Smart Communications Hub for Segregated Driverless Vehicle Sensor Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems lack a centralized solution to manage and govern sensor data from driverless vehicles, making it difficult to identify issues, enforce compliance, and provide real-time alerts, as all sensor data flows through the same infrastructure without separation.
Innovation Solution
A smart communications hub is introduced to segregate and process sensor data from driverless vehicles, enabling efficient management, firmware updates, and integration with various service providers, including insurance, law enforcement, and smart cities, using a centralized/virtualized 5G radio access network architecture with software-defined networking and network function virtualization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If all sensor data from driverless vehicles flows through the same infrastructure without separation, then the network infrastructure can handle high data volume, but it becomes difficult to identify issues, enforce compliance, and provide real-time alerts
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments sensor data from driverless vehicles into separate logical channels within the 5G network infrastructure. This segmentation allows different data streams to be managed independently, enabling specific policies, quality of service parameters, and monitoring mechanisms to be applied to each data type, thereby improving reliability for critical communications while maintaining overall network capacity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a smart communications hub as an intermediary device that receives, processes, and manages sensor data before forwarding it through the network. This hub acts as a mediator between the vehicles and the network infrastructure, enabling centralized control, compliance enforcement, and real-time alert generation without requiring changes to the underlying network architecture.
2Reliability
If a smart communications hub is introduced to segregate and process sensor data, then issue identification and compliance enforcement improve, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The smart communications hub is designed as a multi-functional device that performs data segregation, processing, compliance checking, alert generation, and firmware update management all within a single platform. This universal approach consolidates multiple functions into one device, improving compliance enforcement while minimizing the increase in system complexity compared to having separate dedicated systems for each function.
3Loss of time
If sensor data is segregated and processed through a centralized hub, then real-time alerts and compliance monitoring improve, but data processing requirements and infrastructure demands increase
Solution Approach 1:
The smart communications hub performs preliminary processing and filtering of sensor data before full analysis. Critical parameters are identified and prioritized in advance, allowing the system to generate real-time alerts for urgent matters while deferring less critical data processing. This preliminary action reduces the overall data processing burden while maintaining fast response times for safety-critical events.
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AI summary
A smart communications hub can enable management of driverless and/or autonomous vehicles. Separating current wireless data from driverless vehicle sensor data can allow for quicker resolutions involving driverless vehicles. The smart communications hub can communicate to other groups such as driverless vehicle providers, service providers, vehicle management, law enforcement, etc. The smart communications hub can also process requests from both mobile applications and micro-service applications.