Soft Switch Radiobeacon Message Uplink to Cloud Host
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current resource-sharing systems, like ride-sharing, often exploit resource providers and lack means for fair distribution without exploitation, failing to efficiently share resources for community benefits such as elderly care, lost item tracking, or child supervision.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented system using low energy radio transmissions from radiobeacons to a cloud host server, enabling ad hoc networks of smart devices to share resources anonymously, allowing community members to contribute and benefit from each other's resources without privacy invasion, through a 'soft switch' that upswitches messages for processing and action.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If proprietary networks are built for resource sharing, then resource sharing capability is improved, but device complexity and system cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a cloud host server as an intermediary that mediates resource sharing between devices. Instead of requiring direct peer-to-peer connections or complex proprietary networks, the cloud server acts as a central coordinator that receives requests from one device, matches them with available resources from other devices, and facilitates the sharing transaction. This eliminates the need for complex network infrastructure while maintaining resource sharing capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables existing smartphones and common devices to serve multiple functions: they act as both resource providers (sharing their sensors, processors, cameras, etc.) and resource consumers (accessing resources from other devices). The same device can participate in the sharing economy without requiring specialized hardware, making the system universally applicable to existing devices rather than requiring proprietary network infrastructure.
2Productivity
If devices relay messages for other users, then resource sharing efficiency is improved, but privacy protection becomes challenging
Solution Approach 1:
The cloud host server serves as a privacy-protecting intermediary that handles all message relay and data transmission. Devices send their sensor data and resource availability information to the cloud server, which then relays messages between devices without either device needing to directly communicate with or store data from other devices. This maintains privacy while enabling efficient resource sharing through the mediating server.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates anonymous copies of device identifiers and resource descriptions that are shared through the cloud server rather than exposing actual device identities. The cloud server handles the copying and relaying of message content without revealing the source or destination device identities to the relaying devices, thus maintaining privacy while enabling message relay for improved sharing efficiency.
3Ease of operation
If background services are used for message forwarding, then ease of operation is improved, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of continuously monitoring and relaying messages, the system uses periodic background services that check for messages at intervals. The cloud host server periodically queries devices for available resources and messages to relay, rather than maintaining constant communication channels. This reduces energy consumption while still providing automatic message relaying functionality through periodic background operations.
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AI summary
Remote actuation of machines or machine systems is realized by a system for coupling a radiobeacon to a smart device and in turn to a broader network. The smart device is configured as a proximity-actuated “community nodal device” by an application that operates as part of the system. The community nodal device is given instructions to function as a “soft switch”: to automatically “upswitch”, amplify, and broadcast low energy, local area radiobeacon “messages” to a cloud-based server, where the message is interpreted according to rules or policies established by an operator, and a command is transmitted for execution to a remote device. Conventional smart devices generally discard data not addressed to the owner of the smart device. Instead of discarding third party messages, the system preempts their handling, and using a soft switch formed from background resources, anonymously, without access to the message by a user interface of the proxy device, and without waiting for a network query from the host, engineers an “upswitched transmission” of radiobeacon-generated data to a cloud host. Advantageously, confidential sharing of ad hoc community resources results in a negligible load on background resources of the community nodal device. Messages may include a sensor data payload. Bit overloading enables a sensor data payload to be compressed into a few hundred bytes or less.