Fujitsu Corporation

Koichiro Yamashita

Hiromasa Yamauchi

Takahisa Suzuki

Koji Kurihara

Toshiya Otomo

Naoki Odate

Yuta Teranishi

Fumihiko Hayakawa

Tetsuo Hiraki

Kiyoshi Miyazaki

Hitoshi Ikeda

Miyoshi Saito

Kensuke Watanabe

Akihito Kataoka

Tetsuya Saka

Kazumi Miyako

When the measurement values measured by a first sensor among a plurality of sensors installed in a dispersed manner at a specific location, in first cycles are determined to be abnormal values, a control device activates the first sensor in second cycles that are shorter than the first cycles. Moreover, when the abnormal values are included in the trend of temporal variation, the control device activates a plurality of second sensors, which is installed around the first sensor, in the second cycles. Moreover, when the measurement values measured by the first sensor and the plurality of second sensors in the second cycles are included in the trend of surface-direction distribution, the control device outputs the measurement values measured by the first sensor and the plurality of second sensors.

Control device, communication system, and control method

A control system includes a server and a plurality of nodes. The server transmits data of command strings being described in combination of sequential processing and loop processing to the nodes. The nodes store the data of command strings received from the server. Each node includes a plurality of application programming interface (API) units that perform predetermined sequential processing. Each node selects an API unit on the basis of the command strings acquired from the server and causes the selected API unit to perform sequential processing and loop processing.

Control system and control method

A control device includes: a processor configured to: control calibration of sensing values in a sensor node group formed of sensor nodes each including a sensor and a wireless device and being capable of performing multi-hop communication; divide the sensor node group into a plurality of clusters such that each of the clusters includes at least one partial cluster including a relay node and a child node that performs wireless communication; collect an average of sensing values in each of the partial clusters from the relay node of each of the partial clusters; calculate a calibration reference value of each of the clusters from the collected averages of the respective partial clusters; and provide the calculated calibration reference value of each of the clusters to each of the clusters.

Control device, sensor node, and computer-readable recording medium

A control device includes: a processor configured to: control a multihop communication path in a wireless network that includes a node group; when a first power storage speed of a target relay node in the node group is negative, calculate a first estimated time that is needed to reach a target power-storage value in a case where the target relay node is in a non-relay operating state; and in accordance with a length of the first estimated time calculated, change a state of the target relay node into the non-relay operating state or a stop state and change a state of another node, which is in the non-relay operating state, into a relay operating state.

Control device, control method, and computer-readable recording medium

A position measuring apparatus instructs a first node to emit light by transmitting a first light emission pattern to the first node, instructs a second node to emit light by transmitting the first light emission pattern to the second node, when light emission following the instructed first light emission pattern is detected, and instructs the second node to emit light by transmitting a second light emission pattern that is different from the first light emission pattern, when light emission following the instructed first light emission pattern is not detected.

Position measuring apparatus, position measuring method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium

A communications node includes a first transmitting circuit configured to transmit to plural communications nodes, a confirmation signal for confirming whether response is possible; a receiving circuit configured to receive from first communications nodes capable of responding among the plural communications nodes, a response signal for the transmitted confirmation signal; a selecting circuit configured to select from among the first communications nodes and based on reception strength of the received response signal, a second communications node to which execution of data processing is requested by the communications node; a strength calculating circuit configured to calculate based on the reception strength of the response signal from the selected second communications node, a transmission strength to the second communications node; and a second transmitting circuit configured to transmit to the second communications node and based on the calculated transmission strength, a request signal requesting execution of the data processing.

Communications node, system, communications method, and computer product

A first node included in a first layer determines whether there has occurred a failure in a sink node included in a second layer subordinate to the first layer. The first node requests a second node included in the second layer to collect information of a third node included in a third layer subordinate to the second layer when the first node determines that there has occurred a failure in the sink node. The first node determines a fourth node serving as a substitute for the failed sink node included in the second layer on a basis of the information of the third node collected by the second node.

Communication method, non-transitory computer-readable recording medium, and communication system

An observation system includes a plurality of nodes and an observation apparatus that collects information from the nodes using multi-hop communication for communicating with the nodes. The observation apparatus includes a link quality indicator (LQI) determination section and an output control section. The LQI determination section determines whether an LQI received from a node using the multi-hop communication is larger than a first threshold. When the LQI is larger than the first threshold, the output control section outputs a reduction command to the node associated with the LQI, the reduction command being a command to change the amount of transmission power in the multi-hop communication.

Collecting system, collecting apparatus, and power control method

A data network management system includes a data network management apparatus; and plural data processing apparatuses installed in an installation area and configured to transmit data to the data network management apparatus. The plural data processing apparatuses transmit identification information thereof together with the processed data to the data network management apparatus. The data network management apparatus determines based on identification information of data processing apparatuses that have completed a given authentication test among the plural data processing apparatuses and the identification information obtained from the plural data processing apparatuses installed in the installation area, a first data processing apparatus from which the data is to be obtained among the plural data processing apparatuses.

Data network management system, data network management apparatus, data processing apparatus, and data network management method

Among plural communications nodes that transfer data to a communications apparatus by multihop communication, a communications node includes a transmitting circuit configured to transmit a synchronization request signal requesting transmission of a synchronization signal for synchronizing the multihop communication at the communications node; a receiving circuit configured to receive the synchronization signal in response to the synchronization request signal transmitted by the transmitting circuit; and a power control circuit configured to control the receiving circuit such that a state of the receiving circuit is a first state where power consumption of the receiving circuit is a first power before the transmitting circuit transmits the synchronization request signal and is a second state where the power consumption of the receiving circuit is a second power that is higher than the first power after the transmitting circuit transmits the synchronization request signal.

Communications node, system, and synchronizing method

A system has a group of nodes that perform multi-hop communication therebetween and a communications apparatus that communicates with a node included in the group of nodes. The node adds to data transmitted by the node, a hop count updated each time the data is transferred by the multi-hop communication and a reference hop count for the data to be transferred from the node to the communications apparatus, and transmits the data. The communications apparatus, when receiving the data, compares the reference hop count and the hop count added to the data, and based on a result of comparison, determines whether failure has occurred at a given node in the group of nodes.

System, node, failure determining system, failure determining method, and computer product

A distributed processing method of a system in which communications apparatuses communicate data by multi-hop communication is executed by a given communications apparatus among the communications apparatuses. According to the method, the given communications apparatus executes a given process based on a result of a first process executed by a first communications apparatus that among the communications apparatuses, communicates directly with the given communications apparatus and operates using power stored in a charging device charged by power generated from energy obtained corresponding to an environment where installed. The given communications apparatus executes the given process when receiving the result of the first process from the first communications apparatus. The given communications apparatus further determines whether a given period has elapsed since receiving the result of the first process, and transmits a result of the given process to the first communications apparatus when determining that the given period has elapsed.

Distributed processing method, system, and computer product

An event location analysis system includes a first wireless terminal device. The first wireless terminal device includes a first measurement unit, a second measurement unit, and a first processor. The second measurement unit consumes larger amounts of power than the first measurement unit consumes. The first processor is configured to transmit a first notification signal upon detecting a first event on basis of a measurement value of the first measurement unit. The first processor is configured to start the second measurement unit upon receiving a second notification signal. The first processor is configured to activate a measurement operation of the first measurement unit and a measurement operation of the second measurement unit after the second measurement unit is started. The first processor is configured to stop the measurement operation of the second measurement unit after a predetermined time has elapsed since the start of the second measurement unit.

Event location analysis system and measurement processing method

When a first sensor node has a large power consumption, an information processing apparatus propagates a portion of request information for a data process having the request recipient set to a second sensor node, through a path that does not pass through the first sensor node. For example, the information processing apparatus changes a division rate at a third sensor node acting as a branching point for the request information for the data process having the request recipient set to the second sensor node to thereby change the distribution of the transferred data amount and equalize the power consumption of the sensor nodes in a sensor network.

Information processing method, communications method, communications node, system, and computer product

A sensor node among sensor nodes that synchronously switch between a first state and a second state transmits an abnormality notification signal to a collecting apparatus when in the first state and an abnormality occurs at the sensor node. The sensor node, when in the second state, transmits to the communications apparatus, a data signal that differs from the abnormality notification signal. During each interval of the first state, the sensor node enters a third state during a first partial interval of the interval of the first state, and receives and transfers an abnormality notification signal transmitted by another sensor node among the sensor nodes. During each interval of the first state, the sensor node further enters a fourth state during a second partial interval of the interval of the first state and different from the first partial interval, and refrains from receiving the abnormality notification signal.

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Hachioji, Japan

Koichiro Yamashita