Cloud device and user equipment device collaborative decision-making

A method for determining whether to process data at a first User Equipment (UE) device or at a cloud-based electronic computing device, the method comprising:

• receiving, with an electronic processor of the cloud-based electronic computing device and via a network interface of the cloud-based electronic computing device, public safety incident information about a public safety incident from a public safety command center;
• receiving, with the electronic processor and via the network interface, metadata representing first gathered data from a location of the public safety incident from the at least one of an IoT infrastructure and one or more UE devices;
• determining, with the electronic processor and based on the public safety incident information and the metadata, whether to process the first gathered data by a first UE device at the location of the public safety incident or by the electronic processor of the cloud-based electronic computing device;
• in response to determining that the first gathered data should be processed by the first UE device, sending, with the electronic processor and via the network interface, a first instruction to the first UE device to process the first gathered data, wherein processing the first gathered data results in the first UE device performing an action;
• and
• in response to determining that the first gathered data should be processed by the electronic processor of the cloud-based electronic computing device,
• sending, with the electronic processor and via the network interface, a second instruction to the at least one of the IoT infrastructure and the one or more UE devices to transmit the first gathered data to the cloud-based electronic computing device,
• receiving, with the electronic processor and via the network interface, the first gathered data from the at least one of the IoT infrastructure and the one or more UE devices, and
• processing, with the electronic processor, the first gathered data to add information to the public safety incident information or update information included in the public safety incident information to generate global public safety incident context information.

A first User Equipment (UE) device comprising:

• an output device configured to provide an output to a user;
• an input device configured to capture data;
• a network interface configured to communicate over a wireless communication network with at least one of a cloud-based electronic computing device, an Internet-of-things (IoT) infrastructure, and one or more other UE devices;
• and
• an electronic processor coupled to the output device, the input device, and to the network interface, the electronic processor configured to
• receive, via the network interface, public safety incident information about a public safety incident from a public safety command center,
• receive, from at least one of a group consisting of (i) the input device, (ii) the IoT infrastructure, and (iii) the one or more other UE devices, first gathered data from a location of the public safety incident,
• generate metadata representing the first gathered data,
• determine, based on the public safety incident information and the metadata, whether to process the first gathered data by the electronic processor of the first UE device,
• in response to determining that the first gathered data should be processed by the electronic processor of the first UE device, process the first gathered data to at least one of a group consisting of (i) provide the output with the output device and (ii) transmit data, via the network interface to one or more of the at least one of the IoT infrastructure and the one or more other UE devices, and
• in response to determining that the first gathered data should not be processed by the electronic processor of the first UE device, transmit, via the network interface, at least one of a group consisting of the metadata and the first gathered data to the cloud-based electronic computing device.