LED Messaging System for Location-Based Personalization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing messaging systems fail to adequately consider the locations of individuals and are inadequate in personalizing messages, and they often rely on costly and effort-intensive GPS-based solutions for location tracking and security systems.
Innovation Solution
A light-based messaging system that employs LED units with modulation controllers and a central server to broadcast location-specific and personalized messages, enabling precise location-based targeting and enhanced security through light-based communication.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If GPS-based location tracking systems are used, then location tracking capability is improved, but cost and implementation effort increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces GPS satellite-based electromagnetic positioning with a local optical messaging system using LEDs and photodetectors. The system uses light-based communication to transmit location information within a confined space, eliminating the need for GPS hardware and satellite dependency, thereby reducing implementation complexity while maintaining location tracking capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces messaging units with light sources as intermediaries between the tracking system and the target object. These units transmit location codes through light modulation, serving as a local mediator that enables precise location tracking without requiring direct GPS satellite communication, thus reducing cost and implementation effort.
2Adaptability or versatility
If traditional messaging systems are used, then message delivery is achieved, but location-based personalization capability is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements location-specific messaging by assigning different messages to different spatial locations within the environment. Each messaging unit broadcasts messages tailored to its specific location, enabling personalized communication based on the recipient's precise location context, thereby enhancing message adaptability while preserving location information.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses feedback from location detection to dynamically select and broadcast appropriate messages. The messaging units receive location information and adjust their message content accordingly, creating a closed-loop system that continuously adapts messages based on real-time location data, improving personalization capability.
3Measurement precision
If light-based messaging is implemented, then location-based message targeting precision is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs multi-functional messaging units that combine light emission, light modulation, and message broadcasting capabilities in a single integrated system. These units serve multiple purposes including location identification, message transmission, and personalization, thereby achieving high targeting precision without proportionally increasing system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses periodic light modulation to encode and transmit messages. By modulating the light source at specific frequencies and patterns, the system achieves precise message delivery to targeted locations while using simple, repeatable modulation cycles that reduce the complexity of the control mechanism.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The system provides effective location-based messaging and tracking while reducing costs and effort, offering enhanced security and personalized communication in environments where GPS is not suitable.
Implementation Method 1
messaging units disposed at different locations within a space, each including at least one light source (e.g., light-emitting diode or LED)
Implementation Method 2
at least one messaging/modulation controller coupled to the light sources and configured to turn the light sources on and off so as to broadcast input digital messages
Data Source
AI summary
Provided is a messaging system that includes: messaging units disposed in different locations within a commercial space, each including a light-emitting diode (LED); a messaging/modulation controller coupled to the LED and configured to turn the LED on and off so as to broadcast a digital message as a binary-encoded digital signal corresponding to on/off states of the LED; and a user interface, coupled to the messaging/modulation controller, that permits a user to create schedules that specify how and when specified messages are to be broadcast by such messaging units. Different ones of the messaging units are configured to broadcast different digital messages, including substantive content that is different from what is broadcast by other ones of the messaging units, in accordance with the schedules input through the user interface.