Source Gateway Incremental Sensor Data Encoding
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Solution Overview
Problem
The overwhelming amount of data produced by sensors in IoT networks can exhaust network resources, affecting data collection and analytics efficiency, due to high data traffic with incremental changes and varying message sizes.
Innovation Solution
A method involving a source gateway that assigns unique group IDs to messages, encodes message formats, and establishes dedicated connections for efficient data transmission across networks, allowing for incremental encoding and decoding of message elements to reduce redundant data transmission.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If all sensor data is transmitted over the network, then complete data collection is achieved, but network resources are exhausted
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the incremental changes from sensor data before transmission. The encoding module identifies and extracts only the changed elements between consecutive data readings, transmitting only these differences over the network. This reduces the volume of transmitted data while preserving all necessary information for complete data reconstruction at the receiving end.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments sensor data into individual message elements that can be independently encoded and transmitted. Each data element is processed separately, allowing the system to identify and transmit only those segments that have changed, rather than transmitting entire data structures repeatedly.
2Productivity
If incremental changes are encoded and transmitted, then network efficiency is improved, but message format complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary encoding of message formats by establishing a predefined structure with unique group IDs for different message types. This preliminary organization allows the incremental encoding process to work efficiently by referencing pre-defined format templates, reducing the complexity of real-time format determination while maintaining high transmission efficiency.
3Productivity
If dedicated connections are established for each message type, then data delivery optimization is achieved, but connection management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates dedicated connections that are universally applicable to multiple message types through the use of unique group IDs. Each dedicated connection is associated with a specific group ID that can represent multiple related message types, allowing a single connection to handle various data formats while maintaining optimized delivery characteristics for each type.
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AI summary
A method including receiving a message at a source gateway of the local network, the message includes message data corresponding to a plurality of message elements, assigning a unique group ID based on the type of message received at the source gateway, extracting a message format from the received message, the message format defines how the message data is organized with respect to the message elements, and associating the extracted message format with the unique group ID. The method further including storing, locally, the extracted message format together with the associated unique group ID, establishing a dedicated connection between the source gateway and a target gateway of the remote network based on the unique group ID, encoding the message based on the extracted message format, and sending the encoded message from the source gateway to the target gateway across the dedicated connection.