Wireless Node Database Service Harmonization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems for maintaining accurate and up-to-date records of wireless nodes are time-consuming, costly, and incomplete, leading to inconsistencies and missed data, which affects user experience and compliance with regulatory requirements, especially in emergency situations.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented system and method for providing a wireless node database service that harmonizes and validates data from various external systems, adds, removes, or updates wireless nodes based on reliable information, and publishes updated data in a compatible format, ensuring accurate and comprehensive location information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If traditional vehicle-based scanning methods are used to build wireless node databases, then location data can be collected, but the process becomes extremely time-consuming and costly, requiring weeks or months of scanning and multiple vehicles
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables wireless nodes to self-report their location data and status information to the database automatically. Each wireless node acts as its own data source, eliminating the need for external vehicles to physically scan and collect data from every node. This self-service mechanism allows continuous automatic updates without manual intervention or expensive scanning operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical vehicle-based scanning system with an electronic communication-based automatic reporting system. Instead of using GPS-equipped vehicles to physically traverse and detect wireless nodes, the system uses electronic messages transmitted directly from wireless nodes to the database, substituting mechanical data collection with digital automated reporting.
2Reliability
If manual review and correction processes are used to ensure data accuracy, then data quality can be maintained, but the process involves multiple individuals and communication steps that introduce human errors and delays
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements automated feedback mechanisms where wireless nodes continuously report their status and location to the database. The database automatically processes this feedback information, comparing it against existing records and updating the database accordingly. This automated feedback loop maintains data accuracy without requiring manual review by multiple individuals, eliminating human errors and communication delays.
3Quantity of substance
If data from multiple service providers are integrated through addition and modification processes, then comprehensive coverage can be achieved, but the lack of a central platform requires time-consuming data addition and modification
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal central database platform that can receive, process, and integrate data from multiple service providers using a standardized protocol. This multi-functional platform handles data collection, validation, harmonization, and storage in a unified manner, eliminating the need for separate addition and modification processes for each provider. The standardized interface allows any service provider to contribute data efficiently to the comprehensive database.
4Reliability
If extensive scanning operations are conducted to maintain current information, then the database remains up-to-date, but the process requires purchasing multiple vehicles and spending weeks or months scanning repeatedly
Solution Approach 1:
The system establishes continuous automatic data reporting where wireless nodes continuously or periodically transmit their status and location information to the database without interruption. This continuous useful action ensures the database remains constantly up-to-date with current information, eliminating the need for repeated expensive scanning operations while maintaining data currency through ongoing automated updates from the nodes themselves.
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AI summary
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a system and method that can obtain a collection of wireless node data from different sources. The system and method involves a wireless location data service (WLDS) platform including a data management and a feedback module. The data management is configured to receive wireless node data through importation by a service provider. The feedback module is configured to receive wireless node data from mobile devices, engineering systems, systems generating activity logs, and third party service partners. The system and method also involves an end-user module configured to collect wireless node data and user reported corrections and transmit the collected data and corrections to the platform. A wireless node database in the platform is built and updated from the wireless node data and corrections received from the data management module and the feedback module.