IoT Integration Platform for Unified Device Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current IoT solutions are vertical and do not communicate with each other, leading to user inconvenience due to the lack of a unified standard for integrating multiple IoT devices and their applications, resulting in isolated functionalities and inefficient management of connected devices and environments.
Innovation Solution
An IoT integration platform that connects and manages various IoT devices by providing a centralized interface, data correlation, and rule management modules, enabling cross-device communication and interoperability through a unified API, SDK, and protocol, allowing for contextual profiling and automation of user environments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If vertical IoT solutions are used for each device, then device-specific functionality is improved, but system integration and interoperability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal IoT platform that provides multi-functional capabilities to manage diverse IoT devices through a single interface. The platform includes device management modules, data processing modules, and application modules that can handle multiple device types and protocols, eliminating the need for separate vertical solutions for each device while maintaining device-specific functionality through configurable adapters and protocol translators.
Solution Approach 2:
The IoT platform acts as an intermediary layer between individual IoT devices and user applications. The platform includes protocol translators, data normalization modules, and integration interfaces that mediate communication between devices with different protocols and the unified management system, reducing integration complexity while preserving device-specific capabilities.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple vertical IoT solutions are deployed, then device functionality is improved, but user convenience deteriorates due to lack of unified management
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple vertical IoT solutions into a single unified platform that provides centralized device management, data processing, and application execution. The platform merges device registration, monitoring, control, and analytics functions into one system, allowing users to manage all IoT devices through a single interface rather than multiple separate applications.
Solution Approach 2:
The unified IoT platform provides universal functionality to manage diverse device types through standardized interfaces. The platform includes adaptive device drivers, protocol translators, and configurable management modules that maintain device-specific functionality while presenting a consistent user experience across all devices.
3Adaptability or versatility
If isolated IoT device management is used, then device independence is improved, but management efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The IoT platform is segmented into modular functional components including device registration modules, protocol translation modules, data processing modules, and application execution modules. Each module operates independently to maintain device independence while the modular architecture enables efficient centralized management through standardized interfaces and configurable connections between modules.
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AI summary
A method of profiling a physical environment via Internet of Things (IoT) devices connected via an IoT integration platform is disclosed. The method includes: receiving data streams from network-capable devices connected to the IoT integration platform; detecting presence of an entity in a physical environment surrounding or interacting with one or more of the network-capable devices from a subset of the data streams; storing an entity profile on a node graph representing the physical environment, wherein each entity profile is associated at least one of the network-capable device from which the presence is detected; and requesting a semantic label of the entity profile from a user of a first user account via one or more user interfaces.