Entrance Detection Device for Automatic Mobile Message Delivery

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users of mobile radio devices face difficulties navigating and finding information about their surroundings, as existing systems require manual effort to search for and receive reminders and location-specific information, often resulting in inefficient navigation and missed tasks due to poor detection precision.

Innovation Solution

A system with a sensing device at facility entrances that detects user passage via an input element, independent of mobile networks, and transmits targeted messages to the user's mobile device, using contact information stored in a storage device, ensuring precise location detection and needs-based information delivery.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If users manually search for facilities and specify reminders, then they can receive location-specific information, but the navigation process becomes time-consuming and complex

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of navigationVSAvoidtime for searching and specifying
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically detects user passage through entrances using detection devices and independently sends targeted messages without requiring manual user input. The detection device autonomously identifies when a user enters a facility and triggers message transmission, eliminating the need for users to manually search for facilities or specify reminder details.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system pre-configures detection devices at facility entrances to automatically recognize user passage and trigger appropriate messages in advance. By having detection devices positioned and programmed beforehand, the system prepares to deliver location-specific information immediately upon user arrival, eliminating delays associated with manual searching and specification.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Loss of information

If users independently search for facilities, then they can find location-specific information, but the search process becomes difficult and may result in missed facilities

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompleteness of information receivedVSAvoidcomplexity of search process
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The detection device provides automatic feedback to the user by detecting passage through entrances and triggering appropriate messages. This closed-loop system ensures users receive relevant information about facilities they have entered without needing to actively search or query, preventing information loss while simplifying the interaction to a passive receive mode.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The detection device acts as an intermediary between the facility and the user, automatically detecting passage and translating it into triggered messages. This intermediary eliminates the need for users to directly search for facilities, reducing search complexity while ensuring complete information delivery about entered facilities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Measurement precision

If the system uses mobile radio network for detection, then it can transmit messages, but the detection precision decreases and requires user activity

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprecision of passage detectionVSAvoiduser activity required
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system replaces mobile radio network-based detection with a local detection device that uses optical or electromagnetic fields to detect passage through entrances. This substitution achieves higher detection precision by using dedicated detection infrastructure at facility entrances rather than relying on mobile network signals, while simultaneously eliminating the need for user activity since detection occurs passively at the entrance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Data Source

PatentEP2632181B1System and method for automatically sending messages to a mobile wireless device
Publication Date: 2015.10.21 CAPINVISION
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AI summary

The invention relates to a system (11) for automatically sending at least one message via at least one mobile network to at least one mobile device (20), comprising at least one detection device (26) arranged at an input (14) to a device (10), which is configured to detect a user (22) of the mobile device (20) passing through the input (14) as a result of an interaction of an input element (24) of the user (22) with the detection device (26) that is independent of a mobile network, and to transmit at least one trigger signal as a result of detecting the passing, and comprising a transmitting device (34) coupled to the detection device (26), which is configured to receive the trigger signal and to transmit the at least one message to the mobile device (22) as a result of receiving the trigger signal.Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for automatically sending at least one message via at least one mobile network to at least one mobile device (20).