Cloud-Enabled Power Device Direct Reporting Architecture
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional cloud computing architectures require substantial resources for user interface functions in remote devices and rely on concentrators for data aggregation, leading to increased costs and complexity.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a cloud-based processing model where user interface functions are performed by cloud services rather than individual devices, eliminating the need for concentrators and reducing device costs, with cloud-enabled devices reporting directly to the cloud service for monitoring and management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If concentrators are used to aggregate data from remote devices, then data collection and management are achieved, but device complexity and system costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the user interface functions from remote devices and relocates them to cloud-based virtual machines. This eliminates the need for concentrators at remote locations, simplifying the system architecture while maintaining centralized data collection capabilities. The virtual machines in the cloud perform functions previously requiring local hardware infrastructure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a universal cloud-based platform that can serve multiple remote devices through virtual machines. This multi-functional cloud infrastructure replaces the need for device-specific concentrators, allowing a single cloud system to aggregate and manage data from numerous remote devices efficiently.
2Power
If substantial computing resources are allocated to remote devices for user interface functions, then local processing capability is improved, but device cost and resource requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts user interface functions from remote devices and relocates them to cloud-based virtual machines. This eliminates the need for substantial local computing resources at remote devices, reducing hardware requirements while maintaining full processing capability through cloud-based virtualization.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces cloud-based virtual machines as intermediaries between users and remote devices. These virtual machines handle all user interface processing, allowing remote devices to operate with minimal local computing resources while still providing full user interaction capabilities through the cloud intermediary.
3Ease of manufacture
If cloud services are implemented without concentrators, then system cost is reduced, but direct cloud connectivity requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent removes concentrators from the system architecture entirely, allowing remote devices to connect directly to cloud services. This eliminates the intermediate aggregation layer, reducing system cost and simplifying deployment while maintaining centralized cloud-based data collection and processing capabilities.
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AI summary
A system comprising at least one power device is provided. The at least one power device includes an input to receive power from a power source, an output operatively coupled to the input and configured to provide power, a data storage, a network interface, and a controller coupled to the input, the output, the data storage and the network interface. The controller is configured to provide, according to a reporting schedule, identification information directly to a cloud service via the network interface and provide, according to the reporting schedule, secured information directly to the cloud service, the secured information being descriptive of performance of the at least one power device.