User-Mountable Device Deployment Guidance via Sensor Orientation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing user-mountable electronic devices, such as continuous glucose monitors, face challenges in ensuring accurate deployment onto the body due to sensitivity to specific body locations and orientations, which can affect device performance and user comfort.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating at least one onboard sensor, such as an accelerometer, to generate output indicating orientation and motion, allowing for real-time guidance on preferred body part and orientation for deployment, thereby assisting users in optimal device placement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a user-mountable electronic device is deployed without guidance mechanisms, then the device complexity is reduced, but the deployment precision and reliability deteriorate due to sensitivity to body location and orientation
Solution Approach 1:
The device performs preliminary actions by automatically detecting body part location and preferred orientation before deployment occurs. The sensor-based guidance system pre-identifies the optimal deployment position and orientation, allowing the user to simply follow the guidance information without needing to manually determine the correct placement, thus improving reliability without requiring complex manual procedures
Solution Approach 2:
The device serves itself by using its onboard sensors to automatically determine body part location and preferred orientation. The system self-generates deployment guidance information based on sensor data, eliminating the need for external guidance tools or complex user intervention. This self-service capability improves deployment reliability while keeping the device relatively simple
2Reliability
If deployment guidance features are added to improve placement accuracy, then device reliability improves, but ease of operation may worsen due to additional sensor processing requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The device performs self-service by automatically processing sensor data to generate deployment guidance. The sensor processing and guidance generation are handled internally by the device's processor, requiring minimal user interaction. Users simply need to follow the guidance information displayed to them, which maintains ease of operation while improving reliability
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides feedback to the user in the form of deployment guidance information based on real-time sensor detection. This feedback loop automatically adjusts the guidance based on the device's actual position and orientation relative to the body part, making the operation intuitive and easy to follow while ensuring reliable deployment
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 the reliability and comfort of device deployment by providing precise guidance on body part and orientation, improving device performance and user experience.
Implementation Method 1
The user-mountable electronic device has at least one onboard sensor, such as an accelerometer
Data Source
AI summary
The disclosed system includes a user-mountable electronic device, an output interface, and at least one processor. The electronic device includes a housing and at least one sensor device located within the housing and configured to generate sensor output that indicates orientation or motion of the user-mountable electronic device. The at least one processor is operated to: receive the sensor output; identify, based on the received sensor output, a body part on which the user intends to deploy the user-mountable electronic device; determine a preferred orientation of the user-mountable electronic device relative to the identified body part; and cause the output interface to provide deployment guidance that indicates the preferred orientation of the user-mountable electronic device.