NFC Proximity Tag for Intuitive Sensor Data Sync
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional user interfaces for electronic devices, such as activity and biometric monitoring devices, require non-intuitive interactions for tasks like synchronization, which can be cumbersome and not user-friendly, similar to navigating virtual menus to perform operations.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a Near Field Communication (NFC) system that allows sensor devices with NFC tags to wirelessly communicate with processing devices, enabling automatic detection and execution of applications or operations associated with the NFC tag, facilitating intuitive interactions by automatically launching relevant applications or operations upon proximity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional user interfaces with virtual menus are used for device synchronization, then device functionality is achieved, but user interaction complexity increases and ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces NFC tags as intermediary elements that mediate between the sensor device and processing device. These tags contain encoded information about the sensor device and enable automatic identification and connection, replacing complex menu navigation with simple proximity-based interaction. The NFC tag acts as a bridge that translates physical proximity into digital connection information.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service operation where the sensor device automatically transmits its identification information through the NFC tag when brought near the processing device. The processing device automatically detects the tag, retrieves the encoded information, and initiates the appropriate application or operation without requiring user navigation through menus or manual configuration steps.
2Ease of operation
If automatic door opening mechanism is used as a model, then interaction intuitiveness is improved, but implementation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical sensing and actuation system of automatic doors with an electromagnetic field-based NFC system. Instead of using mechanical sensors to detect the door's position and motors to open it, the system uses NFC electromagnetic fields to detect proximity and automatically initiate connection, achieving similar intuitive interaction with different technical means.
Solution Approach 2:
The NFC tag serves as an intermediary that enables the automatic interaction model. Just as automatic doors use sensors and actuators as intermediaries between the user and the door mechanism, this patent uses NFC tags as intermediaries between the user's processing device and the sensor device, enabling intuitive proximity-based operation.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This approach simplifies user interactions by allowing seamless communication and synchronization between devices without the need for complex navigation, making interactions as intuitive as natural physical interactions, such as opening an automatic door.
Implementation Method 1
having one or more activity, biometric and/or environmental sensors and active and/or passive wireless 'transmitter' unit (for example, near field communication 'NFC' transmitter) to transmit an identification tag associated with the sensor device
Data Source
AI summary
The present inventions, in one aspect, are directed to a system comprising a portable sensor device including a housing having a physical size/shape that is adapted to couple to a user's body, an identification tag including identification data which is associated with the sensor device and an identification tag transmitter to responsively and wirelessly transmit the identification data according to a first communication protocol. The system further includes a portable electronic device including an identification tag receiver to wirelessly receive the identification data of the identification tag according to the first communication protocol, transceiver circuitry to wirelessly and responsively communicate with the sensor device according to a second communication protocol, and processing circuitry to instruct the transceiver circuitry, after receiving the identification data, to wirelessly request, from the sensor device the sensor data and/or data which is representative of the sensor data.