Golf Cart Player Profiling Through Location and Purchase Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Golfers lack a personalized and enhanced experience on the golf course, with inefficiencies in tracking player preferences and behaviors, leading to suboptimal course management and service provision.
Innovation Solution
A golf system that associates a player's identifier with a golf cart, monitors the cart's location and purchases, and updates a player profile to enhance personalization, predict inventory needs, recommend purchases, and optimize tee times based on player habits and preferences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If player tracking and monitoring systems are implemented, then personalized service and player experience are improved, but system complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple tracking functions (location monitoring, purchase tracking, profile updates) into a single integrated golf cart system. The cart contains a controller that consolidates these functions, reducing overall system complexity while enabling personalized service through unified data collection and processing.
Solution Approach 2:
The golf cart system is designed to perform multiple functions: it tracks player location, monitors purchases, updates player profiles, and provides personalized recommendations. This multi-functional approach eliminates the need for separate systems for each function, reducing complexity while enhancing personalized service capabilities.
2Measurement precision
If real-time monitoring of player locations and purchases is implemented, then player profile accuracy is improved, but data processing requirements and system resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously collects and stores player location and purchase data in the cart's controller during the round. By preparing and organizing this data in advance, the system reduces the processing load during critical moments and enables faster profile updates when needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The golf cart system autonomously collects, processes, and updates player profile data without requiring manual intervention. The controller automatically monitors purchases and location, then updates the profile independently, reducing the need for extensive external data processing resources.
Data Source
AI summary
A golf system includes one or more processing circuits including one or more memory devices coupled to one or more processors. The one or more memory devices are configured to store instructions thereon that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to associate an identifier of a respective player assigned to a golf cart with the golf cart, monitor at least one of locations of the golf cart about a golf course or purchases made on the golf course associated with the identifier, and update a player profile for the respective player based on the identifier and the at least one of the locations of the golf cart or the purchases.