Low-Power Alert Sensor Aggregation Framework
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing Internet-connected devices often operate independently and lack the ability to communicate and interoperate effectively, leading to inefficient use of resources and difficulty in deploying and configuring them for collaborative systems, especially in managing and conserving power.
Innovation Solution
An aggregation framework system and method that automatically configures, aggregates, and optimizes devices and sensors by using a low-power alert sensor to awaken specialized sensors only when needed, converting them into intelligent systems through a data aggregator and interpreter module, and communicating with a remote system via a bridge.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If specialized sensors are continuously active to monitor environmental changes, then detection reliability is improved, but power consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The low-power alert sensor performs preliminary monitoring of environmental changes and only activates specialized sensors when actual events are detected, avoiding continuous operation of high-power sensors while maintaining detection reliability
Solution Approach 2:
The low-power alert sensor acts as an intermediary between the environment and specialized sensors, filtering environmental changes and only triggering specialized sensors when relevant events occur, thus reducing overall power consumption while maintaining detection reliability
2Device complexity
If multiple independent devices operate autonomously, then device complexity is reduced, but system interoperability worsens
Solution Approach 1:
The aggregation framework serves as an intermediary layer between independent devices, handling device discovery, capability negotiation, and data aggregation, allowing simple autonomous devices to participate in collaborative systems without increasing their individual complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The aggregation framework provides universal functionality for device discovery, capability matching, and coordinated operation across diverse sensor types and manufacturers, enabling systems interoperability while devices maintain their simple autonomous operation
3Measurement precision
If all sensors are activated simultaneously, then measurement precision is improved, but resource efficiency worsens
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary environmental assessment using the low-power alert sensor to determine whether conditions warrant activation of specialized sensors, ensuring measurement precision is achieved only when environmentally relevant
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of activating all sensors simultaneously, the system activates only the necessary subset of specialized sensors based on detected environmental events, achieving sufficient measurement precision for actual conditions while improving resource efficiency
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AI summary
An aggregation framework system and method that automatic configures, aggregates, disaggregates, manages, and optimizes components of a consolidated system of devices, modules, and sensors. Embodiments of the system and method include a low-power alert sensor, a data aggregator module, and an interpreter module. The low-power alert sensor is a sensor that is continuously on and continuously monitoring its environment. The low-power alert sensor acts as a watchdog and triggers other sensors to awaken them from a power-conservation state when there is a change or event that occurs in an environment. The data aggregator module manages the set of sensors within the system and aggregates sensor data obtained from the sensors. The interpreter module then translates the physical data collected by sensors into logical information. Together the data aggregator module and the interpreter module present a unified logical view of the capabilities of the sensors under their control.