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US 10,885,174 B2Granted
IOT-enabled device and a method for manufacturing an IoT device
AssigneeAdvanced Digital Broadcast S.A.
InventorsMauro Robba, Marco Storto
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AssigneeAdvanced Digital Broadcast S.A.
InventorsMauro Robba, Marco Storto
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A method for providing an IoT functionality to a device, the method comprising manufacturing the device by: providing a connectivity module with a register comprising data related to machine-to-machine (M2M) credentials and comprising: a unique client identifier (Client ID), an authentication identifier (Authentication ID) related to a unique pair of public/private encryption keys, a wireless client access point identifier (miniAP SSID) and a wireless encryption key (miniAP WPA, WPA2); providing a non-electronic label associated with the connectivity module and comprising the wireless client access point Identifier (miniAP SSID) and the wireless encryption key (miniAP WPA, WPA2); providing an electronic module having a device serial number (Device ID S/N); providing a non-electronic label associated with the electronic module and comprising an activation code unique for the device; assembling the device by connecting the electronic module with the connectivity module; and providing a package comprising the device and the non-electronic labels.
A device comprising:
A method for providing an IoT functionality to a device including an electronic module, a connectivity module, a data proxy module, a first non-electronic label, and a second non-electronic label, the electronic module including a control unit, a communication interface, and a communication bus having multiple bus nodes and communicatively coupling the control unit to the communication interface, and the connectivity module having a hardware and software implementation and configured to provide Internet connectivity for the device via a wireless data interface communicatively connected with the electronic module, the connectivity module including a register comprising data related to machine-to-machine credentials and comprising:
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User authentication: using certificates
Program or device authentication: by mutual authentication, e.g. between devices or programs
For authentication of entities: using certificates
Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor: services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or…
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The present invention is related to providing communication over the Internet.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a term that is described by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) as a network of “things”, i.e. physical objects, such as devices, vehicles, buildings and other items—embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and network connectivity that enables these objects to collect and exchange data. Throughout this disclosure, these physical objects within the IoT network will be called “devices”.
This disclosure relates in particular to devices such as appliances, consumer electronic devices, commercial electronic devices etc. that are not able to natively communicate in the Internet due to the fact that they do not have by nature any IP connection capability. There is a need to provide such devices with some means of connectivity, so that they can communicate within the environment of the Internet of Things.
The presented method and system are shown by means of example embodiments on a drawing, wherein:
FIG. 1 presents a typical prior art IoT device having additional connectivity module that adds communication capabilities;
FIG. 2 presents a new approach to adding communication capabilities to an IoT device;
Some portions of the detailed description which follows are presented in terms of data processing procedures, steps or other symbolic representations of operations on data bits that can be performed on computer memory. Therefore, a computer executes such logical steps thus requiring physical manipulations of physical quantities.
Usually these quantities take the form of electrical or magnetic signals capable of being stored, transferred, combined, compared, and otherwise manipulated in a computer system. For reasons of common usage, these signals are referred to as bits, packets, messages, values, elements, symbols, characters, terms, numbers, or the like.
Additionally, all of these and similar terms are to be associated with the appropriate physical quantities and are merely convenient labels applied to these quantities. Terms such as “processing” or “creating” or “transferring” or “executing” or “determining” or “detecting” or “obtaining” or “selecting” or “calculating” or “generating” or the like, refer to the action and processes of a computer system that manipulates and transforms data represented as physical (electronic) quantities within the computer's registers and memories into other data similarly represented as physical quantities within the memories or registers or other such information storage.