Cloud-Mediated Vehicle Alerts for Nearby Connected Objects
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems lack efficient methods for enabling communication between connected vehicles and other connected objects, such as traffic lights, in real-time, which can lead to delayed notifications and potential safety hazards.
Innovation Solution
A cloud-based system that processes geo-location data from vehicles and determines their heading direction to select relevant connected objects within their area of influence. This system receives state data from connected objects, processes it, and sends control data to the vehicle to trigger notifications or alerts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a cloud-based system processes geo-location data and state data from connected objects to send real-time notifications to vehicles, then communication efficiency and safety are improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
A cloud-based server acts as an intermediary between connected objects (traffic lights, sensors) and vehicles. The server receives geo-location data from vehicles and state data from connected objects, processes this information, and sends notifications to vehicles. This intermediary approach enables real-time communication without requiring direct complex connections between vehicles and numerous connected objects, thus improving communication reliability while managing system complexity.
2Loss of information
If the system selects connected objects based on geo-location and heading direction to send targeted notifications, then notification relevance is improved, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-calculates the area of influence based on the vehicle's geo-location and heading direction before processing state data from connected objects. By establishing the spatial boundary in advance, the system can efficiently filter and select only those connected objects within the area of influence, reducing processing time while maintaining high information relevance in notifications.
3Reliability
If the system monitors state data from multiple connected objects continuously, then safety awareness is improved, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by monitoring state data from connected objects only within the vehicle's specific area of influence, rather than continuously monitoring all connected objects globally. The area of influence is determined by the vehicle's geo-location and heading direction, allowing the system to focus computational and communication resources on locally relevant objects, thereby maintaining high safety awareness while reducing overall energy consumption.
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AI summary
A system of a vehicle for processing communication with connected objects is provided. The processing by the system uses a processor of the vehicle and processing and data from one or more servers of a cloud system. The connected objects include objects having communication capabilities that are either fixed at specific locations as infrastructure proximate to where the vehicle is located or locations proximate to where the vehicle is moving. The system includes a global positioning system of the vehicle for generating geo-location for the vehicle and a heading direction. The geo-location is shared with a server of the cloud system using a communications device of the vehicle. The server of the cloud system is configured to receive the geo-location of the vehicle to identify the heading direction of the vehicle. The communications device of the vehicle is configured receive state data from at least one of said connected objects.