IoT Device Interconnection via Scenario Broadcast and Central Selection
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing complexity of connecting multiple IoT devices requires cumbersome user operations, as existing methods rely on smartphone interactions, hindering efficient information exchange and device management.
Innovation Solution
IoT devices autonomously exchange description information, including application scenario and performance data, to form device combinations and facilitate intelligent information flow, with central devices managing connections and external interactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If user operations on smartphone are used to establish connections between IoT devices, then connection establishment is possible, but operation complexity increases and user operations become cumbersome
Solution Approach 1:
IoT devices automatically perform connection establishment by exchanging description information and autonomously determining device combinations without requiring user operations on a smartphone. The devices self-organize into combinations based on their own capabilities and requirements, eliminating the need for manual intervention.
Solution Approach 2:
Description information acts as an intermediary carrier that enables automated connection establishment. This information package contains application scenario identifiers and performance information that mediate the interaction between devices, allowing them to autonomously determine compatibility and form connections without direct user control.
2Adaptability or versatility
If quantity of IoT devices increases, then system functionality improves, but connection complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the overall connection management into autonomous device-level decisions. Each device independently evaluates its own description information against received information from other devices, breaking down the complex global connection problem into simpler local decision-making units that can be handled independently.
Solution Approach 2:
Devices exchange parameterized description information including application scenario identifiers and performance metrics. These standardized parameters enable automated comparison and matching, allowing the system to scale to many devices while maintaining manageable complexity through structured data exchange.
3Ease of operation
If automated connection establishment is implemented, then user operations are simplified, but device intelligence requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
Devices autonomously perform connection establishment by processing their own description information and making independent decisions about which devices to connect with. The system transfers intelligence from the user to the devices themselves, which self-manage their connectivity based on predefined criteria.
Solution Approach 2:
Devices provide feedback through exchanged description information about their capabilities and requirements. This feedback mechanism enables automated decision-making where devices respond to each other's characteristics, allowing intelligent connection establishment without user intervention.
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AI summary
This application relates to the field of communication technologies, and discloses an IoT device interconnection method and an apparatus, to reduce IoT device connection complexity, and facilitating user operations. The method includes: A first IoT device broadcasts description information of the first IoT device, where the description information of the first IoT device includes a first application scenario identifier and performance information of the first IoT device, the first application scenario identifier is used by an IoT device that receives the description information of the first IoT device to determine whether to establish a connection to the first IoT device, the performance information of the first IoT device is used by the IoT device that receives the description information to determine a central device in a device combination, the device combination includes the first IoT device and an IoT device connected to the first IoT device. The first IoT device receives a first connection result sent by a second IoT device, where the first connection result includes first information, the first information indicates the second IoT device to establish a connection to the first IoT device, and the first connection result further includes an identifier of a central device in a first device combination.