Virtual Competitive Event Validation with GPS and Biometric Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Organizing and executing physical competitive events is challenging due to the need for extensive coordination, adaptability to unforeseen circumstances, and ensuring result accuracy, often leading to cancellations and financial distress.
Innovation Solution
A virtual competitive event management system that utilizes participant devices to track location, physiological data, and biometrics, allowing for flexible event management and real-time validation of results, enabling adaptation to emergencies without cancellation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If physical competitive events are organized with extensive coordination and validation, then result accuracy is improved, but adaptability to unforeseen circumstances deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The validation system is segmented into multiple independent components: location validation, time validation, biometric validation, and result validation. Each component operates independently to verify specific aspects of event data, allowing the system to maintain result accuracy while adapting to different event scenarios and unforeseen circumstances through modular configuration.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces intermediary validation mechanisms between event execution and result recording. Validation servers act as mediators that receive data from participant devices, validate against predefined criteria, and only accept results that meet validation standards. This intermediary layer ensures result accuracy while allowing flexible event management through configurable validation rules.
2Reliability
If physical events require road shutdowns and extensive coordination, then result integrity is improved, but logistical complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Participants use their own devices (smartphones, wearables) to automatically track and report event data including location, time, and biometric information. The validation system automatically processes this self-reported data against predefined validation criteria, eliminating the need for extensive manual coordination, road shutdowns, and physical validation personnel while maintaining result integrity through automated verification.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces mechanical validation systems (physical checkpoints, manual timing, on-site officials) with electronic and automated validation mechanisms. GPS tracking, digital timestamping, and automated validation algorithms substitute for physical infrastructure and manual processes, reducing logistical complexity while ensuring result integrity through consistent, objective validation criteria.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If events are canceled due to safety concerns, then participant safety is improved, but financial loss increases
Solution Approach 1:
The validation system establishes predefined safety criteria and validation rules before events begin. These include maximum elevation gains, minimum distance requirements, approved route parameters, and time-based validation windows. By having these criteria established in advance, the system can automatically validate event data against safety standards and make informed decisions about event continuation or cancellation, protecting participant safety while minimizing unnecessary financial losses through objective, pre-determined safety thresholds.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors event data against predefined safety criteria and provides real-time feedback to event organizers and participants. When validation failures indicate potential safety issues (such as route deviations, abnormal performance metrics, or environmental condition violations), the system alerts stakeholders and can trigger automatic event suspension or cancellation protocols, ensuring participant safety while maintaining financial accountability through structured decision-making processes.
Data Source
AI summary
A server is configured to manage a network of participant devices that are distributed across a plurality of participants in a virtually managed competitive event. Events may be configured and offered via the platform, and participants that have devices meeting certain requirements may register for events. Events that have a high goal for accuracy and verifiability may require a smartphone and smartwatch to be possessed and worn throughout the event in order to gather GPS data, step count, heart rate, fingerprint data, facial recognition images, and other verification data before, during, and after the event. Where data cannot be verified and indicates a technical error or falsification of data, participants may be warned, and their results may be flagged to indicate that they are not verifiable and may be erroneous. Event results may be provided for a plurality of participants with information indicating the accuracy and verifiability of individual results.