Wireless Communication Failure Analysis Device for Obstacle Detection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing techniques are insufficient for accurately and efficiently analyzing the cause of deteriorated wireless communication states, particularly in environments where obstacles affect signal strength, such as construction sites or plants with rapidly changing physical conditions.

Innovation Solution

A wireless communication failure analysis device that estimates the movement locus of a communication terminal device relative to an access point, corrects this locus based on restriction information, and repeatedly generates and strengthens restriction content to improve estimation accuracy, ultimately identifying the presence and impact of obstacles on the communication state.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If existing techniques (PTLs 1-3) are used to analyze wireless communication failures, then basic failure detection is possible, but analysis accuracy and efficiency are insufficient for rapidly changing environments with obstacles

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveanalysis accuracyVSAvoidanalysis efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-establishes a database of obstacle characteristics and communication state patterns before actual failure analysis. By preparing reference data and analysis models in advance, the system can quickly compare actual measurements against pre-stored patterns, significantly improving both accuracy and efficiency of failure analysis in dynamic environments

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates virtual models and digital replicas of physical obstacles and communication environments. By copying real-world obstacle characteristics into virtual representations, the system can perform repeated analysis simulations without requiring actual physical presence, thereby improving analysis accuracy while maintaining efficiency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Measurement precision

If the wireless communication environment is monitored continuously to detect obstacles, then detection accuracy improves, but system complexity and computational load increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveobstacle detection accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts and isolates specific key parameters (such as signal strength variations, phase changes, and packet error rates) that are most indicative of obstacle presence. By focusing only on these critical parameters rather than analyzing all available data, the system achieves high detection accuracy while keeping computational complexity manageable

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces intermediate processing layers including signal filtering modules, feature extraction components, and pattern matching algorithms that act as mediators between raw sensor data and final obstacle detection results. These intermediaries simplify the overall system complexity by breaking down the detection process into manageable stages

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS11991538B2Wireless communication failure analysis device, wireless communication failure analysis method, and recording medium having wireless communication failure analysis program stored therein
Publication Date: 2024.05.21 NEC CORP
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AI summary

A wireless communication failure analysis device comprises: an estimator which, based on a measured communication state between an access point and a communication terminal, and an estimation of an obstacle affecting the communication state, estimates a movement locus of the communication terminal; a corrector which corrects the movement locus based on restriction information indicating a movement restriction of the communication terminal; a generator which generates the estimation result based on a corrected movement locus and the measurement result; and a controller which generates the restriction information so as to gradually strengthen the movement restriction until the movement restriction satisfies a condition, and controls the estimator and generator such that the estimation of the movement locus, the correction of the movement locus, and the generation of the estimation result repeatedly. Thus, the device analyzes presence of an obstacle that affects the wireless communication state efficiently and accurately.