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US 11,693,471 B2Granted
Personal pollution sensing device with extended battery life
AssigneeL'oreal
InventorDavid B. Kosecoff
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Abstract
A computer system and the computer-implemented method of extending the battery life of a personal wearable sensing device, the method comprises determining a current location of the sensing device; determining locations of publicly accessible environmental monitors; determining whether the current location is within a proximity limit to a publicly accessible environmental monitor; and receiving information from the publicly accessible environmental monitor when the current location is within the proximity limit to the publicly accessible environmental monitor to save battery life of the sensing device.
Claims21
A computer-implemented method of extending battery life of a sensing device, the method comprising:
- wearing a sensing device on a person, wherein the sensing device includes a battery and at least one air pollution sensor;
- determining, by a computing device, a current location of the sensing device;
- determining, by the computing device, locations of publicly accessible air pollution monitors;
- determining, by the computing device, whether the current location is within a proximity limit to a publicly accessible air pollution monitor;
- receiving, by the computing device, information from two or more of the publicly accessible air pollution monitors when the current location is within the proximity limit to the publicly accessible air pollution monitors to save battery life of the battery included in the sensing device, and using an average or median of the information from the two or more of the publicly accessible air pollution monitors;
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- reducing a frequency of sample measurements of a sensor on the sensing device based on the following conditions occurring:
- a predetermined number of consecutive samples taken by the sensor show similar readings;
- and
- a user's location does not change within a predetermined time window, wherein the frequency of sampling is set by the user, a deviation to determine consecutive readings are similar is set by the user, and the predetermined time that the user is at the same location is set by the user.
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A computing device configured to:
- determine a current location of the sensing device, wherein the sensing device includes a battery and at least one air pollution sensor;
- determine locations of publicly accessible air pollution monitors;
- determine whether the current location is within a proximity limit to a publicly accessible air pollution monitor;
- and
- receive information from the publicly accessible air pollution monitor when the current location is within the proximity limit to the publicly accessible air pollution monitor to save battery life of the battery included in the sensing device and use an average or median of the information from the two or more of the publicly accessible air pollution monitors;
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- reduce a frequency of sample measurements of a sensor on the sensing device based on the following conditions occurring:
- a predetermined number of consecutive samples taken by the sensor show similar readings;
- and
- a user's location does not change within a predetermined time window, wherein the frequency of sampling is set by the user, a deviation to determine consecutive readings are similar is set by the user, and the predetermined time that the user is at the same location is set by the user.
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A system, comprising:
- a battery saver application engine including computational circuitry configured to:
- determine a current location of a sensing device, wherein the sensing device includes a battery and at least one air pollution sensor;
- determine locations of publicly accessible air pollution monitors;
- determine whether the current location is within a proximity limit to a publicly accessible air pollution monitor;
- and
- receive information from the publicly accessible air pollution monitor when the current location is within the proximity limit to the publicly accessible air pollution monitor to save battery life of the battery included in the sensing device and using an average or median of the information from the two or more of the publicly accessible air pollution monitors;
- and
- reduce a frequency of sample measurements of a sensor on the sensing device based on the following conditions occurring:
- a predetermined number of consecutive samples taken by the sensor show similar readings;
- and
- a user's location does not change within a predetermined time window, wherein the frequency of sampling is set by the user, a deviation to determine consecutive readings are similar is set by the user, and the predetermined time that the user is at the same location is set by the user.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.