Vehicle Profile Control for Occupant Customization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems fail to effectively manage and customize vehicle sub-systems for multiple users and owners, leading to increased complexity in service provision and user experience.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus for assigning and controlling profile data to vehicle sub-systems based on occupant identification, allowing seamless customization and authorization, using SIM or eSIM profiles for scalable and dynamic service adaptation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple vehicle sub-systems are customized for different users, then service personalization is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments user information into distinct profile data units that can be independently managed and assigned to different vehicle sub-systems. Each profile contains user-specific preferences and parameters that can be selectively applied to navigation, entertainment, climate control, and other sub-systems without requiring complete system reconfiguration.
Solution Approach 2:
A universal profile data structure is created that can be applied across multiple vehicle sub-systems. The profile data serves multiple functions simultaneously - authorization, customization, and service configuration - across different sub-systems like navigation, entertainment, and climate control, reducing the need for separate customization mechanisms for each sub-system.
2Ease of operation
If profile data is stored in each vehicle sub-system, then data accessibility is improved, but data management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Profile data is merged into a centralized repository that all vehicle sub-systems can access. Instead of maintaining separate profile storage in each sub-system, the system combines all profile data into a single accessible location, allowing any sub-system to retrieve and apply relevant profile information without complex inter-sub-system data transfer protocols.
3Productivity
If vehicle services are shared among multiple users, then vehicle utilization is improved, but authorization management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
User profiles are pre-configured with authorization data and service preferences before the user enters the vehicle. The system performs preliminary identification of the user (via card reader, biometric scan, or mobile device detection) and automatically retrieves and applies the appropriate profile data, including authorization information, eliminating the need for complex real-time authorization negotiations between multiple users and sub-systems.
Data Source
AI summary
This disclosure relates to a method, performed in an apparatus 300 for profile control, for switching profile data in one or more vehicle sub-systems 401, 402 of a vehicle 406. Each vehicle sub-system 401, 402 comprises a vehicle sub-system data storage 403, 404. The method comprises: detecting a presence of an occupant in the vehicle 406, identifying the occupant in the vehicle 406, retrieving from a profile data storage 405 the profile data corresponding to the identified occupant, assigning the retrieved profile data to one or more vehicle sub-systems 401, 402; and sending the retrieved profile data for storage in the vehicle sub-system data storage 403, 404 of the assigned one or more vehicle sub-systems 401, 402.