UBIQUITOUS MONITORING SYSTEM CAPABLE OF PERFORMING INTEGRAL MONITORING FOR SMART OBJECTS

• US 20110137846A1
• Filed: 09/18/2008
• Published: 06/09/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ajou University Industry Cooperation Foundation
• Original Assignee: Ajou University Industry Cooperation Foundation
• Inventors: Lee, Byoung Hoon, Kim, Jai Hoon, Lim, Sung Hwa, Lee, Dong Wook, Cho, We Duke
• Granted Patent: US 8,533,145 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 706/50
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5067 Customer-centric QoS measurements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/00 Arrangements for monitoring or testing data switching networks

Abstract

There is provided a ubiquitous monitoring system comprising a plurality of sensing nodes; one or more monitoring agents receiving and transmitting sensing data of the sensing nodes; a monitoring module receiving the sensing data from the one or more monitoring agents and managing the sensing data for each type and time; an analysis module deducing one of function information, performance information, and status information for each of smart objects in a ubiquitous space, based on the sensing data, deducing one of function information, performance information, and status information of a ubiquitous service performed by coupled smart objects, and transmitting a result of deduction; and a monitoring viewer displaying the result of deduction to a user.

Claims

1. A ubiquitous monitoring system comprising:

a plurality of sensing nodes;

one or more monitoring agents receiving and transmitting sensing data of the sensing nodes;

a monitoring module receiving the sensing data from the one or more monitoring agents and managing the sensing data for each type and time;

an analysis module deducing function information, performance information, or status information for each of smart objects in a ubiquitous space, based on the sensing data, and deducing function information, performance information, and status information of a ubiquitous service performed by coupled smart objects, or transmitting a result of deduction; and

a monitoring viewer displaying the result of deduction to a user,

wherein the analysis module comprises;

a collector collecting the sensing data or processing results from the monitoring module;

a knowledge base providing unit storing the sensing data and the processing results from the collector;

an estimation processing unit transmitting the sensing data and the processing results of the knowledge base providing unit to a service use degree measurement unit, a user satisfaction index, or a resource use degree measurement unit;

the service use degree measurement unit measuring a degree of use of a user with respect to a ubiquitous service formed of ubiquitous community,

the user satisfaction index measurement unit measuring a satisfaction index of the user by reflecting variations of various indexes of the ubiquitous service;

the resource use degree measurement unit measuring a degree of using resources according to providing the ubiquitous service; and

an event generating unit generating events on measurement results of the service use degree measurement unit, the user satisfaction index measurement unit, and the resource use degree measurement unit.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the sensing data are layered as first level information,

wherein information for each of the smart objects is layered as second level information,

wherein information on the ubiquitous service is layered as third level information, and

wherein the analysis module determines whether to deduce both of the second level information and the third level information, to deduce only the second level information, or to deduce neither of the second level information and the third level information.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the sensing data comprise hardware data selected from a rate of using a CPU by hardware, status of using a memory, and a residual amount of a battery in the sensing nodes, or software data selected from thread information of software, message transmission status, and status of procedure in the sensing nodes.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising a database storing the sensing data or a log of the result of deduction.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the monitoring module comprises:

a sensing data receiving unit receiving the sensing data from the monitoring agent;

an emergency buffer processing one to be emergently monitored, among the sensing data;

a field buffer monitoring function and performance of a ubiquitous intelligent object, which is remote-executed;

a module method buffer monitoring status of executing a method in a ubiquitous intelligent object service module;

a resource buffer analyzing statuses of a CPU and a memory of the ubiquitous intelligent object service module, in real time;

a system resource buffer analyzing status of a resource of a host where the ubiquitous intelligent object service module is used and status of a system where the ubiquitous intelligent object service module is included; and

a data wrapper collecting and transmitting processing results of the emergency buffer, the field buffer, the module method buffer, the resource buffer, and the system resource buffer, to the analysis module.

6. (canceled)