RELEVANCE DETERMINATION OF SENSOR EVENT

• US 20150262474A1
• Filed: 01/26/2015
• Published: 09/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Haltian oy
• Original Assignee: Haltian oy
• Inventors: OLCZAK, Michal, TUORILA, Heini, YLLASJARVI, Ville-Hermanni, OKKONEN, Jyrki
• Granted Patent: US 9,672,729 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/385 for adaptation of a particular data processing system to different peripheral devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0833 Tracking
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 29/185 Signal analysis techniques for reducing or preventing false alarms or for enhancing the reliability of the system
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/207 with respect to certain areas, e.g. forbidden or allowed areas with possible alerting when inside or outside boundaries

Abstract

Relevance determination of sensor event is disclosed. An apparatus obtains a sensor event created on the basis of sensor data generated by one or more sensors, determines relevance of the sensor event, and if the relevance of the sensor event fulfils a predetermined relevance condition, outputs, with the output interface, the sensor event according to its determined relevance.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

an output interface;

one or more processors; and

one or more memories including computer program code,

the one or more memories and the computer program code configured to, with the one or more processors, cause the apparatus at least to;

obtain a sensor event created on the basis of sensor data generated by one or more sensors;

determine relevance of the sensor event; and

if the relevance of the sensor event fulfils a predetermined relevance condition, output, with the output interface, the sensor event according to its determined relevance.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more memories and the computer program code are further configured to, with the one or more processors, cause the apparatus further to determine the relevance of the sensor event by the following:

if the sensor event fulfils a predetermined alarm condition, check if an alert already exists, and if the alert does not yet exist, create an alert and increase the relevance of the sensor event, or else if the alert already exists, update the alert.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the sensor event comprises one or more data points generated by the one or more sensors, and the sensor event fulfils the predetermined alarm condition if at least one data point deviates from its predetermined alarm threshold value.

4. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the sensor event comprises one or more data points generated by the one or more sensors, and the sensor event fulfils the predetermined alarm condition if a trend detected on the basis of the sensor event and at least one previous sensor event shows that at least one data point will deviate from its predetermined alarm threshold value while following the trend.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more memories and the computer program code are further configured to, with the one or more processors, cause the apparatus further to determine the relevance of the sensor event by the following:

if the sensor event fulfils a predetermined location condition, increase the relevance of the sensor event.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the sensor event comprises a location data point generated by the one or more sensors, and the sensor event fulfils the predetermined location condition if the location data point is the same location within a predetermined location margin as the predetermined location condition.

7. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the sensor event comprises a location data point generated by the one or more sensors, and the sensor event fulfils the predetermined location condition if in the location pointed to by the location data point there exists at least a predetermined number of other sensor events fulfilling predetermined alarm conditions and/or having alerts.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more memories and the computer program code are further configured to, with the one or more processors, cause the apparatus further to determine the relevance of the sensor event by the following:

if the sensor event fulfils a predetermined history condition, increase the relevance of the sensor event.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the sensor event fulfils the predetermined history condition if at least one previous sensor event fulfilled a predetermined alarm condition and/or an alert was created.

10. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the sensor event fulfils the predetermined history condition if the sensor event relates to a party, location and/route, which fulfilled predetermined alarm conditions in the past and/or had an alert in the past.

11. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more memories and the computer program code are further configured to, with the one or more processors, cause the apparatus further to determine the relevance of the sensor event by the following:

if the sensor event fulfils a predetermined social condition, increase the relevance of the sensor event.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the sensor event fulfils the predetermined social condition, if the number of followers registered for the sensor event fulfils a predetermined follower condition, and/or if the number of comments relating to the sensor event fulfils a predetermined comment condition.

13. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more memories and the computer program code are further configured to, with the one or more processors, cause the apparatus further to determine the relevance of the sensor event by the following:

adjust the relevance of the sensor event on the basis of a time condition such that the relevance of the sensor event is increased, the newer the sensor event is, and the relevance of the sensor event is decreased, the older the sensor event is.

14. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more memories and the computer program code are further configured to, with the one or more processors, cause the apparatus further to determine the relevance of the sensor event by the following:

adjust the relevance of the sensor event for a specific person on the basis of a responsibility condition such that the relevance of the sensor event for the specific person is increased, the nearer the sensor event is to a responsibility of the specific person, and the relevance of the sensor event is decreased, the farer the sensor event is to the responsibility of the specific person.

15. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the sensor event relates to transport, and the sensors relate to at least one of the following:

transport goods, a container, a vehicle, a road, a railway, a railway station, a waterway a port, a harbour, an airway, an airport, a warehouse, a loading dock, a border, a navigation system, a weather station, a weather forecast service.