Audio Beacon and Visual Tag Event Detection System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional event management systems fail to provide real-time information to participants, especially in large indoor venues with multiple concurrent events, and do not dynamically detect events based on a user's current location and time, limiting participant engagement and awareness of ongoing sessions and objects.
Innovation Solution
A system using audio beacons and visual tags that transmit location codes to mobile devices, allowing the event management server to identify events in real time and provide relevant content, including session details and object information, through an acoustic communication network and camera-based visual tag data processing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If conventional event management systems are used, then basic event information can be provided, but real-time dynamic event detection and information delivery based on user location is not achieved
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces audio beacons and visual tags as intermediary elements deployed throughout the event venue. These beacons and tags act as mediators between the user's mobile device and the event management system, enabling location-based event detection without requiring complex infrastructure modifications to the existing system architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical location tracking methods with acoustic field-based detection. Audio beacons transmit acoustic signals that are captured by the user's mobile device, allowing for precise location identification without complex mechanical tracking systems or additional hardware installations at user locations.
2Productivity
If audio beacons and visual tags are deployed throughout the venue, then real-time location-based event detection is enabled, but the device complexity and infrastructure requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes existing mobile devices universal by utilizing their built-in cameras and audio capabilities for event detection. Instead of requiring specialized tracking hardware at user locations, the system leverages the universal presence of smartphones and tablets that participants already carry, eliminating the need for additional complex user-side infrastructure.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service location detection by having the mobile device itself capture audio beacons and visual tags without requiring external tracking systems. The user's own device performs the detection function, eliminating the need for complex centralized tracking infrastructure or additional hardware installations.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple concurrent events are held in large indoor venues, then event diversity and participant engagement opportunities increase, but the difficulty of detecting and measuring ongoing events increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the large indoor venue into multiple smaller detection zones by deploying distributed audio beacons and visual tags throughout the space. Each beacon-tag pair defines a specific location zone, allowing the system to independently detect and measure events in each zone simultaneously, making event detection manageable despite the overall venue size and concurrent event quantity.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods for event management are described. In one embodiment of the present subject matter, an audio beacon indicative of a location code associated with a location is received from a user device by an event management system. The event management system may then identify the location and an event associated with the location, based on a current time and an event schedule. Event content related to the identified event may then be provided to the user device in real time. In another embodiment, visual tag data pertaining to color coded tags embedded in one or more objects in the location of the event may be received and information content related to the object may be provided to the user device, based on the event schedule.