Patent ID: 9721210
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: G05F,G06N

Claim:
1. An apparatus comprising: a power source configured to store energy to power said apparatus; one or more sensors configured to receive captured data from one of a plurality of sources; a transceiver configured to send and receive data to and from a wireless network; a processor configured to execute computer readable instructions; and a memory configured to store a set of instructions executable by the processor, said instructions, where executed, are configured to (A) evaluate an expected power usage budget calculated using a predictive model of future energy consumption and (B) (i) store said captured data in the memory in a first mode and (ii) transmit the captured data to a remote storage device in a second mode, wherein (a) said first mode or said second mode is selected based on characteristics of the captured data received from the sensors, (b) said instructions include a machine learning process configured to optimize a predictive model and (c) said predictive model is configured as (i) a series of energy input functions, (ii) one or more energy consumption functions with scaling factors that are optimized based on historical data based on prior patterns and (iii) a least squares minimization of a difference between model predictions and actual historical data or various gradient descent techniques.