Artificial Intelligence (AI) is essential to provide value added Internet of Things (IoT) services by finding the patterns, correlations and anomalies in user behaviors for autonomous context-aware actions of the IoT system surrounding the user. Patents can provide insights regarding the state of the art and technical details of the AI innovation for the IoT applications.

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Artificial Intelligence for Internet of Things Insights from Patents
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is essential to provide value added Internet of Things (IoT) services by finding the
patterns, correlations and anomalies in user behaviors for autonomous context-aware actions of the IoT system
surrounding the user. Patents can provide insights regarding the state of the art and technical details of the AI
innovation for the IoT applications. For example, US20150039105 (Home intelligence system and method; Wen-
Sung Lee) illustrates the smart home intelligence system to fulfill the special needs of each family member
exploiting AI.
The smart home intelligence system includes an identification sensor, a real-time locating system and an AI device.
The identification sensor is configured to detect presence of a home member and identify ID information of the
home member. The real-time locating system is provided to automatically identify and track location of the home
member in real time within the house. The AI device includes a data logger, a controller and a learning module.
The data logger is provided to record the ID information of the home member from the identification sensor and
further records location information of the home member from the real-time locating system. The controller is
configured to detect control parameters of appliances switched or adjusted by the home member and transmits the
detected control parameters to the data logger. The learning module is configured to correlate at least the ID
information and the location information with the detected control parameters to customize for the home member a

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set of preferred control parameters for operating the appliances. Accordingly, upon the home member is detected
with the ID information and the location information, the controller retrieves from the learning module the set of
preferred control parameters based on the ID information and the location information and directs the appliances to
operate with the set of preferred control parameters for the detected home member.
For example, a family member (A) enters in the first floor room, and therefore the identification sensor detects the
presence of the family member (A) and identifies by the profile of the family member that the family member (A)
is a father with ID information (father), the real-time locating system automatically identifies and tracks location of
the father in real time within the house. The identification sensor, the real-time locating system and the time clock
then transmit the ID information, the location information and the time information to the data logger. The data
logger receives and records the father's ID information from the identification sensor, the location information from
the real-time locating system and the time information from the time clock. Father then utilizes his smartphone to
adjust the temperature of the HVAC system 61 to be 22° C., the lighting system to provide an illuminance of 50
lux, and the stereo system to be off. At this time, the controller detects the control parameters of appliances
adjusted by the father and transmit the detected control parameters to the data logger. The learning module then
correlates the ID information (father), the location information (1st floor room), and the time information (7:00 am)
with the detected control parameters to customize for the home member a set of preferred control parameters for
operating the appliances. In this way, next time the father comes in the first floor room again, the father will be
detected by the home intelligence system and the system will automatically directs the HVAC system to work on

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22° C., the lighting system 62 to provide an illuminance of 50 lux, and the stereo system 63 to be off. In this case,
the learning module selects, among different previously used control parameters, a set of most recently used
control parameters as the set of preferred control parameters for the home member. The learning module may
select a set of his most frequently used control parameters as the set of preferred control parameters for the home
member.
AI can also be exploited in the smart healthcare applications. For example, wearable devices track your health
condition, e.g. heart rate, and send a notification if a potential problem is detected based on AI analysis of the real-
time streams of health data. For example, US20140073486 (SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS FOR
CONTINUOUS HEART RATE MONITORING AND INTERPRETATION: BOBO ANALYTICS) illustrates a
heart rate monitoring system by providing the best type of sensor to use at a given time determined by AI based on
the level of motion (e.g., via an accelerometer) and whether the user is asleep (e.g., based on movement input, skin
temperature and heart rate).
Common symptoms of being asleep are periods of no movement or small bursts of movement (such as shifting in
bed), lower skin temperature (although it is not a dramatic drop from normal), and heart rate that is below the
typical resting heart rate when the user is awake. These variables depend on the physiology of a person and thus a
machine learning algorithm is trained with user-specific input to determine when he/she is awake/asleep and
determine from that the exact parameters that cause the algorithm to deem someone asleep.

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US20140108307 (METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED AND CONTEXT-
AWARE SUGGESTIONS; Wipro) illustrates AI exploitation in the connected car applications: Base on the profile
information and/or contextual information, AI system provides suggestions to the driver. For instance, the AI
system obtains contextual information indicating that a contact of the driver is only a few minutes in driving time
from the driver’s route. Further, based on social communications and social media information stored in the driver
profile, the AI system may also determine that the contact is a friend of the user. Based on that determination, the
AI system informs the driver, "Your friend Peter is at a few minutes away from your route; would you like meet?"