US 12,411,469 B2
Information processing device and information processing method
Kazuya Nakazawa, Nagoya (JP); Takahiro Naito, Nagoya (JP); Mitsuaki Watanabe, Nagoya (JP); Tomoyoshi Kawaguchi, Nagoya (JP); and Naoya Sogo, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to SINTOGOKIO, LTD., Aichi (JP)
Filed by SINTOKOGIO, LTD., Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Jan. 24, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/582,121.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-011237 (JP), filed on Jan. 27, 2021; and application No. 2021-171935 (JP), filed on Oct. 20, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0236713 A1, Jul. 28, 2022
Int. Cl. G05B 19/05 (2006.01); G08B 21/18 (2006.01); H04Q 9/00 (2006.01)
CPC G05B 19/054 (2013.01) [G08B 21/18 (2013.01); H04Q 9/00 (2013.01); G05B 2219/1215 (2013.01); H04Q 2209/40 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing device for relaying communication between sensors included in a sensor group and main equipment connected to the information processing device via a network, the information processing device comprising at least one processor, the at least one processor configured to
obtain sensor data transmitted from each of the sensors included in the sensor group,
convert the sensor data, which has been obtained, into a particular format that is interpretable to a controller of the main equipment, and
provide, to the main equipment, the sensor data whose format has been converted, wherein
the sensor group is constituted by a plurality of sensor slave units that are the sensors and a sensor master unit configured to relay communication between each of the plurality of sensor slave units and the information processing device,
the sensor data includes (i) a detection value and status information of one of the plurality of sensor slave units and (ii) status information of the sensor master unit,
the status information of one of the plurality of sensor slave units indicates at least one of a usage status, presence or absence of a monitoring function, a communication status, radio field intensity, and a remaining battery capacity, and
the status information of the sensor master unit indicates at least one of a communication status and the number of times of data obtainment of the sensor master unit.