Vehicle Part Degradation Estimation From Movement and Use History
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems face challenges in efficiently mediating transactions for used vehicle parts, as buyers struggle to accurately assess the condition and value of parts before purchase, leading to difficulties in finding suitable parts at desired prices and times.
Innovation Solution
The transaction mediation system utilizes movement history and use history data to estimate the degradation degree of vehicle parts, predict their saleable prices, and facilitate the extraction of parts matching specific conditions, thereby streamlining the transaction process.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If buyers manually assess part condition without systematic data analysis, then assessment time is reduced, but measurement precision and reliability of degradation assessment deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary data collection and degradation assessment before the transaction occurs. Movement history and use history data are gathered in advance, and the degradation degree is calculated beforehand using the predetermined formula, so that buyers receive ready-made assessment results without needing to conduct time-consuming manual inspections.
Solution Approach 2:
The transaction mediation system acts as an intermediary between buyers and sellers, providing objective degradation assessments based on factual data from movement history and use history. This intermediary function eliminates the need for buyers to manually assess parts, as the system provides reliable assessment results automatically.
2Measurement precision
If comprehensive movement history and use history data are collected and analyzed, then degradation assessment accuracy improves, but device complexity and data processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses data that is already generated and stored by the vehicles' own systems (movement history from navigation systems, use history from control units). This self-service approach allows the system to collect comprehensive data without requiring additional sensors or complex data gathering mechanisms, thereby maintaining system simplicity while achieving accurate assessments.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transforms raw historical data (movement records, usage logs) into meaningful degradation parameters through standardized calculations. By changing the form of data from raw logs to structured degradation degrees using predetermined formulas, the system simplifies the complexity of analyzing comprehensive historical data while maintaining assessment accuracy.
3Productivity
If the system provides detailed degradation assessments and price predictions, then buyer confidence and transaction effectiveness improve, but information processing requirements and computational load increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system calculates degradation degrees for all parts using standardized formulas, which may be more computation than strictly necessary for each individual part. However, this excessive calculation ensures that buyers receive comprehensive assessment information for all parts, increasing transaction effectiveness and buyer confidence without requiring complex selective analysis.
Data Source
AI summary
An information processing apparatus includes a history obtaining unit configured to obtain at least one of movement history information indicating a movement history of each of one or more movable objects and use history information indicating a use history of each of one or more parts installed in any of the one or more movable objects, and a degradation estimation unit configured to estimate a degradation degree of each of the one or more parts based on at least one of the movement history indicated by the movement history information obtained by the history obtaining unit and the use history indicated by the use history information obtained by the history obtaining unit.