Remote Action Manager Communication Box Protocol Translation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems for managing data from multi-vendor and multi-service IoT environments face challenges in integrating equipment from different suppliers, securing data access, and managing communication protocols, leading to limited adaptability and restricted data sharing, which hinders the development of comprehensive user services.
Innovation Solution
A method involving a remote action manager interacting with communication boxes through integrated access devices, using various communication mechanisms such as tunnel via proxy, Internet gateway device control protocol, extensible messaging and presence protocol, and simple traversal of user datagram through network address translation, to facilitate secure and centralized data management across diverse equipment protocols.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If proprietary equipment from determined vendors is integrated into a platform, then integration with specific vendor equipment is achieved, but adaptability to integrate equipment from distinct suppliers is lost
Solution Approach 1:
A communication box is introduced as an intermediary device between heterogeneous equipment from different vendors and the service platform. This communication box translates and adapts communication protocols, enabling the platform to interact with multiple vendor equipment through a unified interface without requiring the platform to support each vendor's proprietary protocol directly.
Solution Approach 2:
The system is segmented into distinct functional layers: the communication box handles protocol translation and vendor-specific interactions, while the service platform focuses on service logic and data processing. This segmentation allows each component to specialize, improving both integration ease and multi-vendor adaptability.
2Productivity
If multiple vendor services are executed in parallel on the same box, then service consolidation is achieved, but data sharing and service independence are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The communication box is divided into separate processing modules or virtual environments, each dedicated to executing services from different vendors. This segmentation ensures that services run in isolated contexts with dedicated memory and resource allocation, preventing interference between services while maintaining parallel execution capability.
3Adaptability or versatility
If communication protocols change frequently with equipment changes, then support for new equipment is enabled, but box dependency on equipment protocols increases
Solution Approach 1:
The communication box acts as a protocol intermediary that maintains a library of supported communication protocols. When new equipment is introduced, the communication box handles protocol translation without requiring changes to the service platform, centralizing protocol management and reducing the platform's dependency on specific equipment protocols.
4Ease of manufacture
If users are compelled to use a communication box per vendor, then vendor-specific integration is ensured, but ergonomics in residence deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple communication boxes from different vendors are merged into a single unified communication box that supports multiple vendor protocols simultaneously. This consolidation reduces the number of devices users need to manage while maintaining the integration capabilities required for vendor-specific equipment through protocol translation and multi-protocol support.
Data Source
AI summary
A method of communication between a remote action manager and a communication box, for interacting with equipment connected to the communication box, by creating an association of a communication mechanism with the box, receiving an action request at the action manager destined for the equipment, identifying the communication mechanism associated with the box, and communicating the action request to the box via the identified communication mechanism.