Method and control arrangement for controlling a response time of a wireless sensor device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11115923-B2
Application number	US-201916539431-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 13, 2019
Priority date	Aug 14, 2018
Publication date	Sep 7, 2021
Grant date	Sep 7, 2021

Abstract

An object monitoring system includes a plurality of wireless sensor devices and at least one user device A method for controlling a response time of one of the wireless sensor devices in such a system includes determining one or more metrics representing a present state of an object; and calculating a probability that one of at least one user devices will interact with the wireless sensor device within a pre-determined time period by executing a trained model with the one or more determined metrics as input and controlling the response time of the wireless sensor device based on the calculated probability.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method, performed by a wireless sensor device, for controlling a response time of the wireless sensor device, wherein the wireless sensor device is arranged to monitor an object in an object monitoring system comprising a plurality of wireless sensor devices and at least one user device, the method comprising:
determining one or more metrics representing a present state of the object,
calculating a probability that one of the at least one user devices will interact with the wireless sensor device within a pre-determined time period by executing a trained model with the one or more determined metrics as input, and
controlling the response time based on the calculated probability,
wherein the response time is a time between wireless communication of a request from the user device to the wireless sensor device and execution of the request by the wireless sensor device, and
wherein controlling the response time includes decreasing the response time in view of an increasing calculated probability.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the determining one or more metrics comprises obtaining sensor data captured by the wireless sensor device and determining the present state based on the obtained sensor data.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the controlling comprises adapting an advertising frequency of the wireless sensor device.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the controlling comprises adapting a reception window of the wireless sensor device.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the metrics comprises one or more of:
metrics measured by the wireless sensor device,
metrics defining a status of the wireless sensor device, time metrics,
metrics defining a status of the object,
metrics defining a position of the object, and
metrics defining a position or status of one or more of the at least one user devices in the object monitoring system.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the interacting comprises the user device activating or inactivating an alert or obtaining data from the wireless sensor device.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the controlling comprises comparing the calculated probability to a threshold value.

8. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
obtaining first training data during a first time interval and
training the machine learning model using the first training data.

9. The method according to claim 8 , wherein the response time is controlled to assure a certain maximum response time while recording the first training data.

10. The method according to claim 8 , further comprising:
obtaining second training data during a second time interval, while controlling the response time based on the trained machine learning model, and
training the machine learning model based on the second training data.

11. The method according to claim 8 , comprising:
calculating a threshold value based on the first training data, wherein the controlling comprises comparing the calculated probability to the threshold value.

12. The method according to claim 10 , comprising:
calculating a threshold value based on the first training data or second training data, wherein the controlling comprises comparing the calculated probability to the threshold value.

13. A control arrangement for use in an object monitoring system comprising a plurality of wireless sensor devices and at least one user device, the control arrangement being configured:
to determine one or more metrics representing a present state of an object of a plurality of objects in the object monitoring system based on data from a wireless sensor device associated with the object,
to calculate a probability that one of the at least one user devices will interact with the wireless sensor device arranged to the object within a pre-determined time period by executing a trained model with the one or more determined metrics as input, and
to control a response time based on the calculated probability,
wherein the response time is a time between wireless communication of a request from the user device to the wireless sensor device and execution of the request by the wireless sensor device, and
wherein controlling the response time includes decreasing the response time in view of an increasing calculated probability.

14. A control arrangement according to claim 13 , wherein the control arrangement is configured to determine the present state by obtaining sensor data captured by the wireless sensor device and determining the present state based on the obtained sensor data.

15. A control arrangement according to claim 13 , wherein the control arrangement is configured to control the response time by adapting an advertising frequency of the wireless sensor device.

16. A control arrangement according to claim 13 , wherein the control arrangement is configured to control the response time by adapting a reception window of the wireless sensor device.

17. A control arrangement according to claim 13 , wherein the metrics comprises one or more of:
metrics measured by the wireless sensor device,
metrics defining a status of the wireless sensor device,
time metrics,
metrics defining a status of the object,
metrics defining a position of the object, and
metrics defining a position or status of one or more of the at least one user devices in the object monitoring system.

18. A control arrangement according to claim 13 , wherein the interacting comprises the user device activating or inactivating an alert or obtaining data from the wireless sensor device.

19. A control arrangement according to claim 13 , wherein the controlling comprises comparing the calculated probability to a threshold value.

20. An object monitoring system comprising:
a plurality of wireless sensor devices configured to monitor a plurality of objects,
at least one user device, and
a control arrangement being configured to:
determine one or more metrics representing a present state of an object of the plurality of objects in the object monitoring system based on data from a wireless sensor device associated with the object,
calculate a probability that one of the at least one user devices will interact with the wireless sensor device arranged to the object within a pre-determined time period by executing a trained model with the one or more determined metrics as input, and
control a response time based on the calculated probability,
wherein the response time is a time between wireless communication of a request from the user device to the wireless sensor device and execution of the request by the wireless sensor device, and
wherein controlling the response time includes decreasing the response time in view of an increasing calculated probability.

Assignees

• Sony Corp
• Sony Group Corp

Inventors

• Huang Sangxia

Classifications

• A01K29/005

  Monitoring or measuring activity · CPC title

• A01K11/004

  with electronic identification means, e.g. transponders · CPC title

• H04W4/80

  Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication · CPC title

• H04W4/38

  for collecting sensor information · CPC title

• H04W52/0212 Primary

  managed by the network, e.g. network or access point is leader and terminal is follower · CPC title