Remote Vehicle Monitoring Interface for Unified Fleet Communication
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems face challenges in coordinating communications between multiple vehicles and individuals in a fleet, leading to inefficiencies and cumbersome interactions.
Innovation Solution
A unified user interface that integrates vehicle monitoring, communication, and control functionalities, enabling remote operators to interact with vehicles and occupants through a single interface, providing real-time environmental representations, multi-modal communication, and component control.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate applications or devices are used to communicate with different vehicles and individuals, then communication coverage is comprehensive, but system complexity increases and ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple communication modalities (text messaging, voice calls, video calls) and vehicle control functionalities into a single unified interface. This allows operators to access all communication and control features through one application rather than switching between multiple separate applications or devices, directly resolving the contradiction by maintaining comprehensive communication coverage while significantly improving ease of operation
Solution Approach 2:
The user interface is designed as a universal platform that can communicate with any vehicle in the fleet and any individual (occupants, pedestrians, emergency services) through multiple communication modes. This multi-functional interface eliminates the need for separate specialized applications, achieving both comprehensive adaptability and operational simplicity
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate applications or devices are used to control vehicle components, then control functionality is comprehensive, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges vehicle monitoring, multi-modal communication, and component control functionalities into a single integrated user interface. Operators can control various vehicle components (lights, windows, locks, climate control) through the same interface used for communication, eliminating the need for separate control applications or devices and directly reducing device complexity while maintaining comprehensive control functionality
Solution Approach 2:
The interface serves as a universal control platform that can monitor vehicle status, communicate with multiple parties, and control various vehicle components all through one system. This multi-functional design consolidates what would otherwise require multiple separate applications or devices, resolving the contradiction between comprehensive control functionality and device complexity
3Adaptability or versatility
If separate communication sessions are initiated with different people, then communication with all parties is achieved, but loss of time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables operators to initiate and manage multiple communication sessions (text messages, voice calls, video calls) with different occupants, pedestrians, and emergency services simultaneously through a single unified interface. This eliminates the need to switch between separate applications for each communication type or recipient, maintaining full communication capability while significantly reducing the time lost to application switching and session coordination
Data Source
AI summary
Techniques for providing a user interface for remote vehicle monitoring and/or control include presenting a digital representation of an environment and a vehicle as it traverses the environment on a first portion of a display and presenting on a second portion of the display a communication interface that is configured to provide communication with multiple people. The communication interface may enable communications between a remote operator and any number of occupants of the vehicle, other operators (e.g., other remote operators or in-vehicle operators), and/or people in an environment around the vehicle. The user interface may additionally include controls to adjust components of the vehicle, and the controls may be presented on a third portion of the display. Furthermore, the user interface may include a vehicle status interface that provides information associated with a current state of the vehicle.