Floor Light System for Dynamic Space Reservation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional yoga studios face challenges in efficiently managing space reservations, leading to participants arriving early to claim desirable areas, which can result in suboptimal space utilization and user experience.
Innovation Solution
A light-based system embedded in the floor, controlled by a processor and transceiver, that allows users to reserve spaces remotely by emitting specific colors or patterns to indicate occupied or available spaces, enabling dynamic rearrangement for optimal space allocation and ambiance creation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional yoga studios use open space without reservation system, then participants can freely choose spaces, but early arrivals claim desirable areas leading to suboptimal space utilization
Solution Approach 1:
The system allows participants to reserve spaces in advance through a transceiver and processor before arriving at the studio. The processor stores reservation data and pre-assigns spaces, eliminating the need for early arrival to claim desirable areas and optimizing space utilization from the outset.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a light-based communication system as an intermediary between the reservation system and participants. Lights embedded in the floor emit different colors to indicate reservation status (available, reserved, occupied), providing real-time visual feedback without requiring complex digital interfaces at each space.
2Loss of information
If the system uses lights to indicate reserved spaces, then participants can easily identify their spaces, but the system complexity increases with multiple lights and control mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple functions into a single integrated system. The same light infrastructure serves both as ambient lighting and as informational indicators for space status. The processor centralizes control of all lights, managing reservation data, status indication, and communication functions through a single control unit rather than distributed control mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses color changes in the lights to convey different space statuses (available, reserved, occupied). This visual encoding method provides clear, intuitive information transmission without requiring complex symbols or multiple light types, simplifying the communication mechanism while effectively reducing information loss.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the system allows dynamic space rearrangement, then optimal space allocation is achieved, but the control system becomes more complex with real-time adjustments
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables dynamic space rearrangement by allowing the processor to reassign light patterns and colors in real-time based on changing reservation data. Spaces can be dynamically allocated, merged, or divided by modifying which lights are activated and their color states, providing adaptability without physical reconfiguration.
Solution Approach 2:
The light system serves multiple functions simultaneously: indicating individual space status, showing group reservations, displaying available spaces, and providing directional guidance. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate control systems for different purposes, managing complexity through unified control while achieving versatile space allocation.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The system enhances user experience by allowing remote space reservations, reducing early arrivals, optimizing space utilization, and creating a dynamic ambiance, while ensuring participants can easily identify reserved spaces and accommodating varying space sizes and shapes.
Implementation Method 1
adjust a color emitted by lights of the identified one or more cells to indicate that the selected space associated with the participant is reserved
Data Source
AI summary
A light system configured for reserving and/or dynamically moving/arranging spaces for participants in a class may include a plurality of cells disposed on a surface, each cell having one or more lights disposed therein. Each light is in communication with a controller configured to control at least one of a color, a pattern, and a brightness of each light. The light system may be configured to allow a participant of the class to reserve a space prior to the class and have the space emit light indicating the space is reserved proximate a start time of the class.