Mobile Equipment Digital Tag Event Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
People frequently lose belongings or forget to perform tasks at specific locations due to the lack of effective tracking solutions using mobile equipment.
Innovation Solution
A mobile equipment with a processing circuit and storage device that activates a digital tag for an event, generating an indication when the distance between the equipment and the event location exceeds a threshold, allowing users to track objects or events.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If no tracking system is used, then device complexity is low, but users lose belongings or forget tasks frequently
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a digital copy (digital tag) of the event or object information and stores it in the mobile equipment. This digital tag contains essential information about the event, location, and time, allowing the system to track and remind users without requiring complex continuous monitoring hardware. The digital tag serves as a lightweight information replica that enables reliable tracking while keeping the system simple.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by creating and storing the digital tag before the user potentially forgets the event or loses the item. The digital tag is established in advance with all necessary event information, and the system proactively checks location conditions to generate reminders. This preliminary setup enables reliable tracking without requiring complex real-time monitoring during the actual event.
2Measurement precision
If continuous monitoring is implemented, then tracking precision is high, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of continuous monitoring, the system uses periodic location checks triggered by specific conditions. The mobile equipment checks the user's location at intervals or when triggered by events such as leaving a designated area. This periodic action maintains sufficient location tracking precision to determine whether the user has moved beyond the threshold distance from the event location, while significantly reducing energy consumption compared to continuous monitoring.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies partial monitoring by only actively tracking location when necessary - specifically when the digital tag is active and the system needs to determine if the user has moved beyond the threshold distance. The system does not continuously monitor all locations at all times, but rather applies monitoring selectively to the specific event context, reducing overall energy consumption while maintaining precision when needed.
3Reliability
If digital tag tracking is activated, then event tracking reliability improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a digital tag that is a simplified information copy of the event, containing only essential data elements such as event type, location coordinates, and threshold distance. This digital representation enables reliable event tracking without requiring the full complexity of the original event context, reducing the burden on the mobile equipment while maintaining tracking reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes parameters by converting complex event information into standardized digital tag parameters with specific data structures. The event is represented by key parameters such as location coordinates, threshold distance, and event type identifier. This parameter transformation simplifies the data handling requirements and reduces device complexity while enabling reliable tracking through structured parameter comparison and location calculation.
Data Source
AI summary
A mobile equipment (ME) for tracking an event comprises at least one storage device; and at least one processing circuit, coupled to the at least one storage device. The at least one storage device stores instructions, and the at least one processing circuit is configured to execute the instructions of: activating a digital tag of the event in the ME, to track the event; and generating an indication on the ME according to the digital tag, when a distance between a first position of the ME and a second position at which the event occurs is greater than a threshold.