WO2020219910A1 - Wireless sensor networks installation, deployment, maintenance, and operation - Google Patents
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- FIGS. 1A-1C show examples in which the cover layer 428 of the flexible adhesive tape platform includes one or more optional interfacial regions 429 positioned over one or more of the transducers 394.
- one or more of the interfacial regions 429 have features, properties, compositions, dimensions, and/or characteristics that are designed to improve the operating performance of the platform for specific applications.
- the flexible adhesive tape platform includes multiple interfacial regions 429 over respective transducers 394, which may be the same or different depending on the target applications.
- the distributed network of wireless tags 12 in the physical premises environment 10 leverages the above-mentioned communications technologies (e.g., the peripheral, intermediate, and master tape node types 102, 103, 105; FIGS. 1A-1C) to create a hierarchical wireless network of tape nodes that improves asset management operations by reducing costs and increasing efficiencies in a wide range of processes, from asset packaging, asset transporting, asset tracking, asset state or condition monitoring, asset inventorying, and asset security verification.
- the communications technologies e.g., the peripheral, intermediate, and master tape node types 102, 103, 105; FIGS. 1A-1C
- the user 32 inputs one or more search terms into the client application 16.
- the user may input one or more keywords or natural language input, for example, in the form of typed text or voice input.
- the user enters the wireless tag ID 18 of the asset 20.
- the user enters inputs through an auxiliary interface, such as a wireless scanner or an optical scanner.
- the virtual map view interface 22 includes a search box 34 in which the user has entered the input“Where’s asset 1234?”
- the client application 16 transmits to the relay 28 a request for the current location of the asset 20.
- a mobile computing device 40 e.g., a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a laptop computer, or other portable computing device
- the client software application 16 may be configured to run on any type of computer device or computing platform that includes wireless or wired communications capabilities that are compatible with the wireless tags.
- the map of the physical premises environment 10 typically is in the form of a digital file and may be in any format that can be uploaded by the client software application, such as a vector file or a bitmap.
- the locations within the physical premises environment 10 are designated by horizontal and vertical coordinates (x, y), which may or may not correspond to individual pixels.
- the map shows a plan view of the physical premises environment 10, including persistent features such as rooms, doors, windows, wall sockets, hallways, and transient assets such as persons, parcels, and inventory items.
- the user in addition to loading the interface map file 52, the user also may upload a list of requirements for each asset, location, infrastructure component, and person.
- the list of requirements may be used to at least in part automate aspects of the process of installing wireless tags in the physical premises environment.
- the user selects the Click to Continue button 64 in the pop-up message interface 62.
- sensor tags are typically installed to provide sensing functionality for implementing a wide variety of applications and use models.
- sensor tags may be deployed on walls, doors, windows, assets 80 (e.g., equipment 82) to measure a wide variety of physical parameters (e.g., temperature, pressure, acceleration, moisture, etc.) and detect a wide range of events (e.g., a door or window is open, an air conditioning unit is set too low, a water pipe is leaking, and a 3D printer is being moved).
- the areas of the Map Interface 52 without any wireless network coverage are masked (e.g., with a dark overlay) and, as coverage is added, previously masked areas will turn clear in the areas where new wireless network coverage is added.
- a user can confirm that there is wireless coverage in the physical premises environment by carrying a mobile computing device 40 executing the client software application 16 through the physical premises
- the Modify Installation interface component 94 of the client software application 16 enables the user to modify the installation by adding, editing, or deleting wireless tags. Areas also can be added, edited, deleted. Example areas include areas demarcated by circles, rectangles, polygons, and other closed shapes. The user is able to drag and drop shapes on the map interface 52 to define the areas to exclude, edit, or delete.
- an iterative simulation based approach may be used to install the wireless tag network.
- a computer system executes a wireless tag installation simulation application program that is configured to make a wireless tag installation
- the wireless tag installation simulation application program loads a set of requirements for the initial installation of wireless tags in the physical premises environment 10 (FIG. 12, block 102).
- the requirements may be specified by the user by checking boxes in an electronic requirements form.
- the requirements may include, for example, installing sensor tags (e.g., motion sensing tags) on doors, windows, movable equipment, and assets, and installing scanner tags and relay tags on walls where they are needed to provide coverage.
- the wireless tag installation simulation application program configures the rooms and other defined spaces in the map of the physical premises environment 10 according to the
- the wireless tag installation simulation application program proposes a configuration for the physical premises environment (FIG. 12, block 106). In some examples, this process involves simulating the installation of scanner tags and relay tags in the map of the physical premises environment 10. In some embodiments, the wireless tag installation simulation application program provides a cost budget (e.g., in terms of a number of tapes needed complete the installation or in terms of a monetary cost), battery life, wireless tag network coverage, issues, alerts, warnings, and errors. In some examples, the cost is the purchase price of the wireless tags needed to
- the wireless tag installation simulation application program allows the user to edit the proposed configuration (FIG. 12, block 108). For example, the user can remove wireless scanner coverage for certain types of rooms (e.g., bathrooms) or can remove a wireless relay from a private area in the map of the physical premises environment 10.
- the user can remove wireless scanner coverage for certain types of rooms (e.g., bathrooms) or can remove a wireless relay from a private area in the map of the physical premises environment 10.
- the wireless tag installation simulation application program ends the process (FIG. 12, block 114); otherwise, the wireless tag installation simulation application program allows the user to edit the proposed configuration to correct the errors or failures (FIG. 12, block 108).
- a wireless computing device 120 executes an application that includes a test-learning mode of operation in which the wireless computing device 120 transmits advertising packets into the physical premises environment 10 and receives reply signals from infrastructure wireless tags 124, 126, 128 with unique identifiers (i.e., ID1 , ID2, and ID3) and respective signal strengths (e.g., RSSI).
- the wireless computing device 120 e.g., a mobile phone
- the wireless computing device 120 can triangulate its location from measurements of signal strength of the beacon signals being transmitted by the wireless tags from different locations in the environment.
- the received signal strength indicator (RSSI) is used as a measure of the power present in a received radio signal, where the received RSSI power level corresponds to respective distances between the wireless computing device 40 and the wireless tags in the physical premises environment 10.
- RSSI received signal strength indicator
- Other measures of wireless signal strength include, for example, time-of-flight and time-of-arrival measures.
- the Maintenance interface 132 and the map interface 52 may be displayed together in the display screen or separately.
- the mobile computing device 40 transmits into the physical premises environment 10 scan request packets (e.g., BLE scan request packets) that respectively include the unique identifiers of one or more of the wireless tags that are currently deployed in the physical premises environment 10.
- the outgoing scan request packets may be forwarded by intermediate nodes in the wireless tag network (e.g., relay tags or scanner tags) before reaching their target destinations.
- the target nodes transmit respective scan response packets to the mobile computing device 40.
- the scan response packets contain the unique identifiers (e.g., UUIDs) associated with the target nodes as well as maintenance information, such as battery state information (e.g., battery level, percentage, or lifetime remaining), wireless coverage, warnings, error notifications, or faults (e.g., an unresponsive wireless tag).
- maintenance information such as battery state information (e.g., battery level, percentage, or lifetime remaining), wireless coverage, warnings, error notifications, or faults (e.g., an unresponsive wireless tag).
- the map interface 52 shows a current view of the physical premises environment 52, but displayed in an overlay mode.
- the map interface 52 highlights wireless tags that meet certain criteria (e.g., a battery life below a threshold percentage or below a threshold lifetime remaining, a wireless transmission range below a threshold distance, a wireless tag that reports a warning, an error, or fault).
- the user can click on the graphical representation of a wireless tag to view its state information (e.g., battery life, errors, faults, and warnings).
- state information e.g., battery life, errors, faults, and warnings.
- the map interface 52 highlights a graphical representation of a wireless scanner tag 136 that has a battery level below a target threshold level (e.g., 10%) with a shaded circular region 138.
- a target threshold level e.g. 10%
- the user can select the highlighted tag 136 in the map interface 52 to pull up an interface that displays detailed state information of the tag 136.
- the wireless tags can be deployed in a wide variety of different configurations to implement various use models in a variety of physical premises environments.
- the deployment starts with an initial configuration, which may be specified be a server application running on a server of a network service that communicates with the client application 16 running on the user’s mobile computing device 40.
- the client application displays an interface that allows the user to specify the type of functionality to install at designated locations or on particular object types.
- the interface may include a series of checkboxes that allows the user to select options to, for example, monitor every door, measure temperature or pressure in every room, check the presence or status of every asset in every room, enable indoor locationing throughout the physical premises environment 10 or only in certain areas of the physical premises environment 10 at a specified level of accuracy.
- the interface displays a map view of the physical premises environment 10 that allows the user to designate where to install particular types of wireless tags ad hoc.
- the interface allows a user to select one of several wireless tag types presented in the interface, and to touch one or more locations in the map interface where the one or more wireless tags of the selected type should be installed.
- the server application After determining the requirements of a particular installation, the server application generates a deployment plan of wireless tags. The user can then review the deployment plan and change it, if necessary. For example, the user can add or remove wireless tags in the deployment plan.
- the different areas of the physical premises environment 10 are color-coded according to their function or the asset type stored therein.
- an asset storage facility containing boxes of assets that are associated with the asset ID type of wireless tags may be highlighted green in the map interface 52.
- a room containing temperature-sensitive items that are associated with the temperature-measuring type of wireless tags may be highlighted blue in the map interface.
- a security-sensitive room with the acceleration-measuring type of wireless tags on the room doors may be highlighted red in the map interface.
- Hallways that are equipped with indoor locationing type of wireless tags may be highlighted yellow in the map interface.
- the user is able to turn on and turn off indoor navigation in some of all of the hallways by toggling (e.g., by touching) the
- the client application 16 on the user’s mobile computing device 40 supports natural language voice input commands and queries. These examples typically include a speech recognizer, a command interpreter, and an optional speech synthesizer.
- the speech recognizer converts voice input into
- the language model specifies a syntax that defines the combinations of words that form grammatically correct strings (e.g., commands and their respective operands).
- the command interpreter uses statistical or rules-based methods to extract one or more commands and zero of more operands from the recognized output based on a set of semantic rules.
- Example commands are GET or FIND.
- the user’s mobile computing device 40 executes the command on the operand by transmitting one or more advertising packets that include the FIND command and the UUID 1234 to one or more wireless tags or a person wearing a wireless ID tag in the physical premises environment 10 until it receives a reply packet from the wireless asset tag 1234 or other wireless tag (e.g., a scanner tag) that includes a description of the location of the asset with the UUID 1234 (e.g.,“storage facility”).
- wireless asset tag 1234 or other wireless tag e.g., a scanner tag
- Wireless tags can be programmed with software or firmware
- a wireless node in the storage facility is programmed with instructions to measure the temperature in the storage facility, and if the measured temperature is below 30° Celsius transmit an alert or warning message (e.g., a short message service or SMS, an email, or a cellular phone call) to one or more designated endpoints.
- an alert or warning message e.g., a short message service or SMS, an email, or a cellular phone call
- a wireless tag associated with a person raises an alert of the person is in a certain room at a certain time but leaves too early.
- a wireless tag transmits an alert message if it measures the temperature of in a room below a threshold temperature level.
- a workflow specifies an order in which tasks are performed and the conditions for initiating tasks.
- a task can be performed by one or more computing systems, by one or more persons, or both.
- individuals can be associated with respective wireless tags (e.g., by carrying a wireless ID tag) and therefore their locations can be determined and tracked in the physical premises environment 10.
- the activities of the individuals in the physical premises environment can be determined directly or inferred by their respective locations, the equipment they are using, their roles, and their collaborations with one another. The activities then can be organized into groups by type.
- environment 10 can then store data regarding the activities performed by the
- the collected data is grouped by category and mapped to respective views of warnings, alerts, and actions as a function of time, and a view of recommendations. These views can be generated from, for example, the arrival and completion times of airplane cabin cleaning personnel at each airport location by generating relevant statistics and identifying outliers for further investigation and recommendations.
- FIG. 16 is a deployment graph model that shows interconnections between a set of wireless tags (also referred to herein as“nodes”).
- Each node has a unique ID (e.g., 1 , 2, 3, 4, and 5) and is configured as a particular node type (e.g., asset node, infrastructure node, scanner node, relay node, or sensor node).
- the nodes that are connected by edges can communicate with one another, either uni-directionally or bidirectionally.
- Each node also receives signals from zero or more of the other nodes in the set that are characterized by respective Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) values.
- RSSI Received Signal Strength Indicator
- the RSSI value RSSh,3 corresponds to the strength of the signal transmitted from node 1 to node 3
- the RSSI value RSSh,2 corresponds to the strength of the signal transmitted from node 1 to node 2.
- the graph notation illustrated in FIG. 16 can be used to model other parameters that characterize the operation of wireless tag network.
- the deployment graph model can be translated to a physical world model that includes constructs, such as a room, a door, a hallway, an asset, or a person.
- the server application starts with a digital map of the physical premises environment 10 (FIG. 17, block 160).
- the map file may be a vector file or a bitmap.
- the server application identifies constructs in the map, such as rooms, doors, wall sockets, windows, and hallways, (FIG. 17, block 162).
- the server application then converts the map into a graph of the physical premises environment 10 (FIG. 17, block 164).
- Each construct has a name, a description, one or more services it can offer, and one or more capabilities.
- the client application 16 requests a proposed configuration for the physical premises environment 10 (see, e.g., FIG. 12, block 106).
- the server application executing on the server network node of the network service determines a proposed configuration that meets the set of objectives for the deployment of the various constructs (FIG. 17, blocks 166, 168).
- An example set of objectives includes: sense temperature in every room; provide indoor locationing in the main hallway; and determine when a door or window of a room is open.
- the configuration is stored in memory as a graph of objectives and respective constraints.
- the graph of objectives and constraints includes: install a scanner in every room larger than 100 square meters in area; install an accelerometer on every door and window of every room larger than 100 square meters in area; and install an infrastructure locationing beacon in the main hallway.
- the design rule checker is executed to determine if any design rules are violated (e.g., the distance separating two wireless nodes is greater than the range of the wireless nodes) (FIG. 17, block 170). If the design rule checker application reports an error or other violation (FIG. 17, block 172), the server application determines another optional installment of wireless tags (FIG. 17, block 168); otherwise, the process ends (FIG. 17, block 174).
- the wireless tag deployment process described above in connection with FIG. 17 implements a greedy algorithm to determine the configuration of wireless tags in the physical world model.
- an exhaustive search is used to determine an optimal, lowest cost configuration of wireless tags in the physical premises environment 10 that satisfies the objectives subject to the applicable constraints.
- the server application starts with a digital map of the physical premises environment 10 (FIG. 18, block 180).
- the map file may be a vector file or a bitmap.
- the server application identifies constructs in the map, such as rooms, walls, doors, wall sockets, windows, and hallways, (FIG. 18, block 182).
- the server application then converts the map into a graph of nodes representing the relationships between the constructs in the physical premises environment 10 (FIG. 18, block 184).
- each construct has one or more of a name, a description, one or more services it can offer, and one or more capabilities.
- the server application executing on the server network node of the network service determines a set of objectives to be implemented by the wireless tags in relation to the various constructs (FIG. 18, blocks 186).
- An example set of objectives includes: sense temperature in every room; provide indoor locationing in the main hallway; and determine when a door or window of a room is open or closed.
- the server application runs the design rule checker (FIG. 18, block 192) to determine if there are any errors in the configuration (FIG. 18, block 194). If there are any errors in the proposed configuration (e.g., an infrastructure node is outside the wireless communications range of all other wireless tags) (FIG. 18, block 194), the server application iteratively determines another configuration of wireless tags in a subset of the identified discrete locations (FIG. 18, block 190). If there are no errors in the proposed configuration (FIG. 18, block 194), the server application stores the proposed configuration in a memory storage device (FIG. 18, block 196). In some examples, the configuration is stored in memory as a graph of objectives and respective constraints.
- the server application selects an optimal configuration (FIG. 18, block 200). Determining an optimal configuration involves solving an NP (nondeterministic polynomial time) complete problem to determine a configuration that satisfies all objectives and constraints.
- the optimal configuration is a configuration that achieves the lowest cost deployment of wireless tags in the physical premises environment 10.
- each wireless tag is programmed with respective firmware that defines its mission, its low-battery mission, one or more customer services that it provides, and one or more system services that it provides.
- the missions and services provided by a wireless tag are determined by its tag type (e.g., relay tag, scanner tag, infrastructure tag, asset tag, and sensor tag).
- tag type e.g., relay tag, scanner tag, infrastructure tag, asset tag, and sensor tag.
- Relay tags are configured to scan for advertising packets from wireless tags that are within range, receive wireless packets from other wireless tags, and relay those packets into the physical premises environment 10.
- relay tags are configured to scan for advertising packets, receive data packets, and relay data packets more frequently than when it is in its low-battery mission state.
- the scanner tags are configured to listen for beacon packets from asset tags, infrastructure tags, and sensor tags, and to transmit data packets to the relay tags.
- Asset tags, infrastructure tags, and sensor tags are configured to transmit identifying information to other wireless tags (e.g., scanner tags or relay tags).
- the customer services provided by the wireless tags include
- a motion sensing wireless tag on a door of a room is configured to wirelessly
- the system services provided by the wireless tags include listening for advertising packets, generating data packets, receiving data packet, and transmitting generated and received data packets into the physical premises environment 10.
- every wireless tag sends the data generated or received according to its primary or low battery mission into the physical premises environment 10.
- the generated or received data is stored on one or more nodes and propagated to all of the wireless tags throughout the
- FIG. 19 shows an example process of propagating data from one wireless tag to another.
- a wireless tag generates data (FIG. 19, block 210).
- the data may be any type of data that can be generated by the wireless tag, including sensor data, communications data, configuration data, and advisory data (e.g., errors or alerts).
- the wireless tag receives data from one or more wireless tags in the physical premises environment 10 (FIG. 19, block 212).
- the received data may be any type of data that can be received by the wireless tags, including sensor data, communications data, configuration data, and advisory data (e.g., errors or alerts).
- the generated and stored data is stored in the memory of the wireless tag (FIG. 19, block 214).
- the wireless tag transmits the generated and received data to other wireless tags in the environment (FIG. 19, block 216).
- a user of the client application 16 running on the mobile computing device can have visibility throughout the physical premises environment 10. For example, the user can determine the location of her mug by using the search interface of the client application 16 on the mobile computing device 40 to find the wireless tag associated with the mug in the physical premises environment 10. In response, the mobile computing device transmits the request to the nearest receptive wireless tag, which checks its memory for an entry that includes the identity of the user’s mug and its associated location. If the entry exists, the user has located her mug. If the entry does not exist in the memory of nearest receptive tag, the nearest receptive tag forwards the request to other wireless tags in the environment 10 until the mug’s location is reported by one or more of the other wireless tags.
- FIG. 20 shows an example embodiment of computer apparatus that is configured to implement one or more of the systems described in this specification.
- the computer apparatus 500 includes a processing unit 502, a system memory 504, and a system bus 506 that couples the processing unit 502 to the various components of the computer apparatus 500.
- the processing unit 502 may include one or more data processors, each of which may be in the form of any one of various commercially available computer processors.
- the system memory 504 includes one or more computer-readable media that typically are associated with a software application addressing space that defines the addresses that are available to software applications.
- the system memory 504 may include a read only memory (ROM) that stores a basic input/output system (BIOS) that contains start-up routines for the computer apparatus 500, and a random access memory (RAM).
- ROM read only memory
- BIOS basic input/output system
- RAM random access memory
- the system bus 506 may be a memory bus, a peripheral bus or a local bus, and may be compatible with any of a variety of bus protocols, including PCI, VESA, MicroChannel, ISA, and EISA.
- the computer apparatus 500 also includes a persistent storage memory 508 (e.g., a hard drive, a floppy drive, a CD ROM drive, magnetic tape drives, flash memory devices, and digital video disks) that is connected to the system bus 506 and contains one or more computer-readable media disks that provide non-volatile or persistent storage for data, data structures and computer-executable instructions.
- a persistent storage memory 508 e.g., a hard drive, a floppy drive, a CD ROM drive, magnetic tape drives, flash memory devices, and digital video disks
- a user may interact (e.g., input commands or data) with the computer apparatus 500 using one or more input devices 430 (e.g. one or more keyboards, computer mice, microphones, cameras, joysticks, physical motion sensors, and touch pads). Information may be presented through a graphical user interface (GUI) that is presented to the user on a display monitor 432, which is controlled by a display controller 434.
- GUI graphical user interface
- the computer apparatus 500 also may include other input/output hardware (e.g., peripheral output devices, such as speakers and a printer).
- the computer apparatus 500 connects to other network nodes through a network adapter 336 (also referred to as a“network interface card” or NIC).
- a number of program modules may be stored in the system memory 504, including application programming interfaces 438 (APIs), an operating system (OS) 440 (e.g., the Windows® operating system available from Microsoft Corporation of Redmond, Washington U.S.A.), software applications 441 including one or more software applications programming the computer apparatus 500 to perform one or more of the steps, tasks, operations, or processes of the hierarchical classification systems described herein, drivers 442 (e.g., a GUI driver), network transport protocols 444, and data 446 (e.g., input data, output data, program data, a registry, and configuration settings).
- APIs application programming interfaces 438
- OS operating system
- software applications 441 including one or more software applications programming the computer apparatus 500 to perform one or more of the steps, tasks, operations, or processes of the hierarchical classification systems described herein
- drivers 442 e.g., a GUI driver
- network transport protocols 444 e.g., input data, output data, program data, a registry, and configuration settings
- Examples of the subject matter described herein can be implemented in data processing apparatus (e.g., computer hardware and digital electronic circuitry) operable to perform functions by operating on input and generating output. Examples of the subject matter described herein also can be tangibly embodied in software or firmware, as one or more sets of computer instructions encoded on one or more tangible non-transitory carrier media (e.g., a machine readable storage device, substrate, or sequential access memory device) for execution by data processing apparatus.
- data processing apparatus e.g., computer hardware and digital electronic circuitry
- Examples of the subject matter described herein also can be tangibly embodied in software or firmware, as one or more sets of computer instructions encoded on one or more tangible non-transitory carrier media (e.g., a machine readable storage device, substrate, or sequential access memory device) for execution by data processing apparatus.
- tangible non-transitory carrier media e.g., a machine readable storage device, substrate, or sequential access memory device
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