SENSOR DATA RECORDING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20130268736A1
• Filed: 04/04/2013
• Published: 10/10/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: OKAMOTO, Masayuki, KURITA, Takahiro, KINOSHITA, Atsuhiro, MARUKAME, Takao, UENO, Kouji, CHO, Kenta
• Application Number:
  US13/856,604
• Publication Number:
  US 20130268736A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 711/154
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 9/005 Solid-state data loggers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/00 Accessing, addressing or allocating within memory systems or architectures digital input from, or digital output to record carriers, e.g. to disk storage units, G06F3/06

Abstract

According to one embodiment, a sensor data recording apparatus includes following elements. The temporary storage unit temporarily stores the sensor data acquired from sensors. The data selector selects sensor data stored in the temporary storage unit for each sensor. The sensor data storage unit stores the sensor data selected for each sensor. The recording method controller controls at least one of a recording method of storing the sensor data in the temporary storage unit, and a recording method of storing the sensor data in the sensor data storage unit, based on the recording status which is statistical information about storing of the sensor data in the sensor data storage unit.

Claims

1. A sensor data recording apparatus comprising:

a data acquisition unit configured to acquire sensor data from a plurality of sensors;

a first temporary storage unit configured to temporarily store the sensor data in association with identification information representing a class of each of the sensors;

a data selector configured to select sensor data stored in the first temporary storage unit for each of the sensors in accordance with the identification information;

a sensor data storage unit configured to store the sensor data selected for each of the sensors;

a recording status storage unit configured to store, as a recording status, statistical information about storing of the sensor data in the sensor data storage unit; and

a recording method controller configured to control at least one of a first recording method of storing the sensor data in the first temporary storage unit, and a second recording method of storing the sensor data in the sensor data storage unit, based on the recording status.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the recording method controller sets the at least one of the first recording method and the second recording method for each of the sensors based on a distribution of the sensor data stored in the first temporary storage unit.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the at least one of the first recording method and the second recording method is designated by one of a threshold for determining whether to store data, a time interval at which data is stored, and a resolution.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a second temporary storage unit configured to temporarily store the sensor data selected for each of the sensors until the sensor data reaches a minimum recording unit of the sensor data storage unit.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the sensor data storage unit includes a plurality of recording areas for the respective sensors.

6. A sensor data recording method comprising:

acquiring sensor data from a plurality of sensors;

temporarily storing the sensor data in a first temporary storage unit in association with identification information representing a class of each of the sensors;

selecting sensor data stored in the first temporary storage unit for each of the sensors in accordance with the identification information;

storing the sensor data selected for each of the sensors in a sensor data storage unit;

storing, as a recording status, statistical information about storing of the sensor data in the sensor data storage unit; and

controlling at least one of a first recording method of storing the sensor data in the first temporary storage unit, and a second recording method of storing the sensor data in the sensor data storage unit, based on the recording status.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the controlling at least one of the first recording method and the second recording method comprising setting the at least one of the first recording method and the second recording method for each of the sensors based on a distribution of the sensor data stored in the first temporary storage unit.

8. The method according to claim 6, wherein the at least one of the first recording method and the second recording method is designated by one of a threshold for determining whether to store data, a time interval at which data is stored, and a resolution.

9. The method according to claim 6, further comprising temporarily storing the sensor data selected for each of the sensors in a second temporary storage unit until the sensor data reaches a minimum recording unit of the sensor data storage unit.

10. The method according to claim 6, wherein the sensor data storage unit includes a plurality of recording areas for the respective sensors.

11. A non-transitory computer readable medium including computer executable instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method comprising:

acquiring sensor data from a plurality of sensors;

temporarily storing the sensor data in a first temporary storage unit in association with identification information representing a class of each of the sensors;

selecting sensor data stored in the first temporary storage unit for each of the sensors in accordance with the identification information;

storing the sensor data selected for each of the sensors in a sensor data storage unit;

storing, as a recording status, statistical information about storing of the sensor data in the sensor data storage unit; and

controlling at least one of a first recording method of storing the sensor data in the first temporary storage unit, and a second recording method of storing the sensor data in the sensor data storage unit, based on the recording status.

12. The medium according to claim 11, wherein the controlling at least one of the first recording method and the second recording method comprising setting the at least one of the first recording method and the second recording method for each of the sensors based on a distribution of the sensor data stored in the first temporary storage unit.

13. The medium according to claim 11, wherein the at least one of the first recording method and the second recording method is designated by one of a threshold for determining whether to store data, a time interval at which data is stored, and a resolution.

14. The medium according to claim 11, the method further comprising temporarily storing the sensor data selected for each of the sensors in a second temporary storage unit until the sensor data reaches a minimum recording unit of the sensor data storage unit.

15. The medium according to claim 11, wherein the sensor data storage unit includes a plurality of recording areas for the respective sensors.