Vehicle Interior Cleanliness Detection via Sensor Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
In vehicle-sharing services, there is a lack of effective detection and management of interior cleanliness, leading to dissatisfaction due to unclean vehicles being handed over to subsequent users.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle management system equipped with a detector, including cameras and olfactory sensors, that detects contaminants and lost articles, generates guidance information, and transmits it to users or external servers to inform and prompt cleaning actions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a vehicle-sharing service is implemented to improve utilization efficiency and cost savings, then productivity is improved, but the cleanliness management of the interior deteriorates due to lack of ownership sense among multiple users
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where detection results from cameras and olfactory sensors are transmitted to a server, which then sends notifications to users about contaminants or lost articles found in the vehicle interior. This closed-loop feedback system enables the vehicle-sharing service to monitor and manage interior cleanliness effectively despite multiple users having little ownership sense, thus resolving the contradiction between improved productivity and deteriorated reliability.
2Device complexity
If conventional vehicle-sharing services are used without detection functions, then device complexity is reduced, but the ability to detect and manage interior cleanliness deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual inspection methods with automated detection systems comprising cameras and olfactory sensors. These devices automatically capture images and detect odors in the vehicle interior, transmitting data to a server for analysis. This substitution of mechanical/manual processes with automated sensing systems significantly improves measurement precision of interior cleanliness while maintaining acceptable device complexity through modular integration.
3Measurement precision
If detection devices including cameras and sensors are installed to improve cleanliness detection, then measurement precision is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs detection devices that perform multiple functions: cameras capture images for visual inspection of contaminants and lost articles, while olfactory sensors detect odors indicating food spills or other contaminants. The server integrates data from both sensor types, enabling a single detection system to accomplish comprehensive interior cleanliness assessment, thus improving measurement precision without proportionally increasing device complexity.
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AI summary
A method of managing cleanliness of an interior of a vehicle includes: detecting an indoor state using a detector including at least a camera; generating at least one of first guidance information on a lost article or second guidance information on a contaminant upon detecting at least one of the lost article or the contaminant as a result of the detecting the indoor state; and transmitting the at least one guidance information to the outside.