Virtual Reality Fleet Tracking Interface
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current fleet tracking systems struggle to effectively manage and display large amounts of data from numerous assets, often requiring multiple screens and failing to provide a visual representation of route deviations and progress indicators, which limits their ability to handle large asset fleets efficiently.
Innovation Solution
A virtual reality interface is used to monitor and manage large asset fleets, featuring a graphical route matrix with color-coded nodes and 2D/3D maps, allowing for real-time tracking and interaction with assets, and enabling administrators to view and manage thousands of routes and assets simultaneously.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If multiple screens are used to display fleet tracking data, then the quantity of routes and assets that can be viewed concurrently increases, but the device complexity and space requirements increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from two-dimensional flat screens to three-dimensional virtual reality displays. Users wear VR headsets that project immersive 3D environments, allowing thousands of routes and assets to be visualized in spatial three-dimensional space rather than constrained to 2D screen surfaces. This dimensional transformation enables vastly increased capacity without proportionally increasing device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The VR interface serves multiple functions simultaneously: it displays route progress indicators, provides destination position information, shows geographic location data, and enables interactive fleet management. This multi-functionality consolidates what would traditionally require multiple specialized screens into a single universal VR display environment.
2Quantity of substance
If multiple large high-resolution screens are used, then the amount of data that can be displayed increases, but the energy consumption and space requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the functionality of multiple large high-resolution screens into a single VR display system. Instead of running separate power consumers for each screen, the VR headset and associated computing resources consolidate the energy requirements into one integrated system that delivers equivalent or superior display capacity with reduced total energy consumption.
3Adaptability or versatility
If traditional 2D interfaces are used, then the ease of operation is maintained, but the ability to visualize route deviations and progress indicators for large fleets is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The VR interface provides real-time visual feedback about route deviations and progress indicators through immersive 3D graphics. Users can immediately see when assets deviate from planned routes through spatial visualization, and the system responds by allowing interactive adjustment of routes directly in the virtual environment, creating a closed-loop feedback system that enhances both adaptability and operational ease.
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AI summary
Methods and systems for monitoring and interacting with a collection of geospatially aware assets, or any connected geo-location enabled device, through a virtual reality interface are disclosed. A diagram may be utilized as a real-time route progress indicator to determine a route's completion status and as a destination position indicator to determine the position of a destination among all destinations of a route. The virtual reality environment may provide the benefit of, and ability to, modify the visual field, such as to fit a large number of routes, e.g., 50,000 or more, onto an area viewable in the virtual reality environment to efficiently manage large fleets, or to divide a screen into a plurality of individual screens to organize the data in a visually effective manner. The user interface may be personalized for the user, or customized for a specific business operation.