Occurrence data detection and storage for mote networks

An occurrence-data storage system, comprising:

• a computing device having a processing unit coupled to a digital data storage device and being operable to communicate with one or more distributed motes, each mote operable to obtain sensor data having at least one parameter representing a feature, and to communicate the obtained sensor data to the computing device, the feature having a correlation to an occurrence;
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• one or more instructions loaded on the digital data storage device that, when executed by the processing unit, configure the computing device to:
• store the received sensor data from a first mote of the one or more distributed motes in a first receiver data set in the digital data storage device;
• access selection data corresponding to a target-occurrence having a representative feature, the representative feature including at least one recognizable pattern of at least one parameter corresponding to the sensor data obtained by one or more of the one or more distributed motes;
• select a pattern recognition criteria corresponding to the representative feature of the target-occurrence;
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• in response to the accessing of selection data corresponding to the target-occurrence, search the first receiver data set for sensor data correlating to the representative feature of the target-occurrence using the selected pattern recognition criteria;
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• when sensor data correlating to the representative feature of the target-occurrence is found, perform at least one of store the correlated sensor data in a retained data storage or provide an indication of a discovered sensor data correlation;
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• delete the received sensor data having the respective parameter from the first receiver data set according to a deletion sequence, wherein the deletion sequence includes deleting searched sensor data not correlated to the representative feature of the target-occurrence.

An occurrence-data storage system, comprising:

• a data storage device coupled with a computing component operable to receive sensor data from one or more motes, the sensor data having at least one parameter representing a feature having a correlation to an occurrence;
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• one or more instructions loaded on the data storage device that, when executed by the computing component, configure the computing component to:
• receive sensor data from the one or more motes into a received data set;
• receive an input selection defining an event corresponding to a target-occurrence having a representative feature, the representative feature including at least one recognizable pattern of at least one parameter in the sensor data received from the one or more motes;
• select a pattern recognition criteria corresponding to the representative feature of the target-occurrence;
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• in response to the input selection defining the event corresponding to the target-occurrence, automatically search the received data set for sensor data correlating to the representative feature of the target-occurrence using the selected pattern recognition criteria;
• when received sensor data correlating to the representative feature of the target-occurrence is found, store the correlated received sensor data in a retained data storage;
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• delete the sensor data related to the at least one parameter from the received data set according to a deletion sequence, wherein the deletion sequence includes deleting searched sensor data not correlated to the representative feature of the target-occurrence.