Angling Event Sensing for Real-Time Fishing Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current wearable devices primarily focus on monitoring human health activities and lack the capability to effectively measure and analyze data related to sporting events and environmental conditions associated with sporting equipment, such as fishing, limiting their ability to enhance the sporting experience.
Innovation Solution
A recreation monitoring platform that includes sporting event sensing devices affixed to sporting goods, equipped with various sensors to detect and record data on sporting events and environmental conditions, which can be communicated to a cloud-based system for analysis and recommendation generation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If wearable devices focus on monitoring human health activities, then health monitoring capability is improved, but the ability to measure and analyze sporting event data is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The wearable device is designed to perform multiple functions: it monitors both human health activities (heart rate, steps) and sporting event parameters (rod angle, reel rotation, environmental conditions). This multi-functionality allows a single device to serve both health tracking and sport analysis purposes, resolving the contradiction between measurement precision for sporting events and device versatility
2Quantity of substance
If sensors are added to detect sporting events and environmental conditions, then data collection capability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple sensors (accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers, environmental sensors) are merged into a single integrated sensing device that attaches to the fishing rod. This consolidation allows comprehensive data collection on sporting events and environmental conditions while managing system complexity through integrated design rather than separate components
Solution Approach 2:
The sensing device serves multiple functions simultaneously: detecting rod movement, monitoring reel rotation, measuring environmental parameters (temperature, humidity, pressure), and identifying fishing events. This multi-functionality maximizes data collection volume while avoiding the need for multiple separate devices
3Measurement precision
If processing power is increased to analyze sporting events in real-time, then event identification accuracy is improved, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary data filtering and preprocessing on the wearable device before transmission to the cloud. Basic event detection algorithms run locally to pre-identify fishing events, reducing the computational burden on energy-constrained battery-powered sensors while maintaining identification accuracy
Solution Approach 2:
A cloud-based processing system acts as an intermediary between the wearable sensor and the user. Complex event analysis and pattern recognition are performed on cloud servers with abundant computing power, allowing accurate real-time event identification without requiring high energy consumption from the portable device
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AI summary
Provided herein is an angling apparatus to identify angling events. The apparatus includes an angling event sensing device with at least one sensor, a processor to identify an angling event based on data from the sensor, and an input device to allow a user to enter data related to the angling event.