Publish-Subscribe Fluid Handling for Low-Latency Remote Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing fluid-handling systems face challenges with remote monitoring and control due to high latency and lack of resilience, especially in geographically distributed setups, leading to increased costs and inefficiencies in adjusting or gathering data from remote fluid-handling devices.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a publish/subscribe messaging model with a messaging server that decouples devices and applications, allowing for low-latency, resilient communication of sensor data across the network, enabling remote control and automation of fluid-handling sites without the need for special-purpose software installations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional remote monitoring systems are used for geographically distributed fluid-handling devices, then device control and data gathering can be achieved, but high latency and lack of resilience occur leading to increased costs and inefficiencies
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a messaging server as an intermediary component that facilitates communication between fluid-handling devices and remote systems. This mediator enables resilient publish/subscribe messaging patterns, allowing devices to publish data to topics and subscribers to receive updates without direct point-to-point connections, thereby reducing latency and improving communication reliability across geographically distributed sites.
2Ease of operation
If specialized software is installed at remote fluid-handling sites for monitoring and control, then device management capability is improved, but system complexity and deployment burden increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the complex software processing requirements from the remote fluid-handling sites and centralizes them in the messaging server infrastructure. By using standard publish/subscribe messaging patterns with topics and subscribers, the system eliminates the need for specialized control software at remote locations, reducing deployment complexity while maintaining full remote monitoring and control capabilities through standard communication protocols.
Data Source
AI summary
A message-oriented method that includes receiving a first message that includes first sensor data obtained by a first sensor, wherein the first message is associated with a first publishing identifier such that the first sensor is configured to obtain the first sensor data. The method further includes one or more computer systems that are subscribed to the first publishing identifier and providing the first message that includes the first sensor data to a first computer system of the one or more computer systems and the first computer system is disposed at a first fluid handling site, the first computer system being configured to provide control of at least one fluid handling component.