Efficient Search Method for IoT Entities with Similarity Adaptive Estimation

The existing similar entity search method has poor adaptability to the length of the observed sequence, and the data storage overhead in the search process is too large, and the accuracy of the search result is insufficient. To this end, an efficient search method is proposed for the IoT Entity Search with Similarity Adaptive Estimation (SAEES). Firstly, in order to reduce the storage overhead of the entity observation sequence, a lightweight method of segmentation representation of the observation sequence is designed to perform a lightweight segmentation compression representation of the original observation sequence of the entity collected by the sensor. Then, in order to achieve an accurate estimation of the similarity of entities with different observation sequence lengths, an adaptive estimation method for observation sequence similarity is proposed. Finally, by exploiting the designed efficient similar entity search matching method, the exact search matching of the entity is completed according to the estimated entity similarity. The simulation results show that the proposed method can greatly improve the efficiency of similar entity search.