Mobile Device Pairing for Exercise Equipment Data Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing exercising devices and mobile devices lack efficient communication and data sharing capabilities, limiting their ability to form a unified system for displaying, processing, and controlling user sessions and sensor data during physical activities.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus and exercising device with processing cores and memory configured to communicate and pair, allowing for bidirectional data transfer, control of user interfaces, and analysis of sensor data, enabling a mobile device to serve as a display, interface, or memory for the exercising device, and vice versa, with minimal system requirements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If exercising devices are equipped with internal displays, user interfaces and memory, then they can store and process data locally, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the display, user interface, and memory functions from the exercising device and relocates them to a separate mobile device. The exercising device retains only the essential exercise functions and sensors, while the mobile device handles data storage, processing, and user interaction through its existing components like touchscreen, keyboard, and buttons.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile device serves multiple functions: it acts as a display for exercising device data, provides a user interface for controlling exercise parameters, stores exercise session data and sensor data, and processes information. This multi-functional approach eliminates the need for dedicated components in the exercising device.
2Ease of operation
If exercising devices have integrated display and interface components, then user interaction is possible, but the device becomes less portable and more expensive
Solution Approach 1:
The user interface components (display, touchscreen, keyboard, buttons) are extracted from the exercising device and implemented on the mobile device. The exercising device communicates with the mobile device through wireless signals, allowing full user interaction without integrated components.
3Reliability
If exercising devices store sensor data and user sessions locally, then data can be accessed during exercise, but memory requirements and device cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The memory function is extracted from the exercising device and implemented in the mobile device. The mobile device's existing memory stores exercise session data, sensor data from both devices, and processed information, eliminating the need for dedicated memory in the exercising device.
4Productivity
If exercising devices process and analyze sensor data internally, then real-time analysis is possible, but processing power requirements and device complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The data processing and analysis functions are extracted from the exercising device and implemented in the mobile device. The mobile device's processing core compiles messages from sensor data, derives activity types, and performs analysis, while the exercising device only performs basic signal transmission.
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AI summary
According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus comprising at least one processing core, at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code being configured to, with the at least one processing core, cause the apparatus at least to receive a first signal from an exercising device, process the received signal, respond to the received signal by transmitting a second signal to the exercising device, and participate in a pairing process with the exercising device.