System and Method for Using Internet of Things Enabled Email Address (IoTEEA)

Abstract

A method for integrating an email system based on Internet of Things Enabled Email Address (IoTEEA) with IoT devices to establish a standard. According to embodiments of the invention, a method for creating an email account, installing IoTEEA into the IoT device memory, connecting the IoT device to the email account by the information from IoTEEA, using IoTEEA to claim the ownership of the IoT device, gathering data, encrypting the data, and sending the data to the email account sub folder by the IoT device, decrypting the data by the IoTEEA owner, analyzing the data, providing controller, transferring the ownership of the IoT device to another owner from the email account, and making minimal configuration as Plug and Play.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]This invention relates to electronic communication systems and more particularly to method and system for integration of the Internet of Things Enabled Email Address (IoTEEA) email system and IoT devices.DESCRIPTIONBackground[0002]The present disclosure relates to IoT devices, and more particularly to using Internet of Things Enabled Email Address (IoTEEA). The basic functions of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices are to collect and exchange data through Internet. Based on these data collected, the other IoT devices, back end controllers, or the device owners may issue commands to the devices. IoT devices are still a very new technology, and there's no single standard for integrating all of IoT devices so that you can control them from one Web application.[0003]People like a smart home. Instead of buying all devices with a central controller from one vendor costly, majority people prefer a more user-friendly piecemeal approach by buying individual smart...

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Benefits of technology

[0017]The email system provides a Web page, known as IoTEEA generator, to help creating IoTEEA and converting it to QR code, after the email user has entered required information and made choices.

[0020]The IoT device designers, manufacturers, and vendors may develop their own controllers to display data, report status, or issue commands. These custom controllers can be easily developed and loaded to the email system using a developer email account. In addition, IoT device common routines, such as parsing IoTEEA, extracting the email address, extracting the encryption public key, extracting other information, encrypting data, sending data, and other routines, can be downloaded from free public libraries by the IoT device developers to save software development costs. In addition, the email users can use OAuth to grant limited access to their IoT device data in the email account to other Web sites for analysis, without having to expose their credentials.

[0027]According to another embodiment, a method comprises checking into a hospital by a patient. The method further comprises concatenating hospital's email address and other information to create an IoTEEA then converting it to a QR code by the hospital receptionist according to patient's input or records in the hospital, such as records@myHospital.com@@ / iot / medical / records / myHospitalId@@@<forward>myHospital@centrolMedicalRecords.com@@ / iot / medical / records / myHospitalId< / forward><patient>myName@1kIoT.com@@ / iot / medical / records / myHospitalId < / patient>. The method further comprises scanning the QR code by a nurse. The method further comprises processing the QR code to have IoTEEA to be set correctly in IoT monitoring devices that will be used with the patient by the hospital email system. The method further comprises creating necessary directories in the hospital email account by the email system. The method further comprises displaying patient's photo to the screen for preventing human error if necessary. The method further comprises reporting all monitoring device statuses to the email accounts of the hospital medical records, the central medical records, and the patient medical records by the IoT monitoring devices according to IoTEEA. The method further comprises rapidly changing the IoTEEA and monitoring status reporting structure if another patient's QR code has been scanned.

[0035]The present disclosure provides several important technical advantages. One advantage is that the IoT device developers can focus their development efforts on the device functions and just use standardized RESTful API to send the device data as RESTful resources to REST based IoTEEA email system on a Web server over HTTP. Another advantage is that a standard for interconnecting billions IoT devices will be established. All IoT devices will have an easy-to-remember email address (or name) under a Web RESTful email application server that can co-exist with traditional email server in each domain. Other advantages include rapidly changing IoT device ownership from the email account that makes transferring ownership of smart homes, smart cars, and / or smart devices very easy.

Problems solved by technology

IoT devices are still a very new technology, and there's no single standard for integrating all of IoT devices so that you can control them from one Web application.

It is very hard to manage dozens or hundreds IoT devices including smart appliances, security cameras, smart smoke detectors, air quality monitors, thermostats, lights, smart window glasses, motorized curtains and blinds, smart garage door opener, and many other smart devices.

Worse, when you try to sell your house, transferring all your smart devices in your house to the new owner is really a huge task.

For medical IoT devices, keeping all monitoring device records straight is also very hard when a patient being transferred among the intensive care unit (ICU), the emergency room (ER), and the operation room (OR).

The list is almost endless that creates a headache to make different devices work together with many of which work in subtly different ways.

For the IoT developers, developing the entire system is hard and not necessary because a lot of tasks, such as how to connect to internet, how to use the REST API, how to encrypt data, how to display data to the user, and others, duplicate each other's efforts.

The skills necessary to successfully design and implement an IoT solution are beyond the capabilities of most companies.

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