NFT Data Management System for Eco-Driving Verification

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current driving practices often fail to adequately consider environmental and safety factors, lacking effective incentives for drivers to adopt sustainable and safe driving habits.

Innovation Solution

A data management system utilizing non-fungible tokens (NFTs) is implemented, where drivers can earn NFT badges by meeting predefined eco- and safety conditions, such as reduced fuel consumption, lower emissions, and safe driving practices, which are registered and verified through a blockchain network, providing a digital record and incentive for improved driving habits.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional driving practices are used, then driving operations can be performed without additional constraints, but environmental and safety conditions are not adequately considered

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedriving safety and environmental complianceVSAvoiddriving operation flexibility
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback by continuously monitoring driving data (fuel consumption, emissions, driving behavior) and providing real-time feedback to drivers through the NFT badge system. Drivers receive recognition and rewards when their driving behavior meets predefined environmental and safety criteria, creating a closed-loop system that encourages sustainable driving habits.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the parameters of driving evaluation by introducing measurable criteria such as fuel consumption levels, emission quantities, and safety metrics. These parameters are converted into NFT badges that recognize and reward drivers for meeting specific environmental and safety thresholds, transforming qualitative driving goals into quantifiable targets.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Productivity

If NFT badges are introduced to incentivize safe and environmental driving, then driver motivation improves, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedriver motivation and sustainable driving adoptionVSAvoidsystem structure and implementation
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses digital copies of driving data and achievements in the form of NFTs. Instead of requiring complex physical verification systems, the patent creates digital twins of driving performance that can be stored, transmitted, and verified on the blockchain. This copying approach simplifies the system by replacing complex physical monitoring with digital data representation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The NFT badge system acts as an intermediary between driving behavior and environmental/safety goals. The blockchain serves as a mediator that verifies driving data, issues recognition, and maintains a transparent record without requiring direct complex interactions between all system components. This intermediary layer simplifies the overall system architecture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Measurement precision

If driving data is collected and verified through blockchain, then data reliability and transparency improve, but data processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedriving data accuracy and verificationVSAvoiddata processing and blockchain integration
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-defining the criteria for NFT badge issuance and pre-establishing the blockchain infrastructure for data verification. This preparation allows for streamlined data processing during actual driving operations, as the verification framework is already in place and does not require complex real-time decision-making.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20240221102A1Data management system, data management method, and server
Publication Date: 2024.07.04 TOYOTA JIDOSHA KK
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AI summary

A data management system includes a marketplace that manages a digital asset as a non-fungible token (NFT), and a driver terminal used by a driver of a vehicle to acquire the NFT. The marketplace registers a plurality of target conditions in association with the NFT, the plurality of target conditions being conditions concerning at least one of environment and safety that are desired to be achieved during driving. The marketplace obtains data for determining whether driving of the vehicle by the driver has achieved a selected target condition, from the vehicle, the driver terminal, or a data center. When the driving of the vehicle by the driver has achieved the selected target condition, the marketplace gives the NFT associated with the achieved target condition to the driver terminal.