IoT Sanitization Assembly Tracking Through Blockchain Network
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing sanitization systems lack efficient tracking and monitoring of multiple cleaning devices in large areas, particularly in carpet cleaning, due to difficulties in data collection and communication across decentralized networks.
Innovation Solution
An Internet of Things (IoT) sanitization system utilizing a blockchain network for secure data transmission, enabling communication between sanitizing assemblies, network nodes, and a centralized server, which includes user identification, operable component determination, and usage metrics, with IoT motherboards and sensors for data generation and processing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If multiple sanitizing assemblies operate independently in large areas, then cleaning coverage and productivity increase, but tracking and monitoring difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback loops where each sanitizing assembly continuously transmits operational data, location information, and status updates to the centralized server via the blockchain network. The server processes this feedback and enables remote monitoring, allowing operators to track multiple assemblies across large areas in real-time, thus resolving the tracking difficulty that arises from increased cleaning coverage.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a centralized server and blockchain network as intermediary components between the distributed sanitizing assemblies and the monitoring system. This intermediary layer facilitates data collection, processing, and transmission, enabling effective tracking and monitoring of multiple independent assemblies without requiring direct line-of-sight or manual intervention, thereby solving the tracking difficulty problem.
2Reliability
If data is transmitted across a decentralized network, then system security and reliability improve, but data collection complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The centralized server acts as an intermediary that simplifies data collection from multiple sanitizing assemblies. Instead of requiring complex peer-to-peer data gathering across the decentralized blockchain network, the server consolidates data reception, processing, and storage functions. This intermediary approach maintains the security benefits of blockchain transmission while reducing the complexity of data collection operations.
3Productivity
If remote monitoring and control are implemented, then operational efficiency improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The centralized server provides universal functionality by handling multiple tasks including data collection, processing, storage, and remote control operations for all sanitizing assemblies through a single platform. This multi-functional approach enables remote monitoring and control that improves operational efficiency while avoiding the need for separate complex systems for each function, thus managing overall system complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
An Internet of Things sanitization system and method of operation through a blockchain network provides one or more independently operating sanitizing assemblies comprise a reservoir containing sanitizing medium and a sanitizing mechanism work to sanitize/clean a surface. The sanitizing assemblies connect through a blockchain network, so as to generate, collect, process, and communicate data pertinent to the cleaning. The data is transmitted across a peer-to-peer network, such as a blockchain network for the purposes of: identifying a user; determining which of the sanitizing assemblies and components thereof are operable, and determining usage metrics of the sanitization assemblies. Data is collected directly from the sanitizing assemblies through various user input interfaces. An Internet of Things motherboard operational in the sanitizing assemblies to enable communication between sanitizing assemblies, network nodes, and a centralized server. A network controller and a network interface enhance operation and communications for the sanitizing assemblies.