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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2008
Filed:
May. 09, 2006
Stephen Taylor, Grantham, NH (US);
Peter Haaland, Louisville, CO (US);
Stephen Taylor, Grantham, NH (US);
Peter Haaland, Louisville, CO (US);
Other;
Abstract
A sensor system and method for collecting and analyzing sensor data transmitted by various distributed sensors in a secure, scalable, and efficient manner. Sensors having sensor data to transmit establish concurrent connections with a central server that is configured to collect the sensor data. For each connection, the server generates a single writer thread dedicated to the connection. Each single writer thread accesses the server's underlying file system and writes the sensor data into a sensor file dedicated to the sensor. Each sensor file is written by a single writer thread, but may be concurrently read by multiple reader threads. Analysis threads may also concurrently access the sensor files to perform complex analyses of the stored sensor data. The analysis results are written to dedicated analysis files. The analysis threads act as single writer threads in writing to the analysis files.