WO2002067221A2

WO2002067221A2 - Method for positioning a mobile object

Info

Publication number: WO2002067221A2
Application number: PCT/DE2002/000602
Authority: WO
Inventors: Ralf Lentering; Jochen Wander; Thomas TÖLG
Original assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Priority date: 2001-02-21
Filing date: 2002-02-20
Publication date: 2002-08-29
Also published as: DE10108399A1; WO2002067221A8; WO2002067221A3

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for positioning a mobile object by generating, based on the actual position coordinates oft the object determined earlier and using a positioning unit, a position description in a text and/or speech form and transmitting this position description to a communication terminal and then outputting it by way of said communication terminal.

Description

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_d it will be illustrated card, and additional transmitted ^¬ ter, textually representable vehicle information ge ^¬ are dripped. This additional vehicle information can be, for example, the status of the vehicle, such as the state of charge, a break or a stay in a traffic jam. However, the driver can also have free text messages, order processing status or telemetry data. When telemetry data ^¬ men readings kom of the vehicle such as pressure, outside temperature, and for example in refrigerated vehicles and the temperature in the In ^¬ Neren of the hold in question. In addition, emergency vehicle can be registered even ^¬ ^¬ ver understandable and evaluates are.

Furthermore, such methods for locating mobile objects can also be used in order to be able to track vehicles without the driver noticing this, for example for locating stolen vehicles. With this use too, the position is usually determined by the staff, for example at the police or at a special security service, by means of a visual evaluation of object symbols on a card in a central location.

In the usual methods, the use of a PC or PC-like computer coupled to a communication device is consequently a prerequisite for controlling the system and visualizing the position information. Localization and disposition of the fleet objects is only possible at the location of the computer or an associated terminal. This severely limits the possibilities of using localization and disposition, especially with regard to control centers in mobile or mobile use. Especially in companies with only a small fleet, for example medium-sized forwarding companies with only a few

Vehicles, maintaining a central office with speaking staff with too high financing costs, which is not profitable.

The object of the present invention to provide an alternative to the state of the art, is possible with the localization and thus disposition of objects at any time, from any location from a simple and kostengünsti ^¬ ge way.

This object is according to claim dissolves by a method according to claim 1 and by a locating unit 13 ge ^¬.

According to the invention, a location description is automatically generated in a text and / or language form from the determined current location coordinates of the object for localizing a mobile object. This localization unit is, for example, a facility of an independent service provider.

The current location coordinates can be determined in any way. For example, the localization unit can request the coordinates of the object itself, which the object has determined using GPS or a similar method, as in the prior art mentioned above. However, the localization unit can also be connected to a corresponding location network, with which the individual objects to be localized are aimed. So z. For example, a location can be located with the aid of a mobile radio network, for example using the so-called “timing advance method *”, in which the distance to the base stations is determined via the transit times to the individual base stations.

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However, this data is preferably already stored in a database for certain objects which can be localized by a localization unit. Based on the request parameters, the identified object to be localized with the help of the vomit ^¬ cherten data and the associated Datenfunkpa- parameters retrieved from the database so that a Kommunikati ^¬ on the respective object is then possible by the localization unit.

The localization unit thus manages a database with all current information about the mobile objects to be located. This database can be queried and, if necessary, changed by an authorized user from any communication terminal.

In this case, a prior registration with the service with the respective objects is necessary. In such a registration, not only the objects are generally defined, but also codes for authenticating the communication terminals, from which a query can be made about the locations of the associated objects, or codes for coding the transmitted information are exchanged.

When registering, the payment mode for the use of the localization unit or the service can also be regulated in a simple manner, for example, an account number can be stored in which the costs for the use of the service are debited. This keeps the administrative effort low both for the operator of the localization unit and for the user.

The localization unit can be implemented entirely or partially in the form of software, the complete software implementation being preferred on account of the lower costs and greater variability. A corresponding computer program can in principle be operated on any computer with sufficient computing power and with suitable interfaces or connections the required communication technology. Only some parts of the Lokalisierungsemheit in ^¬ play as fast encoder or decoder for communica ^¬ tion with the object to be localized or for communication with the communication terminal, preferably in the form of hardware implemented, as can be achieved with such components faster encoding / decoding.

In a preferred embodiment, the localization unit is at least partially integrated in an Internet server or coupled to an Internet server. That is, the localization unit is installed, for example, on a computer that has access to the Internet. The Internet server, which preferably has a WAP gateway, thus quasi forms an interface for communication with the mobile radio devices or other communication terminals. This localization unit is suitable as a facility for an independent online service on the Internet.

In an alternative embodiment, the localization unit is installed on a server that can be reached via the analog telephone network by means of voice modems in order to communicate with the localization unit via voice using a normal telephone, or the localization unit is with a corresponding server that can be reached via the telephone network coupled. Of course, it can also be a server that is both connected to the Internet and can be reached via voice modems via the telephone network.

The invention is explained in more detail below with reference to the accompanying drawing using exemplary embodiments. The features shown there and the features already described above can be essential to the invention not only in the combinations mentioned, but also individually or in other combinations. At this point it is expressly pointed out that also features which are only mentioned in connection with the method, as well bezüg ^¬ Lich the locating unit or the computer program for performing the method can be essential to the invention and vice versa.

The single figure shows a schematic representation of the method according to the invention, in which a mobile radio device is used as communication terminal t.

This is an implementation of the method according to the invention as a WAP service. In the exemplary embodiment shown, the localization unit 2 is installed on a server that can be reached via a WAP gateway. This WAP server is the external interface to the communication terminal 4. The localization unit 2 is located here in a single computer. Of course, the individual components of the localization unit can also be arranged in appropriately networked devices.

The communication terminal 4 is a commercially available WAP-capable mobile radio device 4 with a keyboard 5 and a display 6. The method can be used as follows:

As a customer (client), the mobile radio device 4 first sends a general request, a so-called “request * R,” to the localization unit 2. In the present case, this is done by sending the request R to the Internet address, the so-called server URL (universal Resource Location), of the service operating the localization unit.

In response, the service or the localization unit generates a control menu M in the form of a WML page and sends this page back to the mobile radio device 4, i. H. to the

Client. As a user interface, this page contains all display and dialog elements necessary for operation, so that the mobile device does not require any special hardware or software requirements. The operation using the WML form shown on the display 6 essentially takes place via a micro browser using the normal keyboard 5 of the mobile radio device 4.

The user thus configures the objects 1 to be located next. The control menu M offers, in particular, the mobile objects available to the client and information about them, which are stored in a database in a memory 3 of the localization unit 2. This data is transmitted, for example, when a user and the objects belonging to him, for example the vehicle fleet, log on for the first time to the localization unit or the service which operates the localization unit and is stored accordingly.

It also determines how the next reply should be. Possible u. a. holding an online connection until the reply by the localization unit 2 in the form of a new WML page, picking up when the connection between the communication terminal 4 and the localization unit 2 is re-established in the form of a WML page, or a response in the form of an SMS message to the mobile device 4. In addition, other types of transmission are of course also conceivable.

The WML form thus forms the complete control menu M for configuring the query or for generating the requirement parameters AP, on the basis of which the localization unit 2 determines the location coordinates for the individual objects 1 and converts the location coordinates into location descriptions and sends them back to the mobile radio device 4 ,

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The user operates the menu announced on the phone again using the DTMF codes with his keyboard and thus configures the objects to be arranged next. As with the WAP version, it is determined how the response should be, for example as an online connection to the response as a voice announcement, by picking up a voice announcement when the connection is re-established or as an SMS response to the phone, provided that this is SMS-capable ,

After processing all the menus required for configuration, i.e. H. after transmission of all request parameters, the entire request is acknowledged again and the further process is finally triggered. As in the first exemplary embodiment, the location coordinates of the desired object or the desired objects are obtained from the localization unit and converted into a location description in the desired form as a voice or text message. This voice or text message is then sent back to the phone.

Of course, not only mobile radio devices, but also any type of dialogue-capable communication devices, in particular also DTMF-capable fixed network telephones, can be used to carry out the method according to the invention. Since in the second exemplary embodiment only authentication and control is carried out using DTMF characters, in principle the method can even be used from a public telephone.

Claims

claims

1. A method for locating a mobile object (1), in which determined by a locating unit (2) from refreshes ^¬ economic location coordinates (SK) of said object (1) a location description (SB) in a text and / or voice is generated and this location description (SB) is transmitted to a communication terminal (4) for output.

2. The method according to claim 1, characterized by the following method steps carried out by the localization unit (2):

- Transmission of a control menu (M) to the communication terminal (4),

Receiving of request parameters (AP), which were generated by means of the communication terminal (4) using the control menu (M) to obtain location information about a certain object (1), - determining the current location coordinates (SK) of the certain object (1) Basis of the requirement parameters (AP),

- Generation of the location description (SB) from the location coordinates (SK), - Transmission of the location description (SB) to the communication terminal (4).

3. The method according to claim 2, characterized in that the control menu (M) comprises a user interface that can be shown on a display (6) of the communication terminal (1).

4. The method according to claim 2 or 3, characterized in that the control menu comprises voice instructions.

5. The method as claimed in one of claims 2 to 4, characterized in that the request parameters (AP) comprise identification and / or radio data parameters of the object (1) to be located.

6. The method according to any one of claims 2 to 4, characterized in that identification and / or radio data transmission parameters are stored in a database for specific objects and on the basis of the request parameters (AP) from the localization unit (2) an object (1) to be localized is identified and the associated radio data transmission parameters are retrieved from the database.

7. The method as claimed in one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the communication terminal (4) is authenticated to the localization unit (2) in order to obtain the control menu (M).

8. The method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the authentication of the communication terminal and / or the transmission of the control menu and / or the transmission of the request parameters takes place with a data transmission according to the WAP standard.

9. The method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the location description (SB) is generated from the location coordinates (SK) using a vector map database.

10. The method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that additional information is transmitted from the object via the localization unit to the communication terminal.

11. The method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the method is used in the control of a vehicle fleet.

12th Method according to one of the preceding claims, d a d u r c h g e k e n n z e i c h n e t that the communication terminal (4) is a mobile radio device (4).

13. Localization unit (1) for carrying out a method according to one of the preceding claims

Means for receiving location coordinates (SK) of an object (1) and means for generating a location description (SB) in a text and / or language form from the location coordinates (SK) and

Means for transmitting the location description (SB) to a communication terminal (4).

14. Localization unit according to claim 13, characterized by ch

Means for transmitting a control menu (M) to the communication terminal (4) and means for receiving request parameters (AP) generated by means of the communication terminal (4) using the control menu (M) to obtain location information about a specific object (1) were.

15. Localization unit according to claim 13 or 14, characterized by means for controlling a location system.

16. Localization unit according to one of claims 13 to 15, characterized in that the localization unit

(2) is at least partially integrated into an Internet server or coupled to an Internet server.

17. Computer program with program code means to carry out all steps according to claims 1 to 12 when the program is executed on a computer.

18. Program with program code means according to claim 16, which are stored on a computer-readable data carrier.