Notification System for Detecting Prohibited Behavior via Wireless Signal Estimation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems fail to efficiently and discreetly notify personnel of vaping, smoking, or bullying incidents in private areas due to privacy concerns, and lack effective methods to identify and alert the nearest relevant user devices without alerting the individuals involved.
Innovation Solution
A notification system that includes sensors to detect vaping, smoking, or bullying, a wireless device passive monitor, and a processor to estimate the nearest user device based on wireless signal characteristics, providing notifications to the nearest device without alerting the individuals involved, using Wi-Fi or Bluetooth networks and sensors for air quality, sound, and motion detection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Difficulty of detecting and measuring
If camera surveillance is used to detect vaping, smoking, or bullying, then detection capability is improved, but privacy concerns prevent use in private areas such as restrooms, locker rooms, and shower rooms
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the detection function from the notification function. Sensors detect events in private areas without capturing visual information, while a separate notification system alerts personnel discreetly. This segmentation allows detection in private areas without violating privacy by not using camera surveillance.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary notification mechanism that communicates detection results to personnel without directly alerting the individuals involved in the detected event. This intermediary layer maintains privacy while enabling supervisory response.
2Reliability
If notification is provided to all personnel devices, then comprehensive awareness is improved, but efficiency deteriorates due to unnecessary notifications to distant devices
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by notifying only the nearest relevant personnel device based on estimated distance from the detected event location. Instead of uniform notification to all devices, the notification target is selectively determined by spatial proximity, improving efficiency while maintaining reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameter of notification target selection from all personnel devices to the single nearest device based on distance estimation. This parameter change optimizes notification efficiency by eliminating unnecessary notifications to distant devices.
3Loss of information
If open notification is provided to alert individuals involved, then transparency is improved, but the harmful effect worsens by making them aware that personnel have been notified
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses an intermediary notification mechanism that alerts personnel to the detected event without directly notifying the individuals involved. This intermediary approach maintains transparency for supervisory purposes while avoiding the harmful effect of making individuals aware that personnel have been notified.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables efficient and discreet notification of vaping, smoking, or bullying incidents to the nearest relevant personnel, preventing further harm and ensuring privacy by accurately identifying and alerting the appropriate user devices without alerting the individuals involved.
Implementation Method 1
estimate a distance to the wireless device passive monitor based on a wireless signal characteristic of the user device
Data Source
AI summary
This disclosure relates to notification systems and methods for providing a notification of detected prohibited behavior to a user device that is estimated to be nearest to a particular location. In aspects of the present disclosure, a notification system includes at least one sensor configured to sense measurements indicative of a prohibited behavior, a wireless device passive monitor, a processor, and a memory having stored thereon instructions. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the notification system to detect an occurrence of the prohibited behavior based on the sensed measurements, estimate which user device from a predetermined list of user devices is a nearest user device to the wireless device passive monitor, and provide a notification to the estimated nearest user device regarding the detected occurrence of the prohibited behavior.