Portable Power Tool Position Inference via Communication Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems lack effective methods for monitoring and managing objects and individuals within a building environment, particularly in terms of tracking object-specific, operator-specific, and environment-specific characteristic variables, and ensuring safety and access control.
Innovation Solution
A system comprising a mobile functional module with a communication unit and a building infrastructure apparatus, equipped with sensors to record and transmit characteristic variables, and a control unit that infers positions and evaluates data to manage and monitor objects and individuals, while ensuring safety and access control.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a mobile functional module with communication unit is used to track and monitor objects and individuals, then monitoring capability and safety control are improved, but device complexity and infrastructure requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides monitoring functions into separate modular components: mobile functional modules worn by individuals, building infrastructure apparatus at fixed locations, and a control unit. Each component performs specific tasks (recording, transmitting, evaluating data) independently, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining comprehensive monitoring capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile functional module and building infrastructure apparatus are designed with multi-functional communication units that can operate in different modes (transmitting, receiving, evaluating data). This universal design allows the same hardware to perform multiple functions, reducing the need for specialized equipment and simplifying the overall system architecture.
2Measurement precision
If characteristic variables are recorded and transmitted continuously for position inference, then measurement precision and monitoring accuracy are improved, but energy consumption and data loss increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system transmits recorded characteristic variables periodically or event-triggered rather than continuously. The mobile functional module records data locally and transmits it at intervals or when significant changes occur, reducing energy consumption while maintaining sufficient measurement precision for position inference through periodic data updates.
Solution Approach 2:
The control unit performs local evaluation and processing of received characteristic variables to infer positions without requiring continuous transmission of all raw data. This self-service approach at the control unit reduces the data transmission burden and energy consumption of mobile devices while maintaining accurate position measurement.
3Reliability
If building infrastructure apparatus with communication units are deployed throughout the building, then monitoring coverage and reliability are improved, but device complexity and installation difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The building infrastructure apparatus combines multiple functions (communication unit, recording unit, transmission unit) into integrated devices positioned at standard building locations. By merging these functions into unified infrastructure components rather than separate systems, the installation process is simplified while maintaining comprehensive monitoring coverage throughout the building.
Data Source
AI summary
The disclosure proceeds from a system, in particular from a portable power tool system, having at least one mobile functional module which has at least one communications unit for communicating electronic data, having at least one building infrastructure device which has at least one communications unit for communicating with the functional module, and having at least one control and/or regulation unit which is at least intended to use an evaluation of a communication between the functional module and the building infrastructure device to at least infer a position of the functional module. It is proposed that the functional module is at least intended to sense at least one article-specific parameter, a user-specific parameter and/or an environment-specific parameter and/or to transmit said parameter(s) at least to the building infrastructure device.