MOBILE BASED ADVISORY SYSTEM AND A METHOD THEREOF

• US 20100109946A1
• Filed: 06/04/2008
• Published: 05/06/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: TATA Consultancy Services Limited (Tata Sons Pvt Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: TATA Consultancy Services Limited (Tata Sons Pvt Ltd.)
• Inventors: Pande, Arun
• Granted Patent: US 8,938,218 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/759
• CPC Class Codes: A01B 79/005 Precision agriculture
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/04 Inference or reasoning models
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/02 Agriculture; Fishing; Forestry; Mining
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

A system and method for mobile based advising is provided. The system and method involve the user with his mobile terminal formulating a query based on his own input and external sensor input and then sending the query to a remote server, which sends it to an expert group who devise an expert advice, which is then sent back to the user.

Claims

1. A mobile based advisory system, said system comprising:

a user end comprising;

a transmitting and receiving means to transmit a formulated query and to receive advice;

an input means and output means;

a data logger means for storing various parameter values obtained from various sensors to form collected data; and

a query formulation means, to generate queries according to the collect data;

a remote server means configured with a human expert group/expert workstation (HEG/EW) comprising,

a first transmitting for transmitting the queries to the HEG/EW;

a first receiving means provided to the HEC/EW to receive queries;

an advice formulation means, adapted to formulate advice;

a second transmitting means to transmit the formulated advice over wireless network/internet; and

a second receiver means at the remote server adapted to receive advice formulated by the HEG/EW.

2. The advisory system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal is configured to download a specific application script (AS)/Indian language script rendering engine in text and voice menu.

3. The advisory system as claimed in claim 1, wherein a language processing means is provided for converting the formulated advice in text form to voice form and recognize the voice commands in a selected local language.

4. The advisory system as claimed in claim 1, wherein external sensors are provided at the user end for collecting external environmental information and the user end is further configured to a data logger for collection and processing data from the external sensors.

5. The advisory system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data logger is provided with means for obtaining location of the user at any given time using GPS modem.

6. The advisory system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal is provided with a camera for capturing images typically of soil or crops and includes an application script means adapted to processes the camera phone images, sensor data, and voice and text menu.

7. The advisory system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal/user end comprises a pre-processing means for rearranging sensor data and query data before transmitting it to the remote server.

8. The advisory system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal/user comprises a personalization means (PM) for stamping the query and sensor data with time/date/location and other identification parameters of the user.

9. The advisory as claimed in claim 1, wherein the server comprises an application script means for processing an input query and transmission means for routing said queries to appropriate remotely located expert workstations.

10. The advisory system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the server comprises a database which further comprises a profile of all the users.

11. The advisory system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the server receives the query along with the transmitted data and retrieves the relevant data from its database/Internet.

12. The advisory system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the server comprises a data tagging, arranging and processing means for linking data with the user'"'"'s query.

13. The advisory system as claimed in claim 1, wherein typically the output means at user end is a display means to display the results in text/voice form in the local language of the user.

14. The advisory system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal advisory system is adapted to send alerts to the user on his mobile terminal in case of any future updates.

15. The advisory system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the system is used to provide advice and information regarding agricultural activities/to obtain information and advice regarding weather condition, application of fertilizers &

pesticides, for activities like agriculture, adventure sports like trekking, skiing, biking and fishing/for obtaining information about the traffic conditions on the roads/market rates of different commodities and the like.

16. The advisory system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first transmitter means and second transmitter means at the server and HEG/EW are the same.

17. The advisory system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first receiver means and second receiver means at the server and HEG/EW are the same.

18. A mobile based advisory method comprising the steps of:

downloading an application at a user end terminal;

launching said application at a user end and accepting input data from a user;

collecting environmental/external parameters with the help of a data logger and from a plurality of sensors;

formulating a query based on sensor data and query data;

sending query to a remote external server;

processing query at the server end based on data from a database;

sending data and query to expert group for analysis and formulating an advice; and

sending the advice formulated by the expert group to the user end.

19. The mobile based advisory method as claimed in claim 18, wherein a region specific application is downloaded by a user on his mobile terminal.

20. The mobile based advisory method as claimed in claim 18, wherein the downloaded application is launched on the user'"'"'s mobile terminal.

21. The mobile based advisory method as claimed in claim 20, wherein the position of the mobile terminal is acquired through GPS by the launched application.

22. The mobile based advisory method as claimed in claim 20, wherein the launched application displays menu/voice menu in local language on the user'"'"'s mobile terminal.

23. The mobile based advisory method as claimed in claim 18, wherein the user formulates a data query guided by a menu.

24. The mobile based advisory method as claimed in claim 18, wherein the user inputs captured images in this query.

25. The mobile based advisory method as claimed in claim 18, wherein the external/environmental parameters are sensed by external sensors and sent to the user'"'"'s mobile terminal.

26. The mobile based advisory method as claimed in claim 25, wherein the collected data from the external sensors are sent to a data logger for future processing, which in turn captures the exact location of a system using a GPS modem.

27. The mobile based advisory method as claimed in claim 25, wherein the external sensors collect data from the external environment and the like.

28. The mobile based advisory method as claimed in claim 25, wherein the user'"'"'s data query and the sensor data are arranged in a specific format by the pre processing unit along with personalized identification parameters.

29. The mobile based advisory method as claimed in claim 28, wherein the personalized identification parameters are the uses identification number, mobile number and the like.

30. The mobile based advisory method as claimed in claim 18, wherein the formulated query is transmitted to a remote server over a wireless network/internet.

31. The mobile based advisory method as claimed in claim 18, wherein the transmitted formulated query is received by the remote server which extracts relevant data from its database or Internet for the particulars about all the users.

32. The mobile based advisory method as claimed in claim 18, wherein the formulated query along with the relevant information extracted is sent to a human expert group/expert workstation for further analysis.

33. The mobile based advisory method as claimed in claim 18, wherein the expert group analyses the data received through a browser by connecting to the remote external server and formulates an advice which is sent back to the users mobile terminal or alternatively it is sent to the remote server which with a data tagging, arranging and processing means links data with the user'"'"'s query and sends it back to the user.

34. The mobile based advisory method as claimed in claim 18, wherein the formulated advice is displayed in text/voice format at the mobile terminal/user end which the user uses for his advantage.