RFID Wearable Interaction Points for Local Attraction Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing interactive systems in amusement parks often fail to provide timely feedback to guests regarding successful interactions and do not accurately track game statistics or user progress, leading to a suboptimal experience.
Innovation Solution
An interactive system utilizing RFID technology with wearable devices that provide immediate feedback through lights, audio, or haptics based on interactions with RFID readers positioned throughout the attraction, allowing tracking of user progress and game statistics without external devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If centralized processing is used to track user progress and provide feedback, then system reliability is improved, but response time deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the centralized processing system into distributed interaction points throughout the attraction. Each interaction point independently processes local interactions and maintains local state, eliminating the need for continuous centralized communication while providing immediate feedback to guests.
Solution Approach 2:
Attraction data including game rules, statistics tracking logic, and feedback mechanisms are pre-loaded into local caches at each interaction point before guests arrive. This preliminary action enables immediate local processing without waiting for centralized system responses.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple interaction points are deployed throughout the attraction, then user experience is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Each interaction point is designed as a universal node capable of performing multiple functions: detecting guest interactions, providing immediate feedback, tracking game statistics locally, and storing attraction data. This multi-functionality reduces the need for specialized equipment at different locations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates identical copies of the interaction point system throughout the attraction. Each copy contains a local cache of attraction data and the same processing capabilities, allowing any interaction point to independently handle guest interactions without requiring complex centralized coordination.
3Ease of operation
If real-time feedback is provided to guests, then guest satisfaction is improved, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of continuous energy-consuming communication with centralized systems, the patent implements periodic local processing at interaction points. Feedback is provided immediately through local mechanisms, and centralized system updates occur only when necessary, reducing overall energy consumption while maintaining real-time guest feedback.
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
Enhances the guest experience by providing immediate and immersive feedback, accurately tracking interactions and progress, and enabling a more enjoyable and personalized experience.
Implementation Method 1
a radio-frequency identification (RFID) reader that receives electromagnetic radiation of a wearable electronic device indicative of an interaction with the interaction point
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AI summary
A tangible, non-transitory, machine-readable medium, comprises machine- readable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a machine, cause the machine to receive, from an initial interaction point of an interactive attraction, an indication of an identifier received at the initial interaction point, identify whether the identifier is a new identifier to be used with the interactive attraction, and preheat the interactive attraction for use by identifier, by when the identifier is new, store, in local cache entries associated with the identifier at the interactive attraction, initial starting data for use with the interactive attraction and when the identifier is not new, access associated data that is associated with the identifier at a cloud-based service and locally store the associated data in the local cache entries.