KR20020059464A - Intergrated service method of internet electric home appliance using bluetooth - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for integrally servicing electric home appliances using a Bluetooth is provided to receive various kinds of living information, commodity information, and an advertisement through Internet electric home appliances and request a service to a manufacturing company or other service company. CONSTITUTION: A manufacturing company server(110) transmits information and an advertisement adapted to a characteristic of electric home appliances to a home computer(120) having the electric home appliances through the Internet. The home computer(120) is connected to an external computer, and a main Bluetooth module(130) is connected to the home computer(120). The main Bluetooth module(130) is mounted in the home computer(120) or at an exterior and controlled by a control unit. A sub tooth module(140) is mounted in each electric home appliance and controlled by a control unit of an electric home appliance. The electric home appliances include the control unit and a display device(LCD).

Description

Integrated service method of Internet home appliances using Bluetooth {INTERGRATED SERVICE METHOD OF INTERNET ELECTRIC HOME APPLIANCE USING BLUETOOTH}

The present invention relates to an integrated service method of an Internet home appliance using Bluetooth, and more particularly, to provide various information (advertisement, discount information, other on-demand information) from a company to an Internet home appliance installed in each home. The present invention relates to an integrated service method of an Internet home appliance using Bluetooth that can request various information or request A / S.

Bluetooth is a technical specification that wirelessly connects portable PCs, mobile phones and other mobile devices at low cost within a narrow range. It uses radio frequency to exchange voice and data without physical cable for communication between various digital devices.

For example, when Bluetooth technology is implemented in mobile phones and notebooks, you no longer need to use the cumbersome cables that are currently used to connect mobile phones and notebooks. Virtually any digital device can be part of a Bluetooth system, including printers, desktops, fax machines, keyboards and joysticks.

Bluetooth was launched as an open standard by five companies, Ericsson, Nokia, Intel, Toshiba and IBM, in 1998, forming a consortium called the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG). Since then, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Microsoft, and 3Com have joined SIG, with 1790 members worldwide (currently as of 200.4.20). As the number continues to grow, Bluetooth is now becoming a global standard for short-range wireless communications.

The origin of Bluetooth was just the name of the project underway, but it was decided by the SIG as it was memorable and interesting. The name Bluetooth, or "BlueTooth," then derives from the famous Viking king Herald Bluetooth, who united Denmark and Norway in the 10th century. Just as Herald unites Scandinavia, it means that Bluetooth technology will form a seamless, unified connection between different communication devices. Just as Herald Bluetooth is known as a traveler, it also hopes that compatible Bluetooth technology will unify all communication environments so that a single device can communicate wherever it travels around the world.

Bluetooth wireless systems operate in the 2.4 GHz Industrial Scientific Medical (ISM) band that does not require a license. Frequency hopping transceivers are designed to resist interference and fading. Binary FM modulation is designed to minimize the complexity of the transceiver. The maximum data rate is 1Mb / s, and a time-division duplex scheme is used for full duplex transmission.

The Bluetooth baseband protocol is a combination of circuit and packet exchange. Slots may be reserved for synchronized packets. Each packet is sent on a different mobile frequency. Nominally, one packet is supposed to take one slot, but it can be expanded to five slots.

Bluetooth can support a single asynchronous channel, three simultaneous synchronous voice channels, or even a channel that supports asynchronous data and synchronous voice simultaneously. Each voice channel supports 64kb / s of synchronized connections. The asynchronous channel supports asymmetrical connections of up to 721kb / s (in either direction, in which case return speeds of up to 57.6kb / s) and symmetrical connections of 432.6kb / s.

Bluetooth systems support one-to-one and one-to-multiple connections. Several piconets can be organized and connected together, and each piconet is distinguished by a different frequency hopping sequence. All users belonging to the same piconet are synchronized in the same hopping order. It will be most appropriate to describe the phase as one multiple piconet structure. The full duplex data rate is more than 6 Mb / s in one multiple piconet structure with ten fully loaded independent piconets. This is due to less than 10% reduction in data processing in system simulations based on 0dBm transmit power at the antenna.

Conventional home appliances are limited to simply performing the role of home appliances, so if a product defect occurs, A / S is required, or if a manual is requested, the company must contact the company through a computer or a telephone.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to solve the above problems, by connecting the Internet home appliances in each home using a Bluetooth technology to the server of the home appliance manufacturers or other service providers server via the Internet Internet home appliances Through the various convenience information, product information, advertisements, etc. can be directly provided, and to provide a convenience to life by allowing the service provider and other service providers of home appliances.

1 is an explanatory diagram schematically showing a configuration of an integrated service system of an Internet home appliance using Bluetooth according to the present invention;

2 is a flowchart illustrating an information and advertisement providing method in an integrated service method of an Internet home appliance using Bluetooth according to the present invention.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a failure reporting method in an integrated service method of an Internet home appliance using Bluetooth according to the present invention.

4 is a flowchart illustrating an operation state checking method of an integrated service method of an Internet home appliance using Bluetooth according to the present invention.

<Explanation of symbols for main parts of the drawings>

110: server server: computer

130: main Bluetooth module 140: sub Bluetooth module

Features of the present invention for achieving the above object,

A system comprising a computer connected to the Internet, a main Bluetooth module connected to the computer, and a plurality of sub Bluetooth modules mounted in each intelligent home appliance to transmit and receive data with the main Bluetooth module,

Transmitting information and advertisements corresponding to the characteristics of the home appliance from a server of a company or a service provider of the home appliance to the computer through the Internet;

Transmitting data received through the Internet from the computer to the main Bluetooth module to be transmitted to the corresponding home appliance;

Transmitting from the main Bluetooth module to the sub Bluetooth module attached to the home appliance;

And displaying the data received by the sub Bluetooth module on the display device of the corresponding home appliance or outputting the same to the output device.

Here, the integrated service method of the Internet home appliance using Bluetooth,

When a failure occurs in the corresponding home appliance, a control unit or a user of the corresponding home appliance manually transmitting the failure details to the main Bluetooth module through the sub Bluetooth module;

Transmitting the failure details received by the main Bluetooth module to the computer;

The computer may further include identifying a server of the home appliance using data included in the details of the breakdown, and transmitting the breakdown information to the server of the home appliance.

Here, the integrated service method of the Internet home appliance using the Bluetooth,

Transmitting data confirming an operation state of a specific home appliance to the computer through the Internet by a user using an external computer or an Internet-accessible device;

Transmitting data for requesting confirmation of an operation state to the sub Bluetooth module of a specific home appliance through the main Bluetooth module when data is transmitted;

Generating data indicating a current operation state corresponding to transmission data by a control unit of a specific home appliance and transmitting the data to the computer through the main Bluetooth module through the sub Bluetooth module;

And transmitting, by the computer, data informing the user of the current operating state.

Hereinafter, the configuration of an integrated service system of an Internet home appliance using Bluetooth according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 1.

1 is an explanatory diagram schematically showing a configuration of an integrated service system of an Internet home appliance using Bluetooth according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the integrated service system 100 of an Internet home appliance using Bluetooth according to the present invention includes a company server 110, a computer 120, a main Bluetooth module 130, and a plurality of sub Bluetooth modules. 140 and a plurality of home appliances (audio, a refrigerator, a TV, a washing machine, etc.).

The company server 110 transmits information and advertisements corresponding to the characteristics of the home appliance to the computer 120 of the home in which the home appliance is placed.

The computer 120 is connected to the external Internet, and the main Bluetooth module 130 is connected to the computer 120. Here, the main Bluetooth module 130 is mounted inside or outside the computer 120 and is controlled by a controller (not shown) thereof.

The sub Bluetooth module 140 is installed in each home appliance, and is controlled by a control unit (not shown) of the home appliance. The home appliance includes a control unit and a display device (LCD).

Hereinafter, an operation of an integrated service method of an Internet home appliance using Bluetooth according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 2 to 4.

〈Method of providing information and advertisements〉

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing information and advertisement in an integrated service method of an Internet home appliance using Bluetooth according to the present invention.

First, the server 110 of the company or service company of the home appliance transmits information and advertisements corresponding to the characteristics of the home appliance to the computer 120 through the Internet (S1). Here, information and advertisements suitable for characteristics may be cooking information through an oven or new model advertisement in the case of a gas oven, and daily diet information, food information in a department store or a large discount store, or new model advertisement in a refrigerator. In the case of a washing machine, there may be washing information, clothing advertisement, detergent advertisement, etc. according to clothing characteristics, and audio information may be music information or album advertisement.

When the data corresponding to the information and the advertisement is transmitted, the computer 120 transmits the data to the corresponding home appliance through the main Bluetooth module 130 so that it is transmitted to the corresponding home appliance. Herein, the data includes specific data for identifying the home appliance, such as a serial number corresponding to the specific home appliance.

The main Bluetooth module 130 transmits data transmitted from the computer 120 to the sub Bluetooth module 140 attached to the home appliance, and when the data is received from the sub Bluetooth module 140, the home appliance displays a display device ( LCD) to display it or output it to an output device (such as an audio speaker).

<Failure notification method>

3 is a flowchart illustrating a failure reporting method of an integrated service method of an Internet home appliance using Bluetooth according to the present invention.

First, when a failure is detected by the self-diagnosis on the corresponding home appliance or a failure is detected by the user (S10, S20), the control unit of the corresponding home appliance generates the fault or the user manually displays the fault through the display device. By generating (S30), through the sub Bluetooth module 140 transmits the failure details to the main Bluetooth module 130 (S40).

Then, the main Bluetooth module 130 transmits the received failure details to the computer 120 (S50), and the computer 120 checks the company server 110 of the corresponding home appliance using the data included in the failure details. In operation S60, the failure information is transmitted to the company server 110 of the home appliance.

Here, each home appliance can be used to access the Internet through a computer, and various data transmissions and e-mails can be transmitted.

<Operation status check method>

4 is a flowchart illustrating an operation state checking method of an integrated service method of an Internet home appliance using Bluetooth according to the present invention.

First, a user transmits data for confirming an operation state of a specific household appliance to a computer 120 located in a home through the Internet using an external computer or an internet connection capable device (mobile communication terminal, PDA, etc.). When receiving this (S100), the computer 120 determines whether the received data is the data corresponding to the operation status check request (S110), if the data corresponding to the operation status check request to the main Bluetooth module 130 Through the sub-Bluetooth module 140 of the specific home appliance transmits data requesting confirmation of the operation state (S120).

Then, the control unit of the specific home appliance generates data indicating the current operation state corresponding to the transmission data and transmits to the computer 120 through the sub Bluetooth module 140 and the main Bluetooth module 130 (S130), the computer 120 ) Transmits data informing the user of the current operating state to the user through the Internet (S140).

Meanwhile, the user may control the operation of each home appliance in the home by using a computer or an internet connection capable device from the outside.

Therefore, service providers transmit various information and advertisements directly to respective home appliances, and the contents can be displayed or output from each home appliance, and the home appliance can be connected to the Internet, thereby realizing home automation.

As described above, according to the integrated service method of the Internet home appliance using Bluetooth according to the present invention, the Internet home appliance in each home using the Bluetooth technology of the server or other service provider of the home appliance manufacturer By connecting to the server, you can receive various life convenience information, product information, advertisements, etc. directly through the Internet home appliances, and provide convenience to life by allowing the service providers and other service companies of the home appliances to request services. .

Claims (3)

A system comprising a computer connected to the Internet, a main Bluetooth module connected to the computer, and a plurality of sub Bluetooth modules mounted in each intelligent home appliance to transmit and receive data with the main Bluetooth module, Transmitting information and advertisements corresponding to the characteristics of the home appliance from a server of a company or a service provider of the home appliance to the computer through the Internet; Transmitting data received through the Internet from the computer to the main Bluetooth module to be transmitted to the corresponding home appliance; Transmitting from the main Bluetooth module to the sub Bluetooth module attached to the home appliance; And displaying the data received by the sub Bluetooth module on the display device of the corresponding home appliance or outputting the output to the output device. The method of claim 1, The integrated service method of the Internet home appliance using the Bluetooth, When a failure occurs in the corresponding home appliance, a control unit or a user of the corresponding home appliance manually transmitting the failure details to the main Bluetooth module through the sub Bluetooth module; Transmitting the failure details received by the main Bluetooth module to the computer; Identifying the server of the home appliance using the data included in the details of the failure in the computer, and transmitting the details of the failure to the server of the home appliance; Way. The method of claim 1, The integrated service method of the Internet home appliance using the Bluetooth, Transmitting data confirming an operation state of a specific home appliance to the computer through the Internet by a user using an external computer or an Internet-accessible device; Transmitting data for requesting confirmation of an operation state to the sub Bluetooth module of a specific home appliance through the main Bluetooth module when data is transmitted; Generating data indicating a current operation state corresponding to transmission data by a control unit of a specific home appliance and transmitting the data to the computer through the main Bluetooth module through the sub Bluetooth module; And transmitting data informing the user of a current operation state by the computer.