Multi-Manager Road Inspection System Using Entity-Specific Diagnosis
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current road inspection systems often create inconsistent inspection routes that span multiple management entities, leading to incomplete inspections and unusable data due to differing evaluation criteria among road managers, resulting in inefficiencies and losses in road maintenance planning.
Innovation Solution
A road inspection system that creates routes encompassing roads managed by different entities, receives and diagnoses inspection data using entity-specific criteria, allowing for efficient data analysis and maintenance planning across multiple management entities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If inspection routes are created to include roads managed by multiple road managers, then inspection coverage is improved, but data usability deteriorates due to different evaluation criteria
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the inspection data processing by road manager, automatically identifying which road manager manages each road section and applying the corresponding evaluation criteria. This allows comprehensive multi-manager route inspection while maintaining data usability through criterion-specific analysis.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary processing layer that receives inspection data, identifies the relevant road manager for each section, selects the appropriate evaluation criteria, and produces diagnostic results. This intermediary layer resolves the conflict between multi-manager coverage and criterion consistency.
2Loss of energy
If inspection is performed along divided schedules for budget reasons, then cost is reduced, but inspection efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges multiple divided inspection schedules into unified inspection routes that cover roads from multiple managers. By combining inspection tasks that were previously performed separately, the system reduces total inspection time and improves efficiency while maintaining budget constraints.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables continuous inspection action by creating routes that allow vehicles to inspect multiple road sections in sequence without returning to base or changing evaluation criteria mid-route, thereby maintaining productive inspection flow.
3Stability of the object's composition
If inspection routes are created based on individual management entities, then evaluation criterion consistency is improved, but inspection coverage deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adapts evaluation criteria based on the road manager of each inspected section. Rather than using a single static criterion set, the system flexibly switches between different managers' criteria, enabling both comprehensive coverage and criterion consistency.
Data Source
AI summary
A road inspection system comprises: a means that creates a road inspection route including a first road managed by a first road manager and a second road managed by a second road manager which is different from the first road manager; a means that receives inspection data from a vehicle that has traveled along a road inspection route, in which the inspection data is obtained by measurement of pre-set items along the road inspection route; a means that diagnoses a first inspection data, that is included in the inspection data and measured on the first road, using first diagnosis criteria of the first road manager; and a means that diagnoses a second inspection data, that is included in the inspection data and measured on the second road, using second diagnosis criteria of the second road manager.