Wireless Location Cluster Manager for Power Reduction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current techniques do not allow for enhanced location service information sharing between devices connected via wireless connectivity protocols, leading to inefficient power consumption and performance issues, such as unnecessary GNSS data retrieval and delayed location fixes.
Innovation Solution
Establishing a location profile communication cluster using wireless connectivity protocols like Bluetooth, where devices collaborate by designating a manager to share and manage location service capabilities, optimize resource usage, and hand off responsibilities among cluster devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If each device independently retrieves GNSS data, then location service availability is maintained, but power consumption increases and performance efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple devices that are clustered together (e.g., via Bluetooth) merge their location service capabilities into a single coordinated system. One device acts as a manager while others are clients, sharing GNSS data retrieval responsibilities to reduce redundant operations and lower overall power consumption while maintaining continuous location service availability across the cluster.
Solution Approach 2:
The location service system becomes multi-functional by allowing any device in the cluster to potentially serve as the location service provider. The manager device can dynamically change based on which device currently has the most accurate or available location data, making the system adaptable and efficient across different scenarios.
2Duration of action of stationary object
If each device independently retrieves GNSS data, then location service continuity is maintained, but redundant data retrieval occurs and system efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The cluster of devices merges their location service operations into a coordinated effort where one device retrieves GNSS data on behalf of the entire cluster. This eliminates redundant data retrieval operations while maintaining continuous location service availability through the shared data pool among cluster members.
Solution Approach 2:
The manager device autonomously manages the location service operations for the entire cluster, making decisions about when and how to retrieve location data without requiring each client device to independently initiate retrieval operations. This self-service approach optimizes system efficiency while ensuring continuous service.
3Adaptability or versatility
If devices operate independently without clustering, then device autonomy is maintained, but location service information sharing and performance optimization are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The manager device acts as an intermediary between multiple client devices in the cluster, coordinating location service operations and sharing information centrally. This intermediary approach enables efficient information sharing and performance optimization while abstracting the complexity of coordination from individual client devices.
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AI summary
The apparatus of a first wireless communication device includes memory comprising instructions and processing circuitry coupled to the memory. The processing circuitry is to implement the instructions to establish a wireless connection between the first wireless communication device and a second wireless communication device according to a wireless connectivity protocol, establish, using the wireless connectivity protocol, a location profile communication cluster including the first device and the second device, and within the communication cluster: process a message from the second device including location information and determine a provision of location services for the cluster based on the location information.