Vehicle State Notification Control for Location-Based Alert Suppression
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Solution Overview
Problem
Connected car services generate excessive and unnecessary notifications, leading to customer fatigue and inconvenience, particularly in areas like vehicle repair shops and parking towers, without considering the user's location or driving patterns.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus and system that control vehicle state notification services by using sensors to determine the vehicle's location and driving patterns, automatically switching off notifications when the vehicle is in areas where they are unnecessary, such as repair shops or parking towers, and providing accumulated notifications at appropriate times based on user conditions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If notification services are continuously provided to users, then users receive complete information about vehicle states, but users experience fatigue and inconvenience due to excessive notifications
Solution Approach 1:
The notification service dynamically adjusts its operation state based on vehicle location and driving patterns. The controller switches the notification service between on and off states according to whether the vehicle is in areas where notifications are necessary or unnecessary, making the system adaptive rather than static
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies different notification policies to different spatial locations. Notifications are provided in areas where they are necessary (e.g., during normal driving) but suppressed in areas where they are unnecessary (e.g., repair shops, parking towers), creating location-specific service quality
2Loss of information
If notifications are provided in all areas, then users receive comprehensive vehicle state information, but unnecessary notifications are generated in areas like repair shops and parking towers
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-stores information about areas where notifications are unnecessary (such as repair shops and parking towers) in advance. Before the vehicle enters these areas, the controller has already prepared to switch off the notification service, preventing unnecessary notifications from being generated
Solution Approach 2:
The system converts the potential harm of unnecessary notifications into a benefit by using location information to intelligently suppress notifications. The same notification infrastructure that could cause harm is transformed into a beneficial system that automatically adapts to contextual needs
3Object-generated harmful factors
If the notification service is switched off in certain areas, then unnecessary notifications are prevented, but users may miss important notification information when the service is switched off
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides feedback to the user when the notification service is switched off due to location-based control. The controller notifies the user that the service is temporarily suspended because the vehicle is in an area where notifications are unnecessary, and can restore the service when the vehicle leaves such areas
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AI summary
An apparatus for switching on and off a service for informing a user of a vehicle state through a communication terminal, a system including the same, and a method thereof are disclosed. The apparatus, system, and method can acquire a location of a vehicle, to which a notification service on a state of the vehicle is provided through a communication terminal of a user, and control on/off of the notification service, based on at least one of information on the location of the vehicle, an area, in which the notification service is unnecessary, or information on driving patterns of the user. Usability may be improved by classifying an area, in which a notification is unnecessary, according to attributes of notification information on the state of the vehicle to prevent generation of an unnecessary notification in advance.