Patent Application
20240319954
The invention relates to the field of automated information collecting, processing, analyzing, classifying, managing, generating, storing, protecting, and outputting.
A known intelligent information system (IIS) for a city comprises digital video controllers and transmitting and transmitting devices of wired or wireless communication installed on roads and transport lines, as well as a central computer storing the information being transmitted. The system is a hardware-software system for processing video streaming information from a single network platform and a built-in LED monitors structure containing software of analytical functionality of the system for collecting, processing, and transmitting data; the active area of LED monitors is visually divided into navigation, information, and advertising blocks for transmitting a full-value high-quality image of both static and video dynamic content. The information can be placed in both the navigation and information blocks individually in each block or two blocks simultaneously; besides, all three blocks can be used simultaneously. The video controllers include voltage sensors that inform the dispatcher about the lack of power, as well as have the functions of internal climate control and automatic exit to reboot mode when hang-up or loss of network signal and possible parameters of connection to the WLAN with an external antenna, LAN and 3G, 4G, LTE networks, and logging actions.
The disadvantage of the known system is its limited functionality, insufficient volume of the provided information, and the complete absence of orientation on a certain user.
The object of the claimed invention is to expand the platform possibilities, increase the capabilities of collecting, processing, and providing information to users, as well as generating relevant information (content) and intelligent management of information for publishing it at the required time and in the right place as personalized for people in a certain information event process, as well as providing more detailed information targeted at a particular user (personification of the information provided).
The implementation of a multifunctional information and communication platform with intelligent information management provides for the construction of an efficient information ecosystem in a megalopolis as one of the components of the Smart City principle; the development of physical, digital, and communication infrastructure in an urban environment for the information support of a city with relevant, up-to-date, and controlled information.
The platform is a single convergent interacting, inter-penetrating information ecosystem with distributed tasks; it is a complex hardware and software solution consisting of a network of information display devices combined into a single cluster or multiple clusters controlled by the central computer.
Integration of various hardware and software complexes performs automated generation and intelligent management of current information within a cluster of information display devices based on determining platform functions such as:
Multifunctional and cross-platform technology solutions provide highly efficient communication in the urban space for public convenience. They detect trends in events and make independent decisions to optimize the management and regulation of traffic and pedestrian flows by visual navigation methods.
The platform process solution adds to the infrastructure of the Intelligent City Transport System, creating a uniform information and communication system that provides for indirect and directive control of traffic flows.
The main task of the platform in the infrastructure of the Intelligent Transport System is to optimize traffic flows in the urban space through adaptive regulation of vehicles and information interaction with drivers along the way, increasing traffic safety by independent analysis of targeted data and identification of abnormal and incident events for timely, real-time alert of drivers about the current situation in the road segments. The network of mediaboards and variable information boards allows for: navigation orientation and information tracking of drivers and pedestrians in the city; providing information on parking places; informing about the nearest significant objects, street names indicating directions, weather conditions, air quality, and currency rates.
As an infrastructure addition to ITS, the platform monitors the traffic flow using the onboard analytical systems. The platform uses reactive and active information processing techniques to support data aggregation, collection and analysis, and predictive and online information modeling.
Multiple processed parameters allow for centralized management of infrastructure entities and provide direct and indirect traffic control in the city. Among other things, they provide:
The platform increases road traffic safety by:
The communicative platform format develops the city visual communication system, provides navigation orientation, and information-cognitive tracking of guests and city residents by broadcasting through the network of pedestrian mediaboards and information panels the significant and necessary information in several languages, including:
The platform ensures public safety through dynamic pedestrian traffic control in an abnormal situation or incident in a limited space.
In crowded places (tourist areas, cultural-sports venues, public places), the platform increases the level of safety of city residents and guests in ordinary situations and emergencies:
For that purpose, the claimed multifunctional information and communication platform includes a central computer and various information collection devices (sensors) and information panels. The information collection and display devices can be independent or combined into stationary units, mediaboards equipped with devices, and onboard computers for collecting, primary processing, storage, transmitting to the central computer, and outputting the information content to information display devices. The platform is a hardware and software complex (
The software complex includes:
The software complex is designed to receive and process information, generate and self-decide, manage information, and display information content based on aggregation and processing of data coming from other hardware and software components of the platform and has the function of intelligent information management based on multiple parameters. The software complex also performs semi-automated and automated media planning, providing maximum advertising campaigns efficiency for advertisers.
Depending on the generation method, the information content of the platform is divided into automatic, semi-automatic, and modified content.
Automated content includes information, widgets, and media messages formed by automated content construction software based on the aggregated information.
Semi-automated content includes information, widgets, and media messages generated manually with the direct support of content-building software.
Moderated content includes ready-made information, widgets, and media messages that have undergone selection, negotiation, and adaptation through a moderation service for compliance with the internal requirements of the platform.
The generated information is controlled by predictive modeling and analytical processing based on collecting and processing multiple parameters, such as accumulated statistics, real-time event, and incident data, city data, network technical condition parameters, meteorological data, etc., for dynamic control information content.
Publication and placement of content on various display devices are performed by intelligent information management algorithms based on broadcast functionality, such as broadcast region, broadcast volume, broadcast period, broadcast frequency, content broadcast information field sector on a display device, targeted contact, and the like, defined by the software complex for each information content on the platform.
The analytical equipment complex includes a local mediaboard computer, digital cameras with a video analytics function, meteorological sensors (temperature, pressure, humidity, precipitation, air pollution, etc.), transceiver devices with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, RFID, and NFC radio signal detection function, and radar.
The analytical equipment complex is a hardware and software solution based on various wireless technologies for collecting and processing the variable data used by analytical and interactive systems for automated generation and intelligent management of information and increasing security.
Data collection, processing, and accumulation are performed continuously over time online.
Distributed and dispersed analytical equipment complexes making part of the mediaboards continuously detect and identify vehicles, people, and radio-frequency emitting devices in their coverage area.
The analytical equipment complex collects primary incoming information, processes, stores, and transmits it to the central computer and the software complex for further processing and output to the information display device.
In addition to the information processed by the software complex, the information content can contain information received from a central computer and generated based on aggregating and processing data coming from other hardware and software components of the platform, such as the integration complex for aggregating external data, including information output by the operator in manual mode through the central computer, also remotely.
The analytical equipment complex processes the collected information and generates targeted data using artificial intelligence technology. The collected information is processed, filtered, stored, and transmitted to the central computer. Artificial intelligence ensures that only data required for the data system is processed and transmitted while unnecessary information is filtered and discarded.
The platform performs intelligent information management with an indirect personification of actual, predicted and modeled events for efficient and targeted communication based on analytical processing of data and various accumulated statistical data sets, event and incident parameters using mathematical modeling methods. Indirect personification produces a discrete description of actual event processes or predicted events at a particular location and at a certain time, which are relevant to a group of people or one person accidentally located at this time and in this place of the event process. This described event is personalized and relevant only for that group of people (the person). For other groups of people in other times and places, this information is unrelated to their information processes and events, so they are provided with other relevant information.
Functions performed by the analytical equipment complex:
The analytical equipment complex generates the following parameters for fixation (storage) and output to the information display device:
Software of the analytical complex outputs a portion of obtained and processed information to the information display. Furthermore, information from an external source, a remote computer connected over a network (wired or wireless), including manual input by an operator, can be output to the information display when necessary.
The user interaction instrumentation Includes:
The user interaction instrumentation provides direct contact of the system with the targeted audience for personalized information services, interactive information support, and human tracking using various wireless and non-contact technologies.
Ways and methods of direct hardware interaction of the system and people are used to personify information on interactive requests. These ways and methods include:
Remote identification (remote) identification methods are based on the following:
This includes detecting and verifying user device IDs previously registered in the system. As a user approaches a sensor or mediaboard and steps into the approach area configured on the platform, the mediaboard reacts by providing personalized navigation and information support data according to the tasks previously configured in the system and relevant at that time and location.
The methods of short-range contactless identification are based on the following:
The ID of the address is verified by the central computer when the mediaboard device reads the user's RFID tag media (RFID or NFC tickets or cards).
The mediaboard then reacts by providing personalized information of navigation-and-information support data according to the tasks previously configured in the system and relevant at that time and location.
Contact identification based on physical contact for reading ID data from the user's digital media, such as:
At that, the system verifies an ID when reading it from the user's digital media. The information display device then reacts by providing personalized information for navigation and information support according to the tasks previously configured in the system and relevant at that time and location.
Optical identification methods are based on the following:
When a user approaches a mediaboard and enters the vehicle license plates' optical capture area, the face biometric identification zone or attaches a QR or barcode to the reader, the parameters of the TS, the user's face, and codes are verified in the system. The mediaboard or the nearest information display device then reacts by providing personalized information for navigation and information support according to the tasks previously configured in the system and relevant at that time and location.
The voice request acoustic identification method is based on an automatic speech recognition system, methods of converting audio signals into text, and parsing keywords to produce inquiries in the system.
After accessing the system, the user posts a voice inquiry to search for certain information or types of information services via the active surface on the information display device.
Optical identification of human motion kinematics is based on recognizing motion vectors of selected human body objects to control selection and requesting the desired in the system browser.
After accessing the system, the search and inquiry for information are managed by movements of the user's body parts or gestures of the fingers and hands.
Next, the information display device reacts by providing the desired information or rendering information services.
Contact request methods are based on the following:
In this case, the user requests the desired information and digital services on the platform through the active surface of the information display device or the contact interaction sector. Next, the information display device reacts by providing the desired information or rendering digital services.
The user interaction instrumentation performs the following types of interaction:
A user shall register in the system and determine information support tasks to receive interactive information support.
There are several ways a user can register in the system:
Integration platform software for aggregating external data collects and processes external data from information portals (mediaboards and other devices). The OpenAPI protocol serves for external data reception.
The equipment complex making up the platform devices' control system architecture (
A mediaboard computer makes an integral part of each mediaboard (9). A mediaboard computer is configured to transmit a signal to the mediaboard information display device, monitor the technical condition of the display device equipment, and communicate with the central computer.
The central (coordination) computer is the main processor of the platform. The central computer performs intelligent information generation and control on mediaboard computers, collects and processes information from various external information flows coming from:
The information display device equipment complex is a finite platform element that translates generated and dispersed information content. The information display devices include:
Information display devices may include one or more fields (blocks) for displaying various content. Platform processing solutions may provide certain broadcast formats for various types of information display devices.
The platform is based on standard single-sector and multi-sectoral broadcast formats to ensure the quality and efficiency of information broadcasting. For example, the multi-sectoral format includes such information complexes as vertical roadside structures of trunk, road, street, and pedestrian mediaboards, which contain three information sectors on one surface (
Horizontal roadside mediaboard structures (
Information can be displayed in navigation, information, and commercial areas separately or in two or three sectors at a time with partial or complete overlapping of all sectors. For example, when drivers are alerted about the need to give way to special transport (an ambulance), etc., utilizing the entire information surface of the mediaboard. In this case, the platform determines the priority of information content for broadcasting based on its relevance as specified or set by the platform.
Algorithms for the dynamic changing of dimensions of broadcast areas can be applied to emphasize and draw attention to relevant information on a multi-sectoral information surface.
The single-sector format includes single-sector structures with the entire information surface of mediaboards as one information space (
The platform controls the priority and sequential broadcast of the content on the single-sector information surface using adaptive calculation algorithms, increasing the efficiency of information perception.
The intelligent information and communication platform operates as follows.
When a vehicle enters the coverage area of a mediaboard digital camera or optical sensors, the analytical equipment complex captures and generates the raw data of the number and speed of each vehicle on the mediaboard computer in the autonomous mode, indicating the vehicle license number and the time when the car passed by. The raw data is then processed and stored on the central computer to form the analytical database and further control the information and its display on the information display device.
When user radio-emitting devices (RFID, NFC, electronic gadgets, such as smartphones, smart watches, cars fitted with onboard radio-emitting devices, such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, RFID, etc.) enter the coverage area of the mediaboard analytical equipment complex transceivers, they are detected. The raw data on the number of radio-emitting devices and their signal level is generated, indicating the unique device identification number (MAC address) and time. The central computer processes and stores this raw data to generate analytical data and parameters and manage the information on the information display device.
When a user approaches a mediaboard and overcomes the threshold settings of the user device ID signal or the user's absolute (relative) geolocation, the user (user's device) previously registered in the platform is detected and verified.
When a user or a vehicle enters the area of optical detection of vehicle license plates, biometric facial identification, or when the mediaboard devices read passive RF tags, QRs, bar codes on wearable documents or radio-emitting device IDs, the transport IDs, user biometric parameters and ID codes registered on the platform are identified and verified.
The nearest mediaboard or information display device then reacts by providing personalized information, navigation-and-information support relevant for that time and location according to the tasks previously configured in the system.
The platform software for aggregating external data requests and receives data independently. This processed data is a part of integrated information generation for display on the platform terminals.
For groups of mediaboards with one information sector combined into a single local information space, techniques for simultaneous placement and adaptive movement of priority information in a cluster of structures are applied (
Sequential information publishing algorithms are applied (
The anamorphosis and parametric techniques (
The content and algorithms of information content depend on changes in the traffic situation and event changes in the city space under content tasks for targeted information support and user information support.
Multifunctional and cross-platform technological solutions of the claimed platform are integrated into the urban physical, digital, and communication infrastructure and serve its development in the context of the “Smart City” concept.
The use of the claimed multifunctional information and communication platform with intelligent information management is not limited by road infrastructure. The multifunctional information and communication platform provides applied solutions for different sectors, like Smart Field (ensuring safety at oil and gas fields), Smart Gas Station (solution for fuel stations), Smart Subway (Intelligent transport systems infrastructure), Smart Hub (logistic zones), Smart Venue (tourist complexes, sports entertainment objects, shopping centers), and others.
Technological solutions of the platform for industrial facilities can improve the efficiency of managing technological processes through their complete automation and efficient interaction of the system with the participants in production processes.
System communication efficiency is achieved by personalized and directive interaction of the platform with each participant in the production process by means of visual communication in a convenient and adaptive information perception format.
The system's introduction in the industrial area infrastructure provides:
In logistic zones, information processing and display equipment and algorithms are used to organize the movement of cargo and transport within the terminal. The complex firmware solution includes a multifunctional information and communication platform with intelligent information management based on personalized routing and a complex of interactive LED panels for dynamic visual tracking and controlling the movement of mobile objects in the Terminal area. This solution can provide transport and cargo identification, tracking and regulation of traffic, regulation of technological processes, personalized information support of mobile objects, operative correction of routes, and a dynamic visual navigation system.
As a technical result, using the proposed multifunctional information and communication platform with intelligent information management increases the capacity and volume of information collected, processed, and provided to the users. The platform provides more detailed and customized information (personification of information provided).
| Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| PCT/KZ2021/000017 | 7/14/2021 | WO |
