A container having a battery and one or more active systems for maintaining temperature or other characteristics of goods stored within the container relies on a battery to maintain those active systems during transit. The size of the battery required for such applications may be reduced by providing access to external power during a shipment cycle. For example, shelves within transit vehicles or warehouses can supply electricity to the active systems via a wireless or wired connection, or they may recharge the container's battery, or both. The container may also have data bridging capabilities that use short range wireless technology to communicate with nearby devices that have access to other data streams, such as GPS data and internet connectivity. When bridged with a provider, the container may have access to new data streams, or may be able to disable internal devices providing those same data streams to conserve power.

Embodiments described herein are directed to the manufacturing of tag devices, authenticating such devices, authorizing a tag reader apparatus to read tag devices external to the tag reader apparatus, and enabling an authorized tag reader apparatus to form a secured network comprising a plurality of devices, each of which comprise a tag device. The secured network may be formed by simply reading tag devices associated with consumer devices that a user desires to be in the secured network using the authorized tag reader apparatus. The random identification numbers associated with the plurality of consumer devices' tag devices may be used to retrieve instructions that are implemented by the consumer device(s) to form/configure the secured network. The authorized tag reader apparatus is the only device that is enabled to subsequently configure/reconfigure the network and/or the devices included therein, thereby securing the network for use only by the authorized tag reader apparatus.

A method of providing LAN service based on a 5G communication network and a terminal device and a server using the same are provided. The method adapted to the terminal device includes: receiving a service ID list broadcasted by the 5G communication network; registering to an isolated 5G core network according to the service ID list so as to obtain an allowed service ID list; transmitting a request message according to the allowed service ID list so as to obtain packet data unit (PDU) session establishment parameter(s) corresponding to a service group in the isolated 5G core network; and communicating with an electronic device in the service group according to the PDU session establishment parameter(s).

Statically configured secure tunnels forward application-level Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) application data between servers using a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) channel. Applications operating on a server cluster can communicate with other applications on another server in the cluster over the public Internet using secure TCP connection forwarding through a single UDP datagram-oriented communication channel.

Server cluster communication across the public internet using a single secure User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is facilitated by an intermediary registry server. The intermediary registry server enables servers within a cluster to identify and securely communicate with peer servers in the cluster across disparate locations and through firewalls Using an external address registry shared to each member of a server cluster peer group, individual servers can establish a direct secure channel using a single UDP tunnel.

Network TCP tunnels are dynamically configured to support intra-application connectivity of a distributed application. Tunnel origins listen on each server's loopback address. This listening configuration permits only applications running on the same server to connect. A tunnel gateway application interfaces with the distributed application on each server and includes a tunnel endpoint manager configured to select one or more TCP ports. These selected ports are each associated with a separate TCP listeners. Once associated, data from the instance of the distributed application resident on each of the plurality of servers in the server cluster is routed through these TCP connections and a UDP datagram-orientated communication channel formed between each peer in the server cluster. Each instance of the distributed application can thereafter access peers in the server cluster through each unique UDP datagram-orientated communication channel.

Methods and systems are provided for managing an Internet of Things object having a single active Radio Access Technology for communication with a data network via a hub of a local network. The method comprises: receiving, by a service provider server connected to the data network, information indicating a loss of connectivity between the Internet of Things object and the data network via the hub; and establishing, by the service provider server, a relay connection between the Internet of Things object and the data network, connectivity between the Internet of Things object and the data network being restored via the relay connection.

Method for transporting LoRa frames over a first PLC communication network of a system for the automated management of meterings from a plurality of electricity meters, referred to as meters, said meters in the plurality being attached to at least one data concentrator via the first network, each data concentrator being connected to a server via a second network and serving as a relay between said meters and the server. The method is executed by a meter in the plurality and comprises: receiving (402) a LoRa frame, each LoRa frame received corresponding to the same LoRa frame sent by an endpoint; relaying a received LoRa frame, referred to as the first frame, corresponding to said sent frame, in the direction of the server, the first frame being selected (403) in accordance with a first predetermined criterion; when a plurality of LoRa frames corresponding to said sent LoRa frame are received, rejecting at least a subset of LoRa frames in the plurality of frames different from the first frame.

A communication system includes a plurality of high-performance communication devices located in a first communication network and having a first communication processing performance, and a low-performance communication device located in a second communication network and having a second communication processing performance. A high-performance communication device, which is one of the high-performance communication devices and is located at a boundary of connection with the low-performance communication device, restricts relay of a broadcast frame transmitted and received in the first communication network to the second communication network.

A message transmission method and system, and a network device and an electronic medium are disclosed. The message transmission method may include: receiving a Layer 2 message sent by a first user equipment; acquiring a forwarding port number and a newly added message header, and determining a message encapsulation mode; encapsulating the Layer 2 message based on the message encapsulation mode, the forwarding port number, and the newly added message header to obtain a Layer 3 message; and sending the Layer 3 message to a second forwarding device.