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Design of Information System in Disaster-Robust Zero Energy Vehicle
Design of Information System in Disaster-Robust Zero Energy Vehicle
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information handled by D-ZEV and D-ZEV mini are as
below. D-ZEV Disaster response headquarters
Directional Omnidirectional
⑨
TV antenna
Occurrence disaster information: It displays antenna Wireless communication antenna
Digital signage
⑨
Provision of information
Railway operation information: It indicates TV broadcast and
via Wi-Fi connection
Legend
information display
information on the route to/from a terminal Coaxial cable
Ethernet cable
station (for example, Shinjuku Station in Tokyo) HDMI cable
in three states: “operating,” “suspended,” and Smartphone Tablet terminal Laptop USB cable
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down. The information provision system provides
information to mobile terminals such as smartphones TABLE I. Questionnaire survey environment
and laptop computers possessed by disaster victims. It Experiment period November 13-21, 2018
also provides information on digital signages even when
Around Shinjuku Station,
the mobile terminals of the victim are damaged or runs Experiment place
Tokyo
out of battery. Figure 5 shows the system configuration
Number of Student 34 people
in D-ZEV. The database servers at the disaster response
participants Society 50 people
headquarters and D-ZEV use to manage enormous
disaster information. A web server connected to the
database server. A Web server connected D-ZEV with
IEEE 802.11j wireless LAN so that it can provide
information to mobile terminals and digital signages.
However, when providing information to mobile
terminals, it is necessary to connect D-ZEV and the
terminals via Wi-fi.
B. Information provision function for personal
terminals
Figure 6 shows the screenshot of the provided
information for mobile terminals. The information (a) For mobile devices (b) For digital signage
provided is the information shown in Chapter 2 C. By Fig. 8 Evaluation results of information
using a Web browser to show information, it applies provision function
various kinds of OS and devices, which victims may
have. The user interface changes automatically
according to the screen width of the mobile terminal and
the type of Web browser.
C. ❃igital signages function
Figure 7 shows the screenshot of the provided
information on digital signage. Two digital signages are
at the rear of D-ZEV. The information displayed on one
digital signage is the same as mobile terminals but
optimized for the screen width for digital signage. Also,
information on the screen transit automatically to
update information. There is a QR code to link Web Fig. 9 Evaluation result of information provision
page for a mobile terminal. The other digital signage system
shows disaster-related TV program. Evaluations scores in 5 to 1; 5 is “very good,” 4 is
“good,” 3 is “moderately,” 2 is “bad,” and 1 is “very bad.”
V. EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATIONS FOR
INFORMATION PROVISION SYSTEM ✂✎ D-ZEV B. Questionnaire results
A. Outline of experiments Figure 8 shows the evaluation results of the
information provision function for mobile terminals and
We conducted a questionnaire survey to evaluate the digital signage. More than 50% of participants answered
effectiveness of the information provision system. Table that information for both the mobile terminals digital
1 shows an overview of the questionnaire survey signage is useful for determining behavior. In the free
environment. In the experiment, the participants operate description column, there were some opinions. For
the information provision system and answer the example, “Menu” on the screen was hard to understand,
evaluation score of the effectiveness for both mobile and some participants could not move pages other than
terminals and the digital signages. The questionnaire the Top page. From this opinion, it is necessary to re-
items are as below; design the display and the Menu button. There was an
⑨ “Do you think that the provided information for opinion that information could not watch enough
mobile devices would be useful for determining because the transition interval of the screen differed
behavior in the case of disaster?” depending on the page. For the train operation
information, there was an opinion that it is hard to
⑨ “Do you think that the provided information for understand. They wanted to know that some trains
the digital signages would be useful for would be operating in a part of the line or not. From
determining behavior in the case of disaster?” these opinions, screen transition speed to the next screen
⑨ “Is the information provision system seeming adjusted. We added “Partial operation” state into the
useful?” railway operation information.
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Figure 9 shows the evaluation results of the entire
D-ZEV mini A D-ZEV mini B
information provision system. About 90% of the
Start processing Start processing
participants evaluated the information provision system Connection request
as useful. From this result, the combination of the Connection permission
information provision function for mobile terminals and
digital signages increases that usefulness. Create Summary
Vector
Create Summary
Vector
Summary Vector transmission
VI. THE INFORMATION-SHARING SYSTEM FOR D-ZEV Summary Vector transmission
Transmission
Since D-ZEV mini has a wireless LAN access point requested data in
that implements the DTN function, it currently order of importance
Transmission data
transmits information based on Epidemic Routing [10]. Compare SV and
In Epidemic Routing, when a node that holds data request data that
you don't have
Request data
communicates with other nodes, a Summary Vector
Transmission
that is a list of data held by each node is exchanged. requested data in
After that, by comparing the Summary Vector of a Transmission data
order of importance
sender and a receiver, they decide to send a request for Disconnect request
data exchange. The node that receives the request sends Disconnect permission
a copy of the requested data to the other node.
D-ZEV minis communicate with each other even Disconnect Disconnect
while they are running on a road. We call this situation Fig. 10 Information sharing method operation
“the passing communication.” The communication
time of the passing communication is short. Therefore, TABLE II. Preliminary experiment environment
if D-ZEV mini tries to send a large amount of data, it is Experiment date July 26, 2019
not always success sending. If communication is
Experiment place Hachioji, Tokyo
interrupted during data transmission, the transmitting
data may invalid. It is a difficult point of the passing Experiment range 100.0 [m] × 10.0 [m]
communication to share information between D-ZEV Number of participants 5 people
minis. 1.0 [MB]
Transmission data size
(=1,048,576 [Byte])
B. Information sharing system in D-ZEV mini
Number of transmitted data 50
We propose an information-sharing system aiming
to share information via D-ZEV minis. In the Number of measurements 10 times
information sharing system, it needs to tune the amount Wireless LAN standard IEEE 802.11n
of data that two D-ZEV minis transmit at one time.
Figure 10 shows the sequence chat of the information-
sharing system. As shown above, D-ZEV minis 12.0
exchange the summary vector and decide to send the 11.0
10.0
data request.
Received data volume [MB]
9.0
8.0
At this time, since transmitting data has limited size, 7.0 ✁
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ZEV mini runs 100.0 [m]. Currently, D-ZEV mini B
runs in the opposite direction from 100.0 [m] ahead and TABLE III Experiment result environment
passes D-ZEV mini A. When passing each other, they
Experiment date July 26, 2019
leave 5.0 [m], so that they will not collide. When D-
ZEV mini B enters the communication range of D-ZEV Experiment place Hachioji, Tokyo
mini A, D-ZEV mini A sends data as much as possible. Experiment range 100.0 [m] × 10.0 [m]
We measure the total amount of data received by D-
Number of participants 5 people
ZEV mini B. We estimate that the measured value as
the maximum data size that can share in one passing 1.0 [MB]
Transmission size of one data
(=1,048,576 [Byte])
communication. By setting half of the maximum data
Number of transmitted data 50
size, two D-ZEV minis will exchange the same size data.
Number of measurements 10 times
Figure 11 shows the experimental results. From the
Wireless LAN standard IEEE 802.11n
results, one passing communication can transmit about
10.0 [MB] of data. Based on this result, the amount of 12.0
data for the information-sharing system set 5.0 [MB]. 11.0 High Normal Low
10.0
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT Disaster-robust Zero Energy Vehicle(D-ZEV),” Kogakuin
University Research Institute for Urban Disaster Prevention
This research was supported by the 2016 Private Research Report, pp.49–50, 2017.
University Research Branding Project of the Ministry of
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Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology. Zero Energy Vehicle(D-ZEV),” Kogakuin University Research
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