Vehicle Feedback System with Data Quality Validation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current vehicle management systems lack effective real-time feedback mechanisms for fleet vehicle drivers regarding vehicle health conditions and operational performance, often failing to provide accurate and timely alerts due to inadequate validation checks for location, channel, and operation data quality.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that utilize a processor with digital logic circuitry to receive vehicle data from engine computers and sensors, perform validation checks on location, channel, and operation data quality thresholds, and generate real-time feedback for drivers only when these thresholds are met, ensuring accurate and reliable alerts through GPS, cellular communication, and vehicle data analysis.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If real-time feedback is generated and transmitted to drivers, then driver awareness of vehicle conditions improves, but false or unreliable alerts increase when data quality is insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefeedback reliabilityVSAvoiddata quality
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary validation checks on location data quality, channel quality, and operation data quality thresholds before generating feedback. This preliminary action ensures that only high-quality data triggers alerts, preventing false positives while maintaining real-time driver awareness of genuine vehicle conditions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Measurement precision

If validation checks are performed on location, channel, and operation data quality, then feedback accuracy improves, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata quality validationVSAvoidvalidation check system
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The validation system is segmented into three independent check modules: location data quality validation, channel quality validation, and operation data quality validation. Each module independently validates its specific parameter type against predetermined thresholds, making the overall complex validation process manageable and maintainable through modular design.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Measurement precision

If feedback is transmitted only when data quality thresholds are met, then alert accuracy improves, but response time delays occur when thresholds are not met

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvealert accuracyVSAvoidfeedback transmission delay
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system continuously monitors data quality metrics (location accuracy, channel quality, operation data completeness) and dynamically adjusts feedback transmission based on whether thresholds are met. This feedback mechanism ensures that alerts are transmitted with high accuracy when conditions permit, while the continuous monitoring prepares for immediate transmission when quality improves, minimizing unnecessary delays.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS10204460B2System for performing driver and vehicle analysis and alerting
Publication Date: 2019.02.12 VERIZON PATENT & LICENSING INC
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AI summary

Systems and methods are disclosed for collecting vehicle data from a vehicle engine computer of a vehicle and a plurality of sensors disposed about the vehicle and generating feedbacks for a driver of the vehicle using at least the vehicle data. One or more validation checks may be performed before the feedbacks are provided to the driver.