An approach for identifying mitigation solution based on critical situations is disclosed. The approach includes detecting one or more critical situations associated within a structure and detecting one or more location of one or more users in the structure. The approach retrieves a user-knowledge corpus based on one or more smart IoT devices or from existing database. Furthermore, the approach retrieves a critical situation knowledge corpus from various servers and creates risk mitigation action plans to address the one or more critical situations. The approach selects an optimal plan, by leveraging machine learning through combinatorial optimization technique, from the existing risk mitigation action plans and executing the optimal plan.

A control device may be configured to delay an attachment procedure while attachment messages are being transmitted over the network. The control device may be configured to initiate an attachment procedure with a router device on a network at the end a back-off period of time. The attachment procedure may include transmitting attachment messages (e.g., parent request messages) that enable the control device to transmit and receive messages over the network through the router device. During the back-off period of time, the control device may determine an attachment message is received from another control device on the network. And, if an attachment message (e.g., a parent request messages and/or a link request message) is received from another control device, the control device may increase the back-off period of time (e.g., delaying when the control device initiates its attachment procedure).

An electronic device includes: a communication module; a memory; and a processor configured to: receive a connection test command for a leaf device positioned in a network from an external server by using the communication module; based on receiving the connection test command, identify whether a connection to the leaf device is possible, by using the communication module, and transmit a result of the identification to the external server; based on identifying that the connection to the leaf device is possible, receive at least one module configured to perform an edge computing service from the external server, and store and install the at least one module in the memory; and execute the installed at least one module to perform the edge computing service, based on data received from the leaf device.

A method for providing access to a target electronic device through a first service running on a different electronic device may include receiving in the first service a command directed to the target electronic device from a command sender and receiving in the service device operation status parameters of the target electronic device. The device operation status parameters may include properties of the target electronic device such as a battery level, a battery charging rate, an age, a planned lifespan, a recent wireless usage, an internal temperature, or any of the above in relation to an intervening electronic device over which communication to the target electronic device travels, or any combination thereof. The method may also include using the device operation status parameters to determine, using the service, whether to provide or not to provide an update signal incorporating the command or information to the target electronic device.

A method for providing access to a target electronic device through a first service running on a different electronic device may include receiving in the first service a command directed to the target electronic device from a command sender and receiving in the service device operation status parameters of the target electronic device. The device operation status parameters may include properties of the target electronic device such as a battery level, a battery charging rate, an age, a planned lifespan, a recent wireless usage, an internal temperature, or any of the above in relation to an intervening electronic device over which communication to the target electronic device travels, or any combination thereof. The method may also include using the device operation status parameters to determine, using the service, whether to provide or not to provide an update signal incorporating the command or information to the target electronic device.

Methods and systems for autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicle control, routing, and automatic feature adjustment are disclosed. Sensors associated with autonomous operation features may be utilized to search an area for missing persons, stolen vehicles, or similar persons or items of interest. Sensor data associated with the features may be automatically collected and analyzed to passively search for missing persons or vehicles without vehicle operator involvement. Search criteria may be determined by a remote server and communicated to a plurality of vehicles within a search area. In response to which, sensor data may be collected and analyzed by the vehicles. When sensor data generated by a vehicle matches the search criteria, the vehicle may communicate the information to the remote server.

An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes: a memory configured to store first information on a plurality of home appliances included in an Internet of Things (IoT) network and second information on a plurality of spaces in which the plurality of home appliances are located; a communication interface; and a processor configured to: based on a user command for controlling a first home appliance among the plurality of home appliances being received, identify, based on the first information, a first space in which the first home appliance is located, identify, based on the second information, space information of the first space, and control the communication interface to transmit a control signal for controlling the first home appliance to the first home appliance based on control information included in the user command and the space information of the first space.

An electronic device may include a communication module, a memory, and a processor operatively connected to the communication module and the memory, wherein the processor is configured to: transmit device information of the electronic device to an external server using the communication module; receive, from the external server, first recommendation information including a list of at least one external device which can be connected to the electronic device through edge computing; request transmission of operation state information from the at least one external device included in the first recommendation information; acquire the operation state information of the at least one external device; and, based on the operation state information of the at least one external device, acquire second recommendation information including a list of at least one external device to be connected through edge computing.

A method and an electronic device for generating activity reminder in Internet of Things (IoT) environment are provided. The method includes identifying movement of user towards an object in the IoT environment, predicting first intended activity of the user, associated with the object based on one or more factors, determining occurrence of one or more interrupts before performing the first intended activity, detecting movement of the user away from the object subsequent to the occurrence of the one or more interrupts and before performing the first intended activity, and generating activity reminder to the user, indicating to perform the first intended activity when the user does not move towards the object for a pre-determined time period.

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a communication interface, memory storing one or more computer programs and control information corresponding to each of a plurality of external devices, and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the communication interface and the memory, wherein the one or more computer programs include computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors individually or collectively, cause the electronic device to identify, based on receiving a control signal from a remote control device through the communication interface, whether the electronic device is in a control mode for controlling a first external device among the plurality of external devices, identify, based on identifying that the electronic device is in the control mode for controlling the first external device, first control information corresponding to the first external device based on the information stored in the memory and the received control signal, and transmit the identified first control information to at least one of a server or the first external device through the communication interface.