication unit, the control unit dataset to the cloud server.