Storage Management System with 3D Simulation for Remote Branch Selection
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Solution Overview
Problem
The expanding market for storage services, such as self-storage, incurs additional costs and inconveniences for users due to the need for physical visits to select and experience storage options, and managers face challenges in integrated management of multiple branches.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus and method that allows users to request and experience storage information, including 3D simulations, through a user device, and updates storage information in real-time, enabling remote selection and management of storage services across multiple branches.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If service providers expand their branches to meet increasing storage demand, then storage service coverage and capacity are improved, but operational costs and management complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple branch management functions into a single integrated management system. The system consolidates storage space management, reservation handling, and user interaction across multiple branches into one unified platform, allowing service providers to manage expanded networks without proportionally increasing operational complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements self-service capabilities where users can independently view storage options, check availability, make reservations, and receive automated notifications. This reduces the need for manual customer service intervention and administrative overhead as branches expand
2Reliability
If users visit physical branches to select and experience storage options, then users can directly assess storage suitability, but user time and travel costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates virtual copies of physical storage spaces through 3D modeling and augmented reality technology. Users can view accurate digital representations of storage units, including dimensions, layout, and capacity, allowing them to assess storage suitability remotely with the same confidence as physical visits would provide
3Ease of operation
If service providers manually respond to user inquiries and consultations, then user service quality can be maintained, but operational costs increase with branch expansion
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements automated feedback mechanisms including real-time notifications to users about reservation status, storage availability updates, and automated responses to common inquiries. This automated feedback loop maintains high service quality while eliminating the need for manual responses to routine user interactions
Data Source
AI summary
An apparatus may provide a controller, and a memory configured to store at least one instruction. The at least one instruction when executed by the controller, may cause the apparatus to receive, from a user device, a request for storage information, the request including at least one of storage company information, branch information, or space information for each branch; transmit, to the user device and based on the request, the storage information, receive, from the user device, an experience request for at least a storage of a plurality of storages associated with the storage information, and transmit, to the user device and based on the experience request, experience information for the storage, wherein the experience information may include a three dimensional simulation result associated with the storage.