SELF-ADAPTIVE DEVICE INTELLIGENCE AS A SERVICE ENTERPRISE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SENSOR-RICH ENVIRONMENTS

摘要

A device intelligence architecture configures and controls on-site devices and performs environment monitoring to facilitate effective device functionality. The architecture facilitates efficient use of devices (e.g., robotics) in an unstructured and dynamic environment, which will allow deployments in many more environments than is currently possible. The architecture stores and shares information between segregated devices to avoid the silo effect of vendor specific stacks. The architecture also models capabilities of devices and maps actions to intelligence packages to deploy a specific intelligence package to the device. The architecture also implements distributed processing. For instance, computationally intensive tasks may be offloaded to the back end processing, with action updates resulting from the processing pushed to the devices.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
in a device control system: implementing a data stream interface between a deployment location and the device control system; receiving, through the data stream interface, a data stream comprising environmental characteristics of the deployment location; accessing a device intelligence package library, the device intelligence package library comprising device intelligence packages, each of the device intelligence packages configured to govern operational characteristics of specific devices at the deployment location; determining a selected device among the specific devices to control; comparing the environmental characteristics to a device ontology model for the selected device and responsively identifying a selected device intelligence package, in the device intelligence package library, with which to control the selected device; and controlling the selected device with the selected device intelligence package.