System and method for operating a network of sensors

摘要

In a network of sensor nodes, operational efficiency may be increased by configuring the sensor nodes so that sensor agents may be transferred to alternative sensor nodes to process sensor node data, such as when the host sensor node is in a low-power mode. A processing node of the network may be configured to retrieve real-time data from a sensor node, but if real-time data is not available, the processing node may perform calculations on cached data retrieved from a processor node cache or data of a nearby sensor node.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
recording sensor data measured using a first sensor corresponding to a first sensor node; determining the first sensor node is operating in a first mode or in a second mode different from the first mode; and processing the sensor data using a first sensor agent executing on the first sensor node based at least in part on determining the first sensor node is operating in the first mode otherwise transferring the first sensor agent to a second sensor node such that the first sensor agent executes on the second sensor node to process the sensor data based at least in part on determining the first sensor node is operating in the second mode.