Role-Based Sensor Data Routing for Industrial Reporting Bottlenecks
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Solution Overview
Problem
Industrial environments face challenges in effectively utilizing vast amounts of data from IoT sensors, such as vibration data, to improve operations and maintenance, due to complexity and the need for role-specific insights that current digital twin technologies cannot adequately provide.
Innovation Solution
An enterprise management platform with role-based digital twins that integrate AI-enabled expert agents and enhanced collaboration features, enabling executives to monitor and control industrial plant operations through a converged technology stack for intelligent sensing, data collection, and real-time data handling, providing context-adaptive insights tailored to specific roles.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If data from multiple IoT sensors is collected and processed through a single route, then data collection is simple, but data processing efficiency deteriorates when multiple devices request information
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the data processing system into multiple hierarchical routes (first route for operational data, second route for maintenance data, third route for strategic data). Each route processes data independently based on device type and request characteristics, eliminating the bottleneck of a single processing route and improving overall system efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically selects which data processing route to use based on the type of device making the request and the nature of the data needed. This dynamic routing adapts to different operational contexts, optimizing data processing efficiency for each specific scenario while maintaining system simplicity.
2Quantity of substance
If all sensor data is processed and presented to all users, then data completeness is improved, but information relevance deteriorates due to lack of role-specific filtering
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements role-based digital twins that provide customized data presentations tailored to specific user roles (e.g., operations manager, maintenance manager, executive). Each role receives filtered and prioritized data relevant to their responsibilities, ensuring information relevance while maintaining access to complete underlying data through appropriate channels.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces role-based digital twins as intermediaries between the raw sensor data and end users. These digital twins act as intelligent filters and translators, converting comprehensive sensor data into role-specific insights and presentations, thereby preserving data completeness while enhancing information relevance for each user type.
3Measurement precision
If detailed sensor data is provided to all executives, then decision-making accuracy is improved, but system complexity increases due to lack of role-based filtering
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the parameters of data presentation based on user role, transforming the same underlying sensor data into different formats, levels of aggregation, and contextual presentations. Executives receive data optimized for strategic decision-making, while operational staff receive detailed technical data, thereby maintaining decision-making accuracy for each role without requiring complex custom systems for each user.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems for data collection in an industrial environment having a self-sufficient data acquisition box for capturing and analyzing data in an industrial process generally including a data circuit for analyzing a plurality of sensor inputs; and a network control circuit for sending and receiving information related to the plurality of sensor inputs to an external system. The information sent and received by the network control system is based at least in part on a role-based reporting rule and encoded with role-based information that is used by the external system to report the information sent and received to a specified role taxonomy, the system provides sensor data to one or more other systems for data collection, and the data circuit dynamically reconfigures a route by which the system sends the sensor data based on how many devices are requesting the information.