Patent ID: 11930091
Assignee: ORANGE
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 12:
13. A user equipment acting as collaborative IoT reader device for use in a method for redundancy control in decentralized crowd-based data collection network architecture, where a crowd of user equipment act as collaborative IoT gateways for connected objects and collect received data from the connected objects and transmit at least some of the data to a backend cloud infrastructure,
wherein the user equipment exchanges data with the backend cloud infrastructure,
wherein the backend cloud infrastructure is configured to:
assign to each connected object an identifier ID and a freshness indicator,

where the freshness indicator is a label having a value selected from one of “fresh” or “expired”,
upon receiving data from at least one connected object, set the freshness indicator to the value of “fresh” for each respective connected object,

wherein for each connected object the freshness indicator is configured to change its value to “expired” after expiry of a pre-determined period of time,
wherein the user equipment comprises a processing circuit configured to:
receive a list of ID's of at least one connected object for which the freshness indicator has the value of “fresh”, termed “fresh list” from a coordinator device,
read the identifier ID's of the connected objects included in the fresh list, and
exclude the data received from the connected objects contained in the fresh list from being transmitted to the backend cloud infrastructure.