Vehicle Resource Management for Smart City Infrastructure
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Solution Overview
Problem
Vehicles' components are underutilized during off-use hours, as they are often parked in dense concentrations during business hours, lacking productive use in smart city infrastructure.
Innovation Solution
A system that matches vehicle resource availability indicators from suppliers with vehicle resource usage requests from clients, enabling the use of vehicle modules during off-use hours through a server device that processes and communicates offers and requests, providing navigation instructions to suppliers to utilize modules like air filters, cameras, and lighting for smart city benefits.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If vehicles are parked in dense concentrations during business hours, then vehicle modules are readily accessible and positioned for use, but vehicle modules remain underutilized and lack productive use during off-use hours
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables vehicle modules to serve dual purposes: their primary function when the vehicle is in use, and secondary smart city infrastructure functions during off-use hours. The vehicle automatically transitions between these modes without requiring active management, with the module serving itself in different capacities based on vehicle usage status
Solution Approach 2:
Vehicle modules are designed to perform multiple functions: their original intended purpose during vehicle operation, and additional smart city infrastructure functions during off-use hours. For example, air filters serve both vehicle cabin filtration and ambient air quality improvement, while cameras serve both driving assistance and public space monitoring
2Productivity
If vehicle modules are activated for smart city infrastructure use during off-use hours, then resource throughput and smart city efficiency improve, but system complexity increases due to matching and coordination requirements
Solution Approach 1:
A server acts as an intermediary between vehicle owners (suppliers) and entities requiring vehicle module services (clients). The server receives availability indicators from suppliers, processes service requests from clients, performs matching based on compatibility criteria, and coordinates the fulfillment of matched requests, thereby managing system complexity centrally rather than through direct peer-to-peer coordination
3Loss of time
If a matching system coordinates vehicle resource availability with service requests, then vehicle module utilization during off-use hours increases, but communication and coordination overhead increases
Solution Approach 1:
Vehicle owners submit availability indicators in advance, specifying which modules will be available during off-use hours and under what conditions. This preliminary declaration of availability allows the system to pre-process and match requests before actual service needs arise, reducing real-time coordination overhead and enabling more efficient resource allocation
Data Source
AI summary
An example server device of this disclosure includes a communication unit and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to receive, via the communication unit, from one or more supplier-side modalities, one or more vehicle resource availability indicators, to receive, from one or more client devices, one or more vehicle resource usage requests, to match, each of the one or more vehicle resource usage requests to a subset of the vehicle resource indicators, and to send, via the communication unit, one or more match communications to the respective client device(s) and the supplier-side modalities from which the vehicle resource indicators are received.