Locator Beacon Segmentation for Active Danger Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems fail to effectively track and assist individuals in navigating active danger situations such as active shooters or natural disasters, providing inadequate real-time location data and communication during emergencies.
Innovation Solution
A software-based system utilizing locator beacons, user devices, and tracking tags to determine the location of individuals within a coverage area, providing real-time data to both users and emergency responders, and enabling communication and control of environmental factors to ensure safety.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If existing tracking systems are used, then some location data can be provided, but the system fails to effectively track and assist individuals in navigating active danger situations
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the coverage area into multiple zones with dedicated locator beacons, allowing for more precise and reliable tracking of individuals' locations. This segmentation enables the system to provide accurate real-time location data while improving response efficiency by dividing the tracking task into manageable segments.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements continuous feedback loops where location data is constantly collected, processed, and communicated to both users and emergency responders. This feedback mechanism ensures reliable tracking while maintaining high productivity through real-time updates that enable dynamic response adjustments.
2Loss of information
If real-time location data is provided to users and responders, then situational awareness is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces intermediary components including location servers, communication modules, and user interface layers that facilitate the flow of real-time location data. These intermediaries manage the complexity of data processing and distribution while ensuring comprehensive situational awareness is achieved without overwhelming system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The locator beacons and tracking system are designed with multi-functionality, serving both users and emergency responders with a single unified system. This universal approach reduces overall system complexity compared to separate dedicated systems, while still providing comprehensive real-time location data to all stakeholders.
3Measurement precision
If multiple locator beacons and tracking devices are deployed, then location accuracy is improved, but device complexity and deployment difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the coverage area into segments with distributed locator beacons, achieving high location accuracy through multiple reference points. This segmentation strategy improves precision while managing deployment complexity by organizing beacons in modular, manageable sections rather than requiring a single complex centralized system.
Solution Approach 2:
The tracking system incorporates autonomous features where user devices automatically transmit location data without requiring manual intervention. This self-service capability improves location accuracy through continuous automated tracking while reducing deployment and operational complexity by eliminating the need for complex manual coordination of multiple devices.
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AI summary
In one instance, a system for locating users in an active emergency situation includes a plurality of user devices located within a coverage area; a computer capable of receiving data from and transmitting data to each of the plurality of user devices; a plurality of trackers located within the coverage area; a plurality of locator beacons located within the coverage area, wherein each of the locator beacons is associated with a location within the coverage area. At least one of the locator beacons wirelessly broadcasts a location signal indicating the location of the locator beacons. The location signal is received by at least one tracker. The tracker transmits the received location data to a mobile device, which in turn transmits the location data to the computer. The computer processes the location data to determine the location of the user, tracker, or mobile device within the coverage area.