Exercise Data Sorting by Sensor Proximity
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Solution Overview
Problem
In exercise monitoring systems, supervisors face difficulties in quickly identifying and accessing real-time data from multiple exercise sensors worn by team members or participants during dynamic activities due to the lack of effective sorting based on distance or proximity to the monitoring device.
Innovation Solution
The system employs a processing unit in the exercise monitoring device to receive signals from exercise sensors, sort them based on distance, location, and orientation data, and display the exercise data in a prioritized manner, ensuring that the supervisor can easily access the data of the closest or most relevant sensor, even as the sensors and supervisor move within the exercise area.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If exercise data from multiple sensors is displayed simultaneously without sorting, then all data is visible, but it becomes difficult to quickly find the data of the desired person
Solution Approach 1:
The display dynamically reorders exercise data based on real-time distance calculations between the monitoring device and each exercise sensor. As participants move during exercise, their data positions on the display automatically update, with the closest participant's data always appearing first. This dynamic sorting resolves the contradiction by maintaining full data visibility while enabling rapid identification of desired information through position-based prioritization.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the ordering parameter of displayed data from static (e.g., fixed list order or alphabetical) to dynamic based on distance parameter. By calculating real-time distance between the monitoring device and each sensor, the system reorganizes data presentation priority, allowing supervisors to quickly locate desired data without losing visibility of other participants' information.
2Ease of operation
If exercise data is sorted by distance to prioritize closest sensors, then the supervisor can quickly identify nearest participants, but the system requires processing distance calculations and dynamic reordering
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary distance calculations using location data received from exercise sensors and the monitoring device. By pre-computing distances and maintaining a sorted order based on these calculations, the system prepares data in the optimal display sequence before presentation. This preliminary sorting action reduces the complexity of real-time display management while ensuring quick access to nearest participant data.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces complex mechanical or manual sorting mechanisms with automated computational processing. Instead of physical reorganization or manual intervention, the system uses software-based distance calculations and data reordering algorithms to achieve automatic prioritization. This substitution reduces operational complexity while maintaining ease of accessing nearest sensor data through intelligent automated sorting.
3Reliability
If the display shows all exercise sensors in real-time during hectic exercise sessions, then complete monitoring is achieved, but the supervisor cannot easily locate specific participant data
Solution Approach 1:
The display dynamically prioritizes participant data based on real-time distance, creating a moving target list where the closest participant always appears first. This dynamic ordering maintains complete monitoring coverage while significantly reducing the time to locate specific participant data, as the supervisor can quickly scan from the top of the list where nearest participants are displayed. The system resolves the contradiction by making the display adaptive rather than static.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the display information hierarchy by distance priority, dividing participant data into ranked segments based on proximity. Rather than presenting all data uniformly, the system creates a segmented structure where data is grouped and ordered by spatial relationship to the monitoring device. This segmentation enables rapid location of desired data within segments while maintaining reliability through complete display of all participant information across the full display.
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AI summary
There is provided an exercise monitoring device, comprising: a display configured to display exercise data with respect to a plurality of exercisers during a group exercise session. The exercise monitoring device is caused to: receive a signal wirelessly from each of a plurality of exercise sensors, wherein each exercise sensor measures the exercise data with respect to an exerciser carrying the respective exercise sensor; perform sorting of the plurality of exercise sensors at least partly on the basis of the received signals during the group exercise session; and display the exercise data on the display on the basis of the sorting during the group exercise session.