Parking Facility Management Server for Autonomous Vehicle Service Coordination
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current parking facility management systems lack the ability to efficiently and automatically coordinate vehicle-specific services within a parking facility, leading to unnecessary driver time loss and inefficiencies in service delivery.
Innovation Solution
A parking facility management server that receives user requests for vehicle-specific services via a communication network, checks service feasibility, and automatically plans and coordinates their execution, utilizing autonomous vehicle navigation to service installations within the facility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual service coordination is used in parking facilities, then drivers can receive vehicle services, but drivers experience unnecessary time loss and service delivery is inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables autonomous vehicles to self-navigate to service installations and receive services automatically without driver involvement. The vehicle independently communicates service needs, navigates to appropriate installations, and coordinates service execution, eliminating the need for manual driver coordination and reducing wait time.
Solution Approach 2:
The system checks service feasibility and availability before the vehicle arrives at the parking facility. Service installations are pre-coordinated and prepared in advance, ensuring that when the autonomous vehicle arrives, the service can be immediately executed without delays for manual coordination or availability checks.
2Productivity
If automatic service coordination is implemented, then service delivery efficiency improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
A central parking facility management server acts as an intermediary between autonomous vehicles and service installations. The server receives service requests from vehicles, checks feasibility against available installations, coordinates navigation routes, and manages service execution. This centralized mediation simplifies the overall system architecture compared to direct peer-to-peer coordination between vehicles and multiple service installations.
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AI summary
A parking facility management server for a parking facility, including a communication interface, which is designed to receive a request via a communication network from a user of the communication network to carry out at least one vehicle-specific service for a vehicle in the parking facility, and a processor, which is designed to process the request, in order to check whether or not the at least one service may be carried out in the parking facility for the vehicle in accordance with the request, the processor being further designed to ascertain a response as a function of the check. The communication interface further being designed to transmit the response via the communication network back to the user, the processor further being designed to plan and to coordinate the carrying out of the service in the event of a positive response that at least one service may be carried out.