Parking Area Monitoring via Selective Vehicle Sensor Activation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicle monitoring systems fail to effectively monitor parking areas with multiple vehicles, as they struggle to accurately detect external impacts and guide users to their parked vehicles, leading to potential security issues and compromised parking area safety.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus and method that utilizes a controller to acquire and respond to external inputs by activating vehicle-mounted sensors, such as cameras, in surrounding vehicles to monitor and detect impacts on target vehicles, enhancing the security and monitoring of parking areas.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If vehicle-mounted sensors are activated in all surrounding vehicles, then monitoring precision of the parking area is improved, but device complexity and energy consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by selectively activating sensors only in vehicles that are spatially close to the target vehicle. The controller determines the distance between the target vehicle and surrounding vehicles, and only activates sensors in vehicles within a predetermined distance threshold. This ensures high monitoring precision for the critical area around the target vehicle while avoiding the complexity and energy consumption of activating all sensors in the entire parking area.
2Reliability
If vehicle-mounted sensors are activated in surrounding vehicles, then reliability of impact detection is improved, but use of energy increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements periodic action by controlling the sensors to operate only when needed - specifically, when an impact is detected on the target vehicle or when a surrounding vehicle requests sensor activation. The controller receives impact detection information and selectively activates sensors in surrounding vehicles at these specific moments rather than maintaining continuous operation. This periodic activation maintains high reliability for impact detection while significantly reducing overall energy consumption compared to continuous sensor operation.
3Speed
If sensors are activated based on impact detection, then response speed to external impacts is improved, but measurement precision may be compromised due to delayed activation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-positioning sensors in all surrounding vehicles in a dormant state, and pre-establishing the spatial relationships and distance calculations. When an impact is detected on the target vehicle, the system can immediately activate the pre-positioned sensors in surrounding vehicles without delay for sensor deployment or positioning. This ensures both rapid response speed to impacts and high measurement precision, as the sensors are already in place and ready to capture impact information from multiple angles.
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AI summary
An information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller is configured to execute: acquiring a presence or an absence of a predetermined input from the outside to parked vehicles parked in a predetermined parking area in which a plurality of vehicles are parked, identifying a vehicle target vehicle for which the predetermined input is made among the parked vehicles, and issuing a command for activating a first vehicle sensor configured to detect a peripheral information of a first vehicle and provided to the first vehicle based on the predetermined input to target vehicle, the first vehicle being a vehicle parked around target vehicle in the predetermined parking area.