IoT Automation Architecture With Avatars for Unified Operations
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Solution Overview
Problem
Legacy industrial and commercial automation applications are often developed in isolation, lacking integration with remote vertical systems for maintenance, logistics, and accounting, leading to inefficiencies and the need for novel technology architectures to unify configuration, management, and operations across diverse ecosystems.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system for managing IoT-enabled devices using a specialized software architecture that models entities as Avatars, defines Automatons for state and behavior representation, and utilizes Shareables to facilitate unified management and action initiation across a network of peers, leveraging microservices and APIs for integration and interoperability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If legacy automation applications are developed in isolation with dedicated vertical systems, then each system can be optimized for its specific function, but integration and interoperability between systems deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal data model that serves multiple vertical systems (maintenance, logistics, production, accounting) simultaneously. This data model acts as a common language that enables different specialized systems to interoperate without sacrificing their individual optimization, thereby resolving the contradiction between system-specific reliability and cross-system adaptability
2Productivity
If specialized vertical systems are used for specific functions, then functional efficiency is improved, but system complexity and difficulty of unified management increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the overall system into independent vertical applications (maintenance, logistics, production, accounting) that each maintain their functional efficiency, while introducing a separate unifying data model layer that manages integration. This segmentation allows specialized systems to remain optimized while the complexity of unification is handled at the data model level rather than requiring complex point-to-point integrations between systems
3Ease of operation
If isolated vertical systems are implemented, then each system can be managed independently, but unified configuration and operations across systems become difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a universal data model as an intermediary layer between isolated vertical systems. This mediator enables unified configuration and operations across systems by providing a common data structure that all systems can reference, while still allowing each system to be managed independently through its own interface and logic
Data Source
AI summary
In some embodiments, systems, devices, and methods described herein provide digitized ecosystem architectures connecting systems and processes within and among various entities using Internet-of-Things (IoT) to integrate physical assets of the entities. In some embodiments, one or more blockchain applications and/or smart contracts and further define and manage system integration.