Vehicle Event Notification Routing for Exited Occupant Safety
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current vehicle systems lack effective methods to monitor and respond to occupant location changes and vehicle events, particularly in ensuring occupant safety and vehicle security, especially when occupants exit the vehicle or remain unattended.
Innovation Solution
A system that determines occupant location changes and event seriousness levels, sending notifications to associated devices and servers to ensure occupant safety and vehicle security, utilizing sensors and communication networks for real-time monitoring and response.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the vehicle sends notifications to multiple external sources (occupant's device and entity server) to ensure safety, then the reliability of safety monitoring is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The notification system is segmented into multiple independent notification channels: one targeting the occupant's personal device and another targeting the entity server. This segmentation allows the system to maintain high reliability through redundant communication paths while managing complexity by treating each notification channel as a separate, modular component with standardized interfaces.
Solution Approach 2:
The vehicle's notification system acts as an intermediary that coordinates communications between multiple external sources (occupant's device and entity server). This intermediary role enables the vehicle to manage safety monitoring reliably by routing notifications through appropriate channels while abstracting the complexity of multi-source communication behind a unified notification interface.
2Loss of time
If the vehicle determines occupant location changes and sends timely notifications, then the response time to safety events is reduced, but the measurement precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by continuously monitoring occupant presence and location before safety events occur. Sensors track occupant status in advance, and the system prepares notification templates and communication channels beforehand, enabling rapid response when an event is detected without requiring complex real-time analysis at the moment of occurrence.
Solution Approach 2:
The notification system incorporates feedback mechanisms where the vehicle receives status information from sensors about occupant location and sends notifications based on detected changes. This feedback loop enables timely safety responses by continuously monitoring occupant status and automatically triggering notifications when location changes or safety events are detected, reducing the need for high-precision real-time measurement.
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AI summary
An example operation includes determining, by a vehicle, that a first occupant has exited the vehicle at a first location and has relocated to a second location; detecting, by the vehicle, a level of seriousness of an event related to the vehicle; sending a first notification of the event, by the vehicle, to a device associated with the first occupant, based on the first location and the level of seriousness; and, responsive to the device not responding to the first notification, sending a second notification to a server associated with an entity at the second location.