IoT Payload Transmission Timing by Device State for Critical Operations
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing IoT devices in networks face challenges in determining optimal times to transmit payloads due to varying critical operations and locations, leading to potential interference with critical functions.
Innovation Solution
A system analyzes device type, current attributes, and location to determine criticality criteria, instructing devices to refrain from transmitting payloads during critical operations and allowing transmission when criteria are not met.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If devices transmit payloads continuously to management tools, then complete device information is collected, but critical operations may be interrupted
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts payload transmission timing based on real-time detection of device attributes and criticality criteria. Instead of continuous or fixed-schedule transmission, devices transmit payloads only when current attributes indicate non-critical periods, making the transmission behavior adaptive to changing operational conditions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary detection of device attributes and evaluation of criticality criteria before allowing payload transmission. By assessing device state in advance and establishing criticality thresholds beforehand, the system prevents interruptions to critical operations while ensuring complete information collection during safe periods.
2Reliability
If payload transmission is restricted during critical operations, then operation interruption is prevented, but information collection may be incomplete
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where device attributes are continuously monitored and transmitted to the analytics engine, which evaluates criticality criteria and provides feedback on whether payload transmission is permitted. This closed-loop feedback ensures operations remain uninterrupted while information is collected during appropriate windows.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of continuous transmission, the system uses periodic sampling of device attributes and opportunistic payload transmission during identified non-critical periods. Devices transmit information in periodic intervals when attributes indicate safety, ensuring complete information collection without compromising operational continuity.
3Adaptability or versatility
If devices are relocated without permission, then device flexibility is improved, but network security and management control are weakened
Solution Approach 1:
Devices perform self-service by autonomously detecting their own attributes, evaluating their own criticality criteria, and making independent decisions about payload transmission timing. This self-service capability allows devices to be relocated freely while maintaining network management control through consistent attribute-based evaluation rules that work across any location.
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AI summary
Techniques for determining whether a device communicating in a network should transmit a payload, e.g., priority dataset, to a server based on the device type, analysis of the current attributes of the device, and the location of the device are disclosed. When the current attributes of the device, in combination with the device location, are determined to meet criticality criteria, instructions are provided to the device to refrain from transmitting the payload. When the current attributes of the device, in combination with the device location, are determined to not meet criticality criteria, instructions are provided to the device to permit transmission of the payload by the device.