Wireless IoT Adapter for Non-Smart Objects
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Solution Overview
Problem
Non-smart objects lack the capability to detect and react to events due to the time-consuming and costly process of modifying them with sensors and logic, making it impractical to enhance their IoT functionality.
Innovation Solution
A wireless communication device with sensors and feedback capabilities is used to simulate IoT capabilities in objects by storing reactions characterized by detectable criteria and executable effects, allowing it to appear as if the object is reacting to events through haptic, visual, or audio feedback.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If sensors and logic are integrated into non-smart objects to enable IoT functionality, then the objects can detect and react to events, but the manufacturing cost and complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
A separate wireless communication device acts as an intermediary between the non-smart object and the IoT ecosystem. This mediator contains all sensors, processors, and communication modules, while the object itself remains simple and unmodified. The intermediary device detects events related to the object and manages all IoT interactions, effectively decoupling the complexity from the object manufacturing process.
Solution Approach 2:
The system is divided into two distinct components: a simple non-smart object and a separate smart wireless communication device. This segmentation allows the object to be manufactured using traditional methods without integration of sensors or logic, while the smart functionality resides in the separate device that can be attached to or associated with the object.
2Adaptability or versatility
If sensors and reaction logic are integrated into non-smart objects, then the objects can autonomously react to events, but the production time and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The wireless communication device serves as an intermediary that handles all sensing and reaction logic externally. This allows objects to be produced quickly using conventional methods, while the intermediary device provides the event response capability without requiring modification of the objects during manufacturing.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of modifying each individual object with embedded intelligence, the patent uses a separate wireless communication device that can be associated with multiple objects. This copying approach allows the same smart functionality to be shared across numerous objects, maintaining high production efficiency while providing universal event response capability.
3Adaptability or versatility
If non-smart objects are modified to include embedded intelligence, then they gain IoT capabilities, but the modification process becomes impractical
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a separate wireless communication device as an intermediary that provides IoT capabilities without requiring any modification to the original object. This intermediary contains all necessary sensors, processing power, and communication interfaces, allowing the object to gain IoT capability while remaining simple and easy to manufacture using traditional methods.
Data Source
AI summary
This disclosure relates to systems and methods for simulating an internet of things capability in an object. Storage media may store reactions executable by a wireless communication device. The wireless communication device may include one or more sensors and one or more feedback capabilities. Individual reactions may be characterized by reaction criteria detectable by the one or more sensors and reaction effects executable through the one or more feedback capabilities. One or more processors may be configured by machine readable instructions to receive input indicating an object association between the wireless communication device and the object, and, responsive to reception of the input, activate a set of reactions for the wireless communication device.