Cloud Signaling Failover via Redundant Transmission Switch
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing monitoring systems face reliability issues due to the risk of signaling failover, where critical alarm data may not be transmitted to central monitoring stations, especially in cloud-based systems experiencing disruptions, potentially leading to missed alerts in emergency situations.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a redundant transmission system that switches alarm event paths from a primary to a secondary application infrastructure operated by a cloud service provider when disruptions are detected, ensuring continuous data flow to the central monitoring station.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a primary application infrastructure is used to transmit alarm events to a central monitoring station, then the system operates with a simpler architecture, but the reliability is reduced due to potential disruptions in the primary infrastructure
Solution Approach 1:
The patent establishes a secondary application infrastructure in advance as a backup transmission path. This preliminary preparation ensures that when disruptions occur in the primary infrastructure, the system can immediately switch to the pre-configured secondary path without delay, thereby improving reliability while maintaining manageable complexity through automated failover mechanisms
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a transmission switch as an intermediary component that automatically routes alarm events between the primary and secondary application infrastructures. This mediator handles the complexity of dual-path transmission by providing automated disruption detection and path switching, resolving the contradiction between reliability improvement and system complexity
2Adaptability or versatility
If alarm events are transmitted through a cloud-based primary application infrastructure, then the system benefits from centralized processing, but disruptions in the cloud infrastructure can cause signaling failover and data loss
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements local quality by creating a secondary application infrastructure with identical alarm event reception capabilities. This local backup ensures that critical data transmission reliability is maintained independently of cloud-based primary infrastructure disruptions, allowing the system to adapt to cloud monitoring benefits while mitigating their reliability risks through localized redundancy
3Device complexity
If a single transmission path is used for alarm events, then the system complexity is reduced, but the likelihood of signaling failover increases when disruptions occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent configures a secondary transmission path in advance as a backup route for alarm events. This preliminary setup of multiple paths ensures that when disruptions occur in the primary transmission path, the system can immediately failover to the secondary path without increasing operational complexity, as the switching logic is pre-established
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements automated disruption detection mechanisms that provide feedback about the status of the primary transmission path. This feedback system triggers automatic switching to the secondary path when disruptions are detected, resolving the contradiction by maintaining simple operation through automation while providing robust protection against signaling failover
Data Source
AI summary
Methods and systems, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for reducing the likelihood of signaling failover in an alarm system, the method including identifying alarm events detected at monitored properties by monitoring systems that are located at the monitored properties; tracking the ability of a primary application infrastructure to transmit, to a central monitoring station server, the alarm events; detecting disruption in the ability of the primary application infrastructure to transmit the alarm events to the central monitoring station server; based on the detected disruption, enabling a signal transmission switch that switches a path for alarm events from the primary application infrastructure to a secondary application infrastructure, the secondary application infrastructure being an infrastructure operated by a cloud service provider; and based on enablement of the transmission switch, transmitting, by the secondary application infrastructure, at least one alarm event to the central monitoring station server.