Apple Smart Shoes Development Sensilla Alarm System

An Apple patent is more interesting than usual. The patent describes a sensor and alarm system, which is placed on users. shoes The function of the inside is to remind the user to change the shoes when worn out.

The patent application time is 2012 July, the patent name is "shoes wear bad induction system, no unit activity evaluation method" (name can not be directly seen), in fact, this is a kind of intelligent shoes, the function is that when the shoes are worn or worn, the system will remind the owner of shoes to change shoes automatically.

In Apple's description, shoes not only provide human comfort and foot protection, but also keep feet stable when people participate in sports activities. However, a pair of shoes will continue to weaken in continuous daily use, and the protection effect for feet will be worse and worse. So Apple said that there is a critical point in the process of wearing shoes every day. After the critical point, these shoes can not provide enough protection. In some cases, they may even cause injury to the feet. The user will not know when the critical point will come, so Apple developed the sensor alarm system, which prevents the foot from being hurt.

The patent includes 3 main parts: the first is the perception. shoes When the detector is worn out, then the processor that processes the data collected by the detector, and finally, it notifies the user of the alarm system to change the shoes. Sensors can exist in many ways, including speed sensors, pressure sensors, piezoelectric bending sensors, and so on. Data is processed by an algorithm based on the specifications of the shoe manufacturer. shoes When should it be eliminated?

In this system, the quantized number of activities is no unit. The actions perceived by these sensors are processed by the processor, and the activity values within the system are generated in the process. Such a unit free system can be executed in time by periodic sampling. For example, if a shoe can only wear 500 hours rated, the system will notify users when the number of activities reaches this record number.

Other measures that are not directly related to shoes are also embodied in this system, including an induction module called body-bar, which is used to quantify the load and load times of shoes. These figures can even be displayed on the screen. The whole system is built in batteries and power generation equipment. There are many ways for users to receive notifications, such as bright LED lights or loudspeakers, display on display, etc. In addition, the indispensable part of the component is wireless connection function, so as to connect with other mobile devices like iPhone and iPad.

Apple's envisaged processor, alarm system and other electronic components can be placed in the heels of shoes or wherever there are enough space. The sensor part needs to be placed in the location where data can be collected, such as the outsole part of the heel. Maybe soon we can see Apple's basketball shoes. In fact, similar technologies have been applied to shoes such as Nike, but the use of Nike shoes is to track athletes' performance.