US 11,893,372 B1Granted

Deployment system for internet of things and deployment method for the same

AssigneeNexcom International Co., Ltd.

InventorsChien-Wei Tseng, Po-Hsu Chen

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Abstract

A deployment system for IoT including an edge server, multiple gateways, and multiple agent modules is disclosed. Each gateway is respectively connected with different peripheral devices to support different function. The edge server includes a flow editor used to edit a flow for a target gateway. The edge server performs a deploying procedure to the target gateway in accordance with the flow, wherein the deploying procedure is to first read a script and a parameter of one or more function nodes included in the flow, then encapsulate the script and the parameter into a packet, and then transmit the packet to the target gateway through one of the agent modules. The target gateway receives the packet through one of the agent modules and sequentially executes the function nodes according to the content of the flow, so as to implement a corresponding IoT function.

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Dependent claims

A deployment system for Internet of Things, comprising:

an edge server, having a database and a plurality of first agent modules, wherein the database records a script and a parameter of multiple function nodes;
multiple gateways, respectively connecting with different peripheral devices to support different function, each of the multiple gateways being configured with a second agent module, wherein the edge server respectively connects to the second agent module of each gateway through the plurality of first agent modules;
and
a flow editor, arranged on the edge server, used to edit a flow of a target gateway of the multiple gateways, wherein the flow is consisted by multiple function nodes having a relationship with each other;
wherein, the edge server is configured to perform a deploying procedure to the target gateway, the deploying procedure obtains the script and the parameter of the multiple function nodes included in the flow from the database to generate a corresponding packet and transmit the corresponding packet to the target gateway through one of the plurality of first agent module, and the target gateway sequentially executes the script of each of the function nodes based on the flow to generate an execution result and transmits the execution result to the edge server through the second agent module.

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A deployment method for Internet of Things, incorporated with a deployment system comprising an edge server and multiple gateways, comprising:

logging to the edge server, wherein the edge server comprises a database and a plurality of first agent modules, and the database records a script and a parameter of multiple function nodes;
opening a flow editor on the edge server;
selecting a target gateway from the multiple gateways on the flow editor, wherein each of the multiple gateways respectively connects to different peripheral devices to support different function, and each of the multiple gateways respectively comprises a second agent module;
editing a flow of the target gateway, wherein the flow is consisted by multiple function nodes having relationship with each other;
performing a deploying procedure to the target gateway based on the flow by the edge server, and the deploying procedure comprises:
reading the database to obtain the script and the parameter of the multiple function nodes in the flow to generate a corresponding packet;
and
transmitting the corresponding packet to the target gateway through one of the first agent modules;
sequentially executing the script of each of the function nodes based on the flow by the target gateway and generating an execution result;
and
transmitting the execution result to the edge server by the second agent module of the target gateway.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.