Master Transceiver Dual-Protocol Wireless Redundancy
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current wireless systems for streaming content, such as audio, often rely on either Bluetooth or Wi-Fi protocols in isolation, limiting their ability to efficiently handle simultaneous streaming and redundancy across different protocols, which can result in dropped packets and unreliable data transfer, especially in environments with interference or high spectral demands.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a diversity arrangement that uses both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi protocols simultaneously, where a master transceiver collects signals from multiple wireless devices, combines them, and broadcasts them over both protocols, with a secondary protocol like 5G for network transmission, ensuring redundancy and robust data transfer by leveraging the strengths of each protocol.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Use of energy by moving object
If Bluetooth protocol is used for wireless streaming, then power consumption is reduced, but transmission distance and data rate are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines Bluetooth and Wi-Fi protocols in a unified wireless transmission system. The master transceiver receives audio signals via Bluetooth from slave devices and simultaneously transmits the combined audio signal through both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi protocols, allowing the system to leverage the low power consumption of Bluetooth while achieving the extended range and higher data rates of Wi-Fi when needed.
2Length of moving object
If Wi-Fi protocol is used for wireless streaming, then transmission distance and data rate are improved, but power consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically selects transmission protocols based on operational requirements. The master transceiver can switch between Bluetooth-only mode (low power), Wi-Fi-only mode (high performance), or dual-protocol mode (redundancy), allowing the system to optimize power consumption while maintaining the ability to achieve extended range and high data rates when necessary.
3Device complexity
If single protocol is used for transmission, then system complexity is reduced, but reliability and redundancy are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the parameter of protocol diversity by implementing a system that supports multiple transmission protocols (Bluetooth and Wi-Fi) simultaneously. The master transceiver is configured to receive via Bluetooth and transmit via both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, creating redundant transmission paths that improve reliability without requiring complex multi-protocol reception capabilities at slave devices.
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AI summary
A first plurality of wireless devices each having a microphone and a wireless antenna forming a first plurality of microphones and a first plurality of wireless antennas may be provided. The first plurality of wireless devices may be configured to transmit the first plurality of signals over Bluetooth. A master transceiver with a first microphone and a first wireless antenna may also be provided and the master transceiver can be configured to receive the plurality of signals from the plurality of wireless devices over Bluetooth. The master transceiver can be configured to combine the plurality of signals and the master signal into a combined signal. And the master transceiver can be configured to broadcast the combined signal over Bluetooth and Wi-Fi simultaneously with the transmission over Bluetooth for redundancy.