UNIVERSAL SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR INTERNET OF THINGS

• US 20150281002A1
• Filed: 12/30/2013
• Published: 10/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tsinghua University
• Original Assignee: Tsinghua University
• Inventors: Xu, Ke, Liu, Xin, Zhang, Yuchao, Chen, Wenlong, Liu, Yaxiao
• Application Number:
  US14/430,894
• Publication Number:
  US 20150281002A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0873 Checking configuration conflicts between network elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/24 using dedicated network management hardware
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/50 Network service management, e.g. ensuring proper service fulfilment according to agreements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5051 Service on demand, e.g. definition and deployment of services in real time
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5054 Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

A universal support system for Internet of Things is provided. The system comprises: a user program management center, configured to send a request for an existing program or a request for a customized program according to an instruction input by a user; a management and control center, configured to obtain an existing program according to the request for the existing program, to generate a customized program according to the request for the customized program, to deploy the existing program, and to deploy the customized program according to the description of resource requirements and description of functional requirements of the customized program; and a sensor network, configured to run the existing program or the customized program according to the deployment, to obtain operation data during running an existing program or a customized program, and to send the operation data to the user program management center via the management and control center.

Claims

1. A universal support system for Internet of Things, comprising:

a user program management center, configured to send a request for an existing program or a request for a customized program according to an instruction input by a user, wherein the request for the customized program comprises description of resource requirements and description of functional requirements;

a management and control center, connected with the user program management center, and configured to obtain an existing program according to the request for the existing program, to generate a customized program according to the request for the customized program, to deploy the existing program, and to deploy the customized program according to the description of resource requirements and description of functional requirements of the customized program; and

a sensor network, connected with the management and control center, and configured to run the existing program or the customized program according to a deployment of the management and control center, to obtain operation data of the Internet of Things generated during running the existing program or the customized program, and to send the operation data to the management and control center, wherein the management and control center receives the operation data and transfers the operation data to the user program management center for display.

2. The universal support system according to claim 1, wherein the user program management center comprises:

a user interface, configured to receive a program identification, the description of resource requirements and the description of functional requirements input by the user, to generate the request for the existing program according to the program identification, and to generate the request for the customized program according to the description of resource requirements and the description of functional requirements;

a program requesting module, configured to send the request for the existing program to the management and control center; and

a checking module, configured to perform a validity check, a reserved resource check and a confliction check according to pre-stored information of the sensor network, the description of resource requirements and the description of functional requirements, and to send the request for the customized program to the management and control center when the request for the customized program passes the validity check, the reserved resource check and the confliction check.

3. The universal support system according to claim 1, wherein the management and control center comprises:

an authorization managing module, configured to receive the request for the existing program, and to authorize the request for the existing program according to preset rules;

a language analyzing module, configured to receive the request for the customized program, and to generate the customized program by analyzing the request for the customized program according to preset semantic and grammar rules;

a program deploying module, configured to deploy the existing program and the customized program according to the information of the sensor network, the description of resources requirements and description of functional requirements;

a data analyzing module, configured to receive the operation data of the Internet of Things sent by the sensor network, and to obtain operation results by analyzing the operation data of the Internet of Things; and

a control module, connected with the authorization managing module, the language analyzing module, the program deploying module and the data analyzing module respectively, and configured to obtain the existing program when the request for the existing program is authorized by the authorization managing module, to send the existing program and the customized program to the program deploying module, to receive the operation results sent by the data analyzing module, and to update or modify the existing program or the customized program according to the operation results.

4. The universal support system according to claim 3, wherein the authorization managing module is further configured to authorize the request for the existing program when the user inputting the request for the existing program is a paying user.

5. The universal support system according to claim 3, wherein the management and control center further comprises:

a program database, connected with the control module, and configured to store the existing programs, and to receive and store the customized program sent by the control module.

6. The universal support system according to claim 2, wherein the sensor network comprises:

a plurality of sensor nodes, configured to run the existing program or the customized program according to the deployment of the management and control center, and to obtain the operation data of the Internet of Things generated during running the existing program or the customized program;

a cloud resource server, connected with the plurality of sensor nodes, and configured to store the information of the sensor network, to receive the existing program or the customized program, to send the existing program or the customized program to corresponding ones of the plurality of sensor nodes according to the deployment of the management and control center, to receive the operation data sent by the corresponding ones of the plurality of sensor nodes, and to send the operation data to the management and control center; and

a gateway, configured to connect the plurality of sensor nodes with the cloud resource server.

7. The universal support system according to claim 6, wherein the cloud resource server is further configured to send the information of the sensor network to the control module so as to update the information of the sensor network.

8. The universal support system according to claim 6, wherein the data analyzing module is further configured to select parameters of the operation data according to the description of functional requirements, and to obtain the operation results by analyzing the selected parameters.

9. The universal support system according to claim 7, wherein the checking module comprises:

a validity checking unit, configured to check whether the request for the customized program is valid;

a reserved resource checking unit, configured to check whether there are sensor nodes satisfying the resource requirements of the customized program according to the information of the sensor network and the description of resource requirements; and

a confliction checking unit, configured to check whether there is a confliction between the customized program and the existing programs stored in the program database according to the description of functional requirements.

10. The universal support system according to claim 6, further comprising:

an evaluating module, connected between the sensor network and the management and control center, and configured to collect the operation data of the Internet of Things, to determine whether the operation data is valid, and to send the operation data to the data analyzing module when the operation data is invalid.

11. The universal support system according to claim 2, wherein the information of the sensor network comprises a name, a type and an operation mode of each sensor node in the sensor network.