Telematics System Occupant Profile Identification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Telematics systems lack the ability to provide detailed information about vehicle occupants during emergency situations, limiting the effectiveness of emergency responses as they rely solely on location notification and cannot identify or contact occupants effectively without operational onboard voice systems.
Innovation Solution
A system that communicates with mobile devices via Bluetooth or similar technologies to gather and transmit profile information, such as gender, age, and medical details, to a service provider in the event of a crash, enabling prioritized emergency contact and improved situational awareness for responders.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If telematics systems rely solely on location notification and onboard voice systems, then the system complexity remains low, but the effectiveness of emergency response deteriorates due to inability to identify or contact occupants
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces mobile devices as intermediaries between the telematics system and occupants. The mobile devices store profile information and serve as communication channels, allowing the system to identify and contact occupants without increasing the complexity of the core telematics system. The mobile device acts as a mediator that bridges the gap between the vehicle's limited capabilities and the need for effective occupant communication.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by collecting and storing profile information from mobile devices before emergency situations occur. During normal operation, the telematics system gathers occupant information including contact details, medical conditions, and preferences, and stores this data in advance. This preliminary data collection enables rapid emergency response without requiring complex real-time processing during critical moments.
2Loss of information
If the system collects and transmits detailed profile information from mobile devices, then the information available for emergency response improves, but the data processing and communication requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts profile information from mobile devices and stores it separately in the telematics system's database. By taking the information out of the mobile devices and centralizing it in the vehicle's telematics system, the patent reduces the processing burden during emergencies. The system only needs to retrieve pre-stored information rather than processing complex data in real-time during critical moments.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates copies of profile information from mobile devices and stores multiple instances in the telematics database. This copying approach allows the system to have redundant information available without requiring continuous communication with mobile devices during emergencies. The copied data can be accessed immediately without needing to query the original mobile devices, reducing communication overhead.
3Productivity
If the system attempts to contact multiple occupants in sequence, then the completeness of notification improves, but the response time deteriorates due to sequential calling
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by establishing a prioritized contact list during normal operation, storing the order of preference for notifying different occupants. This pre-established hierarchy allows the system to quickly determine who to contact first during emergencies without needing to make real-time decisions or attempt contacts sequentially, thus maintaining both completeness and speed of notification.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements dynamic contact selection by monitoring the status of each occupant's mobile device and adjusting the notification strategy in real-time. If a primary contact is unavailable, the system dynamically switches to alternative contacts based on the pre-established priority list, rather than following a rigid sequential approach. This dynamic adaptation ensures complete notification while minimizing response time by parallelizing contact attempts when possible.
Data Source
AI summary
A system and method for providing profile information for occupants of a vehicle to a service provider. The system may communicate with at least one mobile device to receive an identification from each mobile device. The system may store profile information of an occupant associated with each identification. The system may communicate with the service provider to transmit the profile information associated with the mobile devices if a crash condition is identified and communication with the mobile device occurred during a time period just prior to the crash condition.