INTERNET OF THINGS NETWORK SYSTEM USING FOG COMPUTING NETWORK

• US 20160182639A1
• Filed: 02/27/2015
• Published: 06/23/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: University-Industry Cooperation Group of KyungHee University
• Original Assignee: University-Industry Cooperation Group of KyungHee University
• Inventors: HONG, Choong Seon, LEE, Sung Won, SARDER, Fakhrul Abedin
• Application Number:
  US14/634,049
• Publication Number:
  US 20160182639A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45533 Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/12 Arrangements for remote connection or disconnection of substations or of equipment thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0833 for reduction of network energy consumption
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0853 by actively collecting configuration information or by backing up configuration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5096 wherein the managed service relates to distributed or central networked applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/38 for collecting sensor information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/00 Reducing energy consumption in communication networks
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

The present invention relates to an Internet of Things network system, and more particularly, to such an Internet of Things network system in which the installation and version management of an application of a virtual machine for operating a detection server device is performed through a fog computing network in response to a request from a manager so that an application specialized for the detection server device can be easily installed or managed through the fog computing network.

Claims

1. An Internet of Things network system, comprising:

a fog computing network in which an application is implemented; and

a detection server device including a plurality of detection sensors connected thereto and configured to transmit information collected to the fog communicating network in response to a request for the application.

2. The Internet of Things network system according to claim 1, wherein the fog computing network comprises:

a source unit configured to storing an application;

an application management unit configured to, if there is a request from a user terminal for the application, test the implementation of the requested application; and

a virtual machine unit configured to receive the requested application from the application management unit, and receive information from the detection server device to implement the requested application.

3. The Internet of Things network system according to claim 2, wherein the application management unit comprises:

an internal source unit configured to store an application therein;

a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the requested application exists in the internal source unit, and provide the requested application to a virtual machine in which the requested application is executed

an application request unit configured to request the requested application from the source unit if it is determined that the requested application does not exist in the internal source unit.

4. The Internet of Things network system according to claim 3, wherein the application management unit comprises a version comparison unit configured to compare a version of the requested application that exists in the internal source unit with a new version of the requested application that is stored in the source unit, and

wherein the version comparison unit requests the new version of the requested application from the source unit through the application request unit if the version of the requested application existing in the internal source unit is different from the new version of the requested application stored in the source unit.

5. The Internet of Things network system according to claim 4, wherein the application management unit further comprises a testing unit configured to perform a test to determine whether or not the requested application is normally operated, and

wherein the determination unit provides the requested application to the virtual machine after the completion of the test.

6. The Internet of Things network system according to claim 3, wherein the virtual machine unit receives the requested application from the application management unit, and then periodically receives information on a new version of the requested application from the source unit.

7. The Internet of Things network system according to claim 6, wherein the virtual machine unit receives the new version of the requested application from the application management unit or the source unit when the virtual machine unit receives the information on the new version of the requested application from the source unit.

8. The Internet of Things network system according to claim 1, further comprising a cloud computing network that exists at an upper position of a plurality of fog computing networks that are distributed,

wherein if the application does not exist in the fog computing network, the fog computing network receives the application from the cloud computing network.

9. The Internet of Things network system according to claim 1, wherein the detection server device comprises:

a plurality of detection sensors attached to things; and

a detection server unit connected to the detection sensors, the detection server unit being configured to control the plurality of detection sensors to selectively perform a detection operation thereof in response to a request for the application to collect information and configured to transmit the collected information to a virtual machine unit.

10. The Internet of Things network system according to claim 9, wherein each of the plurality of detection sensors is allocated with an individual IP address, or the plurality of detection sensors are divided into each group so that each sensor group is allocated with an IP address.

11. The Internet of Things network system according to claim 9, wherein the detection server device further comprises an energy management unit configured to implement the operation of the detection sensor in any one of an active mode, a standby mode, and an idle mode depending on whether or not there is a request from the virtual machine unit for information to control the energy consumption of the detection sensor.

12. The Internet of Things network system according to claim 11, wherein the energy management unit implements the operation of the detection sensor in the active mode to collect detection information through the detection sensor and transmits the collected the detection information to the virtual machine unit if there is a request from the virtual machine unit for information.

13. The Internet of Things network system according to claim 12, wherein the energy management unit implements the operation of the detection sensor in the standby mode to wait a re-detection command from the detection server unit and controls the collection of the detection information by the detection sensor to be stopped if there is no request from the virtual machine unit for information during a first threshold time.

14. The Internet of Things network system according to claim 12, wherein the energy management unit implements the operation of the detection sensor in the idle mode if no re-detection command is received during a second threshold time in the standby mode.

15. The Internet of Things network system according to claim 14, wherein when the operation of the detection sensor is implemented in the idle mode, the detection sensor determines whether or not there is a change in detection environment, and if there is no change in the detection environment, the detection sensor is turned off.

16. The Internet of Things network system according to claim 15, wherein the energy management unit controls the operation mode of the detection sensor to be changed to the standby mode if there is a change in the detection environment.

17. The Internet of Things network system according to claim 16, wherein the energy management unit turns on the detection sensor periodically to determine whether or not there is a change in the detection environment.

18. A detection server device configured to transmit detection information to a fog communicating network in response to a request for an application from the fog computing network in which the application is implemented, the detection server device comprising:

a plurality of detection sensors attached to things; and

a detection server unit connected to the detection sensors, the detection server unit being configured to control the plurality of detection sensors to selectively perform a detection operation thereof in response to a request for the application to collect information and configured to transmit the collected information to a virtual machine unit; and

an energy management unit configured to implement the operation of the detection sensor in any one of an active mode, a standby mode, and an idle mode depending on whether or not there is a request from the virtual machine unit for information to control the energy consumption of the detection sensor.

19. The detection server device according to claim 18, wherein the energy management unit implements the operation of the detection sensor in the active mode to collect detection information through the detection sensor and transmits the collected the detection information to the virtual machine unit if there is a request from the virtual machine unit for information.

20. The detection server device according to claim 18, wherein the energy management unit implements the operation of the detection sensor in the standby mode to wait a re-detection command from the detection server unit and controls the collection of the detection information by the detection sensor to be stopped if there is no request from the virtual machine unit for information during a first threshold time.

21. The detection server device according to claim 18, wherein the energy management unit implements the operation of the detection sensor in the idle mode if no re-detection command is received during a second threshold time in the standby mode.

22. The detection server device according to claim 21, wherein when the operation of the detection sensor is implemented in the idle mode, the detection sensor determines whether or not there is a change in detection environment, and if there is no change in the detection environment, the detection sensor is turned off.

23. The detection server device according to claim 22, wherein the energy management unit controls the operation mode of the detection sensor to be changed to the standby mode if there is a change in the detection environment.

24. The detection server device according to claim 23, wherein the energy management unit turns on the detection sensor periodically to determine whether or not there is a change in the detection environment.