SENSOR NETWORK SYSTEM AND DATA RETRIEVAL METHOD FOR SENSING DATA

• US 20080288636A1
• Filed: 07/21/2008
• Published: 11/20/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Norihiko Moriwaki
• Inventors: MORIWAKI, Norihiko
• Granted Patent: US 7,605,698 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 21/00 Measuring or testing not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

A sensor network system, including: a model list that stores preset model names; an event table that stores monitoring conditions of data transmitted from sensor nodes; an event generator that receives data corresponding to the model names from the sensor nodes, and notifies an occurrence of an event when receiving data satisfying the monitoring conditions from the sensor nodes; and an event-action controller including an action executer that executes processing previously specified when the occurrence of an event is indicated from the event generator.

Claims

1. A sensor network system, comprising:

a model list that stores preset model names;

an event table that stores monitoring conditions of data transmitted from sensor nodes;

an event generator that receives data corresponding to the model names from the sensor nodes, and notifies an occurrence of an event when receiving data satisfying the monitoring conditions from the sensor nodes; and

an event-action controller including an action executer that executes processing previously specified when the occurrence of an event is indicated from the event generator.

2. The sensor network system according to claim 1,

wherein the action executer executes the processing previously specified when a first occurrence of an event is indicated from the event generator and the second occurrence of an event is indicated from the event generator.

3. The sensor network system according to claim 1, comprising:

a semantic interpretation list that stores semantic information corresponding to the data;

an action receiver that receives a model name from a user terminal;

an action analyzer that selects data to be monitored based on the received model name, selects semantic information corresponding to the data to be monitored, and decides a monitoring condition based on the selected semantic information, and the decided monitoring condition is stored in the event table.

4. The sensor network system according to claim 1, comprising:

an ID extractor that extracts identifiers from data received from the sensor nodes;

an event search engine that searches the event table for the monitoring condition based on the extracted identifiers, and

the event generator compares the searched monitoring condition with the data to determine whether the monitoring condition is satisfied, and when the monitoring condition is satisfied, generates an event.

5. The sensor network system according to claim 4,

wherein the action executer, when processing stored in the event table is processing that processes data transmitted from the sensor nodes, processes the data, adds an identifier to the processed data, and inputs the processed data to the ID extractor.

6. The sensor network system according to claim 4, comprising:

an exceptional event-action table that stores files describing processing to be executed, and

the event table stores file names of the files describing the processing to be executed corresponding to the identifiers,

the action executer executes processing of files stored in the exceptional event-action table based on file names stored in the event table based on the identifiers.

7. The sensor network system according to claim 6,

wherein when executing a file stored in the exceptional event-action table, the action executer compares the monitoring condition with the data in place of the event generator to determine whether the condition is satisfied, and decides processing to be executed when the condition is satisfied.

8. The sensor network system according to claim 7, wherein the processing described in the files is script processing.

9. A sensor network system, comprising:

a model list that stores preset model names;

a first event-action table that stores monitoring conditions of data transmitted from sensor nodes and stores file name of file describing processing to be executed;

a second event-action table that stores the file describing the processing to be executed;

an event-action controller including an action executer that executes processing of file stored in the second event-action table, based on file name stored in the first event-action table when receiving data satisfying the monitoring conditions from the sensor nodes.

10. The sensor network system according to claim 9,

wherein when executing a file stored in the second event-action table, the action executer compares the monitoring condition with the data to determine whether the condition is satisfied, and decides processing to be executed when the condition is satisfied.

11. The sensor network system according to claim 9,

wherein the processing described in the file is script processing.

12. The sensor network system according to claim 9, comprising:

a semantic interpretation list that stores semantic information corresponding to the data;

an action controller that receives a model name and the file from a user terminal, selects data to be monitored based on the received model name, selects semantic information corresponding to the data to be monitored, and decides monitoring condition based on the selected semantic information, and

the decided monitoring condition and the file name are stored in the first event-action table, and

the file is stored in the second event-action table.

13. The sensor network system according to claim 9, comprising:

an ID extractor that extracts identifiers from data received from the sensor nodes;

an event search engine that searches the event table for the monitoring condition based on the extracted identifiers, and

the action executer compares the searched monitoring condition with the data to determine whether the monitoring condition is satisfied.

14. A sensor network system, comprising:

a model list that stores preset model names;

an event table that stores monitoring conditions that indicates predetermined data arrival from sensor nodes;

an event generator that receives data corresponding to the model names from the sensor nodes, and notifies an occurrence of an event when receiving data satisfying the monitoring conditions from the sensor nodes; and

an event-action controller including an action executer that executes processing previously specified when the occurrence of an event is indicated from the event generator;

wherein the event generator notifies the occurrence of the event, when the first and second predetermined data are arrived, the action executer generates secondary data based on the first and second predetermined data.

15. The sensor network system according to claim 14,

wherein the action executer holds the first predetermined data when the first predetermined data are arrived, and adds the first predetermined data and the second predetermined data when the second predetermined data are arrived.

16. The sensor network system according to claim 15,

wherein the first predetermined data holding denotes updating the value of the latest data.

17. The sensor network system according to claim 14, comprising:

a semantic interpretation list that stores semantic information corresponding to the data;

an action receiver that receives a model name from a user terminal;

an action analyzer that selects data to be monitored based on the received model name, selects semantic information corresponding to the data to be monitored, and decides a monitoring condition based on the selected semantic information, and

the decided monitoring condition is stored in the event table.

18. The sensor network system according to claim 14, comprising:

an ID extractor that extracts identifiers from data received from the sensor nodes;

an event search engine that searches the event table for the monitoring condition based on the extracted identifiers, and

the event generator compares the searched monitoring condition with the data to determine whether the monitoring condition is satisfied, and when the monitoring condition is satisfied, generates an event.

19. The sensor network system according to claim 18,

wherein the action executor adds an identifier to the secondary data, and inputs the secondary data to the ID extractor.