Distributed Data Processing for IoT Device Performance Analytics

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current approaches to analyzing cognitive products from the Internet of Things (IoT) face challenges in processing and storing vast amounts of data, leading to incomplete analysis and recommendations due to high data acquisition requirements, resulting in inefficient data management and interpretation.

Innovation Solution

A method that retrieves and integrates data from multiple sources to determine recommendations for action, including expected device performance, repair, and replacement frequencies, using a distributed data processing environment that includes a computing device and server interconnected over a network, allowing for autonomous data dissemination and analysis.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If data from multiple sources is retrieved and integrated for comprehensive device analysis, then analysis accuracy and recommendation quality improve, but data processing complexity and storage requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveanalysis accuracyVSAvoiddata processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments data processing by creating separate modules for data retrieval, integration, analysis, and recommendation generation. Each module handles specific aspects of the data workflow, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining comprehensive analysis capabilities across multiple data sources.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces intermediary components including a distributed data processing environment and server infrastructure that mediate between multiple data sources and the analysis engine. These intermediaries standardize data formats and manage integration complexity, allowing accurate multi-source analysis without proportionally increasing processing difficulty.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If vast amounts of data are acquired from IoT devices, then predictive analytics quality improves, but storage requirements and data management overhead increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepredictive analytics qualityVSAvoiddata storage requirements
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts only the most relevant and high-value data elements from vast IoT device datasets for storage and detailed analysis. By filtering and selecting critical data points rather than storing all raw data, the system maintains high predictive analytics quality while reducing storage requirements and management overhead.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements partial data acquisition and processing, focusing on key performance indicators and critical device parameters rather than comprehensively processing all available data. This selective approach achieves reliable predictive analytics with reduced data storage and management requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS11277327B2Predictive analytics of device performance
Publication Date: 2022.03.15 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for determining recommendations for actions based on analysis of a device. The method includes retrieving information associated with a device from one or more databases. The method further includes determining information relevant to device performance as a function of an analysis of the retrieved information associated with the device, where the information relevant to device performance includes one or more factors related to an expected device performance. The method further includes determining a frequency of repair and replacement of one or more components of the device. The method further includes determining a recommendation of an action based on a comparison of an expected frequency of replacement and repair of the components of the device to the determined replacement and repair of the components of the device.