Server-Based POI Data Sharing for Delivery Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Delivery personnel face challenges navigating complex and hazardous on-site route layouts at brick-and-mortar locations, such as stores and warehouses, due to lack of guidance, leading to frustration, lost time, and potential accidents.
Innovation Solution
A server device allows subscribers to create, store, and share Point of Interest (POI) data, including on-site arrival and departure instructions, which can be accessed by other subscribers using navigation devices, reducing the need for human guidance and enabling optimal route selection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If delivery personnel navigate complex on-site routes without pre-stored POI data, then memory resources of navigation devices are conserved, but delivery personnel face challenges navigating complex and hazardous on-site route layouts leading to lost time and potential accidents
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-generates and stores optimized on-site route instructions (arrival and departure) on a server before delivery personnel need them. This allows delivery personnel to access pre-computed routes without storing comprehensive POI data locally, resolving the contradiction between conserving device memory and providing timely navigation guidance.
Solution Approach 2:
A server acts as an intermediary between the navigation device and POI data. Instead of storing POI data locally in the navigation device, the server stores and manages the data, delivering only necessary route instructions to the device. This eliminates the need for large local storage while ensuring timely access to navigation information.
2Device complexity
If delivery personnel navigate complex on-site routes without guidance, then device complexity is reduced, but delivery personnel face challenges leading to frustration and potential accidents
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and separates critical navigation information (on-site arrival and departure instructions) from the complex POI data structure. By isolating only the essential directional guidance needed for safe navigation, the system reduces device complexity while maintaining navigation safety through targeted information delivery.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameter of data delivery from comprehensive POI data to specific, optimized route instructions. This parameter change reduces the information volume and complexity processed by the navigation device while ensuring reliability by providing precisely the guidance needed for safe on-site navigation.
3Adaptability or versatility
If delivery personnel search for optimal routes without pre-stored data, then adaptability is improved, but productivity decreases due to lost time and frustration
Solution Approach 1:
The server pre-computes optimized routes considering various factors (restricted areas, hazards, optimal paths) before delivery personnel arrive. This preliminary action enables delivery personnel to quickly access pre-optimized routes, maintaining productivity while preserving adaptability through server-side route recalculation capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables delivery personnel to independently access and follow optimized route instructions without requiring human guidance from dispatchers. This self-service capability improves productivity by eliminating wait times for dispatcher instructions while maintaining adaptability through the ability to access updated routes as needed.
Data Source
AI summary
A server device can receive, from a first device related to a first subscriber of a navigation service, data relating to a point of interest (POI), and an indication to share the data. The data can include on-site information associated with the POI. The on-site information can include one or more instructions regarding arrival at or departure from the POI. The device can store the data to permit the data to be accessible to other subscribers of the navigation service. The device can receive a location search request from a second device related to a second subscriber of the navigation service. The second subscriber can be different than the first subscriber. The device can determine that the location search request corresponds to the POI. The device can perform one or more actions to cause the data relating to the POI to be provided to the second device.