IoT Notification Tree Updates Based on Recipient Location
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems for providing notifications from connected devices in IoT environments lack efficient mechanisms for determining events and dynamically updating notification trees based on recipient location and presence, leading to potential delays or missed notifications.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that utilize computing devices to obtain data from connected devices, determine event occurrences, and access a multi-tier notification tree, dynamically updating recipient priorities based on user data to ensure timely and targeted notifications, even across different ecosystems and platforms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a traditional notification system is used without dynamic updates, then the system complexity is reduced, but the notification timeliness and accuracy deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The notification tree is dynamically updated based on real-time user data such as location information and presence status. The system automatically adjusts recipient priorities and notification routes as conditions change, ensuring timely notifications without requiring manual intervention. This dynamic adaptation resolves the contradiction by making the system responsive to changing conditions while maintaining automated operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors user data from connected devices and uses this feedback to update the notification tree structure. When user presence or location changes, the system automatically recalculates notification priorities and routes. This feedback mechanism ensures notification reliability while keeping the system complexity manageable through automated closed-loop control.
2Productivity
If manual notification tree updates are used, then the system complexity is reduced, but the productivity and response time deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The notification system automatically updates itself by monitoring user data from connected devices and adjusting the notification tree without manual intervention. The system serves itself by automatically detecting changes in user presence and location, then recalculating notification routes and priorities. This self-updating capability dramatically improves productivity while the automation manages the complexity burden.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-establishes notification trees and rules in advance, but automatically updates them when triggered by user data changes. By having the framework ready and only performing updates when necessary based on automated triggers, the system achieves high productivity without requiring continuous manual management, thus balancing efficiency with manageable complexity.
3Loss of information
If notifications are sent to all recipients regardless of location, then the system simplicity is maintained, but the loss of information and notification relevance increases
Solution Approach 1:
The notification system applies different notification rules and priorities to different recipients based on their local conditions such as current location and presence status. Instead of treating all recipients uniformly, the system dynamically determines which recipients are most relevant to notify based on real-time data. This localized approach minimizes information loss by ensuring notifications reach the right people while the automated logic manages the complexity of individualized treatment.
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AI summary
A method for providing a notification associated with at least one of a plurality of connected devices is provided. The method includes accessing, by one or more computing devices, user data associated with one or more recipients included in a multi-tier notification tree. The method further includes dynamically updating, by the one or more computing devices, the multi-tier notification tree based, at least in part, on a change in the user data, wherein the user data is indicative of a location of the one or more recipients included in the multi-tier notification tree. The method further includes providing, by the one or more computing devices, a notification indicative of an event to one or more recipients included in the multi-tier notification tree.