Bluetooth Beacon Data Segmentation for Transmission Capacity Limits

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Solution Overview

Problem

Bluetooth-based data transmission is limited by its low-power wireless communication, resulting in restricted transmission data size, which hinders the expansion of service areas and types of data that can be transmitted.

Innovation Solution

A method where encoded data is divided into multiple partial data pieces, with each piece transmitted within the allowed data size, ensuring that the beacon device can combine and decode them, utilizing a predetermined guaranteed transmission speed and selecting appropriate encoding schemes to manage additional data size effectively.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Use of energy by moving object

If Bluetooth low-power wireless communication is used for data transmission, then power consumption is reduced, but transmission data size is limited

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvepower consumptionVSAvoidtransmission data size

Core Design Contradiction:

Use of energy by moving objectVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The encoded data is divided into multiple pieces of partial data, where each piece fits within the Bluetooth transmission data size limit. The beacon device then combines these partial data pieces to reconstruct the original encoded data, enabling transmission of larger data volumes over the low-power Bluetooth connection.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Reliability

If encoding is applied to original data for secure transmission, then data security is improved, but additional data size is added

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata securityVSAvoiddata size

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The encoding process adds overhead data for security, but the total encoded data is then segmented into multiple partial data pieces. This segmentation allows the securely encoded data to be transmitted within Bluetooth size constraints by distributing the encoded content across multiple smaller transmission units.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

3Adaptability or versatility

If transmission data size is increased to accommodate various data types, then service area expansion is enabled, but Bluetooth transmission capacity is exceeded

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveservice areaVSAvoidtransmission data size

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

By segmenting encoded data into multiple partial data pieces that each fit within Bluetooth transmission limits, the system can transmit various types of data including location information, sensor data, and application-specific information over Bluetooth, thereby expanding service capabilities without exceeding transmission capacity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system transitions from single-dimension transmission (one data packet) to multi-dimensional transmission (multiple partial data pieces transmitted sequentially or in parallel), allowing larger data volumes to be conveyed through repeated Bluetooth transmissions while maintaining low power consumption.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Data Source

PatentUS9497574B2System and method for transmitting data based on Bluetooth, and apparatus applied to the same

Publication Date: 2016.11.15 SK PLANET CO LTD

AI summary

Disclosed are a Bluetooth-based data transmission system and method, and an apparatus applied thereto. That is, when an original data is encoded and transmitted based on Bluetooth between a User Equipment (UE) and a beacon device, the encoded data is divided into partial data in consideration of a transmission data size and thus, various data may be transmitted irrespective of a transmission data size.