Vehicle Contact Detection via Cloud Safety Ratings
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current vehicle security systems lack comprehensive features for real-time monitoring and remote access, especially in terms of safety ratings for parking locations and alerts, which are essential for enhancing user safety and security.
Innovation Solution
A system that integrates sensors and cameras in vehicles to detect contact and send notifications to users via a cloud-based service, providing safety grades for parking locations and allowing remote access to live feeds and security controls, including video recording and alerts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional key fob security systems are used, then basic remote lock/unlock functionality is provided, but comprehensive real-time monitoring and safety rating features are lacking
Solution Approach 1:
The security system is divided into multiple independent components: contact sensors distributed around the vehicle, separate camera modules, cloud-based safety rating database, and notification system. Each component performs a specific function, allowing the system to provide comprehensive security without requiring a single complex device
Solution Approach 2:
A cloud-based server acts as an intermediary between the vehicle sensors and the user's mobile device. The server receives sensor data, processes safety information, generates safety ratings for parking locations, and delivers notifications, thereby reducing the complexity burden on the vehicle itself while enabling advanced features
2Measurement precision
If multiple sensors and cameras are integrated in the vehicle, then real-time contact detection and monitoring capabilities are enhanced, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple contact sensors are strategically placed at different locations on the vehicle body (doors, hood, trunk, bumper) to detect contacts independently. This segmentation allows precise identification of which part of the vehicle was contacted without requiring a single complex sensor system
Solution Approach 2:
The same sensor network serves multiple functions: detecting contact events, determining vehicle location for safety ratings, and triggering appropriate notifications. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate specialized devices
3Loss of information
If safety ratings for parking locations are implemented, then user safety awareness is improved, but data processing requirements and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The cloud-based server serves as an intermediary that handles the complex task of collecting contact data from multiple vehicles, processing this information to generate safety ratings for different parking locations, and storing these ratings in a database. The vehicle itself only needs to report contact events, keeping its onboard processing requirements minimal
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically collects contact data from the sensor network, processes this information through algorithms that analyze contact frequency and patterns, generates safety ratings without user intervention, and makes this information available through the mobile application. The entire safety rating generation process operates autonomously
4Speed
If cloud-based notification system is implemented, then real-time safety alerts are provided to users, but network dependency and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The cloud-based server acts as a central communication hub that receives contact detection data from vehicles, processes this information, and delivers notifications to users' mobile devices. This intermediary approach enables real-time notification delivery while keeping the vehicle's onboard communication requirements relatively simple
Solution Approach 2:
The system establishes a feedback loop where contact sensors detect events, the cloud server processes this information, and notifications are sent back to users through mobile applications. This closed-loop feedback system ensures rapid notification delivery while maintaining manageable system complexity through clear separation of functions
Data Source
AI summary
Methods and systems are disclosed for a vehicle and for associated methods for handling contact detection of the vehicle. The vehicle includes a computer and a communications system. The communications system is configured to provide the computer of the vehicle with wireless communication with a cloud services system that includes a database that stores a user account that identifies the vehicles as registered with the cloud services system. The user account identifies settings for the vehicle and information for notifying a user of the vehicle. The vehicle includes a plurality of sensors associated to sides of the vehicle, such that contact with a specific side of the vehicle is identified using a sensor of the plurality of sensors. The vehicle further includes a plurality of cameras integrated in the vehicle to enable capturing of image data of an area around the vehicle. The computer is configured to receive data from the plurality of sensors of the vehicle to detect a contact with the vehicle and identify a side of the vehicle from which the contact was detected. The computer is configured to send data to the cloud services system which will then send the notification indicating that contact was detected with the vehicle. The cloud services system enables access to additional data and controls, including live feeds of the area around the vehicle.