Vertical Shared Vehicle Racks With Renewable Energy Meshing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Urban areas face significant pollution from vehicle traffic and industrial activities, exacerbated by limited land for parking and the reliance on carbon-based energy sources for electric vehicle charging and operation, which contributes to greenhouse gas emissions and increased energy consumption.
Innovation Solution
A system of interconnected vertical automated storage units for shared electric and hydrogen vehicles, equipped with renewable energy production capabilities, such as solar and wind power, and integrated data centers, to manage vehicle circulation, energy supply, and information storage, reducing pollution by promoting shared mobility and efficient energy use.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If vertical automated storage units are implemented to reduce parking space requirements, then land area occupied is reduced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from horizontal parking arrangements to vertical stacking configurations, utilizing the third dimension (height) to store vehicles. Multiple storage levels are stacked vertically with automated retrieval systems operating between floors, thereby dramatically reducing the ground footprint while accommodating the same or greater number of vehicles.
Solution Approach 2:
Traditional manual parking and retrieval mechanisms are replaced with automated robotic systems. These include robotic arms, automated guided vehicles (AGVs), or robotic cranes that can autonomously move, lift, and position vehicles within the vertical storage structure, eliminating the need for human operators and mechanical parking gates.
2Object-generated harmful factors
If electric vehicles are deployed to reduce pollution, then greenhouse gas emissions decrease, but energy consumption increases due to charging infrastructure requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The vertical storage units are equipped with integrated charging infrastructure that automatically charges vehicles during storage periods. Vehicles are plugged into charging points when deposited and remain charged while stored, eliminating the need for separate charging trips and utilizing off-peak electricity hours when energy costs are lower and grid demand is reduced.
Solution Approach 2:
The vertical storage facility serves multiple functions simultaneously: it provides secure vehicle storage, automated retrieval services, and integrated charging infrastructure. This multi-functionality consolidates what would otherwise be separate operations into a single system, improving overall efficiency and reducing total energy consumption across the mobility ecosystem.
3Object-generated harmful factors
If shared vehicle systems are implemented to reduce the number of vehicles in circulation, then pollution from traffic decreases, but device complexity increases due to mesh network requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple previously separate systems into an integrated mesh network architecture. Vertical storage units, charging infrastructure, vehicle sharing platforms, and data centers are merged into a unified system where components communicate and coordinate through standardized protocols, enabling seamless vehicle retrieval, charging, and sharing operations across the network.
Solution Approach 2:
The overall shared mobility system is divided into modular, independently deployable vertical storage units that can be distributed across multiple locations. Each unit operates semi-autonomously but connects to the broader mesh network, allowing the system to scale incrementally and reducing the complexity burden on any single facility while maintaining overall system integration.
4Reliability
If data centers are integrated into storage units to improve data sovereignty, then data security is enhanced, but device complexity and energy consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
Data centers are nested within the vertical storage unit structures, utilizing available space in the basement or upper floors. This nested arrangement allows data processing and storage capabilities to be embedded within the existing facility footprint, sharing physical infrastructure (power, cooling, security) with the vehicle storage operations and minimizing the need for separate data center facilities.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This system decreases urban pollution by optimizing vehicle circulation, utilizing renewable energy, and managing data storage locally, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption while enhancing mobility and data sovereignty.
Implementation Method 1
The different automated storage systems are connected together so as to form a mesh network... equipped with renewable energy production capabilities, such as solar and wind power
Implementation Method 2
equipped with renewable energy production capabilities, such as solar and wind power
Data Source
AI summary
The subject of the invention is a method for reducing pollution resulting from various activities carried out within a territory and a system for organizing these activities for the implementation of this method.According to the invention, the territory is equipped with a plurality of vertical storage tanks (T) for storing shared electric vehicles, which are connected together so as to form a mesh network (90) allowing transfer, inside the territory (9), subjects of various activities carried out, such as people or objects transported, digitized information, as well as an amount of energy produced or consumed for the implementation of the activity.The invention also covers a system for organizing traffic in the territory of said subjects of activity in a way that makes it possible to cancel or, at least, reduce the pollution resulting from each of the activities, taking into account its nature.In particular, each of the storage tanks (T) can be equipped with means of producing, from renewable energy, the electrical power necessary for the operation of the garage and the mesh network makes it possible to ensure, inside the territory, a balancing between the power produced by certain storage units and the power consumed by others for the requested activities.