Smart Vehicle Policy Enforcement for Operational Constraints
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems lack the ability to provide operationally customized access to smart vehicles, failing to ensure compliance with specified constraints such as speed, location, and weather conditions, which can lead to unsafe or unauthorized use.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system that generates a vehicle policy based on user requests and operational constraints, transmitting these policies to smart vehicles to moderate their operation, ensuring adherence to specified rules through monitoring and enforcement actions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If operationally customized access is implemented with vehicle policies and constraints, then vehicle safety and compliance are improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments vehicle access control into distinct policy components: operational constraints (speed limits, location restrictions, weather conditions), access agreements (owner permissions, user authorization), and enforcement mechanisms (monitoring, penalties). This modular segmentation allows each component to be independently managed and enforced, improving safety without creating monolithic system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by establishing vehicle policies and operational constraints before vehicle access is granted. Owners and insurers define speed limits, geographic restrictions, and weather conditions in advance, and these pre-established rules are automatically enforced during vehicle operation, ensuring safety compliance before issues arise rather than reacting to them afterward.
2Ease of operation
If comprehensive vehicle monitoring and policy enforcement are implemented, then operational control is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The vehicle policy enforcement system operates autonomously without requiring continuous human intervention. The smart vehicle automatically monitors its own operation against established constraints (speed, location, weather), self-enforces compliance through automated penalties or warnings, and reports status to owners and insurers. This self-service capability simplifies operation for users while maintaining comprehensive control.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements continuous feedback loops where the smart vehicle monitors operational parameters, compares them against policy constraints, and automatically adjusts behavior or notifies stakeholders. This real-time feedback mechanism provides operational control through automated monitoring and enforcement actions, reducing the burden on users while maintaining comprehensive oversight of vehicle usage.
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AI summary
Computer-implemented methods, systems and computer program products for facilitating operationally customized access to smart vehicles are provided. Aspects include receiving request to access a smart vehicle. Aspects also include receiving vehicle operation constraints associated with the smart vehicle using a processor. Aspects also include generating a vehicle policy based at least in part on the request to access the smart vehicle and the vehicle operation constraints using the processor. The vehicle policy includes rules for operation of the smart vehicle. Aspects also include transmitting the vehicle policy to the smart vehicle. Aspects also include moderating the operation of the smart vehicle based on at least in part the vehicle policy.