Marine Activity Timer for Multi-User Time Allocation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing marine-based activities face challenges with time management and data gathering due to the need for multiple timers and lack of a unified system, leading to confusion among users and inefficiencies.
Innovation Solution
A marine electronic device with a customizable timer and data gathering capabilities, featuring a user interface, processor, and memory to manage time allocation for multiple users, provide notifications, and collect activity data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If multiple individual timers are used for multiple users, then each user can have their own time management, but it creates confusion and chaos among users
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple individual timers into a single unified timer system that can manage multiple users simultaneously. The timer display shows multiple user time allocations in one interface, eliminating the need for separate timer devices for each user and reducing on-water confusion.
Solution Approach 2:
The timer system is designed to serve multiple functions: it can allocate time to multiple users, track preparation time, provide notifications, and collect activity data all through a single device. This multi-functional approach replaces the need for multiple specialized timers.
2Measurement precision
If multiple timers are used for multiple users, then each user can be tracked individually, but it requires multiple devices and increases complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges multiple user tracking functions into a single timer device that can monitor and display time allocations for multiple users simultaneously, maintaining individual tracking precision while reducing device count.
3Ease of operation
If a unified timer system is implemented, then chaos is minimized and time management is improved, but data gathering capabilities are needed
Solution Approach 1:
The timer system is extended to include data gathering and storage capabilities, allowing it to collect activity information during marine-based activities. This transforms the timer from a simple time-tracking device into a multi-functional tool that also serves as a data collection system.
4Ease of operation
If preparation time is included for users, then user readiness is improved, but the timer complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The timer system incorporates preparation time allocation that occurs before the main activity time. This preliminary action feature allows users to prepare in advance (e.g., get equipment ready, position themselves) before their actual time slot begins, improving operational readiness without significantly complicating the timer.
Data Source
AI summary
Example devices, systems and methods are provided for causing presentation of a timer on a screen of a marine electronic device for a watercraft. Some example systems include a user interface comprising the screen, a memory including computer executable instructions and a processor. The marine electronic device is configured to receive a user input defining one or more users and a total amount of time for a marine-based activity and determine a specified amount of time to be assigned to each of the one or more users. The marine electronic device is further configured to assign the specified amount of time to each of the one or more users, display an indication of the specified amount of time within the timer for each of the one or more users, and provide a notification when the specified amount of time of a current user from the one or more users ends.