Wearable Controller Staging Emergency Responses via Sensor Data

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Solution Overview

Problem

Wearable devices currently lack the capability to accurately classify user emergencies and provide appropriate responses, leading to delayed or inappropriate emergency measures.

Innovation Solution

An electronic apparatus equipped with sensors, a communicator, an inputter, and a controller that collects medical and movement data to classify emergencies into stages, guiding users through specific operations and transmitting information to external devices for appropriate responses.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If conventional wearable devices provide emergency service, then user safety monitoring is enabled, but emergency classification accuracy deteriorates due to lack of stage differentiation

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveemergency service reliabilityVSAvoidemergency stage classification precision
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The emergency service is segmented into multiple stages (first stage, second stage, third stage) based on the user's response to guidance messages. The controller divides the emergency detection process into distinct phases: initial detection, user interaction phase, and escalation phase, allowing precise classification of emergency severity and appropriate response at each stage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Speed

If emergency service is provided without stage classification, then response time is reduced, but appropriateness of emergency measures deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveemergency response speedVSAvoidemergency measure adaptability
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The emergency response system dynamically adjusts the type of service provided based on the detected stage. In the first stage, the system provides guidance messages to the user. In the second stage, it sends notifications to predetermined contacts. In the third stage, it activates advanced emergency services. This dynamic adaptation ensures both rapid response and appropriate measure selection.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Measurement precision

If multiple messages are output for user interaction, then emergency stage detection accuracy is improved, but time consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser state detection precisionVSAvoidemergency response time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The controller outputs a first guidance message before determining the final emergency stage, giving the user a chance to respond and potentially avoid escalation. This preliminary action allows the system to gather additional information about the user's state without immediately triggering full emergency protocols, balancing accuracy with time efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentEP3407230B1Electronic apparatus and control method therefor
Publication Date: 2024.03.06 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

An electronic apparatus according to various embodiments of the present disclosure may comprise: a sensor unit for sensing the movement of the electronic apparatus; a communication unit for communicating with an external apparatus; an input unit for receiving a user input; an output unit for providing information to a user; and a control unit for outputting a message inducing a particular action to the user through the output unit on the basis of medical information of the user and the movement of the electronic apparatus, or controlling the communication unit to transmit information related to the electronic apparatus to an external apparatus.