# US 11,112,784 B2 · Methods and systems for communications in an industrial internet of things data collection environment with large data sets

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- Number: US 11,112,784 B2
- Document ID: US11112784B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 15/973,399
- Filed: 2018-05-07
- Published: 2018-10-04
- Granted: 2021-09-07
- Earliest claimed: 2016-05-09
- Assignees: Strong Force IOT Portfolio 2016, LLC
- Applicants: Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLC
- Inventors: Charles Howard Cella; Gerald William Duffy, Jr.; Jeffrey P. McGuckin; Mehul Desai
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11112784B2

## CPC

- G05B 19/4185: {characterised by the network communication}
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- F01D 21/12: responsive to temperature
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- G01M: TESTING STATIC OR DYNAMIC BALANCE OF MACHINES OR STRUCTURES; TESTING OF STRUCTURES OR APPARATUS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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- G06V: IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING
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- H04B: TRANSMISSION
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## Abstract

An apparatus, methods and systems for monitoring data collection in an industrial environment are disclosed. The system may include a data collector communicatively coupled to a plurality of input channels and to a network infrastructure, wherein the data collector collects data based on a selected data collection routine, a data storage structured to store a plurality of collector routes and collected data, a data acquisition circuit structured to interpret a plurality of detection values from the collected data, each of the plurality of detection values corresponding to at least one of the plurality of input channels, and a data analysis circuit structured to analyze the collected data and determine an aggregate rate of data being collected, wherein if the aggregate rate exceeds a current bandwidth allocation rate associated with the network infrastructure, then the data analysis circuit requests an increase to the current bandwidth allocation rate from the network infrastructure.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A monitoring system for data collection in an industrial environment, the system comprising:
a data collector communicatively coupled to a plurality of local input channels and to a network infrastructure, wherein the data collector collects data from a subset of the plurality of local input channels based on a selected data collection routine, and wherein the data collector transmits at least a subset of the collected data to the network infrastructure;
a data storage structured to store the collected data that correspond to the subset of the plurality of local input channels;
a data acquisition circuit structured to interpret a plurality of detection values from the collected data, each of the plurality of detection values corresponding to at least one of the plurality of local input channels; and
a data analysis circuit structured to analyze the collected data and determine an aggregate rate of data being collected from the subset of the plurality of local input channels,
wherein, in response to the aggregate rate exceeding a current bandwidth allocation rate associated with the network infrastructure, the data analysis circuit selectively, according to a hierarchy of components, deactivates monitoring points co-located on an industrial machine represented in the collected data to eliminate collected data until the current bandwidth allocation rate is increased to meet the determined aggregate rate of data.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, wherein the data storage has a data capacity allocation for the collected data, and the data capacity allocation is increased until the current bandwidth allocation rate is increased to meet the determined aggregate rate of data.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, wherein the collected data is eliminated based on a hierarchical template that establishes a hierarchy for the collected data.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, wherein the collected data is eliminated based on a requirement for a data marketplace requirement to which the collected data is communicated.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The system of claim 4, wherein the collected data is eliminated based on a distributed ledger supporting a tracking of transactions executed in the data marketplace.

### Claim 6 (depends on 4)

The system of claim 4, wherein the collected data is eliminated based on a self-organizing data pool associated with the data marketplace.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, wherein the data analysis circuit modifies a data collection parameter of the data collector to reduce an amount of data being collected from an individual input channel by reducing a sampling rate of the individual input channel or reducing a sampling resolution of the individual input channel.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, wherein the selected data collection routine is changed to a second data collection routine based on a hierarchical template for data collection until the current bandwidth allocation rate is increased to meet the determined aggregate rate of data, wherein the hierarchical template includes nodes in a graph with conditional logic for selecting a source of the collected data.

### Claim 9 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, wherein the data collector is part of a self-organizing swarm of data collectors, and the data collection is redistributed to another data collector within the self-organizing swarm of data collectors until the current bandwidth allocation rate is increased to meet the determined aggregate rate of data.

### Claim 10 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, wherein data from multiple input channels is multiplexed as a fused data stream until the current bandwidth allocation rate is increased to meet the determined aggregate rate of data.

### Claim 11 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, wherein the data analysis circuit utilizes a neural network to analyze the collected data to determine data for elimination until the current bandwidth allocation rate is increased to meet the determined aggregate rate of data.

### Claim 12

A computer-implemented method for data collection in an industrial environment, the method comprising:
providing a data collector communicatively coupled to a plurality of local input channels and to a network infrastructure, wherein the data collector collects data from a subset of the plurality of local input channels based on a selected data collection routine, and wherein the data collector transmits at least a subset of the collected data to the network infrastructure;
providing a data storage structured to store the collected data that correspond to the subset of the plurality of local input channels;
providing a data acquisition circuit structured to interpret a plurality of detection values from the collected data, each of the plurality of detection values corresponding to at least one of the plurality of local input channels; and
providing a data analysis circuit structured to analyze the collected data and determine an aggregate rate of data being collected from the subset of the plurality of local input channels,
wherein, in response to the aggregate rate exceeding a current bandwidth allocation rate associated with the network infrastructure, the data analysis circuit selectively, according to a hierarchy of components, deactivates monitoring points co-located on an industrial machine represented in the collected data to eliminate collected data until the current bandwidth allocation rate is increased to meet the determined aggregate rate of data.

### Claim 13 (depends on 12)

The method of claim 12, wherein the data storage has a data capacity allocation for the collected data, and the data capacity allocation is increased until the current bandwidth allocation rate is increased to meet the determined aggregate rate of data.

### Claim 14

An apparatus for monitoring data collection in an industrial environment, the apparatus comprising:
a data collector component communicatively coupled to a plurality of local input channels and to a network infrastructure, wherein the data collector collects data from a subset of the plurality of local input channels based on a selected data collection routine, and wherein the data collector transmits at least a subset of the collected data to the network infrastructure;
a data storage component structured to store the collected data that correspond to the subset of the plurality of local input channels;
a data acquisition component structured to interpret a plurality of detection values from the collected data, each of the plurality of detection values corresponding to at least one of the plurality of local input channels; and
a data analysis component structured to analyze the collected data and determine an aggregate rate of data being collected from the subset of the plurality of local input channels,
wherein, in response to the aggregate rate exceeding a current bandwidth allocation rate associated with the network infrastructure, the data analysis component selectively, according to a hierarchy of components, deactivates monitoring points co-located on an industrial machine represented in the collected data to eliminate collected data until the current bandwidth allocation rate is increased to meet the determined aggregate rate of data.

### Claim 15 (depends on 14)

The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the data storage component has a data capacity allocation for the collected data, and the data capacity allocation is increased until the current bandwidth allocation rate is increased to meet the determined aggregate rate of data.

### Claim 16 (depends on 12)

The method of claim 12, further comprising eliminating collected data based on: a hierarchical template that establishes a hierarchy for the collected data; a requirement for a data marketplace to which the collected data is communicated; a distributed ledger supporting a tracking of transactions executed in the data marketplace; or a self-organizing data pool associated with the data marketplace.

### Claim 17 (depends on 12)

The method of claim 12, further comprising modifying a data collection parameter of the data collector; and reducing an amount of data being collected from an individual local input channel by: reducing a sampling rate of the local input channel, or reducing a sampling resolution of the local input channel.

### Claim 18 (depends on 14)

The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the data analysis component modifies a data collection parameter of the data collector component to reduce an amount of data being collected from an individual input channel by reducing a sampling rate of the individual input channel or reducing a sampling resolution of the individual input channel.

### Claim 19 (depends on 14)

The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the data collector component is part of a self-organizing swarm of data collector components, and the data collection is redistributed to another data collector component within the self-organizing swarm of data collector components until the current bandwidth allocation rate is increased to meet the determined aggregate rate of data.

### Claim 20 (depends on 14)

The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the collected data is eliminated based on: a hierarchical template that establishes a hierarchy for the collected data; a requirement for a data marketplace to which the collected data is communicated; a distributed ledger supporting a tracking of transactions executed in the data marketplace; or a self-organizing data pool associated with the data marketplace.