Method and apparatus for managing an internet of things device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12439322-B2
Application number	US-202117793152-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 19, 2021
Priority date	Jan 22, 2020
Publication date	Oct 7, 2025
Grant date	Oct 7, 2025

Abstract

A method and an apparatus for managing an IoT device, and a computer readable storage medium are disclosed. The method for managing an IoT device includes creating a group resource, the group resource including a first member and a first preset condition, determining, from a plurality of IoT devices, at least one IoT device whose relationship with the first member satisfies the first preset condition as a second member of the group resource, wherein the first preset condition comprises at least one of the following: a distance between the second member and the first member being less than a first distance threshold, and a difference between a communication signal intensity of the second member and a communication signal intensity of the first member being less than a first intensity difference threshold.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for managing an Internet of Things device, comprising:
creating a group resource, the group resource comprising a first member and a first preset condition; and
determining, from a plurality of Internet of Things devices, at least one Internet of Things device whose relationship with the first member satisfies the first preset condition as a second member of the group resource,
wherein the first preset condition comprises at least one of the following:
a distance between the second member and the first member being less than a first distance threshold, and
a difference between a communication signal intensity of the second member and a communication signal intensity of the first member being less than a first intensity difference threshold;
wherein the group resource further comprises a seventh preset condition, and the method further comprises:
after determining the second member:
acquiring data collected by the first member and data collected by the second member; and
determining whether a relationship between the data collected by the first member and the data collected by the second member meets the seventh preset condition, and under the condition that the relationship between the data collected by the first member and the data collected by the second member meets the seventh preset condition, adjusting a second configuration information of the second member according to a first configuration information of the first member,
wherein the seventh preset condition comprises a difference between the data collected by the second member and the data collected by the first member being greater than a data difference threshold.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said creating a group resource comprises:
acquiring the first preset condition and a fifth preset condition for the group resource;
determining, from a plurality of Internet of Things devices, at least one Internet of Things device that meets the fifth preset condition as the first member; and
including the first member, the first preset condition and the fifth preset condition in the group resource,
wherein the fifth preset condition comprises at least one of the following:
positional coordinates of the first member being in a first coordinate range; and
a variation range of positional information of the first member within a first preset time interval being smaller than a first preset positional variation range threshold.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said creating a group resource comprises:
acquiring the first preset condition for the group resource, and determining the at least one Internet of Things device that sends a request for creating a group resource as the first member of the group resource in response to receiving, from at least one Internet of Things device of the plurality of Internet of Things devices, the request for creating a group resource; and
including the first preset condition and the first member in the group resource.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the group resource further comprises a second preset condition, and the method further comprises:
after determining the second member, determining whether a relationship between the first member and the second member meets the second preset condition, and under the condition that the relationship between the first member and the second member meets the second preset condition, adjusting a second configuration information of the second member according to a first configuration information of the first member,
wherein the second preset condition comprises at least one of the following:
a device type of the first member being the same as a device type of the second member; and
a type of data collected by the first member being the same as a type of data collected by the second member.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the group resource further comprises a fourth preset condition, and the method further comprises:
after determining the second member, determining whether a relationship between the first member and the second member meets the fourth preset condition, and under the condition that the relationship between the first member and the second member meets the fourth preset condition, adjusting a second configuration information of the second member according to a first configuration information of the first member,
wherein the fourth preset condition comprises at least one of the following conditions:
a data collection accuracy of the first member being greater than a data collection accuracy of the second member;
a data collection frequency of the first member being greater than a data collection frequency of the second member;
a number of references to data of the first member being larger than a number of references to data of the second member; and
a communication signal intensity of the first member being greater than a communication signal intensity of the second member.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the group resource comprises a third preset condition, and the method further comprises:
after determining the second member, determining whether the second member meets the third preset condition, and under the condition that the second member meets the third preset condition, deleting the second member from the group resource,
wherein the third preset condition comprises at least one of the following:
a distance between the second member and the first member being greater than a second distance threshold; and
a difference between a communication signal intensity of the second member and a communication signal intensity of the first member being greater than a second intensity difference threshold.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein, said determining, from a plurality of Internet of Things devices, at least one Internet of Things device whose relationship with the first member meets the first preset condition comprises:
in response to receiving a group joining request from at least one Internet of Things device of the plurality of Internet of Things devices, determining whether a relationship between the first member and the at least one Internet of Things device of the plurality of Internet of Things devices that sends the group joining request meets the first preset condition.

8. The method according to claim 7 ,
wherein the group resource further comprises a sixth preset condition, and
wherein said determining, from a plurality of Internet of Things devices, at least one Internet of Things device whose relationship with the first member meets the first preset condition comprises:
in response to said receiving a group joining request from at least one Internet of Things device of the plurality of Internet of Things devices, determining whether the at least one Internet of Things device that sends the group joining request meets the sixth preset condition, and under the condition that the at least one Internet of Things device that sends the group joining request meets the sixth preset condition, determining, from the at least one Internet of Things device that meets the sixth preset condition, an Internet of Things device whose relationship with the first member meets the first preset condition,
wherein the sixth preset condition comprises at least one of the following:
positional coordinates of the second member being in a second coordinate range; and
a variation range of positional information of the second member within a first preset time interval being larger than a second preset positional variation range threshold.

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the Internet of Things device is an environmental monitoring device, and da

Assignees

• Beijing Boe Technology Dev Co Ltd
• Boe Technology Group Co Ltd

Inventors

• Zhao Junjie
• Su Jing

Classifications

• H04W40/20

  based on geographic position or location · CPC title

• H04W40/12

  based on transmission quality or channel quality · CPC title

• H04L67/12

  specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks · CPC title

• G16Y40/40

  Maintenance of things · CPC title

• H04W40/32 Primary

  for defining a routing cluster membership · CPC title