Unified IoT Interface via Messaging Platform Object Profiles
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of multiple Internet of Things (IoT) devices often need to download and learn multiple unique mobile applications, creating a fragmented user experience, especially for devices like fire alarms and elevator systems that are not user-specific.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that generate object profiles for IoT devices, allowing them to be registered on familiar communication platforms like messaging or social media, enabling a unified interface for monitoring and controlling these devices through these platforms, with features for sending status updates, alert messages, and adjusting settings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple unique mobile applications are used for different IoT devices, then device-specific functionality is improved, but user interface complexity and learning curve increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal communication platform that serves multiple IoT devices across different domains (fire alarms, elevators, security systems, etc.). Instead of requiring separate applications for each device type, a single messaging platform handles communication with all devices, making the system universally applicable while maintaining device-specific functionality through contextual object profiles.
Solution Approach 2:
The messaging platform acts as an intermediary between users and diverse IoT devices. It translates device-specific protocols and data formats into a common messaging language, allowing users to interact with different device types through a unified interface without needing to learn multiple application-specific controls.
2Measurement precision
If multiple unique mobile applications are required for different IoT devices, then device control precision is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple device-specific applications into a single unified messaging platform. By combining the functionality of numerous separate applications into one system, it reduces the overall number of applications users need to install and manage, thereby reducing system complexity while maintaining precise device control through specialized object profiles.
Solution Approach 2:
While merging applications, the patent segments device functionality into modular object profiles that can be independently configured. Each device type has its own profile structure that maintains precise control capabilities, allowing the system to handle device-specific precision requirements without requiring separate applications for each device.
3Adaptability or versatility
If device-specific applications are used, then functionality is optimized, but user familiarity and accessibility decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates object profiles that copy and adapt familiar messaging platform interfaces for each device type. Instead of introducing entirely new application interfaces, it replicates the familiar messaging experience while tailoring it to specific device functionalities, making the system accessible to users already familiar with messaging platforms.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods, systems, and computer program products for interfacing system controls are provided. Aspects include receiving, by a processor, object data for a plurality of objects. An object profile is generated for each of the plurality of objects based at least in part on the object data and one or more communication platforms are accessed. The object profiles for each of the plurality of objects are registered with the one or more communication platforms.