Smart Ball Connectivity for Personalized Training Content
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing sports equipment lacks integrated platforms for seamless connectivity and personalized content delivery based on the specific characteristics of the equipment, such as size, age group, and league, limiting user engagement and performance analysis.
Innovation Solution
Smart sports equipment, like smart balls, equipped with a chip that communicates with client devices to access an integrated platform, providing tailored content, analytics, and performance metrics, enabling seamless connectivity and personalized experiences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional sports equipment is used, then the equipment structure remains simple and manufacturing cost is low, but user engagement and performance analysis capability are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent embeds a communication chip inside the sports equipment (such as a football), creating a nested structure where the intelligent component is contained within the traditional equipment. This allows the equipment to gain connectivity and personalized content delivery capabilities while maintaining its external appearance and basic structure unchanged.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an integrated platform as an intermediary between the sports equipment and the user's mobile device. The equipment contains a chip that communicates with the platform, which in turn delivers personalized content and analytics to the user, thereby enabling adaptability without directly complexifying the equipment structure.
2Loss of information
If smart equipment with integrated platforms is implemented, then user engagement and performance analysis are enhanced, but manufacturing complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the complex data processing and analytics functionality from the equipment itself and places it in the integrated platform and mobile application. The equipment only needs to contain a simple communication chip for data collection and transmission, while the complex information processing occurs externally, thereby reducing the equipment's structural complexity while maintaining enhanced performance analysis capability.
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AI summary
Systems, methods, and non-transitory media are provided for smart sports equipment and integrated platforms. An example method can include receiving, by an integrated platform and from a client device, a request for content associated with a smart ball having a communications device configured to communicate an address for the content to one or more client devices, the request being based on the address from the smart ball; in response to the request, retrieving, by the integrated platform, the content associated with the smart ball; and providing, by the integrated platform, the content to the client device.