Chest Sensor Array for Synchronized Energy Prescription Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing technologies lack effective methods to utilize smaller, body-mounted audiovisual communication devices for immersive sensory experiences that provide lifestyle, medical, and wellness benefits, requiring technological improvements for synchronized energy delivery to affect multiple body parts simultaneously.
Innovation Solution
A networked system of data communication devices, including devices mounted on fingernails, head, and chest, that generate synchronized energy signals to affect nerves and physiological data across multiple body parts, using energy generators and sensors to deliver energy prescriptions responsive to a unified control signal.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If smaller body-mounted audiovisual communication devices are used to create immersive sensory experiences, then lifestyle and wellness benefits are improved, but technological capability to deliver synchronized energy to multiple body parts simultaneously is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the body-mounted communication system into multiple independent devices, each capable of generating energy signals. These devices are placed at different body locations (e.g., chest, head, limbs) and can be controlled independently or synchronously through a network connection, enabling versatile wellness applications while maintaining manageable device complexity
Solution Approach 2:
Each body-mounted communication device is designed to perform multiple functions: audiovisual communication, sensory stimulation, and energy signal generation. This multi-functionality allows a single device type to serve various wellness and communication needs, improving adaptability without requiring increasingly complex specialized devices
2Reliability
If synchronized energy signals are delivered to multiple body parts simultaneously to affect nerves and physiological data, then therapeutic efficacy is improved, but system complexity and coordination requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system incorporates sensors that monitor physiological data from the user's body and use this information to automatically adjust the energy signals being delivered. This feedback mechanism ensures therapeutic efficacy by adapting to the user's real-time physiological state while reducing the need for complex manual coordination, as the system self-regulates based on measured parameters
Solution Approach 2:
Multiple energy signal generation capabilities are merged into a coordinated system that operates under unified control. The devices communicate through a network to synchronize their energy output, creating a combined therapeutic effect that is more effective than individual devices alone, while the network coordination simplifies the control architecture compared to fully independent devices
Data Source
AI summary
One aspect described herein is a data communication apparatus. The apparatus may comprise: electronic components operable to gather and output different types of physiological measurements associated with a user's chest, the electronic components comprising a multimodal sensor array, a transceiver, and a power source; and a housing that contains the electronic components and comprises an attachment element operable to maintain an alignment of the multimodal sensor array over the user's chest, wherein, when the housing is maintained over the user's chest, the multimodal sensor array is operable with the power source to measure the different types of physiological measurements, and the transceiver is operable with the power source and the sensor array to output the different types of physiological measurements to an external device. Related apparatus, devices, methods, and systems also are described.