Interactive Panel Layers for Energy Harvesting and Attack Resistance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing interactive panels face challenges in designing, operating, and maintaining attack-resistant, energy-harvesting, and adaptable systems for various structural barriers.
Innovation Solution
The development of interactive panels with energy harvesting layers for powering the panels and protective layers for defense, coupled with adaptable designs that can be integrated into barriers like doors and walls, or used as standalone structures.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If interactive panels are integrated into structural barriers like doors and walls, then the panels provide information display and interaction capabilities in fixed locations, but the design and installation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The interactive panel is designed with a universal mounting system that can be integrated into multiple types of barriers including doors, walls, and free-standing structures. The panel incorporates multiple functional layers (display, energy harvesting, protective, mounting) that can work together in various barrier configurations, allowing one device to serve multiple installation contexts without requiring separate specialized designs for each barrier type.
2Use of energy by moving object
If energy harvesting layers are added to power the interactive panels, then the panels achieve energy self-sufficiency, but the device complexity and manufacturing difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The energy harvesting layer is merged with the protective layer into a single integrated component. This combination allows the panel to harvest energy (e.g., through photovoltaic materials in the protective coating) while simultaneously providing protection, thereby achieving energy self-sufficiency without adding separate complex energy harvesting equipment that would increase manufacturing difficulty.
3Reliability
If protective layers are added to defend the displays from damage, then the panels achieve attack resistance, but the energy harvesting capability may be reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The protective layer is constructed using composite materials that combine protective properties (such as scratch resistance, impact protection, and attack resistance) with energy harvesting properties (such as photovoltaic or piezoelectric materials). This composite structure allows the single layer to simultaneously provide both protection and energy harvesting functionality, resolving the contradiction between these two requirements.
4Adaptability or versatility
If the interactive panel is designed to be removable and adaptable, then the panel can be reused in different locations and configurations, but the structural integrity and protection may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The interactive panel is segmented into distinct functional layers (display, energy harvesting, protective, mounting) that can be independently attached and detached. The mounting layer uses reversible fastening mechanisms that allow the panel to be removed and reinstalled in different locations without damaging the structural integrity of the individual layers or compromising their protective and functional properties.
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 solution provides interactive panels that are both energy-efficient through harvesting and protected from damage, while also being adaptable for various applications within and outside structural barriers.
Implementation Method 1
The interactive panels may have energy harvesting layers that at least partially aid in powering the interactive panels and/or components thereof
Implementation Method 2
the interactive panels may have protection layers that at least partially aid in protecting the displays and/or energy harvesting layers of the interactive panels from damage
Data Source
AI summary
Interactive panels are used to display information to one or more users that are interacting with the interactive panels. One or more detection devices (e.g., sensors, communication devices, or the like) detect that users may be located near the interactive panels. The information displayed to the users may be any type of information, such as user information, product information, entity information, area information, or other like information. The interactive panels may be used in any type of barrier, such as doors, walls, fee-standing structures within or outside of a building, adaptable panels that are moveable, or the like. The interactive panels may have energy harvesting layers that at least partially aid in powering the interactive panels and/or components thereof. The interactive panels may have protection layers that at least partially aid in protecting the displays and/or energy harvesting layers of the interactive panels from damage.