Distributed IoT Tracking Nodes With Mission-Based Power Delegation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional Internet of Things (IoT) systems with tracking devices experience high power consumption due to continuous communication with a central system, even when full functionality is not required, particularly in wireless communication scenarios.
Innovation Solution
A distributed intelligent software system that includes tracking devices with adhesive tape platforms equipped with a liquid operating system, allowing them to operate as master or slave agents, managing power usage and communication based on defined missions and rules, and utilizing different wireless communication interfaces to optimize power consumption.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If tracking devices continuously communicate full tracking data to central system, then complete tracking functionality is provided, but power consumption increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The tracking device transmits only essential tracking data to the central system while storing complete tracking data locally. This partial transmission approach provides the minimum necessary functionality to the central system while preserving complete data locally, thereby reducing communication power consumption while maintaining tracking reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The tracking data is segmented into two parts: essential data transmitted to central system and complete data stored locally. This segmentation allows the system to maintain reliable tracking functionality through essential data while avoiding the power consumption penalty of continuously transmitting all data.
2Speed
If tracking devices use wireless communication to send data, then real-time tracking is achieved, but power consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
Wireless communication is used only for transmitting essential tracking data at required speeds, while complete data is stored locally without continuous wireless transmission. This partial use of wireless communication maintains real-time tracking capability for essential data while dramatically reducing power consumption compared to continuous full-data transmission.
3Adaptability or versatility
If tracking devices operate with full functionality, then all tracking features are available, but power consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
Different parts of the tracking device serve different functions with different power requirements. The essential tracking functions communicate with the central system using minimal power, while the local storage component handles complete data offline. This local quality differentiation allows full functionality to be available while minimizing the power consumption of active components.
Solution Approach 2:
The device provides full tracking functionality locally while only partially transmitting data to the central system. This approach maintains complete adaptability and versatility of tracking features through local processing and storage, while reducing power consumption by limiting wireless communication to essential data only.
Data Source
AI summary
A tracking system includes a plurality of tape nodes, each including a battery, a short-range wireless interface, a processor, and a memory storing a liquid operating system (OS) having machine readable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to receiving, within the tape node, a mission defining at least one goal for the tape node, the tape node acting as a master agent of the tracking system to complete each of a plurality of tasks defined by the mission, managing power usage of the battery to complete the mission, the liquid OS delegating the task to another node of the tracking system to reduce power usage; performing a second task received from a second node, the tape node acting as a slave in response to the second task.