Smart Beverage Packaging Integrating Sensory Outputs
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current smart packaging systems are not effectively integrated into industrial processing and do not address the specific needs of carbonated beverages like beer, particularly in terms of monitoring temperature and maturation, and are not cost-effective for disposable products.
Innovation Solution
Development of smart packaging that integrates sensory perceptible outputs, such as visual, audio, and haptic features, into the manufacturing process of beverage containers, using structural components like metal, glass, paper-based, or plastic materials to enable communication of product status and consumer interaction, while reducing production costs through integrated manufacturing processes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If smart packaging systems with sensors and indicators are integrated into beverage containers, then product quality monitoring and consumer safety are improved, but manufacturing complexity and production costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple smart packaging functions (sensing, indication, communication) into an integrated system where sensors detect product conditions and indicators provide visual feedback to consumers. This merging of functions into a unified packaging structure improves reliability while managing complexity through systematic integration rather than separate components.
Solution Approach 2:
The smart packaging system is designed to perform multiple functions simultaneously: monitoring product quality, indicating storage conditions, providing consumer information, and enabling interaction. This multi-functionality approach allows a single packaging system to address various quality control and consumer engagement needs without requiring separate systems for each function.
2Adaptability or versatility
If advanced smart packaging features with electronics and communication capabilities are added, then consumer interaction and brand engagement are enhanced, but production cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements smart packaging features at an appropriate level of complexity for the specific application, avoiding over-engineering. Rather than incorporating all possible electronic and communication capabilities, the system includes only the necessary sensors and indicators required for the specific beverage product and consumer information needs, thereby controlling production costs while maintaining adequate consumer interaction capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The smart packaging system utilizes changes in physical or chemical parameters (such as temperature, pressure, or chemical composition) of the beverage to trigger visual indicators. This approach allows consumer interaction and quality monitoring without requiring complex electronics, thereby reducing manufacturing costs while maintaining adaptability for different beverage types and consumer information needs.
3Loss of information
If disposable smart packaging is used for single-use beverage containers, then product information and quality control are provided, but cost-effectiveness deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent designs smart packaging specifically for disposable single-use containers with simplified sensor and indicator systems that are cost-effective for throwaway applications. The smart features are integrated into the disposable packaging structure itself, eliminating the need for expensive reusable components, thereby providing product status information in a cost-effective manner suitable for single-use beverage containers.
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AI summary
The present invention is directed to a smart metal, glass, paper-based, wood-based, or plastic packaging (1, 2, 3, 4) for beverage comprising at least one sensory perceptible output, said sensory perceptible output being any type of device integrated in the packaging enabling a user or consumer to sense any sensory perceptible status change of the packaging or the beverage, wherein a structural component of the packaging forms a component of the at least one sensory perceptible output, said structural component being a component or material layer offering a contribution to enable the packaging to contain a beverage or to be transported. In addition, the present invention is directed to a method for manufacturing a corresponding packaging.