IoT Device Management via Cloud-Hosted Collaboration Environment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing IoT frameworks lack the ability to facilitate device ownership discovery, onboarding, registration, and provisioning in a cloud-hosted environment, particularly for collaborative scenarios involving multiple domains and autonomous headless devices.
Innovation Solution
A cloud-hosted collaboration environment using Amazon Web Services (AWS) that enables registration of web users and IoT devices across different domains, allowing for device and user sharing, and implements an object model abstraction to facilitate discovery and management of IoT devices and users through a fog-cloud network architecture.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a cloud-hosted collaboration environment is implemented to enable device ownership discovery and onboarding across multiple domains, then adaptability and ease of operation are improved, but device complexity and network infrastructure requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a cloud-hosted collaboration environment as an intermediary layer between IoT devices and domain networks. This cloud environment provides discovery, onboarding, and registration services that enable devices to be discovered and onboarded without requiring complex direct peer-to-peer communication infrastructure. The cloud platform acts as a mediator that simplifies the discovery process while maintaining security through controlled access mechanisms.
2Reliability
If autonomous headless devices are enabled to collaborate across domains without central authority, then reliability and security are improved, but ease of operation and device complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables autonomous headless devices to perform self-service operations for discovery, onboarding, and registration across domain boundaries. Devices can independently initiate collaboration requests, authenticate with domain networks, and establish secure connections without requiring manual configuration or centralized coordination. This self-service capability enhances reliability by eliminating single points of failure while maintaining ease of operation through automated procedures.
3Adaptability or versatility
If fog-cloud network architecture is used to enable device sharing and management, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity and infrastructure requirements worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a segmented fog-cloud network architecture where functionality is divided between cloud-hosted services and edge fog devices. The cloud layer handles high-level collaboration management, device registration, and cross-domain coordination, while fog devices provide local device sharing and management capabilities. This segmentation allows device sharing across domains without requiring every device to implement the full complexity of the fog-cloud infrastructure, as each segment performs specialized functions.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and techniques for defining and operating management services within a “domain” portion of an Internet of Things (IoT) network are disclosed herein. An example technique for implementing management functions of a device in a domain of the IoT network, for a device that is a defined within a hierarchy managed in the domain, may include: defining a resource structure in a secure virtual resource of the device, for a resource structure that identifies and defines at least one management service of the device; establishing properties of the at least one management service resource on the device within a resource structure, with the use of properties that are associated with a management function to be performed in the domain; and operating the device in the domain according to the management function. Further integration and use of management services and other management functions are also disclosed.