Multifactor Vehicle Identification Using Adaptive Sensor Signatures

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current identification systems for vehicle resources and their owners during fuel supply lack adaptability to varying physical properties of devices, are vulnerable to fraud due to missing connections with registration systems, and can be manipulated by imitating sensor signals, leading to inefficiencies and losses.

Innovation Solution

An adaptive multifactorial combination identification method and system that uses information carriers and sensors to adapt to specific technologies, includes a storage unit for data on previous services, and a random generator to prevent fraud by intermittently shutting off fuel supply, ensuring accurate identification and preventing misuse even without continuous connection to registration systems.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If a simple identification system using information carriers is used, then the system is easy to operate, but it lacks reliability and can be manipulated by imitating sensor signals

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of operationVSAvoidreliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The identification system is segmented into multiple independent factors: information carriers (RFID tags, barcodes), sensor signals (acoustic, electromagnetic, vibration), and physical property data. Each factor operates independently and contributes to the overall identification decision, making the system both easy to operate (simple individual components) and reliable (multiple verification layers that prevent signal imitation fraud)

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Measurement precision

If the system adapts to varying physical properties of devices, then identification accuracy improves, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveidentification accuracyVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adapts to varying physical properties of devices by adjusting identification parameters and thresholds based on detected characteristics. The system can modify its operation mode, select different sensor types, and adjust verification criteria according to the specific device being identified, thereby maintaining high identification accuracy without requiring a completely complex fixed architecture for every possible device type

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Reliability

If continuous connection to registration systems is maintained, then fraud prevention improves, but operational costs and system complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefraud preventionVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-registering device profiles, identification patterns, and authorization data before actual operation. This preliminary setup enables the system to operate autonomously with fraud prevention capabilities without requiring continuous real-time connection to external registration systems, thereby reducing operational complexity and costs while maintaining security

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

4Reliability

If multiple information carriers and sensors are used, then identification reliability improves, but the system becomes more complex and expensive

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveidentification reliabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system employs universal multi-functional components that can serve multiple identification purposes. For example, a single sensor array can detect acoustic signals, electromagnetic signals, and vibrations depending on configuration. Information carriers are designed to work across different device types and identification scenarios. This multi-functionality increases identification reliability through multiple verification factors while controlling system complexity by using versatile rather than specialized components

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

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The system enhances reliability and security by ensuring only authorized vehicles receive services, preventing fraud and misuse, and operates effectively even without continuous connection to registration systems, thus reducing operational risks and costs.

Implementation Method 1

sensor for detecting acoustic/electromagnetic noises/vibrations

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectAcoustic detection: Acoustics

Implementation Method 2

sensor for detecting acoustic/electromagnetic noises/vibrations

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElectromagnetic detection: Electromagnetic Induction

Implementation Method 3

The information is readable with an electronic reading device by means of magnetic, electromagnetic, or other radiation

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectMagnetic reading: Magnetic Field

Implementation Method 4

The information is readable with an electronic reading device by means of magnetic, electromagnetic, or other radiation

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElectromagnetic radiation: Electromagnetic Induction

Data Source

PatentEP3505488B1Method and system for adaptive multifactor combined identification
Publication Date: 2023.12.06 VASYLIEV VIKTOR IVANOVICH
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AI summary

The invention relates to a method for adaptive multifactorial combination identification of owners and their technology at an operating point, in which operation only takes place if information carriers are present that identify the owner and the technology associated with him.When setting up the identification system for the purpose of adapting the system to a specific technology, information about the execution of this technology is stored in the form of values ​​of the acoustic/electromagnetic noises/vibrations of the signal and/or the characteristic of the supply/non-supply of fuel and lubricant into the container of the technology, wherein this information is stored in the adaptation unit of the sensor for detecting acoustic/electromagnetic noises/vibrations and/or the supply/non-supply of fuel and lubricant into the container of the technology, and wherein the said sensor transmits information that represents an additional or main factor in the identification of the technology and is attached to the technology.