Data Package Selection for Wireless Sensor Network Reporting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current data networks are inefficient due to high volumes of low-bandwidth devices competing for limited resources, resulting in a low useful-to-useless data ratio, particularly in uncoordinated environments like GPS tracking, which hampers the commercial viability of large-scale sensor network deployments.
Innovation Solution
A method and system where a network provider offers customizable data packages to customers based on their specific data sources, allowing selection of data types and reporting triggers, with a network server managing wireless communication scheduling to optimize data transmission through a wireless uplink, using hub profiles and data package profiles to determine when and how data is transmitted.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If large volumes of low-bandwidth devices communicate in an uncoordinated environment, then device deployment scalability is improved, but network resource utilization efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-configures data packages with defined data types, reporting intervals, and trigger conditions before devices begin communication. This preliminary structuring of data transmission parameters enables scalable device deployment while maintaining coordinated resource usage, as devices follow pre-established transmission schedules rather than communicating arbitrarily
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments data transmission into distinct data packages with specific types and purposes. By dividing the communication stream into structured packages with defined characteristics (data types, reporting intervals, triggers), the system can efficiently manage multiple low-bandwidth devices without overwhelming network resources
2Loss of information
If all data sources report all data types continuously, then data completeness is improved, but network congestion and collision increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements partial action by allowing data sources to report only specific data types and only under certain conditions rather than continuously reporting all data. Data packages are configured with selective data types and trigger conditions, so devices transmit only when relevant data changes or at scheduled intervals, reducing network congestion while maintaining necessary data completeness
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements periodic reporting intervals within data packages, where devices transmit data at predetermined time intervals rather than continuously. This periodic action reduces network traffic density and collisions while ensuring that data is reported regularly enough to maintain completeness for monitoring and analysis purposes
3Loss of information
If data packages include comprehensive data types and frequent reporting, then data utility is improved, but useful-to-useless data ratio deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by customizing data packages according to specific application needs and device characteristics. Each data package is configured with data types and reporting parameters tailored to the local requirements of particular devices or applications, ensuring that only relevant data is transmitted with appropriate frequency, thus improving the useful-to-useless data ratio while maintaining data utility
Data Source
AI summary
Apparatuses, methods, and systems for data source reporting are disclosed. A method includes receiving, by a network provider, data types a customer user is to have reported from one or more data sources of the customer user, wherein the reporting is from data sources, and wherein the wireless reporting is through a wireless uplink between the data sources to a base station, providing, by the network provider, options of data packages to the customer, wherein the options of data packages are selected from the set of data packages based on the data types provided by the customer user, and receiving, by the network provider, from the customer user, a selection of a data package from the provided options of data packages, wherein the selected data package includes one or more data types, and when data within the selected data package are to be reported.