Method for monitoring by collaborating between MTC devices, related device and system

• US 8,890,669 B2
• Filed: 01/04/2010
• Issued: 11/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/04/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Du, Hongfei, Chen, Yu
• Primary Examiner(s): MCNALLY, KERRI L
• Application Number:
  US13/520,291
• Publication Number:
  US 20130002413A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,779 Days
• Field of Search: 340/426.1
• US Class Current: 340/426.1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/30 Detection related to theft or to other events relevant to anti-theft systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/101 Access control lists [ACL]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/126 Anti-theft arrangements, e.g. protection against subscriber identity module [SIM] cloning
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/63 Location-dependent; Proximity-dependent
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]

Abstract

The present invention provides a method for collaboratively monitoring by means of MTC devices in a wireless communication network and related MTC devices and system. Each of the MTC devices is connected to a MTC server via said wireless communication network and includes a transceiver having a unique ID and security code, and said transceiver periodically broadcasts its normal or abnormal status information to other MTC devices within a certain range in the vicinity of that MTC device and detects and identifies other MTC devices within said range. Said method comprises that, in case that the MTC device is operated illegally: if its transceiver is not destroyed, then the MTC device will send an alarm message to the MTC server and report information about its current location; if its transceiver is destroyed, then the MTC device will send once to the MTC server an alarm message, and said other MTC device(s) will send to the MTC server an alarm message and report information about their current location since it does not detect a legal broadcast signal sent by the MTC device.

Claims

1. A method for collaboratively monitoring by Machine Type Communication MTC devices in a wireless communication network, wherein each of the MTC devices is connected to a MTC server via said wireless communication network and includes a transceiver having a unique ID and security code, and said transceiver periodically broadcasts its normal or abnormal status information to other MTC devices within a certain range in the vicinity of that MTC device and detects and identifies other MTC devices within said range, wherein said method comprises:

the MTC device sending to the MTC server an alarm message and reporting information about current location of the MTC device, when the MTC device is operated illegally but said transceiver is not destroyed; and

the MTC device sending once to the MTC server an alarm message, when the MTC device is operated illegally and said transceiver is destroyed, and said other MTC device(s) sending to the MTC server an alarm message and reporting information about said other MTC device(s) current location since said other MTC device(s) does not detect a legal broadcast signal sent by the MTC device.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the MTC device is used for a movable system or device and includes also a GPS locator for measuring the real time location of the MTC device so as to report to the MTC server.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the MTC server stores information about the current location of the MTC devices.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein said illegal operation comprises password error, transceiver destroyed, or location change.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the detection and identification for said other MTC device(s) within said range by said transceiver include:

sending, by the transceiver, a legal/illegal message to said other MTC device(s) based on the current status of the MTC device when the transceiver has received a confirmation request from said other MTC device(s),

wherein said other MTC device(s) will send an alarm signal to the MTC server and report information about its current location in case that the other MTC device has received an illegal message from said transceiver or has not received any confirmation message.

6. A Machine Type Communication MTC device capable of collaboratively monitoring in a wireless communication network, wherein said MTC device is connected to a MTC server via said wireless communication network and includes a transceiver having a unique ID and security code, the transceiver periodically broadcasts its normal or abnormal status information to other MTC device(s) within a certain range in the vicinity of that MTC device and detects and identifies the other MTC device(s) within said range, wherein the MTC device includes one or more processors configured to:

send to the MTC server an alarm message in case the MTC device is operated illegally;

report to the MTC server information about the current location of the MTC device in case that the MTC device is operated illegally but the transceiver is not destroyed; and

send to the MTC server an alarm message and reporting information about the current location of the MTC device when no legal broadcast signal sent by said other MTC device(s) is detected.

7. The MTC device according to claim 6, wherein the MTC device is used for a movable system or device and includes a GPS locator for measuring the real time location of the MTC device so as to report to the MTC server.

8. The MTC device according to claim 6, wherein said MTC server stores information of the current location of the MTC devices.

9. The MTC device according to claim 6, wherein said illegal operation comprises password error, transceiver destroyed, or location change.

10. The MTC device according to claim 6, wherein the detection and identification for said other MTC device(s) within said range by said transceiver include:

sending, by the transceiver, a legal/illegal message to said other MTC device(s) based on the current status of the MTC device when the transceiver has received a confirmation request from said other MTC device(s),

wherein said other MTC device(s) send an alarm signal to the MTC server and report information about its current location in case that the other MTC device has received an illegal message from said transceiver or has not received any confirmation message.

11. A system for implementing a collaborative monitoring in a wireless communication network, wherein it comprises:

at least two MTC devices according to claim 6;

at least one MTC server interacting with the MTC devices to handle the status and location information of the at least two MTC devices; and

a wireless communication network, wherein said MTC devices and said MTC server communicate with each other via said wireless communication network.