System For Diminishing the Load of Platform Which Traces the Location of Moving Objects and Method Thereof

• US 20080294334A1
• Filed: 12/30/2005
• Published: 11/27/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/09/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Park, Jong-Hyun, Min, Kyoung-Wook, Kim, Ju-Wan, Jo, Jung-Hee
• Granted Patent: US 8,090,529 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/204
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/09 providing processing capability normally carried out by the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0294 Trajectory determination or predictive filtering, e.g. target tracking or Kalman filtering

Abstract

In existing moving object tracking, there is a great communication load between a terminal and a platform, because the terminal should report its location to the platform every second or every minute and the platform should frequently process the location form the terminal. It is possible to reduce the great communication load on the server, by calculating an error between the current GPS location and the estimated location at a specific time on the basis of the estimated arrival time of the moving object. It allows that the terminal report its location to the server only when the error between current GPS location and the estimated location is greater than a predetermined threshold value.

Claims

1. A system for reducing a communication load of a platform for tracking a moving object, the system comprising:

an arrival time prediction unit receiving a current location and an arrival location of the moving object from the moving object, calculating estimated arrival time for the moving object to reach the arrival location, and transmitting the estimated arrival time to the moving object;

a terminal which is located in the moving object, receiving the estimated arrival time and determining an estimated location; and

a communication path on-off controlling unit inactivating a communication path for reporting the current location and the arrival location from the moving object when the terminal receives the estimated arrival time is received, and activating the communication path when the estimated arrival time has to be newly calculated again.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a path generation requesting unit receiving the current location and the arrival location and making a request message for generating a path between the current location and the arrival location;

a path extracting unit receiving the request message and extracting all the possible paths between the current location and the arrival location; and

a moving object location estimating unit estimating the estimated location of the moving object in interaction with the terminal,

wherein the estimated arrival time calculating unit calculates the estimated arrival time based on the extracted paths and the estimated location.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the terminal comprises:

a current location detecting unit detecting the current location of the moving object in real time;

an estimated location determining unit determining the estimated location of the moving object in real time when the moving object is located at the current location on the basis of the detected current location, the extracted paths and the estimated arrival time; and

a distance difference measuring unit measuring a difference in distance between the current location and the estimated location in real time and determining in real time whether the difference in distance is greater than a predetermined threshold value.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the communication path on-off controlling unit activates the communication path, only when the moving object reports the current location and the arrival location to the platform arbitrarily or the difference in distance between the current location and the estimated location is greater than the threshold value.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein, when the difference in distance is greater than the threshold value, the distance difference measuring unit reports the current location to the platform, and the platform extracts new paths between the current location and the arrival location, calculates a new estimated arrival time, and transmits the new estimated arrival time to the terminal.

6. A method of reducing a communication load of a platform for tracking a moving object, the method comprising:

(a) receiving a current location and an arrival location of the moving object, calculating an estimated arrival time for the moving object to reach the arrival location, and transmitting the estimated arrival time to the moving object;

(b) transmitting the estimated arrival time to a terminal of the moving object and allowing the terminal, which is located in the moving object, to determine an estimated location of the moving object; and

(c) inactivating a communication path through which the moving object reports the current location and the arrival location to the platform when the terminal receives the estimated arrival time.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

(d) activating the communication path when the estimated arrival time has to be newly calculated again.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

(e) allowing the terminal to detect the current location of the moving object in real time;

(f) determining the estimated location of the moving object at the time corresponding to the detected current location on the basis of the detected current location, the extracted paths, and the estimated arrival time.

(g) measuring a difference in distance between the current location and the estimated location in real time and determining whether the difference in distance is greater than a predetermined threshold value in real time;

(h) reporting the current location to the platform when the difference in distance is greater than the threshold value; and

(i) allowing the platform to extract new paths to the arrival location based on the reported current location, to calculate a new estimated arrival time, and to transmit the new estimated arrival time to the terminal.

9. The method system of claim 8, wherein the communication path is activated only when the moving object reports the current location and the arrival location to the platform arbitrarily or when the difference in distance between the current location and the estimated location is greater than the threshold value.