Event Notification Apparatus for Intuitive Condition Alerts
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Solution Overview
Problem
User terminals struggle to provide intuitive and timely notifications for events related to specific conditions, such as the ripening of food or the location of items, leading to missed actions due to limited information processing and mismatch between notification receipt and action location.
Innovation Solution
An event notification apparatus attached to objects, equipped with communication circuitry, sensors, and a controller that sets conditions for events like weather, position, or danger, providing guide information through LEDs, sounds, or vibrations to users within or outside a predetermined range, and transmitting alerts to user terminals or related devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If notification is sent to user terminal, then user is informed of event occurrence, but user may forget notification when leaving the notification location
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a notification device as an intermediary between the event source and the user terminal. This device provides local visual or audible notifications at the event location, serving as a mediator that ensures users receive immediate alerts even when their terminals are not nearby or when they leave the notification location, thereby preventing information loss and reducing response delay.
2Loss of information
If application-based notification is used, then event information can be transmitted, but the type of notification is not intuitively distinguishable
Solution Approach 1:
The notification device utilizes different colors to represent different types of events or notification priorities. By visually displaying event information through color-coded indicators, the system enables users to instantly recognize the type and urgency of notifications without needing to interpret text or icon details, thereby improving notification type clarity and ease of recognition.
3Loss of information
If user terminal processes event information, then notification can be displayed, but information processing capability is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the event information processing function from the user terminal and relocates it to a dedicated notification device. This notification device is equipped with sensors and processing capabilities specifically designed for detecting and interpreting event conditions (such as motion, sound, or environmental changes). By separating these functions, the system preserves complete event information while reducing the complexity burden on user terminals, as they only need to receive and display pre-processed notification data.
Data Source
AI summary
An event notification apparatus is provided. The event notification apparatus may include a controller configured to set a condition for an event based on a command received from a terminal through communication circuitry, and to provide guide information corresponding to the event based on whether the condition set for the event is satisfied.