Device For Road And Urban Mobility And For Solving The Problem Of Traffic Congestion

• US 20140358432A1
• Filed: 08/17/2014
• Published: 12/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meed Group, Eurl
• Original Assignee: Meed Group, Eurl
• Inventors: Mansour, Gerard
• Granted Patent: US 9,008,964 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/468
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/343 Calculating itineraries, i.e. routes leading from a starting point to a series of categorical destinations using a global route restraint, round trips, touristic trips travelling salesman problem G06Q10/04; optimisation of routes G06Q10/047
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3492 employing speed data or traffic data, e.g. real-time or historical traffic control systems for road vehicles involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle G08G1/0968
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3629 Guidance using speech or audio output, e.g. text-to-speech text to speech systems per se G10L13/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3655 Timing of guidance instructions

Abstract

A device for road and urban mobility and for solving the problem of traffic congestion, installed on a vehicle in order to make traffic flow more fluid in and between cities. The device consists of a set of five electronic modules, including a processor. The processor analyzes and extracts positional data of the equipped vehicle from a satellite signal and sends the requests of same for an exchange with a server, bi-directionally. The device is incorporated into an onboard housing. The present device is intended, in particular, to make the traffic flow more fluid and to communicate with a dedicated server in order to guide the driver of the equipped vehicle during his/her journey from a start point to the point entered into the device as the desired final destination. The present device reduces traffic congestion and pollution caused by greenhouse gas emissions.

Claims

1. A device for reducing traffic congestion, the device carried on-board a vehicle to guide the driver of the vehicle from a current position to a final destination, the device capable of real-time communication to update in Machine-to-Machine (M2M) mode a digital database stored on a remote server and capable of generating a query, said query generated by processing a satellite signal and comprising the variables of:

(a) distance (DRj) remaining to reaching a relevant proximity of the next node of section (j);

(b) time duration (TRj) to reaching a predetermined proximity of the next node of section (j);

(c) speed (Vij) at time instant (i) where the vehicle is at a distance (DRj) of the next node of section (j); and

(d) time instant (i) for sending a query is determined by the Event occurring when reaching a relevant proximity of the next node of section (j), or significant slowing or stopping or starting again after a stop;

said device comprising a satellite receiver, a terrestrial transmitter/receiver and a micro-electronic circuit having an embedded operating algorithm capable of carrying out the following steps;

(i) identifying said driver, securing permission and entry of journey and destination data for navigational aid during the journey;

(ii) periodically processing said satellite signal relative to the position of said vehicle to determine the time instant (i) of the query;

(iii) calculating DRj, TRj and Vij;

(iv) transmitting DRj, TRj and Vij to update said digital database at the time instant (i) coinciding with said vehicle having at least one of a predetermined proximity to the next node of section (DRij), a slowdown longer than a predetermined threshold, a stoppage and a restart again after a stoppage;

(v) storing in memory files comprising at least one of images, text and vocal messages;

(vi) verifying and controlling updates generated by said remote server to enable said device to execute files stored in memory;

(vii) executing files stored in memory upon receipt of an order from said server or initiation during vehicle motion by said device algorithm;

(viii) displaying a section of an updated itinerary when an update is received from said server;

(viii) actuating a vocal message and section display of said updated itinerary upon instruction as response to a query or initiated by said device algorithm;

(ix) displaying of the updated itinerary during absence of said satellite signal.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein position coordinates of latitude and longitude are solely interpretable by said device algorithm and each transmission to update said digital database of said remote server consists solely of said variables DRj, TRj and Vij.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the transmission of a query to update said digital database is made at a time instant coinciding with one of:

said vehicle reaching a predetermined proximity of the next node of section (j), slowing for a period greater than a predetermined threshold, stopping, and restarting after a stop.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein exchange of data with said remote server is asynchronous such that between two queries transmission, the elapsed time varies among digital database updates.