Vehicle Association via External Device Sensors
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing technologies face challenges in determining whether a mobile device is located on a vehicle and identifying the type of vehicle, particularly public vehicles, and in filtering information from multiple devices to accurately assess their location and mobility status.
Innovation Solution
The solution involves connecting mobile devices to external devices and using sensors to gather information, which is then processed to determine associations with vehicles through databases and machine learning techniques, enabling the device to infer its location and perform specific actions based on vehicle type.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If mobile devices connect to multiple external devices and gather sensor information, then the ability to determine vehicle association improves, but the complexity of processing and filtering information increases
Solution Approach 1:
A server acts as an intermediary to receive sensor information from multiple mobile devices, process the data, and determine vehicle associations. This external intermediary handles the complex filtering and analysis tasks, reducing the processing burden on individual mobile devices while maintaining high determination accuracy through centralized data aggregation and analysis.
2Reliability
If sensor information from multiple mobile devices is collected and processed, then the reliability of vehicle location determination improves, but the time and computational resources required increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by continuously collecting and pre-processing sensor information from mobile devices even before a specific vehicle association determination is needed. This includes gathering data during normal device operation, pre-filtering information, and maintaining ready-to-use datasets, which reduces the time required for actual determination queries while maintaining high reliability through accumulated evidence.
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AI summary
Methods, apparatuses and products for associating external devices to vehicles and usage of said association. One method obtains information from one or more mobile devices that are connected to the external device. The information is used to determine that the external device is associated with a vehicle, whereby another mobile device is enabled to determine that it is being located on the vehicle based on the mobile device being connected to the external device. Another method obtains an indication that a mobile device is connected to an external device. A database is accessed to retrieve an associated of the external device with a vehicle, whereby it is deduced that the mobile device is located in or on the vehicle. In response to the deduction, a predetermined action may be performed.