Computer platform for development and deployment of sensor data based applications and services

• US 10,216,485 B2
• Filed: 09/18/2012
• Issued: 02/26/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: TATA Consultancy Services Limited (Tata Sons Pvt Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: TATA Consultancy Services Limited (Tata Sons Pvt Ltd.)
• Inventors: Misra, Prateep, Pal, Arpan, Purushothaman, Balamuralidhar, Bhaumik, Chirabrata, Swamy, Deepak, Subrahmanian, Venkatramanan Siva, Kar, Debnarayan, Naskar, Soumitra, Ghosh, Sumanta, Adak, Suman
• Primary Examiner(s): Zhen, Li B.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chen, Sen Thong
• Application Number:
  US14/345,530
• Publication Number:
  US 20140359552A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,352 Days
• Field of Search: 717100
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3668 Software testing software testing in telephone exchanges H04M3/242, testing of hardware G06F11/22
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/00 Arrangements for software engineering testing or debugging G06F11/36; administrative, planning or organisation aspects of software project management G06Q10/06
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/36 Software reuse
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/00 Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks, e.g. of packet switching networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/04 Network management architectures or arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5096 wherein the managed service relates to distributed or central networked applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/00 Arrangements for monitoring or testing data switching networks
• 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: 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 method and system for real-time analytics of sensor-based data is disclosed. Also disclosed is a Cloud-based Paltform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering for sensor driven applications with services and features for their complete life-cycle management including prompt development, testing, deployment and so forth. The method of the present disclosure enables real-time tracking of various physical parameters and attributes related to smart-spaces using sensor devices implemented in the premises of the smart-space environment and using crowd-sourced user input data. Further, the parameters obtained are sent to the cloud-computing server, wherein the analytics are performed in real-time based on the obtained parameters.

Claims

1. An intelligent transportation system comprising:

an unified infrastructure platform comprising a plurality of hardware &

software components, a plurality of infrastructure services, Application Program Interfaces (APIs), Software Development Kits (SDKs), wherein the plurality of infrastructure services are capable of executing algorithms, functions and calls required for developing a suite of sensor driven applications;

a plurality of sensor devices intermittently connected with the infrastructure platform by means of communication networks, wherein the plurality of sensor devices are capable of transmitting sensor data feeds to the infrastructure platform where the suite of sensor driven applications are to be developed corresponding to the sensor data feeds; and

a vehicle telemetry application development platform electronically coupled with the infrastructure platform for facilitating the development of the suite of sensor driven applications by;

enabling a plurality of application developers to select services and algorithms, from the plurality of infrastructure services, relevant in context with domain of the suite of sensor driven applications;

enabling the plurality of application developers to develop the suite of sensor driven applications and algorithms thereof using the services selected from the plurality of infrastructure services;

enabling real time analysis of sensor data based on the sensor data feeds captured from the plurality of sensor devices by invoking device management adapters for the plurality of sensor devices;

storing said sensor data in a plurality of assorted formats, said sensor data captured from the plurality of sensor devices in a database connected to the unified infrastructure platform, wherein the sensor data captured is transformed to enable the plurality of application developers to develop and test the suite of sensor driven applications such that privacy related to the sensor data captured is protected;

enabling exchange of a plurality of sensor related events across the suite of sensor driven applications and the plurality of infrastructure services through a messaging infrastructure;

performing a scalable real-time data analytics on relevant sensor based information using at least one of machine learning packages, statistical processing packages, rule engines, complex event and stream processing, and knowledge driven processing to derive insights, inferences and visualized data of the relevant sensor based information;

facilitating instant development, deployment, and management of the suite of sensor driven applications, wherein the suite of sensor driven applications facilitates vehicle anomaly detection and prognosis and wherein the vehicle anomaly detection and the prognosis enable safety and security of a vehicle; and

integrating a plurality of software components, libraries, said infrastructure services, one or more software development tools to said infrastructure platform, wherein the intelligent transportation platform further facilitates plugging-in the suite of sensor driven applications on the infrastructure services for facilitating application development and thereby enabling data reusability.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of hardware components comprise computer machines, virtual machines, servers, disks, network resources or combinations thereof.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of hardware components are configured by the plurality of software components embedded in the infrastructure platform.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of infrastructure services comprises an edge analytics service, a backend storage service, a backend analytics service, a reporting service or combinations thereof.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the edge analytics service is adapted to perform analytics on the sensor data feeds by means of preprocessing and feature extraction that leads to data reduction and allowing for storage of features extracted from the sensor data feeds.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the backend storage service is configured to enable storage and retrieval of the sensor data by means of a Sensor Observation Service.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the backend analytics service is configured for performing analytics on a back end subsystem enabling, classification and clustering of the stored sensor data.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein the reporting service is adapted to provide audio/visual alerts to a plurality of end-user subscribers based on results of analytics performed on the stored sensor data.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of sensor devices are adapted to sense least one of temperature, pressure, location, motion, gyroscope, acceleration, deceleration, cardiac data and a combination thereof.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the vehicle telemetry application development platform enables the plurality of application developers to invoke the services and computing algorithms therefrom by means of the APIs and the SDKs to develop the suite of sensor driven applications, wherein the suite of sensor driven applications further comprises diverse vehicle telemetry applications.

11. The system of claim 6, wherein the vehicle telemetry applications comprises at least one of pot-hole detection, rough-vehicle detection, cardiac-activity monitoring, in-car diagnostic and prognosis thereof, remote-photography, remote tourist guidance, driver-drowsiness identification, remote sleep-detection, remote damage assessment, managing unmanned railway-check posts, remote vehicle communication and a combination thereof.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of sensor devices comprise at least one of soft sensors, physical sensors, virtual sensors and a combination thereof.

13. A method for providing an intelligent transportation platform, the method comprising:

integrating a plurality of infrastructure services on the intelligent transportation platform, wherein the plurality of infrastructure services are capable of executing algorithms, functions and calls to develop a suite of sensor driven applications corresponding to sensor data feeds received from a plurality of sensor devices;

electronically coupling a vehicle telemetry application development platform with an infrastructure platform for facilitating the development of the suite of sensor driven applications by;

enabling a plurality of application developers to select services and algorithms, from the plurality of infrastructure services, relevant in context with domain of the suite of sensor driven applications to be developed thereof;

configuring the intelligent transportation platform to enable the plurality of application developers to develop the suite of sensor driven applications and algorithms thereof using the services selected from the plurality of infrastructure services;

enabling real time analysis of sensor data based on the sensor data feeds captured from the plurality of sensor devices by invoking device management adapters for the plurality of sensor devices;

storing said sensor data in a plurality of assorted formats, said sensor data captured from the plurality of sensor devices in a database connected to the unified infrastructure platform, wherein the sensor data captured is transformed to enable the plurality of application developers to develop and test the suite of sensor driven applications such that privacy related to the sensor data captured is protected;

enabling exchange of a plurality of sensor related events across the suite of sensor driven applications and the plurality of infrastructure services through a messaging infrastructure;

performing scalable real-time data analytics on relevant sensor based information using at least one of machine learning packages, statistical processing packages, rule engines, complex event and stream processing, and knowledge driven processing to derive insights, inferences and visualized data of the relevant sensor based information;

facilitating instant development, deployment, and management of the suite of sensor driven applications, wherein the suite of sensor driven applications facilitates vehicle anomaly detection and prognosis and wherein the vehicle anomaly detection and the prognosis enable safety and security of a vehicle; and

integrating a plurality of software components, libraries, said infrastructure services, one or more software development tools to said infrastructure platform, wherein the intelligent transportation platform further facilitates plugging-in the suite of sensor driven applications on the infrastructure services for facilitating application development and thereby enabling data reusability.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the plurality of sensor devices are adapted to sense at least one of temperature, pressure, location, motion, gyroscope, acceleration, deceleration, cardiac data and a combination thereof.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the plurality of infrastructure services comprises an edge analytics service adapted to perform analytics on the sensor data feeds by means of preprocessing and feature extraction that leads to data reduction and allowing for storage of features extracted from the sensor data feeds.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the plurality of infrastructure services comprises a backend storage service configured to enable storage and retrieval of the sensor data by means of a Sensor Observation Service.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the plurality of infrastructure services comprises a backend analytics service configured for performing analytics on a back-end subsystem enabling classification and clustering of the stored sensor data.

18. The method of claim 13, wherein the plurality of infrastructure services comprises a reporting service adapted to provide alerts to a plurality of end-user subscribers based on results of analytics performed on the sensor data.

19. The method of claim 13, wherein the sensor data feeds are captured through at least one of on-board/off-board vehicular sensors, smartphones, proximity sensor gateway devices and combinations thereof.

20. The method of claim 13, wherein the plurality of sensor devices comprise at least one of physical sensors, virtual sensors, soft sensors and a combination thereof.

21. The method of claim 13, wherein the algorithms, functions and calls are executed depending on the services selected and the context of the plurality of sensor driven applications to be developed, test and deployed.

22. The method of claim 13, wherein the intelligent transportation platform is further configured for providing test data to the plurality of application developers for testing the suite of sensor driven applications.