Beacon Terminal Scanning Device for Bluetooth Service Provisioning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional Bluetooth-based information providing services face increased battery power consumption due to continuous scanning operations for beacon devices, hindering the generalization of these services.
Innovation Solution
A terminal scanning device that scans for nearby terminals, executes pre-installed applications, and provides user information to a service server, allowing for automatic information delivery without continuous scanning, using Bluetooth technology to link terminals with service servers for necessary information provision.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If continuous scanning operation is performed to recognize terminal approach or entry, then service reliability is improved, but battery power consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of having the terminal continuously scan for beacon devices (terminal-initiated scanning), the patent inverts the approach by having the beacon device perform scanning to detect approaching terminals. This inversion transfers the scanning burden from the terminal to the beacon infrastructure, maintaining service reliability while significantly reducing terminal battery power consumption.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a communication intermediary mechanism where the beacon device acts as a mediator between the terminal and the service server. The beacon detects terminals and facilitates information exchange through a server, eliminating the need for continuous terminal scanning while maintaining reliable service delivery.
2Measurement precision
If service app is executed in foreground or background for continuous scanning, then information provision accuracy is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the scanning function from the terminal's service application and relocates it to the beacon device. This separation eliminates the need for complex continuous scanning operations in the terminal app, reducing device complexity while maintaining accurate detection of terminal approach or entry through the beacon's scanning capability.
3Productivity
If terminal continuously scans for beacon device, then service responsiveness is improved, but loss of energy increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent inverts the scanning initiative from terminal-to-beacon to beacon-to-terminal. The beacon device continuously scans for approaching terminals and initiates communication, ensuring service responsiveness is maintained while the terminal consumes minimal energy by not performing continuous scanning operations.
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AI summary
Disclosed are a system and a method for providing a service using a terminal scanning device. When the terminal scanning device scans for a terminal located within a particular range, executes a particular application pre-installed in a terminal found through the scanning, and provides user information of the found terminal to a service server, the found terminal receives a particular service related to the user information from the service server through a link with the particular application executed by the terminal scanning device. Therefore, necessary information can be automatically provided to the terminal when the terminal approaches a particular place such as a shop or a building without a continuous scanning operation.