Vehicle Data Collection Guidance Using Ideal Travel Positions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing data collection systems face challenges in efficiently gathering diverse types of data during vehicle travel, as they often rely on passive participation from vehicle owners, leading to inefficiencies in data acquisition.
Innovation Solution
A data collection system comprising an information processing device and a management server that sets an ideal travel position and provides guidance information to vehicles, encouraging active data collection by presenting rewards to drivers, thereby enhancing data collection efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If passive data collection from vehicle owners is used, then device complexity is reduced, but data collection efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a management server as an intermediary between data requesters and vehicle owners. The server coordinates data collection requests, manages reward distributions, and processes travel data, thereby enabling efficient data collection without requiring complex direct interactions between multiple parties. This mediator approach resolves the contradiction by centralizing coordination functions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a feedback mechanism where vehicle owners receive rewards (information presentation) in exchange for providing travel data. This feedback loop motivates active participation and improves data collection efficiency. The management server monitors data collection progress and adjusts reward distributions, creating a self-reinforcing system that enhances productivity without proportionally increasing complexity.
2Productivity
If vehicle owners are actively guided to collect data, then data collection efficiency is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The management server pre-calculates ideal travel positions and routes based on data collection requirements before the vehicle journey begins. By preparing guidance information in advance, the system enables efficient data collection without requiring complex real-time decisions from the driver. The pre-planned routes are simply followed, maintaining ease of operation while achieving productivity goals.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides self-service guidance to drivers through in-vehicle displays, showing ideal travel positions and routes automatically calculated by the management server. Drivers simply follow the displayed guidance without needing to understand the underlying data collection requirements or perform complex operations. This self-service approach maintains operational simplicity while achieving efficient data collection.
3Measurement precision
If ideal travel positions are set based on data collection requests, then data quality is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The management server divides the data collection process into distinct functional modules: request reception, ideal position calculation, guidance information generation, and reward management. This segmentation allows each module to handle specific tasks independently, improving data quality through specialized processing while managing overall system complexity through modular architecture. Each segment can be developed and maintained separately.
Data Source
AI summary
An information processing device to be used in a data collection system configured to collect data to be acquired during traveling of a vehicle includes a travel position setting unit, a guidance information output unit, and a data acquisition unit. The travel position setting unit is configured to set an ideal travel position for the vehicle on the basis of information of a request of a requester for collecting the data. The guidance information output unit is configured to output guidance information used to guide the vehicle on the basis of information of the ideal travel position. The data acquisition unit is configured to acquire collection data serving as the data to be collected during a period of time within which the vehicle travels in accordance with the ideal travel position.