ISSUING ALERTS FOR IoT DEVICES

• US 20190007511A1
• Filed: 06/21/2018
• Published: 01/03/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aeris Communications Inc.
• Original Assignee: Aeris Communications Inc.
• Inventors: Rodriguez, Hector Aquiles, Kumar, Vikas, George, Jins
• Granted Patent: US 11,627,195 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/23 Updating
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2358 Change logging, detection, and notification replication G06F16/27
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/18 Status alarms G08B21/02 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/14 Central alarm receiver or annunciator arrangements
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/022 with dynamic range variability
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/44 for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]

Abstract

In one example embodiment, a computer-implemented method and system for issuing alerts are disclosed. The method includes receiving device information for one or more mobile devices; sorting the received device information based on pre-determined criteria; evaluating the sorted device information to determine if the device information satisfies a specified condition; and issuing alert based on the determination. The system for issuing alerts includes a storage database, wherein the storage database receives device information for one or more mobile devices; an analytics engine, wherein the analytics engine sorts the received device information based on pre-determined criteria; a rules engine, wherein the rules engine evaluates the sorted device information to determine if the device information satisfies a specified condition and issues alerts based on the determination.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for issuing alerts comprising:

receiving device information for one or more mobile devices;

sorting the received device information based on pre-determined criteria;

evaluating the sorted device information to determine if the device information satisfies a specified condition; and

issuing an alert based on result of the determination.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the one or more mobile devices further comprise any one or more of:

an IoT device enabled for connectivity and a monitoring device installed in the IoT device.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein device information for the one or more mobile devices comprises any of:

a device identifier, location of the device, duration of time spent by the device at a specific location, speed of the device, acceleration/deceleration of the device, ignition status of the device, fuel level of the device, battery level of the device, plugged/unplugged status of the device and duration of time for which no device information is received, or a combination thereof.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein sorting the received device information based on pre-determined criteria further comprises separating one or more device data values based on data fields.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein evaluating the sorted device information to determine if the device information satisfies the specified condition further comprises comparing value in a specified data field to a threshold value specified for that data field using a pre-determined criteria for satisfying that condition.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the specified condition comprises any one or more of:

time, duration, voltage, speed, place, ignition status, radius for geofence, fuel level, power level/battery status, monitoring device status, vehicle deceleration or a combination thereof.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein issuing the alert based on the result of determination comprises sending email, SMS or push notification to an user interface.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein issuing the alert based on the result of determination further comprises indicating severity of alert based on pre-determined criteria.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein severity of alert is indicated by using different color for each level of severity.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprises providing an user interface to specify conditions.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, wherein the user interface includes any one or more of:

a mobile device, a computer terminal and a lap top.

12. A system for issuing alerts, the system comprising at least one IoT device, a data processing system and a user interface, wherein the data processing system further comprises:

a storage database, wherein the storage database receives device information for one or more mobile devices;

an analytics engine, wherein the analytics engine sorts the received device information based on pre-determined criteria;

a rules engine, wherein the rules engine evaluates the sorted device information to determine if the device information satisfies a specified condition and issues alerts based on result of the determination.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the one or more mobile devices further comprise any one or more of:

an IoT device enabled for connectivity and a monitoring device installed in the IoT device.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein device information for the one or more mobile devices comprises any of:

a device identifier, location of the device, duration of time spent by the device at a specific location, speed of the device, acceleration/deceleration of the device, ignition status of the device, fuel level of the device, battery level of the device, plugged/unplugged status of the device and duration of time for which no device information is received, or a combination thereof.

15. The system of claim 12, wherein sorting the received device information based on pre-determined criteria further comprises separating one or more device data values based on data fields.

16. The system of claim 12, wherein evaluating the sorted device information to determine if the device information satisfies the specified condition further comprises comparing value in a specified data field to a threshold value specified for that data field using a pre-determined criteria for satisfying that condition.

17. The system of claim 12, wherein the specified condition comprises any one or more of:

time, duration, voltage, speed, place, ignition status, radius for geofence, fuel level, power level/battery status, monitoring device status, vehicle deceleration or a combination thereof.

18. The system of claim 12, wherein issuing the alert based on the result of determination comprises sending email, SMS or push notification to an user interface.

19. The system of claim 12, wherein issuing the alert based on the result of determination further comprises indicating severity of alert based on pre-determined criteria.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein severity of alert may be indicated by using different color for each level of severity.

21. The system of claim 12 further comprises providing a user interface to specify conditions.

22. The system of claim 18, wherein the user interface includes any one or more of:

a mobile device, a computer terminal and a lap top.

23. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having executable instructions stored therein that, when executed, cause one or more processors corresponding to a system for issuing alerts having a database and a user interface to perform operations comprising:

receiving device information for one or more mobile devices;

sorting the received device information based on pre-determined criteria;

evaluating the sorted device information to determine if the device information satisfies a specified condition; and

issuing an alert based on result of the determination.