Movable Electronic Device Dynamic Path Adjustment for IoT Monitoring

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing IoT monitoring systems face challenges in optimizing their operation management as electronic devices repeatedly follow a specified path, preventing them from effectively formalizing and managing the IoT environment.

Innovation Solution

A movable electronic device equipped with a camera module, driving module, and processor that adjusts its path based on state information from IoT devices, allowing it to change its driving pattern and optimize monitoring routes.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If the electronic device repeatedly moves along a specified path, then the operation management of IoT environment can be performed, but the device is prevented from establishing an optimized monitoring system

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemonitoring efficiencyVSAvoidpath adaptability
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The monitoring path is transformed from a fixed static route to a dynamic adaptive path that automatically adjusts based on real-time IoT device states. The electronic device dynamically modifies its movement trajectory by excluding zones where IoT devices are in normal operating states, thereby optimizing monitoring efficiency while adapting to changing environmental conditions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements a feedback mechanism where the electronic device continuously receives state information from IoT devices during monitoring, processes this information to determine device states, and uses this feedback to adjust the monitoring path accordingly. This closed-loop control enables the device to establish an optimized monitoring system that responds to actual IoT device conditions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Ease of operation

If the electronic device follows a fixed specified path, then the monitoring operation can be standardized, but the integrated management platform becomes complex

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemonitoring standardizationVSAvoidmanagement platform complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The electronic device autonomously adjusts its monitoring path based on state information from IoT devices without requiring complex external management intervention. The device independently determines which zones to exclude from monitoring based on device states, thereby simplifying the integrated management platform while maintaining standardized monitoring operations through automated decision-making.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Reliability

If the electronic device monitors all areas along the specified path, then complete coverage is achieved, but power consumption and operational cost increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemonitoring coverageVSAvoidpower consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts and excludes zones with IoT devices in normal operating states from the monitoring path, thereby reducing the total monitoring area. This selective exclusion maintains reliable monitoring coverage for zones that require attention while significantly reducing power consumption and operational costs by avoiding unnecessary movement and monitoring in areas that do not require intervention.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS11012814B2Monitoring system control method and electronic device for supporting same
Publication Date: 2021.05.18 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

A movable electronic device includes at least one camera module, a driving module configured to support movement on a specified path of the electronic device, and a processor electrically connected to the camera module and the driving module. The processor is configured to control the electronic device to perform capture while moving on a specified first path and to set the first path to a second path based on state information about at least one Internet of Things (IoT) device obtained based on a capture image on the first path.