Systems/methods are described for initiating a mediation response to a detected environmental anomaly in a shipping container. Multiple wireless sensor-based ID nodes in the container generate sensor data on environmental conditions proximate each ID node. A command node mounted to the container has a command node sensor generating sensor data on an environmental condition proximate the command node. The command node detects ID node sensor data and detects the anomaly when ID node sensor data exceeds an ID node's threshold condition. The command node then generates a layered alert notification identifying a targeted mediation recipient and targeted mediation action, and establishing a mediation response priority based upon comparing the ID node sensor data and the threshold, and a difference between the command node sensor data and a container environmental profile maintained by the command node). The command node initiates a mediation response by transmitting the notification to an external transceiver.

A compression method for resource constrained local area networks (LANs) of an Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) reduces the volume of raw data sent from Things to connection points on the LAN. Applications include industrial processes, and typically include multiple sensor nodes. Sensors on machines wirelessly send data to a base station using a wireless LAN. A computer or server in communication with the wireless LAN computes the health of a machine based on the data received. The method operates by taking advantage of unique similarities between sequential groups of certain types of data that can be sent on the LAN. Mathematical operations are performed on the baseline and subsequent data sets to determine similarities. A difference is taken between the baseline and subsequent data sets, and this difference is compressed and sent to the base station where the original data is reconstructed using the baseline data and uncompressed difference data.

The invention relates to the field of the Internet of things (IoT) and allows to remotely control the energy resource consumption parameters (electricity, cold and hot water, heat energy and gas) in the communal field. The controlled parameters include the amount of energy resources received from each source of resources, their quality (water, coolant or gas temperature, pressure in the water or gas pipeline, availability of power from the grid, peak voltage, RMS voltage, frequency deviation, distortion of the current waveform), as well as environmental parameters (temperature and composition of ambient air, air humidity, the smoke presence, opening and closing of doors and windows, the presence of moving objects, illumination, water leakage, gas leakage). The developed method and the system implementing it allow registering the value of each monitored parameter in real time mode at the moment this parameter is changed by a certain predefined value and automatically transfer this value to the Monitoring Center. Data accumulated in the Monitoring Center is Big Data containing detailed information on the quantity and quality of energy resources consumed, the state of the data collection system itself, and the behavior of people in the consumption of energy resources. These data can be used to develop recommendations for energy saving, changing consumers' behavior to save energy, as well as to monitor the operation of the system and the location of accidents and leaks. The invention can be used to create centralized automatic monitoring systems for energy resource consumption in areas of any size.

An adaptive method and system for monitoring a shipping container for an environmental anomaly uses sensor-based ID nodes within the container and a command node. Sensors on each ID node generate sensor data about an environmental condition proximate the ID node as disposed within the container. Each ID node periodically broadcasts the sensor data. The command node monitors a first group of sensor data from the ID nodes over a first time period to detect an initial environmental threshold condition related to the container, then monitors a subsequent group of sensor data over a second time period under a modified monitoring parameter to detect a secondary environmental threshold condition related to the container as the anomaly. In response to detecting the secondary condition, the command node generates an alert notification and transmits the alert notification to an external transceiver to initiate a mediation response related to the anomaly.

An improved system detects an environmental anomaly in a shipping container and initiates a mediation response through a generated layered alert notification. The system includes sensor-based ID nodes associated with packages within the container, and a command node mounted to the container communicating with the ID nodes and an external transceiver on a vehicle transporting the container. The command node is programmed to detect sensor data from the ID nodes; compare the sensor data to package environmental thresholds in context data related to each ID node; detect the environmental anomaly when the comparison indicates an environmental condition for at least one package exceeds its environmental threshold; responsively generate a layered alert notification identifying a mediation recipient and mediation action, and establishing a mediation response priority based upon the comparison; and transmit the layered alert notification to the transceiver unit to initiate a mediation response related to the mediation action.

A method for communication of a plurality of wheel units with one another and with a device for remotely monitoring and/or controlling the wheel units, the wheel units measuring a pressure value of a wheel of a motor vehicle as parameter(s). The units are identified beforehand and each wheel unit may identify the other wheel units, the communication taking place in accordance with a communication standard allowing a bidirectional data exchange. A hub wheel unit storing the pressure values measured by each of the wheel units is selected at least temporarily, the other units being peripheral. The hub unit sends a signaling frame in the direction of the peripheral units, received in a peripheral unit through scanning. The pressure values are communicated between the wheel units and a device solely via the hub unit.

In a general aspect, motion is detected using wireless signals. In an example, in response to a first series of sampling instructions asserted at a first sampling rate in a wireless sensing system, a first series of requests is sent for a wireless communication device to transmit a first series of wireless signals. The first series of wireless signals is received and motion detection output data is obtained based on the first series of wireless signals. A rate at which sampling instructions are asserted is changed from the first sampling rate to a second, different sampling rate based on the motion detection output data. In response to a second series of sampling instructions asserted at the second sampling rate in the wireless sensing system, a second series of requests is sent for the wireless communication device to transmit a second series of wireless signals.

This wireless communication device is equipped with: a communication control unit for wirelessly connecting a work vehicle and a portable terminal with one another, an acquisition unit which is connected to a work vehicle onboard network, and acquires, from the work vehicle, work vehicle identification information for identifying the work vehicle; a generation unit for generating first character string data on the basis of the work vehicle identification information; and a setting unit for setting the generated first character string data to as a network name the communication control unit.

An access point according to the present invention is an access point that receives first information measured by a sensor from a terminal and transmits the first information as sensor information to a server, the access point including: a measurement result estimator that estimates an estimation result that is information indicating an estimated value of the first information and is information to be used by the terminal to determine whether to transmit the first information; a communicator that transmits the estimation result to the terminal; and a wide area interface that transmits the estimation result as the sensor information to the server in a case where the first information is not received from the terminal for a certain period of time or longer after transmission of the estimation result to the terminal.

In a general aspect, motion is detected using wireless signals. In an example, a method includes receiving, at a wireless communication device, requests for the wireless communication device to transmit wireless signals, the requests initiated by a wireless sensing system. The method further includes transmitting a series of wireless signals from the wireless communication device in response to the requests, and detecting, at the wireless communication device, a trigger event after transmitting the series of wireless signals. The method additionally includes updating, by the wireless communication device, a state of the wireless communication device based on the trigger event, the updated state indicating that the wireless communication device is not enabled to transmit wireless signals in response to the requests from the wireless sensing system. The method also includes communicating, by the wireless communication device, the updated state of the wireless communication device to the wireless sensing system.