Patents
are a good information resource for obtaining IoT (Internet of Things) R&D
status in a company. Followings are some examples of patents that provide
Qualcomm IoT R&D status: smart home, connected car, cloud service for IoT,
industrial IoT and IoT connectivity (LED visible light communication).
Smart
Home
US20150185713
(PREEMPTIVELY TRIGGERING A DEVICE ACTION IN AN INTERNET OF THINGS (IoT)
ENVIRONMENT BASED ON A MOTION-BASED PREDICTION OF A USER INITIATING THE DEVICE
ACTION; Qualcomm) illustrates a smart home system that IoT devices
automatically perform their function based on the monitored user behavior. The supervising apparatus receives report(s)
indicating user-initiated event(s) detected by a set of IoT devices within the
IoT environment of the user. The apparatus scans the motion data within a
threshold period of time preceding particular detected user-initiated events to
identify motion sequence(s) within the IoT environment that occurred during the
threshold period of time. Certain motion sequence(s) are correlated with
user-initiated event(s) based on a confidence level that the user-initiated
event(s) will follow the motion sequence(s). Upon detection of the motion
sequence(s) at some later point in time, the correlated event(s) is
preemptively triggered without user interaction.
For
example, a user may have a habit of falling asleep while watching TV in his/her
living room every night, and after waking up the user typically turns off the
TV and the lights in his/her house and then going to sleep. In this user
behavior, the motion sequence of "user picks up remote and points it
towards TV screen" may have a 2% confidence level of preceding a
"turn off TV and lights" event overall (e.g., because the user
performs this action when he/she turns on the TV or changes channels during the
day), but may have a 99% confidence level when detected between midnight and 5
AM in the morning when the TV is in an "ON" state. In this case, the
TV status of being "ON" can be reported, and this TV state
information can be used along with the current time to improve refine the
confidence level of a "user turns off TV and lights" event being
preceded by a "user picks up remote and points it towards TV screen"
motion sequence.
Connected
Car
US20150149042
(SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING AN INTERIOR OF A VEHICLE BASED ON
PREFERENCES PROVIDED WITH MULTIPLE MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICES WITHIN THE VEHICLE;
Qualcomm) illustrates a connected car system that provide user-specific
preferences based on user profile information provided by the mobile devices.
The vehicle controller can implement user-specific preferences stored in
association with the detected mobile device. Preferences can include seat
adjustments, temperature controls, mirror adjustments, music settings, and
other similar adjustable vehicle features. These preferences can be stored on
the controller, which loads the preferences based on detecting the mobile
device in vicinity of the vehicle. User preferences can be determined and set
by the vehicle controller before the door is opened and the user enters the
vehicle.
Cloud
Service for IoT
US20150156266
(DISCOVERING CLOUD-BASED SERVICES FOR IOT DEVICES IN AN IOT NETWORK ASSOCIATED
WITH A USER; Qualcomm) illustrates the offering of cloud-based services for IoT
devices in an IoT network. In particular, an IoT gateway or other suitable
device can discover information (e.g., device classes) about the IoT devices in
the IoT network, discover cloud-based services tagged with the discovered
information about the IoT devices, and offer the discovered cloud-based
services in the IoT network.
For
example, the cloud service providers publish the cloud-based services that they
develop to a first cloud service publisher, while other cloud service providers
may publish their cloud-based services to another cloud service publisher. Accordingly,
the IoT gateway discovers the generic and/or specific device classes associated
with the various IoT devices in the IoT network associated with the user,
discover hosted cloud-based services available for the discovered generic
and/or specific device classes from the cloud service publishers, and the offer
the discovered cloud-based services to the user.
Industrial
IoT
US20140244017
(DETERMINING ITEMS TO BUILD BASED ON AN INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) NETWORK
INVENTORY AND BUILDING THE DETERMINED ITEMS USING A 3D PRINTER; Qualcomm)
illustrates the inventory management using a 3D printer to build the items
exploiting IoT network. The supervisor device is used to observe, monitor,
control, or manage the communications , systems and thus, determine an
inventory that exists within the IoT network. Furthermore, the supervisor
device communicates with various other components in the systems to determine
what inventory needs may exist, identify an appropriate source to obtain 3D
printer blueprints or other suitable information to create or replicate the
needed inventory, and obtain appropriate rights (e.g., a license) to create or
replicate the needed inventory.
In
response to suitably obtaining the 3D printer blueprints and appropriate rights
to create or replicate the needed inventory, the supervisor device coordinates
scheduling creation or replication of the needed inventory via the 3D printer
based on a priority scheme, timing criteria, resource availability, or other
suitable factors and appropriately update the inventory that exists within the
IoT network in response to the 3D printer successfully creating physical
objects that correspond to the needed inventory. Additionally, the supervisor
device stores inventory data that corresponds to the inventory that exists
within the IoT network, the inventory needs in the IoT network, and/or any
other suitable inventory data that are relevant to the current inventory or
needed inventory within the IoT network.
IoT
Connectivity
Thus,
visible light communication (VLC) with LEDs as transmitters and receivers for
wireless communication can provide the IoT connectivity in many IoT
applications. US20150223277 (USING VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION TO MANAGE
WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN DEVICES; Qualcomm) illustrates the LED VLC for
the smart home/building IoT applications. The LED VLC is a type of wireless
communication in which the intensity of a VLC signal may be modulated to carry
information. The LED VLC can be useful in that VLC can enable communication over
relatively long distances within a room or building, yet also confine
communication to a room or building (e.g., because the LED VLC signals do not
pass through opaque walls). The LED VLC can also be useful in that VLC signals
may be received using, for example, an image sensor of a device camera and/or
an ambient light sensor of a device, which sensors may be included on cellular
devices (e.g., smartphones), computers (e.g., tablet computers), and/or certain
wearable devices (e.g., watches and/or electronic glasses).
Each
of the LED VLC transmitting devices are an IoT device such as an illumination
device (e.g., a light bulb), an appliance (e.g., a television or a thermostat),
and/or a wearable device (e.g., a fitness monitor, a watch, or electronic glasses).
Each of the LED VLC transmitting devices can communicate each other and
broadcast a LED VLC signal including an identifier of the LED VLC transmitting
device. A configurator device receives the LED VLC signal broadcast by a LED
VLC transmitting device when the LED VLC signal illuminates, for example, an
image sensor and/or an ambient light sensor of the configurator device. The
configurator device can manage communications among the IoT devices in a smart
way exploiting the broadcasted identifier of the IoT devices.
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