Lockable Tracking Bracelet with Event-Driven Alarm Broadcasting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wearable devices, such as smartwatches and fitness trackers, lack effective safety features that allow users to anonymously alert for help in dangerous situations without alerting the perpetrator, posing a risk to the user's safety.
Innovation Solution
A wearable safety device with locking mechanisms and broadcasting abilities, including a tracking device that detects a triggering event, sends notifications, and broadcasts alarm signals to affiliate devices, featuring a lockable band structure with a locking feature that prevents removal and an alarm feature that sends alerts, controlled by a principal device, and optionally includes a camera and loud talking alarm for assistance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a wearable device includes alarm and broadcasting functions, then the ability to call for help anonymously is improved, but the device becomes more complex and requires additional components
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple safety functions (alarm, broadcasting, locking) into a single wearable device unit. The alarm feature, broadcasting capability, and locking mechanism are integrated into one device that can be worn on the body, eliminating the need for separate safety devices and reducing overall system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The wearable device performs multiple functions simultaneously: it serves as a tracking device, alarm system, broadcasting device, and locking mechanism. This multi-functionality allows a single device to provide comprehensive safety features including location tracking, panic alarming, anonymous broadcasting to affiliate devices, and prevention of device removal.
2Reliability
If the device includes a locking feature to prevent removal, then the safety during dangerous situations is improved, but the ease of operation is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The locking feature dynamically changes the device state based on detected conditions. When a triggering event is detected (such as a fall or manual panic button press), the device automatically locks to prevent removal. The locking state is not permanent but conditional, allowing easy removal under normal conditions while providing security when needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The device automatically locks itself when a triggering event is detected, without requiring user intervention. The system monitors for dangerous conditions and autonomously activates the locking mechanism, ensuring the device cannot be removed during critical situations while maintaining ease of operation during normal use.
3Loss of time
If the device broadcasts alarm signals to affiliate devices, then the response time for assistance is improved, but the loss of energy increases
Solution Approach 1:
The broadcasting of alarm signals occurs periodically or event-driven rather than continuously. The device monitors for triggering events and only activates broadcasting when needed, such as during a fall detection event or when the panic button is pressed. This event-driven approach minimizes energy consumption while ensuring timely assistance when critical events occur.
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AI summary
Disclosed is a tracking method comprising: detecting, by a tracking device, a trigging event; automatically sending, by the tracking device, a notification associated with the trigging event to a principal device to determine whether to send a controlling signal to the tracking device; receiving, by the tracking device, the controlling signal from the principal device; and broadcasting, by the tracking device, one or more alarm signals associated with the trigging event to one or more affiliate device.