Network Device Mapping With UWB Positioning and Digital Layouts
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Solution Overview
Problem
Managing large numbers of network devices in physical environments is challenging due to difficulties in proper arrangement, identification, and control, leading to potential errors and confusion.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that utilize a location device to collect position and device information data, map network devices to a physical environment model, and provide a user-friendly interface for control, employing ultrawideband positioning technology and QR-code scanning for precise and centralized management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If network devices are managed manually without positioning systems, then device control is possible, but identification and arrangement become difficult and error-prone when the number of devices increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the physical environment as a digital map that mirrors the actual layout of network devices. This digital representation allows users to interact with device locations visually rather than manually managing device lists, thereby improving ease of identification and control without significantly increasing system complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The positioning base units serve as intermediaries between the physical network devices and the digital map. These bases establish wireless communication zones that enable automatic device localization and mapping, facilitating seamless connection between physical device placement and virtual representation without requiring complex manual configuration
2Measurement precision
If positioning bases are deployed throughout the environment, then device location accuracy improves, but system cost and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adapts the positioning infrastructure to the actual needs of the environment. Positioning bases are deployed strategically rather than uniformly, and the digital map dynamically updates device locations as they move or are added. This dynamic approach maintains high positioning precision while optimizing the number of bases required, thereby reducing overall system complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines multiple functions into the positioning base units, which simultaneously provide wireless communication zones for device localization, serve as reference points for the digital map, and enable automatic device identification. This merging of functions reduces the number of separate components needed, thereby maintaining measurement precision while reducing system complexity and cost
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AI summary
A method for managing network devices is provided. The method comprises collecting position data of at least one network device with a location device for determining the position of the at least one network device relative to at least one positioning base, collecting device information data from the at least one network device with the location device, the device information data representing individual properties of the at least one network device, determining the position of the at least one network device according to the position data, providing a model of the physical environment based on environment data, and mapping the at least one network device to the model of the physical environment such that the device information data of the at least one network device is assigned to at least one location in the model of the physical environment, according to the position of the at least one network device.