Short-Wave Beacon Triangulation for Obstructed Cellular Coverage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Mobile networks experience lag and interference due to obstructions, necessitating a solution to boost connectivity in areas with obstructions.
Innovation Solution
Integrating mobile network beacons into computer terminal nodes, such as ATMs, to perform triangulation of mobile network signals and transmit short wave communications for signal amplification.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If long wave transmission is used for mobile network coverage, then coverage area is extended, but signal strength is reduced in obstructed areas
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the mobile network transmission into two components: long wave for broad coverage and short wave for localized signal boosting. The beacon device acts as an intermediate segment that receives long wave signals and retransmits them via short wave to penetrate obstructions, thereby maintaining both extensive coverage and reliable signal strength in obstructed areas.
Solution Approach 2:
The beacon device serves as an intermediary between the mobile network tower and the user device. It receives long wave transmissions from towers, processes them, and retransmits via short wave to overcome obstructions. This intermediary approach allows the system to maintain both wide coverage and strong signal penetration without requiring direct line-of-sight between towers and user devices.
2Reliability
If beacon devices are deployed at computer terminal nodes, then network connectivity is improved in obstructed areas, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The beacon device is designed with multi-functionality, serving both as a traditional computer terminal node and as a mobile network booster. By integrating beacon functionality into existing terminal nodes, the system improves network connectivity without requiring entirely new specialized devices, thereby reducing overall system complexity while maintaining reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system merges the functions of computer terminal nodes with beacon signal transmission capabilities. Existing terminal nodes are equipped with additional beacon hardware and software, combining their original functions with network boosting functions. This consolidation reduces the number of separate devices needed and simplifies the overall system architecture.
3Measurement precision
If triangulation is performed to identify user location, then signal boosting is targeted accurately, but processing time is increased
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary triangulation calculations using pre-collected data from multiple terminal nodes. By maintaining updated location information from continuous triangulation of terminal nodes, the system reduces the computational burden during actual signal boosting operations, thereby achieving accurate location targeting with minimal processing delay.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements continuous feedback loops where terminal nodes regularly report their positions and signal conditions. This feedback mechanism allows the system to maintain current location information without performing full triangulation calculations for every signal boosting event, reducing processing time while maintaining location accuracy through periodic updates.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances mobile network connectivity by using short wave transmissions from beacons to amplify network connections in obstructed areas.
Implementation Method 1
transmitting short wave communications from the computer terminal nodes to the active mobile network connected user device
Data Source
AI summary
The invention provides an alternative device short wave beacon for mobile network boosting. As such, communication devices associated with computer terminal nodes, such as automated teller machines (ATM) are converted and integrated with beacons to allow transmission of short wave mobile network transmission to boost active signal strength of active mobile networks. The system does this by performing triangulation of a mobile network signal that is being broadcasted by mobile phone of a user. Once the location is triangulated, the system identifies the computer terminal nodes located in that area and initiates the activation of short wave mobile network boosting via the beacons. In this way, where the triangulation happens, instead of completely relying longer wave transmission, the invention allows the mobile phone of the user to use short wave transmissions from the beacons to amplify the mobile network connection of the user.