BLE Paging System with Response Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional paging systems face limitations in efficiently connecting users with service providers over long distances and lack real-time response tracking, leading to suboptimal service quality and delayed responses.
Innovation Solution
A paging system utilizing Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons that transmit specific RF signals, allowing users to request services and enabling efficient communication between users and service providers through IoT technology, with a server managing responses and service quality metrics.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If conventional paging systems are used, then basic paging functionality is provided, but communication efficiency and response tracking capability are insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the system tracks and measures the response time from when a paging signal is sent to when the service provider responds. This feedback loop enables the system to monitor communication efficiency and identify areas for improvement, directly addressing the contradiction between communication efficiency and response time.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces conventional paging mechanisms with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology, which enables more efficient wireless communication. This substitution allows for faster signal transmission and reception, improving communication efficiency while reducing response time through the use of modern wireless protocols.
2Speed
If BLE beacon technology is implemented, then communication speed and accuracy are improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent leverages the universality of BLE technology, which is already widely integrated into smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices. By using a communication protocol that is already present in most user devices, the system achieves fast communication without requiring additional specialized hardware, thus minimizing the increase in system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system utilizes the existing BLE capabilities of user devices to perform communication functions without requiring complex additional infrastructure. The devices themselves provide the communication service through their built-in BLE modules, reducing the need for complex external systems while maintaining high communication speed.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables rapid and accurate communication between users and service providers, improving service quality by tracking response times and ensuring timely service delivery.
Implementation Method 1
a beacon paging system capable of transferring to a service provider a signal corresponding to a request by using Bluetooth low energy (BLE) beacon devices
Data Source
AI summary
A paging system comprise paging buttons configured to transmit a first signal including a paging request; a server configured to: receive the first signal, identify which of the paging buttons transmit the first signal received by the server, and transmit to at least one portable device a second signal including information on an identifier corresponding to the identified paging button that transmits the first signal, and the paging request; and at least one portable device configured to: display the identifier corresponding to the identified paging button and/or the paging request based on the second signal, and transmit to the server a third signal in response to an acceptance input responded to the paging request. The server transmits to at least one portable device a fourth signal confirming that the portable device transmitting the third signal is matched to the identified paging button in response to the third signal.