IoT Interoperability Platform Ontology Mapping
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing IoT networks face interoperability challenges due to differing models, protocols, and ontological architectures used by various providers and vendors, leading to incompatible devices and systems across domains.
Innovation Solution
An IoT interoperability platform that ingests and merges diverse ontologies into a generalized semantic model based on lexical, semantic, and contextual information, enabling devices and software from different vendors to work together by matching semantics and identifying patterns across ontological models.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If devices from different providers use their own proprietary models, protocols, and ontological architectures, then each provider can optimize their own system performance and functionality, but interoperability between devices from different providers deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary layer consisting of ontology mapping services and translation mechanisms that mediate between proprietary device ontologies and a standardized reference ontology. This intermediary layer enables interoperability without requiring changes to the original device systems, allowing each provider to maintain their optimized proprietary models while achieving cross-vendor compatibility through the mediating translation layer.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal reference ontology that can serve multiple proprietary ontologies simultaneously. This reference ontology acts as a common framework that can map to and translate between different vendor-specific ontologies, enabling a single standardized model to fulfill multiple interoperability requirements across different device ecosystems.
2Adaptability or versatility
If standardization attempts are made using previously established domain models, name spaces and languages, then some level of interoperability can be achieved, but the complexity of supplanting existing proprietary models worsens the implementation difficulty
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary ontology analysis and mapping relationship establishment before actual device integration. By pre-defining mapping relationships between proprietary ontologies and the reference ontology, and pre-establishing translation rules, the system reduces the complexity of real-time interoperability implementation while maintaining comprehensive support for multiple vendor models.
3Adaptability or versatility
If a unified standardized ontology is imposed across all IoT devices, then interoperability improves, but the ability of individual providers to optimize their proprietary models deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the ontology system into two independent parts: proprietary device-specific ontologies that remain unchanged and optimized by individual providers, and a reference ontology that provides the standardized interface. This segmentation allows each layer to independently evolve and optimize without compromising the other, maintaining both proprietary optimization and interoperability.
Data Source
AI summary
A network device receives a plurality of framework definitions corresponding to a respective plurality of device platforms, wherein each of the device platforms comprises at least one device. The network device generates a plurality of generalized framework definitions for each of the plurality of device platforms, wherein the plurality of generalized framework definitions comprise basic linguistic components corresponding to elements in the respective plurality of framework definitions. The network device receives data from the at least one device for each of the device platforms. The network device extracts data from the received data based on the plurality of generalized framework definitions. The network device automatically identifies contexts that include at least one device for each of the at least two device platforms based on the extracted data. The network device transmits instructions to the at least one device for each of the at least two device platforms based on one of a rule or a request associated with the identified one or more contexts.