Wireless Radio AR Mapping for IoT Device Identification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing augmented reality systems face challenges in efficiently identifying and locating wireless devices within environments, particularly in scenarios involving numerous IoT devices, which raises security and privacy concerns and limits the potential for enhancing user experiences with additional information.
Innovation Solution
A network architecture utilizing wireless radios to capture signals from devices and objects, enabling identification, location determination, and display of augmented environments, incorporating symbols and additional information through smart devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If optical sensors and cameras are used to capture visual information, then visual data can be obtained, but the system becomes bulky and expensive
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces optical sensors and cameras with wireless radio signals to capture environmental information. Instead of using bulky optical detection devices, the system transmits and receives radio waves that reflect off or pass through objects to gather visual data, thereby eliminating the need for complex optical hardware while maintaining information capture capability
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces wireless radio signals as an intermediary medium to transfer environmental information. Rather than directly using cameras to capture images, the system uses radio waves as a mediator to carry information about the environment from the scene to the processing device, enabling indirect but effective visual information acquisition
2Device complexity
If wireless radio signals are used instead of optical sensors, then device complexity is reduced, but signal accuracy and reliability may be affected
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs wireless radio signals that serve multiple functions: they can penetrate walls and obstacles, reflect off surfaces to detect objects, and carry environmental information through various media. This multi-functionality allows a single simple radio signal system to perform what would otherwise require multiple specialized sensors, maintaining reliability through functional redundancy
Solution Approach 2:
The system adjusts parameters of radio signals such as frequency, wavelength, and modulation characteristics to optimize performance for different environmental conditions. By changing signal parameters rather than hardware components, the system maintains reliability across varying scenarios while keeping the device simple
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
Enhances user experience by providing accurate and detailed augmented environments with device and object information, improving security and privacy management in complex wireless device ecosystems.
Implementation Method 1
capturing electromagnetic signals using wireless radios
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AI summary
In one example, a method may include receiving a wireless signal from a device. The device may be within an environment. The method may also include identifying the device. The device may be identified based on at least one of data and metadata included in the wireless signal. In addition, the method may include determining a location of the device within the environment. The location of the device within the environment may be determined based on the data included the wireless signal. Further, the method may include displaying an augmented environment representative of the environment and a symbol representative of the device within the augmented environment. The symbol may be displayed in a location within the augmented environment corresponding to the location of the device within the environment.