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US 2017/0256109 A1Published application
System and Method for Creating a Census Hub in Resource Constrained Regions
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsKamal Bhattacharya, Alan Kalton, Komminist Weldemariam
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Abstract
The disclosure provides systems and methods for generating attendance census models using data received from a network of automated census sensors as well as various additional secondary data sources. The models may be generated and used in real time to provide attendance predictions, to efficiently allocate resources, and to detect fraud, among many other uses.
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A computer system, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory coupled to the processor, the memory configured to store program instructions executable by the processor to cause the computer system to:
- receive attendance census data from an attendance census gathering sensor about a venue remotely located with respect to the computer system, and store the received attendance census data in a census hub, wherein the attendance census gathering sensor is coupled to an embedded unit configured to dynamically annotate the attendance census data with predefined metadata values;
- receive non-census secondary data from a secondary data source and store the received secondary data in the census hub;
- correlate the secondary data with the attendance census data;
- generate an attendance forecast for the venue based, at least in part, on the census hub;
- and
- generate a notification based on the attendance forecast.
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A method comprising:
- receiving, by a computer system via a network, attendance census data from an attendance census gathering sensor about a venue remotely located with respect to the computer system, and storing the received attendance census data in a census hub, wherein the attendance census data is dynamically annotated with predefined metadata values by an embedded unit;
- receiving, by the computer system, non-census secondary data from a secondary data source and storing the received secondary data in the census hub;
- correlating the secondary data with the attendance census data;
- generating an attendance forecast for the venue based, at least in part, on the received attendance census data and received secondary data;
- and
- generating a notification based on the attendance forecast.
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A networked census structure comprising:
- a server comprising a processor and a memory coupled to the processor;
- and
- a networked set of attendance census gathering sensors, wherein each attendance census gathering sensor in the set of attendance census gathering sensors is in data communication with the server, and wherein the memory is configured to store program instructions executable by the processor to cause the server to:
- receive attendance census data from the set of attendance census gathering sensors;
- receive non-census secondary data from a secondary data source;
- process the attendance census data and secondary data to generate an attendance model.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.