Integrated Service Component Correlation for Automated Homes
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems fail to efficiently correlate and utilize existing hardware and software components within an automated home environment with integrated service offerings, often leading to redundant installations and conflicts, and do not effectively account for manual resources, resulting in inefficient service delivery and increased costs.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system that analyzes the inventory of an automated home environment and correlates it with integrated service offerings to identify existing components, allowing for a modified service version to be presented without redundant components, using a common data format to compare and reuse existing components, and dynamically adjusting prices based on the identified subset.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If integrated service offerings are installed in automated home environments without component correlation, then service functionality is provided, but redundant installations and conflicts occur
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary analysis of the home environment inventory before installing integrated services. The server correlates the service offering inventory with existing home components, identifies compatible and conflicting components in advance, and prepares a modified service offering that prevents redundant installations and conflicts before they occur.
Solution Approach 2:
The system extracts and removes conflicting components from the integrated service offering. By identifying components that interfere with existing home environment components, the system creates a modified service offering that excludes these problematic components, thereby eliminating potential conflicts and redundant installations.
2Reliability
If all components of integrated services are installed regardless of existing components, then complete service functionality is achieved, but installation costs and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies partial action by installing only the necessary subset of components from the integrated service offering. Instead of installing all components regardless of what already exists, the system identifies and installs only those components that are not already present in the home environment or that are specifically needed to complement existing components, thereby reducing installation complexity while maintaining service functionality.
3Loss of energy
If existing hardware and software components are reused, then installation costs are reduced, but component compatibility and interference must be managed
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses feedback mechanisms to manage component compatibility when reusing existing components. The server analyzes the home environment inventory, correlates it with the service offering, and provides feedback about which existing components can be safely reused and which may cause interference. This feedback enables the system to make informed decisions about component reuse while maintaining reliability.
4Ease of operation
If manual resources are not accounted for in service offerings, then service delivery is simplified, but service efficiency and cost-effectiveness decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies universality by creating a unified inventory representation that handles both automated hardware/software components and manual human resources in a consistent manner. The common data format allows the system to manage diverse component types uniformly, enabling efficient service delivery that accounts for both automated and manual resources without complicating the service offering process.
Data Source
AI summary
There is provided a method for component correlation of an integrated service, comprising: receiving, at a central server, a selection of a certain integrated service including hardware and software components, each respective integrated service associated with an offering inventory representation including a description of the hardware and software components; receiving, from the client, a message including the inventory description of the automated home environment; correlating the inventory description of the home inventory with the certain integrated service offering inventory, to identify a subset of hardware and software components already installed within the automated home environment that correspond to hardware and software components of the certain integrated service, wherein the inventory description and the offering inventory are based on a common data format; and presenting, to the client, a modified version of the certain integrated service based on the identified subset.