Dynamic Patrol Route Modification for Safety Coverage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Safety patrol routes often fail to account for people in surrounding geographic areas outside of designated routes, leading to prolonged periods without officer presence and repetitive encounters with the same individuals.
Innovation Solution
A system that monitors individuals within geographic areas using electronic devices to track elapsed time since they were last near a safety officer, modifying patrol routes based on total elapsed time values to ensure adequate coverage and presence in underserved areas.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If safety officers patrol regularly designated routes at fixed times, then officer presence is guaranteed in specific geographic areas during certain times, but people in surrounding geographic areas outside designated routes experience prolonged periods without officer presence
Solution Approach 1:
The patrol route system transitions from static, pre-defined routes to dynamic, adaptive routes that are automatically modified in real-time based on monitored conditions. The electronic computing device continuously monitors geographic areas and adjusts patrol routes dynamically, allowing safety officers to respond to emerging situations and cover areas that need attention while maintaining reliability in designated zones.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements continuous feedback loops where the electronic computing device monitors geographic areas, tracks elapsed time since officer presence, and uses this information to automatically modify patrol routes. This feedback mechanism ensures that areas without recent officer presence are dynamically added to patrol routes, balancing reliable coverage of designated areas with adaptive response to surrounding areas.
2Ease of operation
If safety officers follow fixed patrol routes, then predictable scheduling is maintained, but repetitive patterns cause officers to regularly encounter the same people during specific times
Solution Approach 1:
The system makes patrol routes dynamic by automatically modifying them based on real-time monitoring of geographic areas and elapsed time data. This dynamic adjustment breaks repetitive patterns while maintaining operational simplicity through automated route modification, allowing officers to encounter diverse populations without complex manual scheduling.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes patrol route parameters dynamically based on monitored conditions. By adjusting route parameters automatically according to elapsed time values and geographic area monitoring data, the system maintains ease of operation while improving productivity through varied officer encounters and reduced repetition.
3Productivity
If patrol routes cover only designated areas, then resource allocation is optimized for specific locations, but geographic areas surrounding designated routes experience extended periods without safety officer coverage
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses continuous feedback from geographic area monitoring to automatically adjust patrol routes. The electronic computing device tracks elapsed time since officer presence in various areas and feeds this information back into route modification algorithms, ensuring that surrounding areas receive appropriate coverage while maintaining efficient resource allocation to high-priority designated zones.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies different patrol strategies to different geographic areas based on their specific needs. Designated areas maintain their scheduled coverage while surrounding areas receive dynamic attention based on monitored conditions, creating locally optimized coverage that improves overall reliability without sacrificing resource allocation efficiency.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods for modifying a patrol route of a safety officer include monitoring persons within geographic areas, identifying a safety officer, tracking an elapsed time value for each of the persons indicating a respective quantity of time since a person has been within a threshold proximity to the safety officer, determining a total elapsed time value for each of the geographic areas based on the respective elapsed time values for each of the persons currently located in the geographic area, determining that a patrol route of the safety officer should be modified based on the total elapsed time value for each of the geographic areas, modifying the patrol route of the safety officer, and transmitting the modified patrol route to the safety officer. The modified patrol route indicates that the safety officer is to patrol a given geographic area of the geographic areas.