Unregistered Device Communication Inhibition System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional device monitoring systems face challenges in managing devices when the placement and registration processes are not synchronized, leading to unnecessary communication resource consumption and inefficient scheduling of service engineer visits, especially when devices remain unregistered for extended periods.
Innovation Solution
A monitoring system with a management apparatus that includes a registration unit for devices, an initiation unit for user-operated communication, a management unit for communication history, an extraction unit to identify unregistered devices, and a control unit to inhibit communications from these devices, thereby reducing resource wastage and improving scheduling efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a device performs continuous registration requests to ensure proper registration, then registration reliability is improved, but communication resource consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The management apparatus proactively extracts unregistered devices that have performed placement operations and issues communication inhibition instructions before these devices can continuously send registration requests. This preliminary action prevents the wasteful continuous communication while ensuring that only properly registered devices consume communication resources.
Solution Approach 2:
The system establishes a feedback mechanism where the management apparatus monitors communication histories, identifies unregistered devices through extraction units, and responds by issuing inhibition instructions. This closed-loop feedback prevents continuous registration requests from unregistered devices while maintaining reliable registration processes for properly registered devices.
2Ease of operation
If the device performs placement operation first and registration later, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases due to unsynchronized processes
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the device management process into distinct phases: placement operation phase and registration phase. The extraction unit specifically identifies devices in the placement phase that haven't completed registration, allowing independent handling of each phase without requiring strict synchronization between them.
Solution Approach 2:
The management apparatus acts as an intermediary that monitors the state of devices performing placement operations. By using communication inhibition instructions as a mediating control mechanism, the system coordinates between placement and registration processes without requiring direct synchronization, thus reducing process complexity while maintaining operational flexibility.
3Measurement precision
If the management apparatus continuously monitors all devices, then measurement precision is improved, but use of energy increases
Solution Approach 1:
The management apparatus applies differentiated monitoring quality to different devices based on their registration status. Fully registered devices receive continuous monitoring with high measurement precision, while unregistered devices that have performed placement operations receive targeted monitoring only to detect their state and issue inhibition instructions, reducing overall energy consumption.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs partial monitoring action by focusing monitoring resources on identifying unregistered devices through communication history analysis rather than continuously monitoring all devices. This partial action approach achieves sufficient measurement precision for registration management while significantly reducing energy consumption compared to comprehensive continuous monitoring.
Data Source
AI summary
A system includes a management apparatus including a registration unit configured to register information which includes identification information of a device to be targeted for monitoring and is used for managing the device, wherein the management apparatus manages a communication history of one or more communications that were performed from each device to the management apparatus, and, in a case where there are one or more devices information about which is not registered by the registration unit and the managed communication history about which indicates that one or more communications were performed, extracts a device which satisfies a predetermined condition from among the one or more devices and performs processing for inhibiting a communication that is performed from the extracted device.