Radio Sensing Zone Control for Privacy Compliance

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing radio sensing technologies lack the ability to control and manage radio sensing operations in specific spatial regions, raising concerns about privacy and compliance with regulatory restrictions.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a system that determines and controls radio sensing spaces through configuration information, including prohibited, non-enhanced, and enhanced sensing spaces, using parameters such as transmit power, angle, and frequency to manage radio sensing operations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If radio sensing is performed without spatial control, then sensing coverage is maximized, but privacy and regulatory compliance are compromised

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprivacy and regulatory complianceVSAvoidsensing coverage
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The sensing space is segmented into multiple zones with different sensing configurations. The system divides the environment into prohibited sensing spaces, enhanced sensing spaces, and non-enhanced sensing spaces, allowing different sensing operations in different regions. This enables the system to maintain compliance in restricted areas while preserving sensing capabilities in permitted areas.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different sensing configurations are applied to different spatial regions. The system implements location-specific sensing parameters including transmit power levels, frequency bands, and sensing algorithms that are tailored to the requirements of each zone. This allows maximum sensing capability in permitted areas while ensuring privacy protection in restricted areas.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Measurement precision

If enhanced radio sensing is performed in specific spaces, then sensing capability is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesensing capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-configures sensing parameters and spatial maps before actual sensing operations. Enhanced sensing configurations, including transmit power levels, frequency bands, and processing algorithms, are predetermined for specific enhanced sensing spaces. This preliminary setup reduces real-time computational complexity while maintaining enhanced sensing capabilities where needed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Reliability

If radio sensing is controlled in prohibited spaces, then privacy protection is achieved, but sensing productivity decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprivacy protectionVSAvoidsensing productivity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies sensing restrictions selectively only to prohibited sensing spaces while maintaining full sensing capabilities in permitted areas. This partial action approach ensures privacy protection where necessary without unnecessarily limiting productive sensing operations in other regions, thereby minimizing the impact on overall sensing productivity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

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

Enables controlled and compliant radio sensing by preventing sensing in prohibited areas and enhancing sensing capabilities in specific spaces, ensuring privacy and regulatory compliance.

Implementation Method 1

Radio sensing is a technology that uses radio waves to detect and measure the characteristics of objects, environments, or phenomena

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectRadio wave transmission and detection: Radar

Data Source

PatentEP4624990A1Radio sensing control
Publication Date: 2025.10.01 NOKIA SOLUTIONS & NETWORKS OY
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AI summary

Disclosed is a method comprising determining at least one of: one or more prohibited sensing spaces in which radio sensing is not allowed, one or more non-enhanced sensing spaces in which the radio sensing is allowed, or one or more enhanced sensing spaces in which to perform enhanced radio sensing compared to the radio sensing in the one or more non-enhanced sensing spaces; obtaining sensing configuration information associated with at least one of: the one or more prohibited sensing spaces, or the one or more enhanced sensing spaces; and controlling, based on the sensing configuration information, at least one of: the radio sensing in the one or more prohibited sensing spaces, or the enhanced radio sensing in the one or more enhanced sensing spaces.