CN112860462A - Method, device and system for realizing interconnection and intercommunication of IOT platform bases - Google Patents

Method, device and system for realizing interconnection and intercommunication of IOT platform bases Download PDF

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CN112860462A
CN112860462A CN202110268201.XA CN202110268201A CN112860462A CN 112860462 A CN112860462 A CN 112860462A CN 202110268201 A CN202110268201 A CN 202110268201A CN 112860462 A CN112860462 A CN 112860462A
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The invention provides a method, a device and a system for realizing interconnection and intercommunication of IOT platform bases, wherein the device is a connector, is an intermediate service layer between a plurality of IOT platforms, comprises a middleware layer used by the platform and an API (application program interface) interface layer and is used for encapsulating an interface interacted with an external platform; the service distribution layer is used for carrying out service distribution on the packaged interface; the service processing layer is used for processing the distributed services; and the platform protocol access layer is used for processing the adaptation service of the third-party cloud platform. The invention ensures that the AIOT platform and other three-party platforms all adopt the standard protocols of the respective platforms without any change; the method comprises the steps of aggregating the related service functions of the AIOT platform to ensure the unity of service and data; the whole framework is processed in a layered mode and distributed according to the service, and tidiness and flexibility of codes and the framework are guaranteed; in the butt joint process, only a service processing layer and a platform protocol access layer related to the three-party platform need to be concerned, and the codes of the non-service templates are reduced.

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Method, device and system for realizing interconnection and intercommunication of IOT platform bases
Technical Field
One or more embodiments of the invention relate to the technical field of internet of things, in particular to a method, a device and a system for realizing interconnection and intercommunication of IOT platform bases, and specifically to a method, a device and a system for realizing interconnection and intercommunication of IOT platform bases by bridging.
Background
This section is intended to provide a background or context to the embodiments of the invention that are recited in the claims. The description herein may include concepts that could be pursued, but are not necessarily ones that have been previously conceived or pursued. Thus, unless otherwise indicated herein, what is described in this section is not prior art to the description and claims in this application and is not admitted to be prior art by inclusion in this section.
The Internet of Things cloud is a latest implementation and delivery mode applied to the Internet of Things (IoT), and is characterized in that information sensed by sensing equipment in the traditional Internet of Things and an accepted instruction are connected to the Internet, so that networking is really realized. Meanwhile, cloud learners derive the AIOT of the cloud platform of the Internet of things, and the aim is to provide a safe, stable and efficient connection platform to help quickly realize reliable and highly-concurrent data communication among equipment, equipment user application and equipment cloud service. Aiming at the actual project, the cooperative win-win of the platforms, and the interaction and butt joint among the platforms can be the subsequent main work of the IOT cloud.
At present, the following problems still exist in the process of docking an AIOT platform of an internet of things cloud platform with other three-party platforms:
(1) the control modes and control protocols of all devices among the platforms are different;
(2) the dimension division among the platforms is inconsistent, and the dimension division is usually carried out according to personnel and space;
(3) the code adaptation three-party access development efficiency is low, and the maintenance cost is high.
In view of this, a new processing technology is needed to solve the interconnection and interworking problem of the current large IOT internet of things cloud platform ecosystems.
Disclosure of Invention
One or more embodiments of the present specification describe a method, an apparatus, and a system for implementing interconnection and intercommunication of IOT platform bases, which are based on the standard sublink protocol of the AIOT platform, and construct an adaptive service-connector for interfacing with a three-party platform through service combing and packaging, so as to solve the interconnection and intercommunication problem of the current large IOT internet of things cloud platform ecosystem.
The technical scheme provided by one or more embodiments of the specification is as follows:
in a first aspect, the present invention provides a device for implementing interconnection and interworking between bases of IOT platforms, where the device is a connector, and the connector is located in an intermediate service layer of a multi-party IOT platform, and the device includes: an API interface layer, a service distribution layer, a service processing layer, a platform protocol access layer and a middleware layer used by the platform;
the API interface layer is used for encapsulating an interface interacting with an external platform;
the service distribution layer is used for distributing the services to the packaged interfaces;
the service processing layer is used for processing the distributed services;
and the platform protocol access layer is used for processing the adaptation service of the third-party cloud platform.
In one possible implementation, the API interface layer includes an AIOT space interface and an AIOT device interface, by traffic class.
In one possible implementation, the service distribution layer includes spatial service distribution and device service distribution according to service classification.
In one possible implementation, the service processing layer includes a spatial service processor and a device service processor; wherein,
the space service processor is used for processing the mapping relation between the space and the third-party space account number by inquiring and judging the space service;
the device service processor is used for processing the mapping relation between the device and the device attribute by inquiring the device service.
In a possible implementation manner, the platform protocol access layer is configured to process an adaptation service interfacing with a third-party cloud platform, and specifically includes: registering a third party platform account, calling an interface to acquire a third party equipment list and controlling the third party equipment.
In one possible implementation manner, the middleware layer is a middleware used by the platform, and includes Mysql persistent storage, data caching by Redis, and data message queuing by Kafka.
In a second aspect, the present invention provides a method for implementing interconnection and interworking between IOT platform bases, where the method is used in the apparatus according to the first aspect.
In a third aspect, the present invention provides a system for implementing interconnection and interworking of IOT platform bases, the system comprising at least one processor and a memory;
the memory to store one or more program instructions;
the processor is configured to execute one or more program instructions to perform the method according to the second aspect.
In a fourth aspect, the present invention provides a chip, which is coupled to a memory in a system, so that the chip calls program instructions stored in the memory when running to implement the method according to the second aspect.
In a fifth aspect, the present invention provides a computer readable storage medium comprising one or more program instructions executable by the system of the third aspect to implement the method of the second aspect.
The invention solves the problems existing in the prior art:
by designing the connector to deliver with a three party platform:
(1) the AIOT platform and other three-party platforms can be ensured to adopt the standard protocols of the respective platforms without any change of the two parties;
(2) the method can aggregate the related service functions of the AIOT platform, and ensure the unity of service and data;
(3) the whole framework is processed in a layered mode, uniform interfaces are packaged, distribution is carried out according to services, and tidiness and flexibility of codes and the framework are guaranteed;
(4) in the butt joint process, only the service processing layer and the platform protocol access layer related to the three-party platform need to be concerned, and the codes of the non-service templates are reduced.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an architecture of a connector for implementing interconnection and interworking between bases of an IOT platform according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the direct relationship of a connector, a three-party IOT platform, and an AIOT platform;
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a connector according to an embodiment of the present invention for alignment of devices;
fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a system for implementing interconnection and interworking between bases of IOT platforms according to an embodiment of the present invention.
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The present application will be described in further detail with reference to the following drawings and examples. It is to be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the relevant invention and not restrictive of the invention. It should be further noted that, for the convenience of description, only the portions related to the related invention are shown in the drawings.
It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments in the present application may be combined with each other without conflict. The present application will be described in detail below with reference to the embodiments with reference to the attached drawings.
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subridge, an intermediate service layer between a multi-party IOT platform, is mainly responsible for bridging microservices of platform equipment models, personnel, virtual spaces and other services.
Sulink: the AIoT platform provides standard northbound and southbound access protocols, and mainly relates to modules for equipment registration, control, reporting, traffic rules, policy control, clock synchronization and the like.
The invention is based on the standard Sulink protocol of AIOT platform, through business combing and packaging, construct an adaptation service-connector of the butt joint three-party platform, FIG. 1 is the architecture schematic diagram of the connector for realizing IOT platform base interconnection provided by the embodiment of the invention, as shown in FIG. 1, the structure of the Subridge connector is as follows:
the connector is an intermediate service layer between the multi-party IOT platform and comprises: an API interface layer, a service distribution layer, a service processing layer, a platform protocol access layer and a middleware layer used by the platform;
and the API interface layer is used for encapsulating an interface interacting with an external platform system.
Specifically, the API interface layer: the interface encapsulation method is used for encapsulating the interface interacting with an external system, is beneficial to code specification and maintenance, and simultaneously ensures the safety and tightness of codes. The method is mainly divided into a space type interface, an equipment type interface and the like according to the service. I.e. by traffic classification, the API interface layer comprises an AIOT space interface, an AIOT device interface, etc.
And the service distribution layer is used for distributing the services to the encapsulated interfaces.
Specifically, the service distribution layer is used for the logic layer to distribute the service to the interface encapsulated by the upper layer, so as to reduce the coupling between the codes. Classification by service, spatial service distribution, equipment service distribution, and the like.
And the service processing layer is used for processing the distributed services.
Specifically, the service processing layer is mainly used for processing core services and comprises a space service processor and an equipment service processor, wherein the space service processor can process the mapping relation between the space and a third-party space account number by inquiring and judging the space service; the device service processor can process the mapping relation of the devices and the device attributes and the like by inquiring the device services.
The platform protocol access layer is mainly used for processing adaptation services for interfacing with a third-party cloud platform, for example: registering a third party platform account, calling an interface to acquire a third party equipment list and controlling the third party equipment.
The middleware layer is mainly a middleware used by the platform, and at the present stage, Mysql persistent storage, data caching by Redis, data message queue by Kafka and the like are mainly adopted.
The connector introduced above mainly includes the functions of: device access, device alignment, service configuration, personnel synchronization, communication channels, data security, and the like. The details of each function are described in detail below with reference to fig. 2:
(1) equipment access: the connector provides a uniform equipment access interface, and is configured in the AIOT system through abstracting and packaging the equipment attributes of different manufacturers. When the equipment is accessed, the equipment attribute relationship in the platform systems of both sides is mapped, so that the platform is accessed uniformly.
(2) Equipment alignment: as shown in fig. 3, the AIOT platform manages space, equipment, and personnel in units of space. Most of other three-party platforms perform related management by taking registered users as units. The connector is docked into a three-party platform by taking the space as a virtual registered user, and the mapping relation between the two parties is maintained. For the virtual space user, information such as space, personnel and equipment information can be pulled.
(3) Service configuration: the connection provides configuration information for interfacing with the three-party IOT communication platform, including communication protocols, versions, etc., such as HTTPS, V3.
(4) Personnel synchronization: the connector synchronizes the personnel information, takes the space as a dimension to be in butt joint with the virtual registered user, and obtains the personnel information added by the virtual registered user, including the information of physical characteristics, biological characteristics and the like of related personnel.
(5) Communication channel: in the three-bank platform butt joint, in order to ensure the high efficiency and reliability of the requests of the two platforms, an IP white list and related access authority verification are adopted.
(6) And (3) data security: the two parties request data to be encrypted in a unified data security mode.
The interconnection and intercommunication of the IOT platform bases are realized by utilizing the bridge mode, namely, the invention solves the problems existing in the prior art by designing the connector delivered with the three-party platform:
(1) the AIOT platform and other three-party platforms can be ensured to adopt the standard protocols of the respective platforms without any change of the two parties;
(2) the method can aggregate the related service functions of the AIOT platform, and ensure the unity of service and data;
(3) the whole framework is processed in a layered mode, uniform interfaces are packaged, distribution is carried out according to services, and tidiness and flexibility of codes and the framework are guaranteed;
(4) in the butt joint process, only the service processing layer and the platform protocol access layer related to the three-party platform need to be concerned, and the codes of the non-service templates are reduced.
Corresponding to the device of the above embodiment, the present invention further provides a method for implementing interconnection and interworking of IOT platform bases, where the method is used for the device described above.
The method specifically comprises the step of constructing an adaptive service-connector for a three-party docking platform through business carding and packaging based on a standard Sulink protocol of an AIOT platform. The specific structure of the connector and the functions thereof have been described in detail in the above description, and will not be described herein again.
Corresponding to the above embodiments, the embodiment of the present invention further provides a system for implementing interconnection and interworking between bases of IOT platforms, and specifically, as shown in fig. 4, the system includes at least one processor 41 and a memory 42;
a memory 41 for storing one or more program instructions;
processor 42 is configured to execute one or more program instructions to perform the steps of the method for implementing IOT platform base interconnection as described in the above embodiments.
Corresponding to the foregoing embodiment, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a chip, where the chip is coupled to the memory in the system, so that the chip calls the program instruction stored in the memory when running, thereby implementing the method for implementing interconnection and intercommunication between bases of the IOT platform as described in the foregoing embodiment.
Corresponding to the foregoing embodiments, the present invention further provides a computer storage medium, where the computer storage medium includes one or more programs, where the one or more program instructions are used to be executed by a system for implementing IOT platform base interconnection and interworking by the method for implementing IOT platform base interconnection and interworking introduced above.
According to the scheme provided by the application, the problem of interconnection and intercommunication of the ecological systems of the large IOT cloud platforms at present is solved by designing the connector delivered with the three-party platform.
Those of skill would further appreciate that the various illustrative components and algorithm steps described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented as electronic hardware, computer software, or combinations of both, and that the various illustrative components and steps have been described above generally in terms of their functionality in order to clearly illustrate this interchangeability of hardware and software. Whether such functionality is implemented as hardware or software depends upon the particular application and design constraints imposed on the implementation. Skilled artisans may implement the described functionality in varying ways for each particular application, but such implementation decisions should not be interpreted as causing a departure from the scope of the present invention.
The steps of a method or algorithm described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be embodied in hardware, a software module executed by a processor, or a combination of the two. A software module may reside in Random Access Memory (RAM), memory, Read Only Memory (ROM), electrically programmable ROM, electrically erasable programmable ROM, registers, hard disk, a removable disk, a CD-ROM, or any other form of storage medium known in the art.
The above embodiments are provided to further explain the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention in detail, it should be understood that the above embodiments are merely exemplary embodiments of the present invention and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and any modifications, equivalents, improvements and the like made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the scope of the present invention.

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1. An apparatus for implementing interconnection and interworking between bases of IOT platforms, wherein the apparatus is a connector, and the connector is an intermediate service layer between a plurality of IOT platforms, comprising: an API interface layer, a service distribution layer, a service processing layer, a platform protocol access layer and a middleware layer used by the platform;
the API interface layer is used for encapsulating an interface interacting with an external platform;
the service distribution layer is used for distributing the services to the packaged interfaces;
the service processing layer is used for processing the distributed services;
and the platform protocol access layer is used for processing the adaptation service of the third-party cloud platform.
2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the API interface layer comprises an AIOT space interface and an AIOT device interface, by traffic class.
3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the service distribution layer comprises spatial service distribution and device service distribution according to service classification.
4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the service processing layer comprises a spatial service processor and a device service processor; wherein,
the space service processor is used for processing the mapping relation between the space and the third-party space account number by inquiring and judging the space service;
the device service processor is used for processing the mapping relation between the device and the device attribute by inquiring the device service.
5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the platform protocol access layer is configured to process an adaptation service interfacing with a third-party cloud platform, and specifically includes: registering a third party platform account, calling an interface to acquire a third party equipment list and controlling the third party equipment.
6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the middleware layer is middleware used by the platform, and comprises data caching by Mysql persistent storage, Redis and data message queuing by Kafka.
7. A method for implementing IOT platform base interworking, the method being used in the apparatus of claim 1.
8. A system for realizing interconnection and intercommunication of IOT platform bases is characterized in that the system comprises at least one processor and a memory;
the memory to store one or more program instructions;
the processor, configured to execute one or more program instructions to perform the method of claim 7.
9. A chip coupled to a memory in a system such that the chip, when executed, invokes program instructions stored in the memory to implement the method of claim 7.
10. A computer-readable storage medium comprising one or more program instructions executable by the system of claim 8 to implement the method of claim 7.
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