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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2020
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Tomohiro Taniguchi, Musashino, JP;
Shinya Tamaki, Musashino, JP;
Tetsuya Suzuki, Musashino, JP;
Yasutaka Kimura, Musashino, JP;
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An object of the present disclosure is to provide a data collection system capable of collecting various pieces of metadata other than sensing data and instrument information by existing communication protocols and associating the sensing data, the instrument information, and the metadata with each other without errors. A data collection systemis a data collection system that performs communication from a terminalto a data collection unitby one or a plurality of communication protocols, in which the terminalincludes a detection unitother than a sensor devicethat detects the sensing data and the instrument information, and stores metadata that is information detected by the detection unitin an extended field specified by the communication protocols within a frame specified by the communication protocols for transmitting the sensing data or the instrument information, and the data collection unitassociates the sensing data, the instrument information, and the metadata with each other based on information for identifying the terminaldescribed in the frame.