Gateway Data Proxy for EHMS Health Assessment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current health management systems face challenges in remote diagnostic, prognostic, and maintenance operations due to the need for comprehensive data collection and distribution across multiple platforms, such as vehicles, airplanes, and industrial controls, which often require integration of operational, environmental, and equipment health data from diverse sources.
Innovation Solution
A system comprising multiple processors embedded within health management systems on different platforms, connected via a communication network, allowing for the collection, processing, and distribution of health data to facilitate remote health assessments and maintenance decisions across platforms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If health management systems collect and process data from multiple platforms to enable remote diagnostic and prognostic reasoning, then the comprehensiveness of health assessment is improved, but the system complexity and data management burden increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a gateway data proxy as an intermediary component that mediates between multiple health management systems and the remote diagnostic/prognostic reasoning system. The gateway collects, standardizes, and forwards data from various platforms, reducing the complexity burden on the central reasoning system while ensuring comprehensive health assessment data is available.
Solution Approach 2:
The system is segmented into independent modular components: individual health management systems on each platform, gateway data proxies for data collection and standardization, and remote diagnostic/prognostic reasoning systems. This segmentation allows each component to operate independently, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining comprehensive health monitoring capabilities across multiple platforms.
2Measurement precision
If health management systems integrate operational, environmental, and equipment data from diverse sources, then the accuracy of maintenance decisions is improved, but the data integration complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The gateway data proxy is designed as a universal interface that can collect and standardize multiple types of data (operational, environmental, equipment health) from diverse sources using a common data model. This multi-functional approach enables accurate maintenance decisions through integrated data while reducing integration complexity by providing a unified data collection and standardization mechanism.
3Loss of information
If remote platforms obtain all relevant information from multiple health management systems, then the completeness of health data is improved, but the communication network load and data transmission time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The gateway data proxy performs preliminary data collection, standardization, and filtering actions before forwarding data to remote diagnostic/prognostic systems. By pre-processing and organizing data at the gateway level, the system ensures complete health information is available while reducing the time and network load associated with data transmission, as data is ready in a standardized format awaiting retrieval.
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AI summary
A gateway data proxy is a system which provides the capabilities to provide and obtain the customized data across multiple platforms to facilitate the remote operations of embedded health management systems (EHMS). The system allows the collaborative works taken place among the EHMS from diagnostics, prognostics, maintenance, to maintenance history tracking. Depending on deployment needs, the system can operate as stand-alone systems or as an integrated module of the EHMS. As part of operation, the system provides logical network connection and be the broker of data between EHMS instances and between EHMS with onboard systems and other service applications.