Sensor Terminal Parameter Switching for Post-Installation Tuning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing sensor terminals require complex initial setup and rearrangement to optimize performance, leading to increased operational costs and power consumption, especially when multiple types are installed in a facility.
Innovation Solution
A sensor terminal with a storage device that stores characteristic information and a communication device allowing external control to set and share information, enabling performance adjustments post-installation through a centralized control system.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If sensor terminals are redesigned and rearranged at the stage where optimum performance is found out, then the performance can be optimized, but cost for rearranging a large number of sensor terminals is required
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic performance adjustment by enabling sensor terminals to change their operational characteristics after installation through remote parameter modification. This eliminates the need for physical rearrangement or redesign, as the same hardware can adapt its performance dynamically to match optimal configurations identified through machine learning analysis.
Solution Approach 2:
The system modifies operational parameters of sensor terminals remotely after deployment. By changing parameters such as sampling rates, measurement ranges, and transmission frequencies based on analyzed facility data, the system achieves performance optimization without physical intervention or rearrangement of the sensor terminals.
2Measurement precision
If sensor terminal is required to have excessive performance with respect to inherently necessary performance, then detection capability is improved, but operation cost increases due to an increase in data rate and an increase in power consumption
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the performance characteristics of sensor terminals based on actual facility conditions and analysis results. Instead of maintaining excessive performance continuously, the sensor terminals operate at optimal performance levels determined through machine learning, reducing power consumption and data transmission requirements while maintaining adequate detection capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system modifies operational parameters such as sampling frequency, resolution, and transmission rate based on analyzed facility data. This allows the sensor terminals to reduce their operational intensity when full performance is not needed, thereby lowering power consumption and data rates while maintaining sufficient detection capability for the specific application.
3Adaptability or versatility
If many types of sensor terminals are installed in a mixed manner, then versatility is improved, but it requires complicated work such as associating the information with information that can be set, while checking the type of the device
Solution Approach 1:
Each sensor terminal automatically transmits its type information and supported characteristic items to the centralized management device. This self-service approach eliminates the need for manual association of device types with setting information, as the sensor terminals themselves provide the necessary identification and capability data to the management system.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a feedback mechanism where sensor terminals report their type and capability information to the centralized management device. This automatic feedback loop allows the management device to maintain an accurate database of device characteristics without manual intervention, simplifying the management of mixed sensor terminal installations.
Data Source
AI summary
Provided is a sensor terminal including a sensor element, the sensor terminal further including: an ADC that converts an analog signal output from a sensor element into a digital signal; a storage device in which a plurality of first storage setting numbers being information for controlling the ADC and a plurality of pieces of first characteristic information including description of operation of the ADC are stored in association with each other; and a communication device that receives a first reception setting number from the outside of the sensor terminal, and transmits the first characteristic information corresponding to the first storage setting number that coincides with the first reception setting number, to the outside of the sensor terminal.