Spatially Aware Smart Device Provisioning via Location Filtering
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Solution Overview
Problem
Smart device provisioning is inefficient due to cumbersome user interfaces and high error rates, particularly in user-provisioned devices, which can lead to increased costs and decreased flexibility in adapting devices to their environment.
Innovation Solution
A spatially aware smart device provisioning system that uses a configuration device with a rich graphical user interface to connect with smart devices via a cloud service, utilizing location data to filter and identify devices, and employing RFID, NFC, or camera-based identification methods to streamline the provisioning process, ensuring security through proximity verification.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If traditional button-based provisioning interface is used, then device complexity is reduced, but ease of operation deteriorates due to cumbersome user interaction
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a mobile device as an intermediary between the user and the smart device provisioning process. The mobile device displays visual representations of smart devices and receives user selections, eliminating the need for complex button sequences on the smart device itself. This mediator approach transfers the provisioning interface to a more capable device (mobile phone) that can provide a richer user experience.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces mechanical button-based interaction with wireless communication and software-based interfaces. Instead of physical button presses and visual/audible feedback mechanisms, the system uses wireless data transmission between devices and graphical user interfaces on mobile devices, substituting mechanical interaction with electronic communication.
2Productivity
If manual device identification method is used, then device complexity is minimized, but productivity deteriorates due to time-consuming provisioning
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual device identification methods with automated wireless communication and optical scanning technologies. Instead of manual configuration, the system uses wireless protocols to automatically discover and identify smart devices, or uses camera-based optical scanning to read device identifiers, dramatically speeding up the provisioning process.
Solution Approach 2:
The smart devices automatically generate and transmit their identification information through wireless communication or visual displays. The devices provide their own identification data without requiring manual intervention, enabling automated discovery and selection by the mobile device, thus improving provisioning efficiency.
3Adaptability or versatility
If cloud service is used for device connection, then adaptability is improved, but loss of information increases due to network dependency
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs device identification and selection actions before establishing cloud service connections. The mobile device identifies and selects the target smart device while it is still in proximity, capturing the device identifier and provisioning information locally before network-dependent operations begin, thus preventing data loss if network connectivity fails.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile device acts as an intermediary that buffers and stores provisioning information locally before and during the cloud service connection process. This intermediate storage layer protects against information loss by maintaining local copies of critical data independent of network connectivity status.
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AI summary
Various system and techniques for spatially aware smart device provisioning are described herein. Location data indicating a physical location of the configuration device can be received from the configuration device. A subset of one or more smart devices can be received from a device management module. The subset of one or more smart devices can be based on stored physical locations of each smart device of one or more smart devices and a predetermined area. The subset of smart devices can be presented to the configuration device. The configuration device can present the subset of smart devices to a user and accept a user selection of a smart device from the subset of smart devices to provision. The user selection of the smart device can be received. The smart device can be provisioned based on the user selection.