Vehicular Movement Tracking System for Emergency Dispatch
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Solution Overview
Problem
Emergency vehicles lack real-time data and direct visual interaction with dispatchers, limiting the dispatcher's ability to provide timely updates and evaluate response efficiency, as they rely on limited information from onboard tracking devices.
Innovation Solution
A system with a live module for real-time tracking and correction, and a replay module for historical evaluation, using a menu and mapping application to display vehicular movement data, including response times, unit status, and satellite imagery, shared via communication networks, allowing for comprehensive reporting and analysis.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If GPS tracking is used to assist emergency vehicle routing, then route determination capability is improved, but real-time data availability and visual interaction capability remain limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines GPS tracking data, satellite imagery, and communication systems into an integrated dispatching platform. The mapping application merges multiple data sources (vehicle location, route information, satellite images) into a single visual interface, allowing dispatchers to access comprehensive real-time information without managing separate systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The dispatching system acts as an intermediary between emergency vehicles and control centers. It receives GPS data from vehicles, processes it through the mapping application, and provides visual feedback and routing recommendations, thereby enabling real-time two-way communication and information exchange that neither party could achieve alone.
2Measurement precision
If more information is transmitted about vehicular movement, then evaluation capability is improved, but data transmission requirements and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the essential movement parameters needed for evaluation (location, speed, direction, route compliance) from the vast amount of GPS data generated. The mapping application processes raw GPS coordinates and extracts meaningful metrics such as route deviation, response time, and travel speed, transmitting only these processed metrics rather than all raw data points.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates visual copies of vehicular movement data through satellite imagery and mapping overlays. Instead of transmitting raw numerical data, the system generates visual representations (map images with vehicle icons, route lines, and status indicators) that convey movement information in an easily interpretable format, reducing the need for extensive data transmission.
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AI summary
Systems and methods for live utilization and tracking of vehicular movement producing a fluid representation of the movement of vehicles and means to evaluate vehicle movement/activities relative to response requirements may be provided. Accordingly, real-time evaluations and/or corrections may be made based on this improved tracking of movement/activities. Replay analysis of movement/activities that have already occurred may be provided to evaluate and make adjustments for future responses and activities. Colors and other unique display items may be used to highlight different activities, movements and/or timing for completion within an online mapping application. Layering of different mapping displays also may be provided.