PROXIMITY DETECTION FOR AN AEROSOL DELIVERY DEVICE

摘要

An aerosol delivery device (102, 300) is provided that includes a housing, heating element (322), communication interface (346) and microprocessor (308). The heating element may activate and vaporize components of an aerosol precursor composition in response to a flow of air through at least a portion of the housing, with the air being combinable with a thereby formed vapor to form an aerosol. The communication interface may effect a wireless, proximity-based communication link (106) with a computing device (104, 400). And the microprocessor may be coupled to the communication interface, may control at least one functional element of the aerosol delivery device based on a state of the proximity-based communication link, or in response to a trigger signal received from the computing device over the proximity-based communication link.