Wearable Ambient Sensing Alerts for Home Automation Response

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Solution Overview

Problem

Standalone devices for monitoring ambient conditions lack integration with larger systems and redundancy, limiting user intervention and alert effectiveness in home automation and security systems.

Innovation Solution

A wearable device with sensors that compares ambient condition values to alert conditions and transmits alert messages to a control panel, allowing for adjustments in connected devices to alter ambient conditions and generate warnings.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If standalone devices are used for monitoring ambient conditions, then device simplicity is maintained, but system integration and user intervention capability are limited

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesystem integrationVSAvoiddevice architecture

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system is divided into distinct functional modules: wearable sensor device for detection, wireless communication module for data transmission, and control panel for user interaction and system control. This segmentation allows each component to remain relatively simple while achieving overall system integration and versatility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Reliability

If standalone devices generate local alert signals, then device independence is maintained, but alert effectiveness and user response are reduced

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvealert effectivenessVSAvoidsystem architecture

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

A control panel serves as an intermediary between the wearable sensor device and the user/environment. The control panel receives sensor data, processes alert conditions, and can trigger remote connected devices to adjust ambient conditions, thereby enhancing alert effectiveness without requiring complex architecture at the wearable device itself.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback loops where sensor data is continuously monitored, compared against alert conditions, and triggers appropriate responses through the control panel and connected devices. This feedback mechanism ensures reliable alert effectiveness by maintaining continuous monitoring and automatic response capabilities.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

3Ease of operation

If wearable devices are integrated with home automation systems, then user intervention capability is enhanced, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser intervention capabilityVSAvoidsystem integration

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The wearable device automatically performs detection, data processing, and wireless transmission without requiring user intervention. The control panel handles alert processing and connected device control autonomously based on pre-set conditions, making the system easy to operate while managing complexity through automation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentEP3460562B1Systems, methods, and devices for detecting a value corresponding to an ambient condition and generating an alert responsive to the value

Publication Date: 2023.12.13 ADEMCO INC

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AI summary

Systems, methods, and devices for generating an alert responsive to a specific value from a sensor of a wearable device connected to a home automation system or a security system are provided. Some methods can include a control panel receiving an alert message from a wearable device indicative of an ambient condition at a current location of the wearable device, and the control panel automatically adjusting a respective output of one or more connected devices with a respective location proximate the current location of the wearable device.