SYSTEM OF SENSORS INTEGRATED INTO A SUITE

• US 20150358242A1
• Filed: 01/10/2014
• Published: 12/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/16/2013
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Thales SA
• Original Assignee: Thales SA
• Inventors: GIRARD-CLAUDON, Raphal Raoul Adrien, CHABOD, Luc Claude
• Granted Patent: US 10,270,698 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 29/188 Data fusion; cooperative systems, e.g. voting among different detectors
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/2408 for supporting different services, e.g. a differentiated services [DiffServ] type of service
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/80 Actions related to the user profile or the type of traffic
• 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

Sensors and a central body are capable of exchanging bidirectional data via a main communication network, and the data from said sensors is classified according to different information levels (resource/environment, enriched data/raw information), and at least two sensors are connected by a communication network in order to exchange data directly via one or more communication links, one link being associated with each information level.

Claims

1. A system of sensors integrated into a communicating suite, said sensors being capable of exchanging bidirectional data with a body via a main communication network (5), the data from said sensors being classified according to different information levels, characterized in that at least two sensors are connected by a communication network in order to exchange data directly via one or more communication links, one link being associated with each information level.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein, said sensors comprising at least one information level of a decision type and one information level of a logical type, one link is dedicated to information of a decision type and one link is dedicated to information of a logical type.

3. The system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the information of a decision type comprises information on the internal state of said sensors.

4. The system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the information of a decision type comprises information on the control of allocated resources.

5. The system as claimed in claim 4, wherein the allocated resources are included in the following list:

time, space, electromagnetic spectrum, optical spectrum, transmitted power, energy consumption, thermal conditioning of the sensors, and computing and processing power.

6. The system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the information of a logical type comprises synchronization data.

7. The system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the information of a logical type comprises detection results produced by said sensors.

8. The system as claimed in claim 2, wherein one communication channel is reserved for each information level.

9. The system as claimed in claim 2, wherein data from at least one other information level (F, P) are exchanged between sensors by passing through the link associated with the logical information level (L), said data having been converted in advance to logical data.

10. The system as claimed in claim 9, wherein the information of a physical type (P), captured by said sensors, is exchanged via the link associated with the logical information level (L).

11. The system as claimed in claim 9, wherein the information of a functional type (F) is exchanged via the link associated with the logical information level (L).

12. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the links between sensors associated with each information level and the exchange formats are standardized.

13. The system as claimed in claim 12, wherein the information exchanges take place in auto-descriptive formats.

14. The system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising multi-function sensors.