Smart Electronic Float with Sensor Data Logging
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current fishing techniques rely on personal experience to detect fish approaching a bait, lacking digital tools for recording, analyzing, and improving fishing skills, as the experience is not documented for review or improvement.
Innovation Solution
A smart electronic float equipped with sensors and a microcontroller that records movement data, communicates wirelessly with a mobile device, and provides feedback through LEDs, vibrations, and audio signals to indicate when a fish is approaching the bait, while also allowing data storage and sharing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If personal experience is used to determine fish approaching bait, then fishing skill improvement is limited, but digital recording and analysis tools are lacking
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses sensors to create digital copies of float movement data, accurately replicating the physical float's behavior in the water. This digital copy can be stored, analyzed, and reviewed without losing any information about the actual fishing conditions and fish activity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical/visual observation system with electronic sensors and digital processing. Accelerometers and other sensors automatically detect and record float movements, substituting the need for manual observation and memory with automated electronic systems.
2Reliability
If float movement is observed manually, then personal experience is required, but the process becomes a memory without digital storage
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by automatically recording and storing float movement data during the fishing activity. This data is captured and preserved in advance, so when review is needed, the information is already available without requiring time to recall or reconstruct from memory.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements feedback by providing real-time analysis of float movement data and notifying the fisherman when fish are detected. The system continuously monitors movements, compares them against patterns, and provides immediate feedback about fish activity, enabling timely responses during fishing.
3Loss of information
If sensors and wireless communication are added to the float, then data recording capability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple functions into the single float device: sensing elements detect float movements, wireless communication modules transmit data, and processing units analyze fish activity. By combining these previously separate components into one integrated float, the system reduces overall system complexity while maintaining full functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The smart float serves multiple functions simultaneously: it acts as a traditional fishing float, a data collection station with sensors, a wireless communication device, and an analysis system. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for separate equipment for each function, reducing the overall complexity of the fishing system.
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 fishing skills by providing real-time feedback and data analysis, enabling better fishing experiences and improving techniques through recorded and shared information.
Implementation Method 1
an accelerometer, sensing a movement distance, a movement velocity, movement power, and a sinking gravity of the smart electronic float in water, to produce a corresponding plurality of pieces of float movement data
Implementation Method 2
an LED, where on/off of the LED is controlled by the microcontroller according to the LED on/off signal
Data Source
AI summary
A smart electronic float includes: an accelerometer, sensing a movement distance, a movement velocity, movement power, and a sinking gravity of the smart electronic float in water, to produce a corresponding plurality of pieces of float movement data; a microcontroller, receiving the float movement data sensed by the accelerometer; a first wireless communications device, where the microcontroller transmits the float movement data to an electronic device through the first wireless communications device, and receives a light-emitting diode (LED) on/off signal from the electronic device; and an LED, where on/off of the LED is controlled by the microcontroller according to the LED on/off signal.