Cloud Interface Layer for AI Facility State Commands
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems face challenges in integrating AI processing units with diverse cloud platforms, leading to complex engineering processes and potential operational errors due to varying cloud specifications, which complicates the incorporation of AI processing functions across different cloud environments.
Innovation Solution
An interface apparatus and method that converts commands between a common protocol used by AI processing units and specific protocols of different cloud platforms, enabling bidirectional communication and facilitating the incorporation of AI processing functions into various cloud environments without requiring specific commands for each platform.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If AI processing units directly communicate with diverse cloud platforms using platform-specific protocols, then communication compatibility with each platform is achieved, but device complexity and engineering effort increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an interface apparatus as an intermediary component between the AI processing unit and cloud platforms. This interface apparatus handles protocol conversion and communication management, allowing the AI processing unit to communicate with multiple cloud platforms without requiring platform-specific code. The interface apparatus mediates the interaction by translating between a unified internal protocol and various cloud platform protocols, thereby reducing engineering complexity while maintaining communication compatibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The interface apparatus is designed with universal functionality to support multiple cloud platforms simultaneously. It implements a standardized interface that can adapt to different cloud platform protocols through configuration rather than requiring separate implementation for each platform. This multi-functional design allows a single AI processing unit to work with diverse cloud platforms without increasing its own complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If AI processing units are designed to support multiple cloud platforms with different specifications, then versatility is improved, but the risk of operational errors increases
Solution Approach 1:
The interface apparatus serves as a reliable intermediary that isolates the AI processing unit from variations in cloud platform specifications. By centralizing platform-specific logic in the interface apparatus, the system reduces operational errors in the AI processing unit while maintaining the ability to support multiple platforms. The interface apparatus validates and manages communications, ensuring reliable operation across different platforms.
3Ease of manufacture
If platform-specific commands are implemented in AI processing units, then direct control over cloud platforms is achieved, but adaptability to different cloud specifications decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The interface apparatus implements a universal command interface that can control multiple cloud platforms without requiring platform-specific code in the AI processing unit. The interface apparatus translates unified control commands into platform-specific protocols, maintaining direct control capability while ensuring adaptability to different cloud specifications through centralized protocol handling.
Data Source
AI summary
Provided is an interface apparatus including an interface unit configured to receive, from an AI processing unit configured to execute at least either processing of generating a model for determining a state of a facility by machine learning or processing of determining the state of the facility using the model, a first command using a protocol of a common form that is not dependent on a cloud platform configured to manage the facility, and a cloud communication unit configured to convert the first command into a second command using a protocol of a first form dependent on a first cloud platform and transmit the second command to the first cloud platform.