Switch-Enabled Wearable Ring for Discreet Emergency Communication
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current wearable emergency devices face issues with false activation and large form factors, making them unreliable and noticeable, which can be detrimental in emergency situations where discreet communication is crucial.
Innovation Solution
A wearable electronic device, such as an enhanced ring with a physical switch interface, wirelessly paired with a paired device, allows for switch-enabled communication using short-range and long-range radio access technologies, enabling users to initiate discreet transmissions without accidental activation, and features a smaller form factor to avoid detection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a physical switch interface is added to the enhanced ring, then the reliability of emergency communication is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system is divided into two separate components: the enhanced ring with the physical switch interface and the paired device with long-range communication capabilities. This segmentation allows the ring to remain simple while the paired device handles the complex communication functions, resolving the contradiction between reliability and device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The physical switch interface acts as an intermediary between the user and the communication system. It provides a reliable activation mechanism that triggers the paired device to send emergency communications, ensuring reliable emergency communication while keeping the ring itself simple in structure.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If the enhanced ring uses a smaller form factor, then the discreetness of the device is improved, but the reliability of the switch interface may deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The switch interface reliability is ensured through segmentation of functions: the physical switch is integrated into the small ring for discreetness, while the activation logic and communication functions are separated into the paired device. This allows the ring to remain small and discreet while the system as a whole maintains reliable emergency communication capability.
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AI summary
A wearable electronic device with switch-enabled communications is disclosed. The switch-enabled communication may be enabled with an enhanced ring that includes at least a switch and a short range communication circuit and a paired device, to which the enhanced ring is paired and maintained in close proximity thereto. A user may activate the switch on the enhanced ring to trigger a short range signal to the paired device. The paired device receives and interprets the short range signal and, in response, initiates one or more predetermined transmissions to designated individuals or institutions via a long range transmission. The paired device may include both short range and long range radios in order to facilitate both the switch-enabled communications with the enhanced ring and the long range transmissions of the predetermined transmissions to the designated individuals.