WO2018188035A1

WO2018188035A1 - System and method for measuring smoke amount of electronic cigarette based on mobile terminal

Info

Publication number: WO2018188035A1
Application number: PCT/CN2017/080494
Authority: WO
Inventors: 刘黎明
Original assignee: 九尊城网络科技（深圳）有限公司
Priority date: 2017-04-13
Filing date: 2017-04-13
Publication date: 2018-10-18

Abstract

A system and method for measuring the smoke amount of an electronic cigarette based on a mobile terminal. The system comprises: a smoke amount measurer, placed in an electronic cigarette, and used for measuring the smoke amount of smoke produced during electronic cigarette smoking in real time, and transmitting the measured smoke amount to a backend server; a backend server, used for receiving smoke amount information sent by the smoke amount measurer, calculating a smoke amount accumulative value, analyzing the cost required for producing the equivalent smoke amount if a conventional cigarette is smoked, and transmitting the smoke amount and cost information to a mobile terminal; and the mobile terminal, used for obtaining the smoke amount and cost information from the backend server, and displaying same and giving a prompt. In this way, a user can learn about the cost reduced by smoking an electronic cigarette, and thus can persist in using the electronic cigarette and gradually change the habit of smoking conventional cigarettes.

Description

Electronic cigarette smoke quantity detecting system and method based on mobile terminal

Technical field

The present invention relates to the field of electronic cigarette technology, and in particular, to an electronic cigarette smoke amount detecting system and method based on a mobile terminal.

Background technique

"Smoking is harmful to health" has attracted much attention, but there are still hundreds of millions of smokers in the world, and the trend of continuous expansion has to attract attention from all walks of life. In order to purify the environment, smoking bans in public places has also become a consensus. There have been cigarette substitutes on the market that effectively reduce the amount of tar droplets that nicotine produces as cigarettes burn into the alveoli. In order to meet the needs of smokers for cigarette addiction, e-cigarettes can not only solve the smoke addiction of smokers, but also help the health of smokers.

However, smoking is always an uncivilized and unhealthy lifestyle. In order to help electronic cigarette smokers to effectively control the frequency of smoking, reduce the incidence of smoking in public places, it is necessary for users to know the information on the smoking amount of electronic cigarettes in real time.

Summary of the invention

The invention provides an electronic cigarette smoke quantity detecting system and method based on a mobile terminal. The specific technical solutions of the present invention are as follows:

The invention provides an electronic cigarette smoke quantity detecting system based on a mobile terminal, comprising:

The smoke amount detector is placed in the electronic cigarette to detect the amount of smoke emitted by the electronic cigarette when it is sucked and transmitted to the mobile terminal;

a mobile terminal, configured to receive the smoke amount information sent by the smoke amount detector and display a reminder;

The smoke amount detector communicates with the mobile terminal via wireless or Bluetooth.

Further, the mobile terminal displays a reminder of the amount of smoke, including a real-time display of the amount of smoke each time the electronic cigarette smokes, and an accumulated display of the amount of smoke from the first smoking of the electronic cigarette to the current smoking.

Further, when the mobile terminal receives the accumulated amount of smoke amount to reach a preset value, an alert is issued.

Further, the mobile mobile includes

a terminal communication unit, configured to receive the amount of smoke information sent by the smoke amount detector;

a storage unit for storing smoke amount information;

a terminal display unit for displaying smoke amount information;

And a processing unit for controlling operation operations of the terminal communication unit, the storage unit, and the terminal display unit.

Further, the mobile terminal further includes a calculating unit controlled by the processing unit, configured to calculate an accumulated value of the received amount of smoke, and whether the received accumulated amount of smoke amount reaches a preset value.

Further, the mobile terminal further includes an alarm unit controlled by the processing unit, configured to issue an alert when the mobile terminal receives the accumulated smoke amount to a preset value.

Further, the alarm unit is a sound player.

The invention also provides a method for detecting the amount of electronic cigarette smoke based on a mobile terminal, comprising the following steps:

Step a, a smoke amount detector placed in the electronic cigarette, detecting the amount of smoke emitted by the electronic cigarette during the smoking in real time and transmitting it to the mobile terminal;

In step b, the mobile terminal receives the smoke amount information sent by the smoke amount detector and displays a reminder.

Further, in the step b, the mobile terminal displays a reminder of the amount of smoke, including a real-time display of the amount of smoke each time the electronic cigarette smokes, and an accumulated display of the amount of smoke from the first smoking of the electronic cigarette to the current smoking.

Further, after step b, step c is further included, and when the mobile terminal receives the accumulated amount of smoke amount to reach a preset value, an audible alarm is issued.

Compared with the prior art, the present invention provides a mobile terminal-based electronic cigarette smoke quantity detecting system and method. The main beneficial effect is that the present invention emits a smoke amount detector on the electronic cigarette and emits the real time when smoking the electronic cigarette. The amount of smoke is detected and transmitted to the mobile terminal, and the mobile terminal displays a reminder of the smoke amount information, so that people can obtain a certain knowledge of their own food intake, so that people can quit smoking activities according to the smoking statistical signal. The invention has the advantages of rich functions, good extensibility and the like.

DRAWINGS

1 is a block diagram showing a system for detecting an electronic cigarette smoke amount based on a mobile terminal according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention;

2 is a block diagram showing a mobile terminal in an electronic cigarette smoke amount detecting system based on a mobile terminal according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention;

3 is a schematic block diagram of a mobile terminal in an electronic cigarette smoke amount detecting system based on a mobile terminal according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention;

4 is a flow chart of a method for detecting an electronic cigarette smoke amount based on a mobile terminal according to Embodiment 3 of the present invention.

detailed description

The present invention will be further described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments. It is understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the invention and are not intended to limit the invention.

Example 1

Referring to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the present invention provides an electronic cigarette smoke amount detecting system based on a mobile terminal, comprising: a smoke amount detector disposed in the electronic cigarette for real-time detecting the amount of smoke emitted by the electronic cigarette when smoking And transmitting to the mobile terminal; the mobile terminal is configured to receive the smoke amount information sent by the smoke amount detector and display a reminder. The smoke amount detector communicates with the mobile terminal via wireless or Bluetooth. In the mobile terminal-based electronic cigarette smoke amount detecting system, the mobile terminal includes a terminal communication unit, a storage unit, a terminal display unit, and a processing unit. The terminal communication unit, the storage unit, and the terminal display unit are all controlled by the processing unit. The terminal communication unit is configured to receive the smoke amount information sent by the smoke amount detector; the storage unit is configured to store the smoke amount information; and the terminal display unit is configured to display the smoke amount information. The information of the amount of smoke displayed by the terminal display unit may be a real-time display of the amount of smoke when the electronic cigarette is used each time.

Example 2

Referring to FIG. 3, the present invention provides an electronic cigarette smoke amount detecting system based on a mobile terminal, which is substantially the same as the technical solution of Embodiment 1, and the main differences are as follows:

The mobile terminal further includes a computing unit and an alarm unit. Both the computing unit and the alarm unit are controlled by the processing unit. The calculating unit is configured to calculate an accumulated value of the received amount of smoke, and whether the accumulated amount of received smoke amount reaches a preset value. Therefore, the terminal display unit can also display the accumulated value information of the amount of smoke from the first smoking of the electronic cigarette to the current smoking. In the setting of the preset value, it may be the amount of smoke generated by the electronic cigarette smoked by the preset design one day, one week or one month. When calculated by the calculation unit, when the mobile terminal receives the accumulated amount of smoke amount to reach a preset value, the alarm unit issues an alert. The way to alert can be to play the sound. Correspondingly, the alarm unit is a sound player.

Further, the calculation unit can also calculate the amount of smoke generated by smoking the electronic cigarette, relative to the amount of conventional cigarettes, under the same amount of smoke. In this way, the display unit of the mobile terminal displays the amount of smoke when the electronic cigarette smokes each time and the cumulative amount of smoke from the first smoking to the current smoking, and can also display the amount of traditional cigarette smoking after the conversion of the amount of smoke. Therefore, the user can be intuitively told the amount of smoking of the electronic cigarette, which is beneficial for the user to control the smoking of the electronic cigarette and help to quit smoking.

Compared with the prior art, the present invention provides a mobile terminal-based electronic cigarette smoke quantity detecting system. The main beneficial effect is that the present invention integrates the smoke emitted by the electronic cigarette by realizing the smoke amount detector on the electronic cigarette. The quantity is detected and transmitted to the mobile terminal, and the mobile terminal displays and reminds the smoke quantity information, so that people can obtain certain knowledge of their own food intake, and it is convenient for people to quit smoking activities according to the smoking statistical signal. The invention has the advantages of rich functions, good extensibility and the like.

Example 3

Referring to FIG. 4, the present invention provides a method for detecting an electronic cigarette smoke amount based on a mobile terminal, comprising the following steps:

Step a, the smoke amount detector placed in the electronic cigarette, real-time detecting the amount of smoke emitted by the electronic cigarette when smoking, and transmitting to the mobile terminal through Bluetooth or wireless channel;

Further, the mobile terminal displays a reminder of the amount of smoke, including a real-time display of the amount of smoke each time the electronic cigarette smokes, and a cumulative display of the amount of smoke from the first smoking of the electronic cigarette to the current smoking. Optimized, the mobile terminal can also display the same amount of smoke, which is equivalent to the consumption of traditional cigarettes, so that the user can be very intuitive to tell the user the consumption of the electronic cigarette, which is beneficial to the user to control the smoking of the electronic cigarette and help to quit smoking.

Further, after step b, step c is further included, and when the mobile terminal receives the accumulated amount of smoke amount to reach a preset value, an audible alarm is issued. In the setting of the preset value, it may be the amount of smoke generated by the electronic cigarette smoked by the preset design one day, one week or one month. The preset value and warning design help to remind users to pay attention to the smoking of electronic cigarettes.

Compared with the prior art, the present invention provides a mobile terminal-based electronic cigarette smoke quantity detecting method. The main beneficial effect is that the present invention integrates the smoke emitted by the electronic cigarette in real time by incorporating a smoke amount detector on the electronic cigarette. The quantity is detected and transmitted to the mobile terminal, and the mobile terminal displays and reminds the smoke quantity information, so that people can obtain certain knowledge of their own food intake, and it is convenient for people to quit smoking activities according to the smoking statistical signal. The invention has the advantages of rich functions, good extensibility and the like.

It should be noted that the above embodiments are only used to explain the technical solutions of the present invention, and the present invention is not limited thereto. Although the present invention is described in detail with reference to the preferred embodiments, those skilled in the art should understand that the technical solutions of the present invention can be Modifications or equivalents are intended to be included within the scope of the appended claims.

Claims

An electronic cigarette smoke quantity detecting system using a cloud platform, comprising:

The smoke amount detector is placed in the electronic cigarette to detect the amount of smoke emitted by the electronic cigarette when it is sucked and transmitted to the background server;

The background server is configured to receive the smoke amount information sent by the smoke amount detector, calculate the accumulated smoke amount, and analyze the cost of generating the same amount of smoke when the ordinary cigarette is used, and transmit the smoke amount and cost information to the mobile terminal. ;

The mobile terminal is configured to acquire the amount of smoke and cost information of the background server, and display a reminder.
The electronic cigarette smoke quantity detecting system according to claim 1, wherein the system further comprises:

a label attached to the surface of the electronic cigarette containing the unique identity information of the electronic cigarette;

The mobile terminal obtains the unique identity information of the electronic cigarette by taking a photo scan label, and transmits the same to the background server for verification, and establishes a communication connection.
The electronic cigarette smoke quantity detecting system adopting a cloud platform according to claim 1, wherein the background server comprises

a background communication module, configured to perform data communication with the smoke amount detector and the mobile terminal;

a background storage module for storing the amount of smoke sent by the smoke amount detector;

A background processing module is configured to calculate an accumulated amount of smoke according to the amount of smoke sent by the smoke amount detector, and analyze the cost of generating the same amount of smoke if the ordinary cigarette is used.
The electronic cigarette smoke amount detecting system using a cloud platform according to claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal comprises

a terminal communication module, configured to perform data communication with the background server;

A terminal display module is configured to display the amount of smoke and cost information sent by the background server.
The electronic cigarette smoke quantity detecting system adopting a cloud platform according to claim 2, wherein the mobile terminal comprises

a camera module for photographing and scanning the label on the surface of the electronic cigarette;

a decoding module, configured to extract the unique identity information of the electronic cigarette contained in the tag, and transmit the same to the background server through the terminal communication module;

a terminal communication module, configured to perform data communication with the background server;

A terminal display module is configured to display the amount of smoke and cost information sent by the background server.
The electronic cigarette smoke quantity detecting system adopting a cloud platform according to claim 2, wherein the background server comprises

a background communication verification module, configured to verify the unique identity information of the electronic cigarette sent by the terminal communication module, and confirm whether a communication connection is established between the mobile terminal and the background server;

a background communication module, configured to perform data communication with the smoke amount detector and the mobile terminal;

a background storage module for storing the amount of smoke sent by the smoke amount detector;

A background processing module is configured to calculate an accumulated amount of smoke according to the amount of smoke sent by the smoke amount detector, and analyze the cost of generating the same amount of smoke if the ordinary cigarette is used.
According to a method for detecting an electronic cigarette smoke amount using a cloud platform, the method comprises the following steps:

a, the smoke detector placed in the electronic cigarette, real-time detection of the amount of smoke emitted by the electronic cigarette when smoking, and transmitted to the background server;

b, the background server receives the smoke amount information sent by the smoke amount detector, calculates the cumulative value of the smoke amount, and analyzes the cost of generating the same amount of smoke if the ordinary cigarette is used, and transmits the smoke amount and cost information to the mobile terminal;

c. The mobile terminal acquires the amount of smoke and cost information of the background server, and displays a reminder.
The method for detecting an electronic cigarette smoke amount using a cloud platform according to claim 7, wherein after step b, before step c, the method further comprises the steps of:

C1, the surface of the electronic cigarette is affixed with a label containing the unique identity information of the electronic cigarette; the terminal scans the label by photographing, obtains the unique identity information of the electronic cigarette, and transmits it to the background server for verification, and establishes a communication connection.