Coremicro Reconfigurable Embedded Smart Sensor Node
First Claim
1. A reconfigurable embedded smart sensor node customizable to different form factors, comprising:
- a communication module, a processing unit using an ultra-low-power microcontroller and complementary resources including a reconfigurable RS-232 serial port wired interface, a power management unit, and JTAG port 35;
a rich set of optional software resources to implement the functionalities of Network Capable Application Processor (NCAP) and Transducer Interface Module (TIM); and
a two-board stack consisting of a main board hosting digital cores; and
an expansion board having a customizable signal conditioning, a plurality of sensor suite connections, an expansion bus and a communication module for baseline implementation.
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Abstract
A Coremicro Reconfigurable Embedded Smart Sensor Node has the capability of hosting intelligent algorithms to support health monitoring applications and has optional standardized software communications stack. The purpose of this present invention is to provide a flexible low power distributed computational platform to deploy intelligent software elements (based on Artificial Intelligence techniques) among the system architecture to result in a reconfigurable scheme for distributed intelligence granularity. This invention is able to be applied to a wide variety of monitoring applications either as a Standalone Smart Sensor (SSS, i.e. single Smart Sensor Node) or as a modular and scalable Smart Sensor Network configuration. Therefore, the CRE-SSN is ultra-low in power consumption, has optional pattern recognition through Artificial Neural Network, physical communication layer reconfigurable capability, has scalable communications capability, and low in weight, and optimized in size. An optional IEEE 1451 software stack is provided to manage sensors via set of standardized commands.
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25 Claims
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1. A reconfigurable embedded smart sensor node customizable to different form factors, comprising:
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a communication module, a processing unit using an ultra-low-power microcontroller and complementary resources including a reconfigurable RS-232 serial port wired interface, a power management unit, and JTAG port 35; a rich set of optional software resources to implement the functionalities of Network Capable Application Processor (NCAP) and Transducer Interface Module (TIM); and a two-board stack consisting of a main board hosting digital cores; and
an expansion board having a customizable signal conditioning, a plurality of sensor suite connections, an expansion bus and a communication module for baseline implementation. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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