Wearable Audio Sensor Data Routing via Firmware Matching
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wireless audio systems face challenges in efficiently sending sensor data from wearable devices to peripheral devices, as existing methods lack the ability to dynamically match firmware characteristics with application requirements, leading to inefficient data utilization and user experience.
Innovation Solution
A method is implemented where a wearable audio device with a communication module establishes a connection with a peripheral device, compares firmware and application data characteristics, and sends sensor data based on matching characteristics, allowing for dynamic adjustment based on user input, application priority, and foreground status.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If sensor data is continuously sent from wearable audio device to peripheral device, then data availability for applications is improved, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically changes the data transmission parameter by comparing firmware characteristics with application requirements before sending sensor data. This selective transmission based on matching characteristics reduces unnecessary data sending, thereby lowering energy consumption while maintaining data availability when needed.
2Productivity
If firmware characteristic matching is implemented to send sensor data, then data utilization efficiency is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by comparing firmware characteristics with application requirements before actual data transmission occurs. This advance matching process ensures that sensor data is only sent when there is a compatible application ready to utilize it, improving data utilization efficiency without requiring complex real-time processing during data transmission.
3Adaptability or versatility
If sensor data is sent to multiple applications, then application versatility is improved, but data management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The wearable audio device implements multi-functionality by enabling sensor data to be shared with multiple applications that have matching firmware characteristics. The system maintains a registry of compatible applications and can route data to any matching application, providing versatility while managing complexity through standardized matching protocols rather than custom integration for each application.
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AI summary
An audio system and method for sending sensor data including a first wearable audio device having a speaker, a first communication module arranged to establish a first connection with a first peripheral device and obtain a first data characteristic of the first wearable audio device, and obtain a second data characteristic of a first application running on a first peripheral device, and a sensor arranged to obtain a sensor data. The first wearable audio device or the first peripheral device are arranged to: compare the first data characteristic and the second data characteristic, and send or receive the sensor data obtained from the sensor to the first peripheral device for use with the first application if the first data characteristic and the second data characteristic match.