Industrial IoT Collaboration Platform for Multi-Entity Software Development
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Solution Overview
Problem
Industrial environments face complexity in data collection and utilization from multiple devices and sensors, making it difficult to develop effective monitoring, control, and diagnosis solutions.
Innovation Solution
A collaboration platform for the collaborative development and distribution of software components that enables entities to participate in the development of software for controlling, monitoring, or interfacing with devices, by receiving specifications, selecting collaborator entities, assigning responsibilities, generating access-controlled portals, and publishing the developed software components.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual data collection methods are used in industrial environments, then implementation simplicity is maintained, but data collection speed and efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary platform that connects multiple devices and sensors to a central system. This platform handles data aggregation, processing, and distribution, allowing manual operation interfaces to remain simple while enabling automated high-speed data collection from numerous industrial devices through standardized communication protocols.
2Reliability
If multiple devices and sensors are deployed to monitor critical parameters, then monitoring coverage and reliability improve, but system complexity and difficulty of data management increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges data from multiple devices and sensors into a unified data structure and processing pipeline. By combining data collection, validation, storage, and analysis functions into an integrated platform, the system maintains high monitoring reliability across numerous devices while reducing the complexity of managing individual device data streams through standardized interfaces.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal data processing platform that can handle various types of industrial devices and sensors through common communication protocols and data formats. This multi-functional approach allows the system to maintain reliable monitoring of critical parameters across diverse equipment while simplifying data management through a single unified interface rather than device-specific management systems.
3Productivity
If centralized data processing is implemented to utilize data from multiple devices, then solution effectiveness improves, but system complexity and development difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the centralized data processing system into modular functional components including data collection modules, processing modules, analysis modules, and output modules. Each module handles specific tasks and can be independently developed, tested, and deployed. This segmentation maintains solution effectiveness through comprehensive data processing while improving development ease by allowing parallel development of individual modules and reducing overall system complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
The invention provides methods, systems and computer programs relating to a collaboration platform configured for collaborative development and distribution of applications or software components for controlling, monitoring, interfacing or otherwise communicating with one or more devices. The invention comprises (i) receiving a specification for development of a software component (ii) receiving participation proposals from a plurality of entities, (iii) selecting a set of collaborator entities for collaboratively developing the software component, (iv) assigning one or more responsibilities associated with development of the software component to each entity within the selected set of collaborator entities, (v) generating an access controlled portal that is associated with the collaborative development of the software component, and (vi) publishing the collaboratively developed software component for implementing the software component to control, monitor or interface with, one or more devices.