This is a smart system designed for industrial settings like factories. It connects to sensors that monitor machines and actuators that control them. A specialized analytics module processes the data from these machines, helping the main controller optimize their performance and diagnose issues. The claims specifically describe this as a physical system with an automation controller and the analytics engine communicating via a data backplane.
Why it matters: The core concept of a data-driven analytics engine for industrial optimization and control has seen a massive boost since 2017. Advances in machine learning, particularly for time-series analysis and predictive modeling (as hinted by the classifications), now make the "modeling, classification, optimization" aspects significantly more powerful and accessible than when this was filed.
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