System, method, and apparatus for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum management and utilization
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum utilization management. The system includes at least one monitoring sensor, at least one data analysis engine, at least one application, a semantic engine, a programmable rules and policy editor, a tip and cue server, and/or a control panel. The tip and cue server is operable utilize the environmental awareness from the data processed by the at least one data analysis engine in combination with additional information to create actionable data.
1. A system for spectrum management in an electromagnetic environment comprising:
at least one monitoring sensor operable to monitor and capture the electromagnetic environment and create measured data based on the electromagnetic environment;
at least one data analysis engine for analyzing the measured data;
a semantic engine including a programmable rules and policy editor; and
a tip and cue server;
wherein the at least one data analysis engine includes a detection engine, a channelization engine, and a learning engine, wherein the detection engine is operable to automatically detect at least one signal of interest, wherein the channelization engine is operable to prepare and/or divide a spectrum into a plurality of spectrum bands, wherein the learning engine is operable to learn the electromagnetic environment;
wherein the programmable rules and policy editor includes at least one rule and/or at least one policy; and
wherein the tip and cue server is operable to use analyzed data from the at least one data analysis engine to create actionable data.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the tip and cue server is operable to activate an alarm and/or provide at least one report based on the actionable data.
3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one monitoring sensor includes at least one antenna, at least one antenna array, at least one radio server, and/or at least one software defined radio.
4. The system of claim 1 , wherein one or more of the at least one monitoring sensor is integrated with at least one camera to capture video and/or still images.
5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one data analysis engine further includes an identification engine, a classification engine, and/or a geolocation engine.
6. The system of claim 1 , further including a resource brokerage application, wherein the resource brokerage application is operable to optimize resources to improve performance of at least one customer application and/or at least one customer device.
7. The system of claim 1 , further including a certification and compliance application, wherein the certification and compliance application is operable to determine if at least one customer application and/or at least one customer device is behaving according to the at least one rule and/or the at least one policy.
8. The system of claim 1 , further including a survey occupancy application, wherein the survey occupancy application is operable to determine occupancy in frequency bands and schedule occupancy in at least one frequency band.
9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the actionable data indicates that one or more of the at least one signal of interest is behaving like a drone.
10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the actionable data is used with artificial intelligence (AI) and/or machine learning (ML) algorithms to provide a predicted outcome based on one or more of the at least one rule and/or the at least one policy.
11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the learning engine is operable to use machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning (DL), neural networks (NNs), artificial neural networks (ANNs), support vector machines (SVMs), Markov decision process (MDP), natural language processing (NLP), control theory, and/or statistical learning techniques.
12. The system of claim 1 , wherein the learning engine is operable to compute a set of possible conditional probabilities depicting a set of all possible outputs based on input measurements to provide a predicted outcome using a data model, and wherein the predicted outcome represents an outcome with the least probability of error and/or a false alarm.
13. The system of claim 1 , wherein the actionable data, the measured data, and/or the processed data is provided to a larger system simulation and/or emulation comprised of a plurality of subsystems of digital twins that are operable to simulate and/or emulate behavior of one or more of the plurality of subsystems given a state of the electromagnetic environment.
14. The system of claim 1 , wherein the learning engine is operable to use third party data, wherein the third party data includes social media, population, real estate, traffic, geographic information system (GIS), velocity, acceleration, projected path, terrain, network, signal site, site issue, and/or crowdsourced information.
15. The system of claim 1 , wherein the learning engine is operable to determine whether a data set processed and/or analyzed represents a sufficient statistical data set.
16. The system of claim 1 , wherein the learning engine includes a learning engine software development kit (SDK) operable to manage system resources relating to monitoring, logging, and/or organizing learning aspects of the system.
17. A system for spectrum management in an electromagnetic environment comprising:
at least one monitoring sensor operable to monitor and capture the electromagnetic environment and create measured data based on the electromagnetic environment;
at least one data analysis engine for analyzing the measured data;
a semantic engine including a programmable rules and policy editor; and
a tip and cue server;
wherein the at least one data analysis engine includes a detection engine, a channelization engine, an identification engine, a classification engine, a geolocation engine, and a learning engine, wherein the detection engine is operable to automatically detect at least one signal of interest, wherein the channelization engine is operable to prepare and/or divide a spectrum into a plurality of spectrum bands, and wherein the learning engine is operable to learn the electromagnetic environment;
wherein the learning engine is operable to learn information from the detection engine, the classification engine, the identification engine, and/or the geolocation engine;
wherein the programmable rules and policy editor includes at least one rule and/or at least one policy; and
wherein the tip and cue server is operable to use analyzed data from the at least one data analysis engine to create actionable data.
18. A method for spectrum management in an electromagnetic environment comprising:
providing a semantic engine including a programmable rules and policy editor, wherein the programmable rules and policy editor includes at least one rule and/or at least one policy;
monitoring the electromagnetic environment using at least one monitoring sensor and creating measured data based on the electromagnetic environment;
analyzing the measured data using at least one data analysis engine, thereby creating analyzed data, wherein the at least one data analysis engine includes a detection engine, a channelization engine, and a learning engine;
learning the electromagnetic environment using the learning engine;
preparing and/or dividing a spectrum into a plurality of spectrum bands using the channelization engine;
automatically detecting at least one signal of interest using the detection engine; and
creating actionable data using a tip and cue server based on the analyzed data from the at least one data analysis engine.
19. The method of claim 18 , further including the tip and cue server activating an alarm and/or providing at least one report based on the actionable data.
20. The method of claim 18 , further including the learning engine managing system resources relating to monitoring, logging, and/or organizing learning aspects of the system using a learning engine software development kit (SDK).