CN111123791A

CN111123791A - Temperature control method of household appliance and related product

Info

Publication number: CN111123791A
Application number: CN201911383630.0A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 邓鹏�
Original assignee: Shenzhen Jiuzhou Electric Appliance Co Ltd
Current assignee: Shenzhen Jiuzhou Electric Appliance Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-12-28
Filing date: 2019-12-28
Publication date: 2020-05-08

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a temperature control method of a home appliance, the method including the steps of: the set top box is wirelessly paired with the temperature sensor and the intelligent power switch to form a wireless networking; the set top box periodically inquires the temperature value of the temperature sensor; and when the set top box determines that the temperature value is greater than the threshold value, sending a closing command to the intelligent power switch, wherein the closing command is used for closing the power supply. The technical scheme provided by the application has the advantage of good user experience.

Description

Temperature control method of household appliance and related product

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of networks, in particular to a temperature control method of a household appliance and a related product.

Background

With the development of science and technology, more and more electric appliances are used at home. Set-top boxes, televisions, refrigerators, air conditioners, desktop computers, and the like have become essential appliances for every family. In the using process of each household appliance, the heating problem is inevitable. Normally, all the appliances generate heat and dissipate heat within a controllable range, but due to the location of the appliances in the home, ventilation conditions, covered objects and other environmental factors, the temperature of the outer shell of the appliance may be higher than the internal temperature, which may cause the outer shell to melt, catch fire, or even ignite external objects, resulting in the occurrence of fire. The current intelligent electrical appliances have the condition of detecting the temperature of a CPU, but the temperature of the CPU is possibly inconsistent with the temperature of a shell, so that the self-protection high-temperature power-off function of the electrical appliances cannot be triggered. And most appliances are without means for external temperature detection. The safety of the existing household appliance is low.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the invention provides a temperature control method of household appliances and a related product, which can realize the temperature control of a plurality of household appliances and have the advantage of improving the safety of the household appliances.

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a method for controlling a temperature of a home appliance, where the method includes the following steps:

the set top box is wirelessly paired with the temperature sensor and the intelligent power switch to form a wireless networking;

the set top box periodically inquires the temperature value of the temperature sensor;

and when the set top box determines that the temperature value is greater than the threshold value, sending a closing command to the intelligent power switch, wherein the closing command is used for closing the power supply.

In a second aspect, a set-top box is provided, the set-top box comprising:

the communication unit is used for wirelessly pairing with the temperature sensor and the intelligent power switch to form a wireless networking; periodically inquiring the temperature value of the temperature sensor;

a processing unit for sending a shutdown command to the intelligent power switch when the temperature value is determined to be greater than the threshold value, the shutdown command being used for shutting down the power supply

In a third aspect, a computer-readable storage medium is provided, which stores a program for electronic data exchange, wherein the program causes a terminal to execute the method provided in the first or second aspect.

The embodiment of the invention has the following beneficial effects:

according to the technical scheme, the set top box, the temperature sensor and the intelligent power switch are in wireless pairing to form a wireless networking; the set top box periodically inquires the temperature value of the temperature sensor; and when the set top box determines that the temperature value is greater than the threshold value, sending a closing command to the intelligent power switch, wherein the closing command is used for closing the power supply. Thus, dangerous things such as fire caused by over-high temperature of the household appliance are avoided, and the safety of the household appliance is improved.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings needed to be used in the description of the embodiments are briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are some embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art to obtain other drawings based on these drawings without creative efforts.

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a set-top box.

Fig. 1a is a schematic diagram of the overall system.

Fig. 2 is a flow chart illustrating a method for controlling a temperature of an electric home appliance.

Fig. 2a is a schematic flow chart of the temperature detector.

Fig. 2b is a schematic diagram of the working process of the intelligent power switch.

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of a set-top box.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, not all, embodiments of the present invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

The terms "first," "second," "third," and "fourth," etc. in the description and claims of the invention and in the accompanying drawings are used for distinguishing between different objects and not for describing a particular order. Furthermore, the terms "include" and "have," as well as any variations thereof, are intended to cover non-exclusive inclusions. For example, a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not limited to only those steps or elements listed, but may alternatively include other steps or elements not listed, or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.

Reference herein to "an embodiment" means that a particular feature, result, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment can be included in at least one embodiment of the invention. The appearances of the phrase in various places in the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment, nor are separate or alternative embodiments mutually exclusive of other embodiments. It is explicitly and implicitly understood by one skilled in the art that the embodiments described herein can be combined with other embodiments.

Referring to fig. 1, fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a set-top box disclosed in an embodiment of the present application, the set-top box 100 includes a storage and processing circuit 110, and a sensor 170 connected to the storage and processing circuit 110, the sensor 170 includes a front camera and a rear camera, where:

the set top box 100 may include control circuitry that may include storage and processing circuitry 110. The storage and processing circuitry 110 may be a memory, such as a hard drive memory, a non-volatile memory (e.g., flash memory or other electronically programmable read-only memory used to form a solid state drive, etc.), a volatile memory (e.g., static or dynamic random access memory, etc.), etc., and the embodiments of the present application are not limited thereto. The processing circuitry in storage and processing circuitry 110 may be used to control the operation of set top box 100. The processing circuitry may be implemented based on one or more microprocessors, microcontrollers, digital signal processors, baseband processors, power management units, audio codec chips, application specific integrated circuits, display driver integrated circuits, and the like.

The storage and processing circuitry 110 may be used to run software in the set-top box 100 such as an Internet browsing application, a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) telephone call application, an email application, a media playing application, operating system functions, etc. Such software may be used to perform control operations such as camera-based image capture, ambient light measurement based on an ambient light sensor, proximity sensor measurement based on a proximity sensor, information display functionality based on status indicators such as status indicator lights of light emitting diodes, touch event detection based on touch sensors, functionality associated with displaying information on multiple (e.g., layered) display screens, operations associated with performing wireless communication functionality, operations associated with collecting and generating audio signals, control operations associated with collecting and processing button press event data, and other functions in set top box 100, to name a few, embodiments of the present application are not limited.

The set-top box 100 may include input-output circuitry 150. The input-output circuit 150 may be used to enable the set-top box 100 to input and output data, i.e., to allow the set-top box 100 to receive data from external devices and also to allow the set-top box 100 to output data from the set-top box 100 to external devices. The input-output circuit 150 may further include a sensor 170. The sensor 170 may further include an ambient light sensor, a proximity sensor based on light and capacitance, a fingerprint recognition module, a touch sensor (e.g., a touch sensor based on light and/or a capacitive touch sensor, where the touch sensor may be a part of a touch display screen or may be used independently as a touch sensor structure), an acceleration sensor, a camera, and other sensors.

Input-output circuit 150 may also include one or more display screens, and when multiple display screens, such as 2 display screens, one display screen may be disposed on the front of the set-top box and another display screen may be disposed on the back of the set-top box, such as display screen 130. The display 130 may include one or a combination of liquid crystal display, organic light emitting diode display, electronic ink display, plasma display, display using other display technologies. The display screen 130 may include an array of touch sensors (i.e., the display screen 130 may be a touch display screen). The touch sensor may be a capacitive touch sensor formed by a transparent touch sensor electrode (e.g., an Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) electrode) array, or may be a touch sensor formed using other touch technologies, such as acoustic wave touch, pressure sensitive touch, resistive touch, optical touch, and the like, and the embodiments of the present application are not limited thereto.

The set top box 100 may also include an audio component 140. The audio component 140 may be used to provide audio input and output functionality for the set top box 100. The audio components 140 in the set top box 100 may include speakers, microphones, buzzers, tone generators, and other components for generating and detecting sound.

The communication circuit 120 may be used to provide the set top box 100 with the ability to communicate with external devices. The communication circuit 120 may include analog and digital input-output interface circuits, and wireless communication circuits based on radio frequency signals and/or optical signals. The wireless communication circuitry in communication circuitry 120 may include radio-frequency transceiver circuitry, power amplifier circuitry, low noise amplifiers, switches, filters, and antennas. For example, the wireless Communication circuitry in Communication circuitry 120 may include circuitry to support Near Field Communication (NFC) by transmitting and receiving Near Field coupled electromagnetic signals. For example, the communication circuit 120 may include a near field communication antenna and a near field communication transceiver. The communications circuitry 120 may also include a cellular telephone transceiver and antenna, a wireless local area network transceiver circuitry and antenna, and so forth.

The set-top box 100 may further include a battery, power management circuitry and other input-output units 160. The input-output unit 160 may include buttons, joysticks, click wheels, scroll wheels, touch pads, keypads, keyboards, cameras, light emitting diodes and other status indicators, and the like.

A user may control the operation of set-top box 100 by entering commands through input-output circuitry 150 and may use output data from input-output circuitry 150 to enable receiving status information and other outputs from set-top box 100.

Referring to FIG. 1a, FIG. 1a provides a schematic diagram of the overall system architecture, as shown in FIG. 1 a.

The overall system comprises three parts, namely a temperature detector, a power switch and set-top box gateway equipment.

The temperature detector is used for detecting the temperature and triggering the corresponding power switch to be closed.

And the power switch is controlled by the temperature detector and the set-top box gateway equipment to realize power failure.

And the gateway equipment uploads the temperature of the temperature detector and the state of the household equipment to a remote client mobile phone or a computer terminal.

Referring to fig. 2, fig. 2 provides a method for controlling a temperature of an appliance, where the method is performed by an electronic device, and the electronic device may include: temperature detector and intelligent switch.

As shown in fig. 2a, the temperature detector may specifically include:

temperature detector work flow

The temperature detector mainly comprises a temperature sensor, a Bluetooth module and a microprocessor.

1. The temperature detector is matched with the power supply module and the set-top box gateway, and a zigbee protocol is used to form a networking.

2. The temperature detector receives relevant control commands of the set-top box gateway, such as how often the temperature is acquired, how often the temperature is reported, how many degrees the temperature is higher than, and how many times the temperature is continued, and then corresponding power supplies are actively turned off.

3. The temperature probe acquires the surface temperature. And reporting to the gateway. And simultaneously judging whether the temperature is higher than a preset temperature.

4. The temperature detector judges the duration time of the high temperature, and if the duration time is greater than a preset value. A message is sent to the configured power source to initiate a power down.

5. And the temperature detector acquires the electrical state of the power switch, and resets the high-temperature duration time if the state is correct. If the state is incorrect, the power failure information is sent again, meanwhile, a power failure message is sent to the set-top box gateway, the set-top box gateway transmits the information to the user, the user is prompted that a certain electric appliance is high in temperature and cannot be powered off, and the user needs to confirm the state in the house urgently.

6. If the user configures that the temperature of the electric appliance is lower than a certain temperature, the electric appliance can be automatically powered on, the temperature detector detects that the temperature is lower than the certain temperature within a period of time, and then information is sent to the intelligent switch to turn on the power supply.

7. Repeating steps 1 to 6.

The intelligent power switch work flow is shown in fig. 2 b.

1. And the power supply module is paired with the temperature detector, is paired with the set-top box gateway and forms a networking by using a zigbee protocol.

2. The power module receives a query (power on or power off) of the state by the set-top box gateway or the temperature detector.

3. The power module receives a set-top box gateway or a temperature talk test for changes to its state (power on or off).

The method for controlling the temperature of the household appliance is shown in fig. 2 and comprises the following steps:

step S201, the set top box, the temperature sensor and the intelligent power switch are in wireless pairing to form a wireless networking;

step S202, the set top box periodically inquires the temperature value of the temperature sensor;

and step S203, when the set top box determines that the temperature value is greater than the threshold value, sending a closing command to the intelligent power switch, wherein the closing command is used for closing the power supply.

Optionally, the method may further include:

the set-top box sends the temperature value to the binding terminal, and the temperature value is data encrypted by an encryption algorithm. The encryption algorithm may include: RAS algorithm, 3DES algorithm, etc.

Optionally, the method may further include:

the set-top box sends the mac address to the server, receives the room number returned by the server according to the mac address, encrypts the temperature value by using the room number as a secret key, and sends the encrypted temperature value.

Optionally, the method may further include:

and after a set time interval, the set top box collects another temperature value again, if the other temperature value is larger than the temperature value detected last time, fire early warning information is generated, and the fire early warning information is sent to the fire control room.

Optionally, the method may further include:

the set top box collects a first picture of a target scene and sends the first picture to the binding terminal.

Referring to fig. 3, fig. 3 provides a set-top box comprising:

and the processing unit is used for sending a closing command to the intelligent power switch when the temperature value is determined to be greater than the threshold value, and the closing command is used for closing the power supply.

In one alternative approach, the system may be configured such that,

the communication unit is further configured to send the temperature value to the binding terminal, where the temperature value is data encrypted by an encryption algorithm.

In one alternative approach, the system may be configured such that,

the communication unit is used for sending a mac address to the server and receiving a room number returned by the server according to the mac address;

a processing unit for encrypting the temperature value by using the room number as a secret key and sending the encrypted temperature value

In one alternative approach, the system may be configured such that,

the processor is further configured to acquire another temperature value again after a set time interval, generate fire early warning information if the another temperature value is greater than the temperature value detected last time, and send the fire early warning information to the fire control room.

Embodiments of the present invention also provide a computer storage medium, wherein the computer storage medium stores a computer program for electronic data exchange, and the computer program enables a computer to execute part or all of the steps of any one of the methods described in the above method embodiments.

Embodiments of the present invention also provide a computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a computer program operable to cause a computer to perform some or all of the steps of any one of the methods as recited in the above method embodiments.

It should be noted that, for simplicity of description, the above-mentioned method embodiments are described as a series of acts or combination of acts, but those skilled in the art will recognize that the present invention is not limited by the order of acts, as some steps may occur in other orders or concurrently in accordance with the invention. Further, those skilled in the art should also appreciate that the embodiments described in the specification are exemplary embodiments and that the acts and modules illustrated are not necessarily required to practice the invention.

In the foregoing embodiments, the descriptions of the respective embodiments have respective emphasis, and for parts that are not described in detail in a certain embodiment, reference may be made to related descriptions of other embodiments.

In the embodiments provided in the present application, it should be understood that the disclosed apparatus may be implemented in other manners. For example, the above-described embodiments of the apparatus are merely illustrative, and for example, the division of the units is only one type of division of logical functions, and there may be other divisions when actually implementing, for example, a plurality of units or components may be combined or may be integrated into another system, or some features may be omitted, or not implemented. In addition, the shown or discussed mutual coupling or direct coupling or communication connection may be an indirect coupling or communication connection of some interfaces, devices or units, and may be an electric or other form.

The units described as separate parts may or may not be physically separate, and parts displayed as units may or may not be physical units, may be located in one place, or may be distributed on a plurality of network units. Some or all of the units can be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of the embodiment.

In addition, functional units in the embodiments of the present invention may be integrated into one processing unit, or each unit may exist alone physically, or two or more units are integrated into one unit. The integrated unit may be implemented in the form of hardware, or may be implemented in the form of a software program module.

The integrated units, if implemented in the form of software program modules and sold or used as stand-alone products, may be stored in a computer readable memory. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the present invention may be embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in a memory and includes several instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, a network device, or the like) to execute all or part of the steps of the method according to the embodiments of the present invention. And the aforementioned memory comprises: a U-disk, a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a removable hard disk, a magnetic or optical disk, and other various media capable of storing program codes.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that all or part of the steps in the methods of the above embodiments may be implemented by associated hardware instructed by a program, which may be stored in a computer-readable memory, which may include: flash Memory disks, Read-Only memories (ROMs), Random Access Memories (RAMs), magnetic or optical disks, and the like.

The above embodiments of the present invention are described in detail, and the principle and the implementation of the present invention are explained by applying specific embodiments, and the above description of the embodiments is only used to help understanding the method of the present invention and the core idea thereof; meanwhile, for a person skilled in the art, according to the idea of the present invention, there may be variations in the specific embodiments and the application scope, and in summary, the content of the present specification should not be construed as a limitation to the present invention.

Claims

1. A method for controlling the temperature of a household appliance, the method comprising the steps of:

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

the set-top box sends the temperature value to the binding terminal, and the temperature value is data encrypted by an encryption algorithm.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

6. A set top box, comprising:

7. The set top box of claim 6,

8. The set top box of claim 6,

and the processing unit is used for encrypting the temperature value by using the room number as a secret key and then sending the encrypted temperature value.

9. The set top box of claim 6,

10. A computer-readable storage medium storing a program for electronic data exchange, wherein the program causes a method provided in any one of claims 1-5 to be performed.