SBIR Phase I: Entity recognition for enabling interactions among connected things

这个小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是为连接的系统和设备提供更好的相互交互的方法。目前的解决方案需要数月的开发，开发和维护的成本可能是压倒性的。 所提出的技术提供了一种方式，用于配置而不是编程的系统和设备之间的交互。该技术还提供了一种由用户配置服务的方法，而不是依赖于开发人员创建节点或连接器。 这是通过抽象出软件栈的交互层并创建用于要配置的交互的通用算法来实现的。就像路由器第一次出现一样，抽象出一部分软件堆栈的技术为市场提供了执行曾经依赖于程序员的任务的机会。 路由器代码的抽象使得互联网得以发展。我们相信，交互代码的抽象将使物联网得到广泛部署。社会影响是通过创建大量的交互式解决方案来实现的，并且传感器和设备的数量呈指数级增长，以充分利用。这个小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目是为了解决在依赖于程序员的服务之间创建交互的问题。为了使服务交互，它们需要能够连接、通信，然后交互。业界在抽象出应用程序层的各种组件以提供两个服务之间的连接和通信方面做得很好。然而，交互逻辑一直是软件开发的。它是物联网（IoT）解决方案创建、部署和运营的最大瓶颈。所有可用的集成工具都是开发工具。正在提出创建解决方案的新方法，其中解决方案是围绕配置的交互逻辑设计和部署的。这与许多允许通过自定义服务总线、消息传递协议和API在服务之间进行通信的开发工具不同。交互逻辑位于通信和连接层之上。技术涉及用于实现所有连接的事物之间的交互以及用于实现通过服务元素的交互的动态映射的方法和装置。该技术将提供简单，快速和具有成本效益的物联网解决方案。由于物联网解决方案主要是设备和应用程序之间的交互，因此抽象出的交互逻辑允许通过配置交互逻辑来创建整个解决方案。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is providing better method for connected systems and devices to interact with each other. Current solutions require many months of development and cost of development and maintenance can be overwhelming. The proposed technology offers a way for interaction between systems and devices to be configured rather than programmed. The technology also provides a way for services to be configured by the user, rather than relying on developers to create nodes or connectors. This is made possible through abstracting out the interaction layer of software stack and creating a generic algorithm for interaction to be configured. Much like when routers first came out, technology of abstracting out a portion of software stack opens up opportunity for market to perform tasks that once were programmer dependent. Abstraction of router code enabled growth of Internet. We believe abstraction of Interaction code will enable IoT to be widely deployed. Societal impact is achieved through large number of interactive solution being created, and exponentially growing number of sensors and devices to be utilized in full.This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to solve the problem of creating interaction between services being programmer dependent. In order for services to interact, they need to be able to connect, communicate, and then interact. Industry has done a great job in abstracting out various components of application layers to provide connectivity and communication between two services. However, interaction logic has always been software developed. It is the single largest bottleneck in Internet of Things (IoT) solution creation, deployment, and operation. All available tools for integration are development tools. New method of creating solutions is being proposed where a solution is designed and deployed around configured interaction logic. This is different to many development tools that allow communication between services through custom service bus, messaging protocols, and APIs. Interaction logic sits on top of communication and connectivity layers. Technology involves methods and apparatus to enable interaction between all connected things, and for enabling dynamic mapping of interactions through service elements. The technology will provide easy, rapid, and cost effective proliferation of IoT solutions. Since IoT solutions are mostly interaction between devices and applications, abstracted out interaction logic allows entire solutions to be created through configuration of interaction logic.