Unified Battery Observability Across Heterogeneous Devices
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Users face the cumbersome task of monitoring battery status across a variety of heterogeneous devices, as existing solutions require multiple device-specific applications, leading to incomplete information and inefficiency in maintaining device functionality.
Innovation Solution
A method and system unify battery-status observability across multiple devices by installing a monitoring agent on each device, accessing crowdsourced data, predicting remaining battery life, and presenting this information on a unified dashboard, with alerts for threshold breaches.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If device-specific applications are used to monitor battery status, then battery status information can be obtained for each device, but users need to manage multiple applications which increases complexity and reduces ease of operation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple device-specific battery monitoring applications into a single unified application. The system collects battery status data from multiple heterogeneous devices through individual monitoring agents, then consolidates and presents all battery information in one unified user interface, eliminating the need for users to manage multiple separate applications.
Solution Approach 2:
The unified battery monitoring application performs multiple functions across different device types. It monitors battery status for various heterogeneous devices (mobile phones, tablets, laptops, etc.) through a single application interface, making the system universal rather than device-specific.
2Ease of operation
If device-specific applications are used to monitor battery status, then monitoring can be performed, but comprehensive information across all devices is lost and user convenience decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system combines comprehensive battery information from multiple devices into a single unified view. All battery status data, alerts, and notifications from different devices are aggregated and displayed together, ensuring users have complete information without switching between applications.
Solution Approach 2:
The unified application acts as an intermediary between multiple device monitoring agents and the user. It receives data from various device-specific agents, processes and standardizes the information, then presents it in a unified manner, serving as a mediator that provides comprehensive information while maintaining ease of operation.
3Reliability
If multiple device-specific applications are used, then each device can be monitored individually, but the system becomes cumbersome and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges individual device monitoring functions into a single unified system. Multiple monitoring agents run on different devices but report to one centralized application, maintaining reliable individual device monitoring while dramatically improving overall monitoring efficiency by eliminating the need to switch between multiple applications.
Data Source
AI summary
A method for unifying battery-status observability across a plurality of heterogeneous devices includes identifying a plurality of heterogeneous devices where each device includes a battery to power the device. The method monitors battery status of each device of the heterogeneous devices. The method may also access crowdsourced data to determine battery life associated with at least one device of the heterogeneous devices. Using the battery status and potentially the crowdsourced data, the method predicts the remaining battery life for each device of the heterogeneous devices. The method presents the remaining battery life of each of the heterogeneous devices on a unified dashboard. In certain embodiments, a user may be alerted in the event the remaining battery life of a device of the heterogeneous devices falls below a selected threshold. A corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed.