Role- and Location-Based Crew Push Notifications Without Added Hardware
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for providing local push notifications to wireless crew devices in mass transportation vehicles, such as aircraft, result in high battery drain and require additional hardware installations that necessitate government certifications, making them inefficient and cumbersome.
Innovation Solution
A connected cabin system utilizing wireless access points and a local push notification server that enables wireless crew devices to register for notifications based on role and location assignments within the vehicle, using existing wireless communication systems without additional hardware, thereby reducing battery drain and avoiding certification requirements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If additional hardware is installed to provide local push notifications, then notification functionality is achieved, but device complexity and certification requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The existing wireless access points in the mass transportation vehicle are made multi-functional by enabling them to serve both their original purpose (providing wireless connectivity) and a new purpose (distributing local push notifications). This eliminates the need for separate notification hardware while achieving reliable notification delivery to crew devices.
2Reliability
If traditional push notification methods are used, then notifications are delivered, but battery consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of continuous communication that drains battery, the system uses periodic action by leveraging the existing wireless network infrastructure to deliver notifications only when needed. The local push notification server efficiently manages notification delivery timing and triggers, reducing unnecessary battery consumption on crew devices while ensuring reliable notification delivery.
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AI summary
Provided herein are techniques to facilitate sending notifications to one or more wireless crew devices for travel crew members that may be assigned to provide passenger services for a duration of travel involving a mass transportation vehicle. In one instance, a method may include identifying, by a wireless device and based on the vehicle travel information, whether one or more local push notifications are to be received by the wireless device for a duration of travel involving a vehicle and registering with a notification server of the vehicle to receive the local push notifications in which the local push notifications that are to be received by the wireless device are based on a role of the travel crew member for the duration of travel and are based on location(s) of a cabin of the vehicle to which the travel crew member is assigned to perform passenger services.