Cheering Stick Pairing Kiosks With Centralized Performance Updates
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing kiosk systems for cheering stick pairing services in concert halls lack centralized management, leading to inefficiencies in updating performance-related information, manual operation, and lack of real-time monitoring, which hampers timely response to issues and data collection.
Innovation Solution
A kiosk setting method and system with a central management device that integrates control of multiple kiosks, enabling real-time monitoring and data collection, and allows for efficient updating of performance information across kiosks regardless of network environment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a plurality of kiosks are installed in a concert hall to provide cheering stick pairing service, then the service coverage and user capacity are improved, but the complexity of individually managing and updating each kiosk increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple kiosks are merged into a unified networked system where each kiosk can communicate with others and share performance information. The kiosks are combined into a collaborative network that operates collectively rather than individually, allowing centralized management while maintaining distributed service delivery.
Solution Approach 2:
Each kiosk is designed with multi-functionality to serve multiple roles: it can independently provide pairing services to users, receive and process performance information from the central server, share information with other kiosks, and adapt to different network environments (online/offline modes). This universal design reduces the need for separate management systems for each kiosk.
2Reliability
If performance information is updated manually in each kiosk individually, then each kiosk maintains accurate local information, but the time and human resources required for updates increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
Performance information is prepared and validated in advance on the central server before being distributed to multiple kiosks. The central server performs preliminary processing, formatting, and verification of the information, so that when it is pushed to kiosks, minimal local processing is needed, reducing update time while maintaining accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where kiosks report their information status and reception confirmation back to the central server. This allows the server to verify successful updates and trigger retransmission if needed, ensuring information accuracy across all kiosks without requiring manual verification at each location.
3Ease of operation
If each kiosk operates independently without central management, then each kiosk has operational autonomy, but real-time monitoring and response to issues become impossible
Solution Approach 1:
The system is segmented into autonomous kiosk units that each maintain their own operational independence and local decision-making capabilities. Each kiosk can continue serving users even when disconnected from the central network, preserving operational autonomy while being part of a larger monitored system.
Solution Approach 2:
Kiosks continuously transmit operational status, pairing data, and error logs to the central server through feedback channels. This enables real-time monitoring of all kiosks without interfering with their autonomous operation. The central server can detect issues and provide remote assistance while kiosks maintain their independent user-facing functions.
4Loss of information
If pairing information is collected from each kiosk manually after performance, then data can be gathered for analysis, but the process is time-consuming and labor-intensive
Solution Approach 1:
Kiosks automatically generate and transmit their own pairing information, operational logs, and performance data to the central server without requiring manual data extraction. The kiosks perform self-service data reporting, eliminating the need for operators to manually collect information from each kiosk after performances.
Solution Approach 2:
Data collection is made continuous rather than periodic or manual. Kiosks continuously transmit pairing information and operational data to the central server throughout and after performances, ensuring complete data capture without interrupting service or requiring post-performance manual collection efforts.
Data Source
AI summary
A terminal setting method for a cheering stick pairing service according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is performed by a processor of a second terminal and includes: establishing a connection with a first terminal via an independent wireless network formed by the first terminal acting as an Access Point (AP); receiving, from the first terminal via the independent wireless network, setting information determined from performance information pre-stored in the first terminal; updating stored performance information in a memory of the second terminal based on the received setting information; and providing the cheering stick pairing service based on the updated stored performance information, wherein the providing comprises transmitting at least a part of the updated stored performance information to a cheering stick.