Cloud-Native Smart Home Runtime for Automated Sensor Event Functions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Implementing smart home functions and analytics is a time-consuming and error-prone task, especially when dealing with a large number of smart objects, and existing user interfaces make it difficult to analyze smart home data efficiently and securely.
Innovation Solution
A smart home hub receives sensor information from multiple smart objects, generates events, and communicates with a cloud-native application runtime to execute functions via a cloud infrastructure, utilizing a cloud platform with built-in support for smart home analytics, enabling secure and efficient processing and analysis.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If smart home functions are manually implemented to handle sensor data from multiple smart objects, then the system can process and analyze data, but the implementation becomes time-consuming and error-prone
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables automated self-service through cloud-native functions that automatically process smart home events. The event processing pipeline autonomously receives events from the smart home hub, processes them through cloud functions, and generates responses without manual intervention, eliminating the time-consuming manual implementation while maintaining processing capability
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the smart home event processing into distinct modular components: event reception from the hub, cloud-native function execution, and response generation. This segmentation allows each component to be independently developed, deployed, and maintained as separate cloud functions, improving productivity through modular architecture while reducing implementation time through reusable components
2Productivity
If cloud-native functions are used to automate smart home event processing, then processing efficiency improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements universal cloud-native functions that can handle multiple types of smart home events through a standardized processing interface. The event processing pipeline is designed to work with various event sources and generate different response types using the same core infrastructure, improving throughput while managing complexity through interface standardization and multi-functionality
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an event processing pipeline as an intermediary layer between the smart home hub and cloud functions. This mediator standardizes event reception, routing, and response delivery, allowing complex cloud-native functions to be composed and orchestrated without exposing the full complexity to end users or device manufacturers, thus improving throughput while containing perceived complexity
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AI summary
A smart home hub may receive sensor information from a plurality of smart home objects (e.g., a laundry washing machine, an electricity power meter, etc.). The smart home hub may also generate smart home events based on the received sensor information. A central management plane component associated with a cloud-native application runtime may communicate with the smart home hub. The system may receive smart home events from the hub and, responsive to the received, arrange to execute smart home functions via a cloud infrastructure. For example, a function may arrange to reduce the cost of operating a smart washing machine. As a result of execution of at least one smart home function, the system may transmit a smart home response to the hub causing at least one of the smart home objects to perform a task (e.g., the washing machine may automatically run when the cost of electricity is low).