Sensor Feedback Control for Consistent Multi-Site Scent Diffusion
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current scent dispersion technologies face challenges in providing consistent and precise wide-area fragrance distribution across multiple locations, leading to inconsistent brand experiences due to undiagnosed malfunctions, incorrect settings, and inefficiencies in scent cartridge management, resulting in wasted resources and frustration for corporate brand executives and site managers.
Innovation Solution
A networked scent management system utilizing microprocessor-controlled diffusion devices that connect to a centralized operations center, featuring anti-tampering identifiers, liquid level sensors, and remote monitoring, ensuring precise fragrance delivery and alerting systems to maintain consistent brand standards across locations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual scent dispersion management is used, then device simplicity is maintained, but scent consistency and reliability deteriorate across multiple locations
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs sensors to detect scent concentration levels and provides feedback to a central management platform, which automatically adjusts dispenser settings to maintain consistent scent levels across all locations. This closed-loop feedback mechanism ensures reliability without requiring complex manual intervention at each site.
Solution Approach 2:
The scent dispersion system performs self-diagnosis and self-adjustment through automated monitoring and control algorithms. The system independently identifies and corrects deviations from target scent profiles, eliminating the need for manual site visits and adjustments, thereby maintaining simplicity while improving consistency.
2Ease of operation
If centralized remote monitoring is implemented, then operational control improves, but system complexity and initial costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The centralized platform serves multiple functions including real-time monitoring, automated control, predictive maintenance scheduling, and analytics. By consolidating these diverse functions into a single system, the patent reduces the need for separate specialized tools and interfaces, making the complexity manageable while providing comprehensive operational control.
3Reliability
If frequent scent cartridge replacement is performed, then scent freshness is maintained, but resource waste and operational costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses sensors and analytics to predict when scent cartridges will reach optimal replacement points based on actual usage patterns and environmental conditions. This preliminary detection allows scheduling replacements only when necessary, preventing both premature changes that waste material and delayed changes that compromise scent quality.
4Speed
If manual scent level adjustment is used, then device simplicity is maintained, but response time to environmental changes deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system replaces manual mechanical adjustment with automated electronic control. Sensors continuously monitor environmental conditions and trigger automatic adjustments to dispenser settings, eliminating the time delay inherent in manual intervention while keeping the physical dispersion mechanism relatively simple.
Data Source
AI summary
The disclosure herein concerns a method including receiving at a computer at least one target value of a scent parameter for an environment that is remote from the computer, receiving at the computer a sensed parameter of the environment, and controlling, via the computer, diffusion of a liquid from a source of the liquid in fluid communication with at least one scent diffusion device to achieve the target value of the scent parameter, wherein controlling includes setting or adjusting an operation parameter of the at least one scent diffusion device in response to the sensed parameter.