Terminal Management Device for Multi-Standard IoT Network Coordination
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing IoT networks face challenges in ensuring interconnectivity when multiple IoT standards and platforms coexist, leading to incomplete networks with non-uniform data accessibility and inefficiencies in data collection.
Innovation Solution
A terminal management device and terminal device are designed to manage access timing information, data collection plans, and priorities, allowing for optimized data collection and transmission across multiple IoT standards and platforms by utilizing a receiving unit, transmitting unit, sensor information acquiring unit, and schedule generating unit to coordinate data acquisition and transmission efficiently.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple IoT standards and platforms coexist in the network, then the network coverage and functionality are improved, but the interconnectivity and data accessibility become non-uniform and incomplete
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a terminal management device as an intermediary between multiple IoT terminals and servers. This mediator standardizes access timing information and coordinates data collection across different IoT standards and platforms, ensuring uniform interconnectivity while maintaining support for diverse standards and platforms.
2Reliability
If data is collected frequently from sensors to improve data accessibility, then the data availability is improved, but the power consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements periodic data collection with variable intervals. The terminal management device determines optimal access timing based on data urgency and terminal status, allowing infrequent access during stable periods (saving power) and more frequent access when data changes are expected (improving accessibility).
Solution Approach 2:
The access timing information is dynamically adjusted based on terminal state, data type, and urgency. The system transitions from static fixed-interval sampling to dynamic adaptive sampling, optimizing the balance between data accessibility and power consumption in real-time.
3Reliability
If access timing information is standardized across multiple IoT platforms to improve interconnectivity, then the network compatibility is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the complexity management function into a dedicated terminal management device. Individual IoT terminals only need to provide basic access timing information, while the management device handles the complex standardization, coordination, and translation between different platforms, isolating complexity from resource-constrained terminals.
4Productivity
If data collection plans are optimized for multiple servers to improve data efficiency, then the productivity is improved, but the scheduling complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple data collection requests from different servers into unified access timing information. The terminal management device consolidates overlapping or conflicting requests, generates optimized schedules, and coordinates single access events that satisfy multiple server needs simultaneously, improving efficiency while managing scheduling complexity centrally.
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AI summary
An optimal network is constructed in a case in which a plurality of IoT standards or IoT platforms coexist. According to the present disclosure, provided is a terminal management device including a receiving unit that receives, from a terminal that collects information from a sensor, access timing information related to an accessible timing to the terminal and a transmitting unit that transmits the access timing information to a server that searches for the information. With this configuration, it is possible to construct an optimal network in a case in which a plurality of IoT standards or IoT platforms coexist.