Wearable Device Synchronizing Physiological and Location Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
Obtaining accurate data in scientific contexts, such as clinical studies, is challenging due to the potential for inaccurate self-reported data from patients, which introduces uncertainty and complicates drawing reliable conclusions.
Innovation Solution
A wearable device equipped with memory circuitry, processor circuitry, and an interface is designed to collect physiological data associated with location data, ensuring both have the same timestamp. This device provides accurate and robust data collection by eliminating time lag and improving the correspondence between data and location.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If physiological data is collected from patients themselves, then data collection is simplified, but data accuracy deteriorates due to potential inaccurate self-reporting
Solution Approach 1:
The wearable device automatically collects physiological data without requiring patient intervention or self-reporting. The device serves itself by autonomously monitoring and recording physiological parameters, eliminating the need for patients to manually input data while ensuring accurate measurements.
2Device complexity
If location data and timestamp are obtained from external sources, then device complexity is reduced, but data correspondence accuracy deteriorates due to time lag
Solution Approach 1:
The wearable device integrates multiple data acquisition functions (physiological sensing, location tracking, and timestamp generation) into a single unified system. All these components operate synchronously within the same device, ensuring that physiological data, location data, and timestamps are captured simultaneously without time lag or correspondence errors.
3Device complexity
If physiological data is collected without location association, then data processing is simplified, but scientific conclusion reliability deteriorates due to inability to assess location-related factors
Solution Approach 1:
The wearable device is designed with multi-functionality, simultaneously serving as a physiological monitor, location tracker, and data synchronization system. This universal device collects and associates multiple types of data (physiological parameters, location coordinates, timestamps) in an integrated manner, enabling comprehensive scientific analysis without requiring separate systems for each function.
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AI summary
A wearable device is disclosed. The wearable device comprises memory circuitry, processor circuitry, an interface. The wearable device is configured to obtain physiological data associated with location data. The location data is indicative of a location of the wearable device. The location data has the same timestamp as the physiological data. The wearable device is configured to provide the physiological data associated with the location data.