Data flow control order generating apparatus and sensor managing apparatus

• US 10,121,382 B2
• Filed: 03/24/2016
• Issued: 11/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Omron Corporation
• Original Assignee: Omron Corporation
• Inventors: Hisano, Atsushi
• Primary Examiner(s): Chen, Shelley
• Application Number:
  US15/079,398
• Publication Number:
  US 20160210862A1
• Time in Patent Office: 957 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0112 from the vehicle, e.g. floating car data [FCD]
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0145 for active traffic flow control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/087 Override of traffic control, e.g. by signal transmitted by an emergency vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/22 Platooning, i.e. convoy of communicating vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/10 Flow control; Congestion control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 90/10 Information and communication technologies [ICT] supporting adaptation to climate change, e.g. for weather forecasting or climate simulation

Abstract

There is used a data flow control order generating apparatus that includes: a sensor side metadata acquisition unit acquiring sensor side metadata as information related to a sensor that outputs sensing data; an application side metadata acquisition unit acquiring application side metadata as information related to an application that provides a service by using the sensing data; a matching unit performing matching between the sensor side metadata and the application side metadata to extract the sensor capable of providing the sensing data that satisfies the request of the application; and an instruction unit transmitting a data flow control order that identifies the sensor extracted by the matching unit and the application to a sensor managing apparatus that manages the sensor.

Claims

1. A column travel generating apparatus for generating a column of vehicles, comprising:

a receiving unit for receiving, from Machine to Machine cloud server, information stored in a memory of the Machine to Machine cloud server, the information including a respective current position and a respective travel plan of each vehicle of a plurality of vehicles;

a column traveling generation processing unit for extracting, from the information received from the Machine to Machine cloud server, column traveling data including a column traveling group candidate, a column traveling section, and a column traveling time period;

an object generating unit for generating a column traveling control object for each of the column traveling data; and

an order transmitting unit for transmitting an order to the vehicle for urging participation in the column, wherein

the column traveling control object transmits an order to request the signal operation to a signal managing apparatus.

2. The column traveling generating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the column traveling data includes information for identifying extracted vehicles, information for identifying the column traveling section, and the column traveling period.

3. The column traveling generating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the column traveling generation processing unit refer to the data memory apparatus, and, in the case where the number of the vehicles that follow the same route in the same time period is a predetermined number or more, the vehicles are extracted as the vehicles in the column.

4. The column traveling generating apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the column traveling generation processing unit performs extractions, the column traveling section is determined, and then the vehicles which travel in the same column traveling section in the same time period are picked up.

5. The column traveling generating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the column traveling control object transmits an order to request the signal operation to a signal managing apparatus.

6. The column traveling generating apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the order to request the signal operation includes position information of a target traffic signal which is managed by the signal managing apparatus and time when green light is lit.