Movable Wireless Access Points for Fleet Facility Coverage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current fleet management systems face challenges in efficiently managing communications and interfacing between users and connected vehicles, particularly in providing mobile security and wireless access point devices that can be easily moved and installed within rental or fleet facilities, which are often located in leased spaces and require costly permanent installations.
Innovation Solution
A system utilizing motorized trolleys on support wires to move wireless access point devices and security cameras, allowing for optimal wireless coverage and security monitoring, along with a laser-driven display projector for remote information projection, enabling flexible and cost-effective installation and operation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If permanent installations are used for wireless access points and security cameras in fleet facilities, then reliable wireless coverage and security monitoring are achieved, but installation and maintenance costs increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the dynamics principle by making wireless access points and security cameras movable rather than fixed. Devices are mounted on motorized carts that can be relocated along tracks or rails within the facility, allowing the system to adapt to changing coverage needs while reducing permanent installation requirements and associated costs.
Solution Approach 2:
The system divides the facility into multiple zones with dedicated wireless access points and security cameras for each zone. Each device operates independently on its own motorized cart, allowing selective deployment and maintenance of individual units without affecting the entire system, thereby reducing overall installation and maintenance complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If motorized carts are used to move wireless access points and security cameras, then installation flexibility and cost-effectiveness are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces motorized carts as intermediary carriers between the wireless access points/security cameras and the facility infrastructure. These carts provide the movement capability while keeping the actual communication and security devices simple and unchanged, thus adding flexibility without significantly increasing the complexity of the core functional devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The system replaces manual installation and repositioning mechanisms with automated motorized carts that move along predefined tracks or rails. This substitution eliminates the need for complex manual mounting structures while providing automated, precise positioning capability with minimal human intervention.
3Reliability
If multiple wireless access points are deployed throughout the facility, then wireless coverage is improved, but system complexity and maintenance requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The motorized carts serve multiple functions: they transport wireless access points, security cameras, and potentially other monitoring or communication devices. This multi-functionality allows a single cart system to manage multiple devices across different locations, reducing overall system complexity compared to having separate fixed installations for each device type.
Data Source
AI summary
A system and related methods for management of communications and interfacing between a user and a connected fleet of vehicles, including a system for providing mobile security devices and/or mobile wireless access point devices at a fleet facility. The system provides easy and rapid movement of wire access point devices/antennae, security cameras, or both, within a rental or fleet facility. One or more support wires extend between connection points within the facility. The connection points may be fixed or moving (i.e., the connection point itself may be on a track or similar device, and thus be movable from point to point along the track). Trolleys supporting one or more security cameras, wireless access point devices, or similar devices, move along the support to desired locations.