Prayer Tracking on Mobile Wearables Using Multi-Sensor Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Muslims performing prayer sessions often forget the number of prayer units completed, leading to incorrect performance or non-recognition of the sessions, as existing activity tracking devices do not monitor or provide feedback on prayer activities.
Innovation Solution
A method using a mobile device's altimeter, accelerometer, gyroscope, and GPS to track and notify users of their prayer unit completion, providing visual, audio, or haptic alerts, and storing user data for comparison with community metrics to ensure accurate prayer performance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If activity tracking devices are used to monitor physical activity, then athletic activity information can be collected and displayed, but prayer activity tracking and detailed breakdown of prayer units cannot be provided
Solution Approach 1:
The activity tracking device is enhanced to perform multiple functions: it continues to track athletic activity while also specifically detecting prayer units through motion sensors. The device identifies characteristic prayer motions (raising hands to head, bowing, prostrating) and provides separate tracking for prayer sessions, enabling one device to serve both general fitness and specific religious practice monitoring
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides real-time feedback to users during prayer sessions by detecting motion patterns and notifying users of prayer unit completion. The device monitors movements, identifies when a prayer unit is completed based on characteristic motion sequences, and provides notifications to inform users of their progress, preventing loss of prayer unit information
2Reliability
If users manually track prayer units, then they can monitor their own prayer session, but they may forget the number of prayer units completed and perform incorrect prayers
Solution Approach 1:
The device provides continuous feedback during prayer sessions by detecting motion patterns and notifying users of prayer unit completion. This real-time information feedback eliminates reliance on manual counting and human memory, ensuring accurate tracking of prayer units and preventing incorrect prayer performance
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs automatic detection and tracking of prayer units without requiring user intervention. The motion sensors continuously monitor and automatically identify prayer motions, eliminating the need for users to manually track or remember prayer unit counts, thereby preventing errors and avoiding time-consuming correction prayers
3Measurement precision
If multiple sensors are used to detect prayer positions and movements, then detection accuracy improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Existing multi-functional sensors in mobile devices (accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers) are utilized for prayer detection. These sensors originally designed for other purposes are repurposed to detect prayer-specific motions, achieving accurate prayer position detection without adding dedicated hardware complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The system combines data from multiple existing sensors (accelerometer for linear acceleration, gyroscope for rotational motion, magnetometer for orientation) to detect prayer positions. By merging information from these sensors through algorithmic processing, the system achieves high detection accuracy while avoiding the complexity of dedicated prayer-detection hardware
Data Source
AI summary
Provided are systems and methods tracking a prayer session of a device user and notifying the device user regarding prayer session activity. The method includes receiving motion information from an accelerometer of the device, receiving altitude information from an altimeter of the device, and receiving position information from a gyroscope of the device while the device user is engaged in the prayer session. The method further includes determining a prayer unit number or prayer position based on one or more of the received motion information, altitude information, and position information, and notifying the device user of the determined prayer unit number or prayer position.