Iterative learning for reliable sensor sourcing systems

A method for providing a registry of sensor devices, comprising:

• receiving an addition request from a device, the addition request comprising at least an information type returned by the device, a communication protocol used by the device for transmitting information associated with the information type, and an encoding scheme used by the device to format the information;
• adding the device to the registry of sensor devices including at least the information type returned by the device, the communication protocol and the encoding scheme;
• allowing access to the registry of sensor devices;
• transmitting, by a processor via a network, a request for information to a set of sensor devices registered in the registry of sensor devices that make same type of measurement requested in the information, using respective sensor device's communications protocols specified in the registry of sensor devices;
• receiving, by the processor, the information from the set of sensor devices;
• and
• updating in the registry of sensor devices, by the processor, a reliability factor of a sensor device in the set of sensor devices based on the information comprising measurements received from the set of sensor devices, the reliability factor indicating an accuracy of measurement data provided by the sensor device, the reliability factor of a sensor device incremented responsive to determining the measurement data provided by the sensor device matches to a degree sensor data provided by other sensor devices providing the same measurement type, the reliability factor of the sensor device decremented responsive to determining the measurement data does not match to the degree the sensor data provided by the other sensor devices providing the same measurement type;
• and
• assigning a reliability factor value to the sensor device,
• wherein a model type indicating manufacturer and model number of the sensor device is identified and the reliability factor value is assigned to other sensor devices having the same model type.