IoT Device Profile Management via API Abstraction
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Solution Overview
Problem
The Internet-of-Things (IoT) landscape lacks central standards, leading to deployment, architecture, analytics, and security challenges due to its fractured underlying technologies and diverse, heterogeneous devices operating on different communication protocols, making it difficult to manage and control IoT devices across various environments.
Innovation Solution
An Information Handling System (IHS) that includes processors and memory with program instructions to manage device profiles, allowing for the receipt and processing of commands using device profiles that include Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), enabling the abstraction of device protocols and providing a common framework for querying and commanding IoT devices, regardless of their communication protocols.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If device profiles with APIs are introduced to abstract device protocols, then interoperability and ease of operation improve, but device complexity increases due to the need to manage and process multiple device profiles
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces device profiles as intermediary components that mediate between the command interface and heterogeneous IoT devices. Each device profile contains device-specific API definitions and configuration parameters, acting as a translation layer that abstracts protocol complexities while enabling standardized command processing. This mediator approach allows the system to maintain simplicity at the user interface level while handling device diversity internally.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a common framework for querying and commanding devices is implemented, then adaptability and versatility improve, but the system complexity increases due to the need to manage diverse device profiles and protocols
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal command processing framework that can handle multiple device types and protocols through a single unified interface. The system uses device profiles to configure the framework for different device categories (environmental sensors, actuators, appliances), allowing the same core processing logic to adapt to various device-specific requirements. This multi-functionality approach enables the system to serve diverse IoT devices without requiring separate processing paths for each device type.
3Measurement precision
If device-specific processing is performed for different IoT devices, then measurement precision and control accuracy improve, but processing time increases due to the need to parse and transform data for each device
Solution Approach 1:
The patent pre-configures device profiles with device-specific API definitions, data transformation rules, and processing parameters before runtime operations. When a device is added to the system, its profile is loaded and cached, so that subsequent data processing and command execution can proceed efficiently without repeated parsing and transformation setup. This preliminary configuration approach allows the system to maintain high measurement precision and control accuracy while reducing processing time for individual device operations.
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AI summary
Systems and methods for managing device profiles in the Internet-of-Things (IoT). In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory including program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause the IHS to: receive a command from a user to access an IoT device coupled to the IHS, and process the command using a device profile stored in the IHS, where the device profile includes an Application Programming Interface (API) associated with the IoT device.