# US 12,216,457 B2 · Industrial internet of things system conducive to system function expansion and system adjustment and control method thereof

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- Number: US 12,216,457 B2
- Document ID: US12216457B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 18/485,309
- Filed: 2023-10-11
- Published: 2024-02-01
- Granted: 2025-02-04
- Earliest claimed: 2022-05-13
- Assignees: Chengdu Qinchuan Iot Technology Co., Ltd.
- Applicants: Chengdu Qinchuan Iot Technology Co., Ltd.
- Inventors: Zehua Shao; Haitang Xiang; Yaqiang Quan; Bin Liu; Yong Li
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12216457B2

## CPC

- G05B 19/4185: {characterised by the network communication}
- G05B 19/4065: Monitoring tool breakage, life or condition
- G16Y 10/25: Manufacturing
- G16Y 20/10: relating to the environment, e.g. temperature; relating to location
- G16Y 40/10: Detection; Monitoring
- G16Y 40/30: Control
- H04L 67/12: specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
- H04L 67/125: involving control of end-device applications over a network
- G05B 2219/32335: Use of ann, neural network
- G05B 2219/45244: Injection molding
- G05B: CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS (systems for controlling or regulating non-electric variables G05D; systems for regulating electric or magnetic variables G05F; control devices or systems insofar as characterised by mechanical features only G05G)
- G16Y: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE INTERNET OF THINGS [IoT]
- H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M)

## Abstract

The present disclosure provides an Industrial Internet of Things system conducive to system function expansion and system adjustment and control method thereof. The system comprises a user platform, a service platform, a management platform, a sensor network platform, and an object platform. The service platform and the sensor network platform adopt independent layout, and the management platform adopts centralized layout. The management platform is configured to store a control program that drives operation of production line equipment. The management platform is configured to call the control parameters in the database through communicating with the service platform and configure the control parameters in the control program to control the operation of production line equipment; and a data interaction mode between the user platform and the service platform is modifying and deleting the control parameters in the service platform through data transmission between the user platform and the service platform.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An Industrial Internet of Things system conducive to system function expansion and system adjustment, comprising: a user platform, a service platform, a management platform, a sensor network platform, and an object platform which are interacted sequentially, wherein
the service platform and the sensor network platform adopt independent layout, and the management platform adopts centralized layout;
the independent layout means that a platform has a plurality of independent databases, processors, and/or information channels, according to a classification of data, different data are stored in different databases, processed by different processors, and/or transmitted by different information channels;
the service platform and the sensor network platform both include a plurality of sub platforms, and each sub platform is provided with a database, a processor, and/or an information channel;
the centralized layout means that a platform receives data, processes data, and sends data uniformly;
the object platform includes a production line for manufacturing parts and/or forming assemblies, and the production line is configured with a plurality of sensors serving manufacturing and/or assembly;
any one of the plurality of sub platforms of the sensor network platform is connected to some sensors in the plurality of sensors, and sensors connected to a same sub platform of the sensor network platform adopt a same communication protocol;
a count of sub platforms of the service platform is greater than or equal to a count of sub platforms of the sensor network platform, any one of the plurality of sub platforms of the sensor network platform is connected with a unique sub platform of the service platform through the management platform, and different sub platforms of the sensor network platform establish data connections with different sub platforms of the service platform;
the management platform is configured to store a control program that drives operation of production line equipment;
the service platform includes databases for storing control parameters;
the management platform is configured to call the control parameters in the database through communicating with the service platform through communication channels and configure the control parameters in the control program to control the operation of production line equipment; and
a data interaction mode between the user platform and the service platform is modifying and deleting the control parameters in the service platform through data transmission between the user platform and the service platform.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The Industrial Internet of Things system conducive to system function expansion and system adjustment of claim 1, wherein
a count of sensors connected to each of the plurality of sub platforms of the sensor network platform is greater than or equal to 1;
the sensor network platform includes databases for storing the monitoring data from the sensors; and
when the count of sensors connected to the sub platform of the sensor network platform is greater than 1, the monitoring data from the sensors is stored in different addresses of the databases.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The Industrial Internet of Things system conducive to system function expansion and system adjustment of claim 2, wherein
each of the plurality of sub platforms of the sensor network platform includes a data upload module and a processor, the processor sends the monitoring data of the database to the management platform according to settings of the processor or query instructions sent to the processor by the management platform;
when the processor determines that the monitoring data of a sensor is missing, the processor uploads the monitoring data or a processing result of the database to the management platform according to the settings of the processor or the query instructions sent to the processor by the management platform; and
the processing result is determined by: taking the monitoring data stored in the database within a set time period as a calculation basis, taking a change trend of the monitoring data within the set time period as a calculation function, determining a supplementary data at a data loss time according to the data loss time, and taking the supplementary data as the processing result.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The Industrial Internet of Things system conducive to system function expansion and system adjustment of claim 3, wherein the production line is used to produce an injection molded part, and the monitoring data includes a holding pressure, a mold temperature, a melt temperature, and a holding time at each time when the injection molded part are produced, when at least one of the holding pressure, the mold temperature, and the melt temperature at a time is missing, the sub platforms of the sensor network platform are further configured to:
obtain injection molded part information of the injection molded part; and
determine the supplementary data through a data supplement model based on the monitoring data and the injection molded part information, wherein the data supplement model is a trained machine learning model.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The Industrial Internet of Things system conducive to system function expansion and system adjustment of claim 4, wherein the injection molded part information includes injection molded part structural parameters of the injection molded part, and the injection molded part structural parameters at least include a wall thickness, a volume, a relative surface area, a count of symmetrical planes, a count of stiffeners, a count of planes, and a count of edges of the injection molded part.

### Claim 6 (depends on 5)

The Industrial Internet of Things system conducive to system function expansion and system adjustment of claim 5, wherein
the data supplement model comprises a feature extraction layer, a fusion layer, and a data supplement layer, wherein
the feature extraction layer is configured to process the injection molded part structural parameters and determine a complexity vector of the injection molded part;
the fusion layer is configured to process the complexity vector and the monitoring data to determine a fusion feature vector at each time when producing the injection molded part; and
the data supplement layer is configured to process the fusion feature vector at each time when producing the injection molded part to determine supplemented monitoring data, wherein the supplemented monitoring data includes the supplementary data.

### Claim 7 (depends on 6)

The Industrial Internet of Things system conducive to system function expansion and system adjustment of claim 6, wherein the fusion layer comprises a plurality of neural network layers, and the plurality of neural network layers share parameters.

### Claim 8 (depends on 7)

The Industrial Internet of Things system conducive to system function expansion and system adjustment of claim 7, wherein the data supplement model is obtained by jointly training based on the feature extraction layer, the fusion layer, and the data supplement layer, wherein training samples include sample monitoring data and sample injection molded part information, wherein the sub platforms of the sensor network platform are further configured to:
obtain the sample monitoring data;
obtain extracted sample monitoring data and extracted data by extracting at least one of a holding pressure, a mold temperature, and a melt temperature at a time in the sample monitoring data;
determine the extracted sample monitoring data and the sample injection molded part information as the training sample,
determine the extracted data as labels of the training samples.

### Claim 9 (depends on 3)

The Industrial Internet of Things system conducive to system function expansion and system adjustment of claim 3, wherein the monitoring data used as the calculation basis is all data of sensors with missing monitoring data stored in the sensor network platform;
a way of storing the monitoring data in the sensor network platform is:
for any sensor, according to a storage space of the database set for the monitoring data from the sensor, new monitoring data continuing to be stored to expand a data storage capacity of the database when there is idle available space in the storage space of the database;
when there is no idle available space in the storage space of the database, maintaining the data storage capacity of the database, and covering an earliest monitoring data stored in the database with the monitoring data written in a real-time; and
when the processor determines that the monitoring data of the sensor is missing, the sub platform of the sensor network platform connected with the sensor uploading a prompt data instruction to the management platform, wherein the prompt data instruction includes an identification of a faulty sensor, and the faulty sensor being a sensor with missing monitoring data.

### Claim 10 (depends on 1)

The Industrial Internet of Things system conducive to system function expansion and system adjustment of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of sub platforms of the sensor network platform includes a driver download module for downloading drivers from the sub platforms of the service platform, wherein data connection is established between the sub platforms of the service platform and the sub platforms of the sensor network platform; and
the sub platforms of the sensor network platform are configured to receive a new driver and replace an original driver with the new driver.

### Claim 11 (depends on 10)

The Industrial Internet of Things system conducive to system function expansion and system adjustment of claim 10, wherein the control parameters are stored in the databases of the service platform in a form of arrays;
each array includes all the control parameters required by the control program, the management platform is configured to call a group of arrays by the service platform at a single time for configuring the control program;
the database storing the control parameters is located on an independent sub platform of the service platform; and
the independent sub platform of the service platform refers to a sub platform for establishing data connection with the sub platform of the sensor network platform or storing the control parameters.

### Claim 12

A control method of an Industrial Internet of Things system conducive to system function expansion and system adjustment, wherein the control method is applied to the Industrial Internet of Things system, the Industrial Internet of Things system comprises a user platform, a service platform, a management platform, a sensor network platform, and an object platform which are interacted sequentially, wherein
the service platform and the sensor network platform adopt independent layout, and the management platform adopts centralized layout;
the independent layout means that a platform has a plurality of independent databases, processors, and/or information channels, according to a classification of data, different data are stored in different databases, processed by different processors, and/or transmitted by different information channels;
the service platform and the sensor network platform both include a plurality of sub platforms, and each sub platform is provided with a database, a processor, and/or an information channel;
the centralized layout means that a platform receives data, processes data, and sends data uniformly;
the object platform includes a production line for manufacturing parts and/or forming assemblies, and the production line is configured with a plurality of sensors serving manufacturing and/or assembly;
any one of the plurality of sub platforms of the sensor network platform is connected to some sensors in the plurality of sensors, and sensors connected to a same sub platform of the sensor network platform adopt a same communication protocol;
a count of sub platforms of the service platform is greater than or equal to a count of sub platforms of the sensor network platform, any one of the plurality of sub platforms of the sensor network platform is connected with a unique sub platform of the service platform through the management platform, and different sub platforms of the sensor network platform establish data connections with different sub platforms of the service platform; and
the service platform includes databases for storing control parameters;
the method comprising:
storing, by the management platform, a control program that drives operation of production line equipment;
calling, by the management platform, the control parameters in the database through communicating with the service platform through communication channels and configuring the control parameters in the control program to control the operation of production line equipment; and
a data interaction mode between the user platform and the service platform being modifying and deleting the control parameters in the service platform through data transmission between the user platform and the service platform.

### Claim 13 (depends on 12)

The control method of the Industrial Internet of Things system conducive to system function expansion and system adjustment of claim 12, wherein a count of sensors connected to each of the plurality of sub platforms of the sensor network platform is greater than or equal to 1; and the sensor network platform includes databases for storing the monitoring data from the sensors; the control method further comprising:
when the count of sensors connected to the sub platform of the sensor network platform is greater than 1, storing the monitoring data from the sensors in different addresses of the databases.

### Claim 14 (depends on 13)

The control method of the Industrial Internet of Things system conducive to system function expansion and system adjustment of claim 13, wherein each of the plurality of sub platforms of the sensor network platform includes a data upload module and a processor, the processor sends the monitoring data of the database to the management platform according to settings of the processor or query instructions sent to the processor by the management platform;
the control method further comprising:
when the processor determines that the monitoring data of a sensor is missing, the processor uploads the monitoring data or a processing result of the database to the management platform according to the settings of the processor or the query instructions sent to the processor by the management platform; and
the processing result is determined by: taking the monitoring data stored in the database within a set time period as a calculation basis, taking a change trend of the monitoring data within the set time period as a calculation function, determining a supplementary data at a data loss time according to the data loss time, and taking the supplementary data as the processing result.

### Claim 15 (depends on 14)

The control method of the Industrial Internet of Things system conducive to system function expansion and system adjustment of claim 14, wherein the production line is used to produce an injection molded part, and the monitoring data includes a holding pressure, a mold temperature, a melt temperature, and a holding time at each time when the injection molded part are produced, when at least one of the holding pressure, the mold temperature, and the melt temperature at a time is missing, wherein the determining a supplementary data at a data loss time comprises:
obtaining injection molded part information of the injection molded part; and
determining the supplementary data through a data supplement model based on the monitoring data and the injection molded part information, wherein the data supplement model is a trained machine learning model.

### Claim 16 (depends on 15)

The control method of the Industrial Internet of Things system conducive to system function expansion and system adjustment of claim 15, wherein the injection molded part information includes injection molded part structural parameters of the injection molded part, and the injection molded part structural parameters at least include a wall thickness, a volume, a relative surface area, a count of symmetrical planes, a count of stiffeners, a count of planes, and a count of edges of the injection molded part.

### Claim 17 (depends on 16)

The control method of the Industrial Internet of Things system conducive to system function expansion and system adjustment of claim 16, wherein
the data supplement model comprises a feature extraction layer, a fusion layer and a data supplement layer, wherein
the feature extraction layer is configured to process the injection molded part structural parameters and determine a complexity vector of the injection molded part;
the fusion layer is configured to process the complexity vector and the monitoring data to determine a fusion feature vector at each time when producing the injection molded part; and
the data supplement layer is configured to process the fusion feature vector at each time when producing the injection molded part to determine supplemented monitoring data, wherein the supplemented monitoring data includes the supplementary data.

### Claim 18 (depends on 17)

The control method of the Industrial Internet of Things system conducive to system function expansion and system adjustment of claim 17, wherein the fusion layer comprises a plurality of neural network layers, and the plurality of neural network layers share parameters.

### Claim 19 (depends on 18)

The control method of the Industrial Internet of Things system conducive to system function expansion and system adjustment of claim 18, wherein the data supplement model is obtained by jointly training based on the feature extraction layer, the fusion layer, and the data supplement layer, wherein training samples include sample monitoring data and sample injection molded part information, the control method further comprising:
obtaining, by the sub platforms of the sensor network platform, the sample monitoring data;
obtaining extracted sample monitoring data and extracted data by extracting at least one of a holding pressure, a mold temperature, and a melt temperature at a time in the sample monitoring data;
determining the extracted sample monitoring data and the sample injection molded part information as the training sample,
determining the extracted data as labels of the training samples.

### Claim 20 (depends on 14)

The control method of the Industrial Internet of Things system conducive to system function expansion and system adjustment of claim 14, wherein the monitoring data used as the calculation basis is all data of sensors with missing monitoring data stored in the sensor network platform;
a way of storing the monitoring data in the sensor network platform is:
for any sensor, according to a storage space of the database set for the monitoring data from the sensor, new monitoring data continuing to be stored to expand a data storage capacity of the database when there is idle available space in the storage space of the database;
when there is no idle available space in the storage space of the database, maintaining the data storage capacity of the database, and covering an earliest monitoring data stored in the database with the monitoring data written in a real-time; and
when the processor determines that the monitoring data of the sensor is missing, the sub platform of the sensor network platform connected with the sensor uploading a prompt data instruction to the management platform, wherein the prompt data instruction includes an identification of a faulty sensor, and the faulty sensor being a sensor with missing monitoring data.