User-Authenticated Work Assist Settings for Shared Machines
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing work assist systems do not adequately address the scenario where a user other than the owner operates a working machine, leading to insufficient convenience in setting and operating the machine.
Innovation Solution
A work assist system that includes an authenticator to verify the user, a memory to store user-specific data, and a setter to acquire and apply user-specific settings, ensuring that the correct settings are applied based on the authenticated user.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the management server transmits work setting information based on model number information of the tractor, then the owner's settings are automatically applied, but users other than the owner cannot have their settings applied
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments user identification from tractor identification by introducing user-specific authentication (fingerprint, face recognition, or mobile terminal authentication) separate from the tractor's model number. This allows the system to distinguish between different users operating the same tractor and apply appropriate settings for each user individually.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary authentication of the user before transmitting work setting information. The authenticator verifies user identity through fingerprint sensors, face recognition cameras, or mobile terminal communication, and only after successful authentication does the server transmit the appropriate user-specific settings. This ensures settings are pre-matched to the correct user before application.
2Reliability
If the system only authenticates the owner through model number information, then settings are secure for the owner, but operation convenience for other users is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service authentication for users through fingerprint sensors, face recognition cameras, or mobile terminal-based authentication. Users independently verify their identity without requiring owner intervention, and the system automatically retrieves and applies their pre-registered settings. This maintains security through authentication while providing convenience through automated user-specific configuration.
3Ease of operation
If multiple user settings are stored and transmitted, then convenience for different users is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The management server acts as an intermediary that handles the complexity of storing and managing multiple user settings. The server receives authentication information from the tractor's authenticator, identifies the appropriate user from its database, retrieves the corresponding settings, and transmits them to the working device. This centralizes the complexity in the server rather than requiring complex local storage and management at the tractor or working device.
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AI summary
A work assist system capable of improving convenience of operation of a working machine (1) is provided. The work assist system is a work assist system that assists in an operation for setting the working machine (1) and includes an authenticator (44) to authenticate a user who operates the working machine (1), a memory (47a) to store in advance associated data in which information regarding a user, a language of the user, and setting information regarding the working machine (1) set by the user are associated with one another, and a setter (55) to acquire, from the memory (47a), the language of the user and the setting information regarding the working machine (1) corresponding to information regarding the user authenticated by the authenticator (44) and set the language and the setting information.