Innovative Data Collection and Authentication Systems in E-cigarettes

E-cigarette users often encounter issues such as delayed device response, the need to adjust heating profiles manually, and maintaining personalized settings across multiple devices. The e-cigarette industry can overcome these challenges by using advanced data-sharing technologies, improving user satisfaction, and keeping up with market trends.

Modern E-cigarettes can adjust to user behavior and preferences, making the smoking experience more personalized and efficient. Manufacturers have integrated advanced data processing and sharing features into e-cigarettes, leading to automatic adjustments that previously required manual changes.

This report discusses the notable inventions made by tobacco industry innovators around data collection and sharing in e-cigarettes. If you’d like to know more about cutting-edge innovations and trends in the tobacco industry in 2025, use the form below to download a comprehensive report.

Nicoventures’ special holder can transfer user profiles between electronic devices.

Nicoventures has developed a holder for an e-cigarette with a controller to establish a data link with the e-cigarette. The controller consists of a memory element to store user profile information, and the holder can transmit or receive this information between multiple e-cigarettes. This enables seamless transfer and synchronization of user profile information, enhancing user functionality across multiple devices.

Japan Tobacco created situation-aware heating profiles.

Japan Tobacco (JTI) has developed an electronic cigarette with a determination unit that automatically adjusts the mode of the inhaled aerosol based on the user’s current situation. This determination unit uses first biometric information along with motion or time information acquired concurrently. 

By assessing these data points, the device adapts the heating profile through the aerosol flavor, atomization amount, and temperature to match the user’s preferences without manual adjustments.

This aerosol system creates specific compositions based on the user’s real-time puffs.

Nicoventures has developed an aerosol delivery system that uses a microcomputer to estimate and adjust puff characteristics to address inefficiencies or delays in triggering the heating element. 

The microcomputer includes a processing unit that determines the user’s smoking characteristics, such as the duration and intensity of inhalation over multiple puffs. This information is used to adjust the aerosol composition by altering the concentration of ingredients, flavors, or other components. If these adjustments cause significant changes in puffing behavior, the system can partially reverse the changes in real-time to maintain a consistent and enjoyable experience.

Age verification via external password authentication for e-cigarettes.

Due to their small size and limited processing power, e-cigarettes face the challenge of verifying a user’s age. Direct age verification on these devices is impractical, so these systems rely on a separate age verification service.

Nicoventures uses a patented age-verified unlocking process that uses a password to control access to the aerosol provision system. First, the device checks with an age verification service to confirm the user has completed the age verification process. Then, it requests an unlock service to generate a password based on a passkey, which must match the device key stored on the system.

This process ensures that only age-verified users can unlock and use the non-combustible aerosol provision system.

Red Coral’s multi-step authentication process for e-cigarettes

Red Coral has developed an authentication process for electronic cigarettes. It includes an electronic cigarette with a unique identification code and an anti-counterfeiting label. The system uses fingerprint authentication and near-field communication to ensure only authorized users can operate the device and access its consumables.

The system also protects users from counterfeit cartridges and ensures that cartridges connected to the electronic cigarette only have the intended content. It can also perform age verification.

Conclusion

The data-sharing trend in electronic cigarettes transforms the user experience by allowing devices to adapt to individual behaviors and preferences, thus creating a more personalized and efficient smoking session. Furthermore, it allows for user and age authentication, improving security and preventing unregulated or underage use of these devices. Manufacturers like Nicoventures are integrating sophisticated data processing and sharing capabilities, enabling automatic adjustments that previously required manual intervention. This aligns well with current market trends toward smart and user-centric devices.

In addition to providing consistent, convenient, and responsive device performance without manual input, these innovations address health and societal concerns regarding the misuse of vaping devices.

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Authored by: Lochan Mridul and Ravi Shankar Bhatt, Patent Analytics
Edited by: Hemanth Shenoy, Market Research