Wearable Eyewear Temperature Sensor with Visual Alert Display

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current temperature monitoring methods during pandemics or illness outbreaks lead to long lines, potential infection risks for healthcare professionals, and false readings due to environmental factors, highlighting the need for a system that provides real-time temperature information while maintaining social distancing and reducing reliance on manual scanning.

Innovation Solution

Integration of a temperature sensor and display into personal protective equipment like eyewear or face shields, allowing individuals to wearably monitor and publicly display their temperature, enabling others to maintain distance and reducing the need for manual checks.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If manual temperature scanning is used to monitor individuals, then temperature information can be collected, but long lines and waiting times occur

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetemperature information collectionVSAvoidwaiting time

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables individuals to automatically monitor and display their own temperature through wearable devices with integrated temperature sensors and displays, eliminating the need for manual scanning by healthcare workers. This self-service approach allows people to check their temperature independently while maintaining social distancing, thus resolving the contradiction between obtaining temperature information and minimizing waiting time

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Measurement precision

If individuals congregate in areas for temperature checking, then temperature monitoring can be performed, but infection risk increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetemperature monitoringVSAvoidinfection risk

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

By enabling individuals to autonomously monitor and display their temperature through wearable devices, the system eliminates the need for congregation at temperature checking stations. People can check their temperature independently while maintaining social distancing, thus resolving the contradiction between performing temperature monitoring and minimizing infection risk

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

3Measurement precision

If healthcare professionals conduct temperature testing up close, then accurate temperature reading can be obtained, but exposure to contagion increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetemperature reading accuracyVSAvoidcontagion exposure

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The wearable temperature monitoring device allows individuals to self-monitor their temperature without requiring close proximity to healthcare workers. The device continuously tracks temperature and provides real-time feedback, enabling accurate temperature assessment while maintaining safe distances and eliminating healthcare worker exposure to contagion

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system replaces the mechanical approach of manual temperature scanning with an electronic wearable device that continuously monitors temperature autonomously. This substitution eliminates the need for close physical interaction between healthcare workers and individuals, resolving the contradiction between obtaining accurate temperature readings and reducing contagion exposure

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

4Measurement precision

If environmental temperature affects individuals, then temperature readings may be accurate, but false illness indications occur

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetemperature readingVSAvoidfalse illness indication

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The wearable device provides continuous real-time temperature monitoring with immediate visual and audible feedback. The system can distinguish between transient environmental temperature effects and sustained fever patterns through continuous measurement and alert mechanisms, helping to differentiate true illness indications from false readings caused by environmental factors

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

Enables real-time temperature monitoring with visual and audible alerts, reducing wait times and infection risks by providing immediate feedback on temperature status, thus facilitating safer entry into establishments while maintaining social distancing.

Implementation Method 1

a temperature sensor positioned within an interior surface of one of the first and second arms for reading a temperature of the individual

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectThermal energy measurement: Thermocouple

Data Source

PatentUS20220082456A1Personal Temperature Recording Device

Publication Date: 2022.03.17 ROWLAND GARY

AI summary

The present invention relates to personal protective equipment for individuals that allows the wearer, and those in close proximity to the wearer, to continuously monitor the wearer's temperature. The eyeglasses have a temperature sensor that is disposed adjacent the head of the wearer, and a display connected to the temperature sensor which shows the current temperature of the wearer. If the temperature is detected at a level higher than a user specified threshold, the display changes color or provides another warning to those nearby, as well as to the individual wearer.