Adhesive Wireless Transducer Platform for Seamless Asset Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional wireless communication and transducer technologies are costly and lack flexibility, making them unsuitable for seamless integration into various applications and workflows, particularly in sensing, notification, security, and tracking scenarios where infrastructure gaps hinder continuous monitoring and event detection across heterogeneous environments.
Innovation Solution
A low-cost, multi-function adhesive wireless communications and transducer platform that integrates transducers and wireless communication devices within a flexible adhesive structure, enabling seamless deployment as adhesive tapes, labels, or stickers, with autonomous or collective operation modes for location tracking and data sharing, even in areas without existing infrastructure.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional wireless communication and transducer technologies are used, then reliable communication and sensing functions are achieved, but cost increases and flexibility is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines wireless communication devices and transducers into a single integrated adhesive platform, merging multiple functions (communication, sensing, notification) into one unified device that maintains reliability while reducing complexity through consolidation
Solution Approach 2:
The adhesive platform is designed as a universal solution that can perform multiple functions including wireless communication, various types of sensing (temperature, motion, sound, light), and notification capabilities, eliminating the need for separate dedicated devices for each function
2Reliability
If rigid wireless communication devices are used, then stable signal transmission is achieved, but adaptability to diverse deployment environments is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs flexible adhesive materials as the structural base for the wireless communication device, allowing it to be conformally applied to various surfaces and deployed in diverse environments while maintaining signal transmission capabilities through the flexible circuit board and antenna design
3Reliability
If infrastructure-based wireless communication systems are used, then reliable data transmission is achieved, but coverage gaps in heterogeneous environments increase
Solution Approach 1:
The adhesive platform functions as a self-contained wireless communication node that can operate autonomously without requiring external infrastructure support, enabling data transmission and sensing capabilities in areas where traditional infrastructure is absent or insufficient
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AI summary
A low-cost, multi-function adhesive wireless communications and transducer platform with a form factor that unobtrusively integrates one or more transducers and one or more wireless communication devices in an adhesive product system. In an aspect, the adhesive product system integrates transducer and wireless communication components within a flexible adhesive structure in a way that not only provides a cost-effective platform for interconnecting, optimizing, and protecting the constituent components but also maintains the flexibility needed to function as an adhesive product that can be deployed seamlessly and unobtrusively into various applications and workflows, including sensing, notification, security, and object tracking applications, and asset management workflows such as manufacturing, storage, shipping, delivery, and other logistics associated with moving products and other physical objects.