KR20030008317A - Home Appliance Controlling System - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A system for controlling household appliances is provided to connect a plurality of household appliances installing embedded modules and PNA(Phoneline Network Alliance) modules to a telephone line installed in home without installing a specific LAN(Local Area Network) cable and perform a communication. CONSTITUTION: A plurality of household appliances(A1-A3) are controlled according to a control signal transmitted through a telephone line(P) installed in home for generating state information and transmitting through the telephone line(P). PNA modules(P1-P3) connect the household appliances(A1-A3) to the telephone line(P) so that the household appliances(A1-A3) transmits and receives a signal through the telephone line(P), and manage the connection. Embedded communication modules(B1-B3) process information transmitted and received through the telephone line(P) by using the PNA modules(P1-P3) and an Ethernet communication to be capable of transmitting and receiving information with the household appliances(A1-A3), and store IP addresses corresponding to the household appliances(A1-A3).

Description

Home Appliance Controlling System

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a home appliance control system. In particular, a home appliance control system enables a plurality of home appliances equipped with an embedded module and a PNA module (Phoneline Network Alliance), which are devices for Internet control, to use the telephone line installed in a home. It's about the system.

Recently, a plurality of home appliances are connected through a network in a home, and the network is connected to an external internet network so that the user can control the home appliance in any space in the home or outside the home. There is a growing interest in network systems.

In particular, in the case of the home appliance network system, the user can grasp the state information of a specific home appliance in any space in the home and can control the home appliance through a computer or the like from the outside. Has high response, and thus the application range of home appliance network system is expanding.

However, in the home appliance network system as described above, a LAN line (10base-T) must be installed in a home in order to communicate with each other using an embedded Ethernet module, which is an internet connection device of the home appliance. In order to configure the network, there is a problem that a lot of cost is consumed due to a large cable installation cost and complicated wiring.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems of the prior art, the purpose of the telephone line installed in the home without installing a separate LAN cable a plurality of home appliances equipped with an embedded module and a PNA module to enable Internet communication It is to provide a home appliance control system to connect to enable communication.

1 is a block diagram showing a home appliance control system according to the present invention;

2 is a block diagram showing a communication module embedded in a home appliance according to the present invention.

<Explanation of symbols on main parts of the drawings>

A1, A2, A3: Home Appliance B1, B2, B3: Home Appliance Communication Module

P: General telephone network P1, P2, P3: General telephone network (PNA) module

M1, M2, M3: home appliance main control unit 11: data processing unit

12: data storage unit 13: interface storage unit

According to a feature of the home appliance control system according to the present invention for solving the above problems, a plurality of home appliances installed in the home to be controlled according to a control signal transmitted through the telephone network and to generate the state information accordingly accordingly A general telephone network (PNA) module that connects the home appliance to a telephone network and manages a connection thereof so that the device and the household appliance transmit and receive a signal through a telephone line, and the telephone network by using the general telephone network module and Ethernet communication. It is configured with a communication module embedded in the home appliance for processing the information transmitted and received through the home appliance to transmit and receive at the same time and stores the IP address corresponding to the home appliance.

In an additional feature of the home appliance control system according to the present invention, the general telephone network module (PNA) is connected between the home appliance embedded communication module and a telephone line so that the home appliance embedded communication module can communicate through the telephone line. Transmit / receive information of telephone network is converted to each other according to Ethernet standard and general telephone network standard.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a home appliance control system according to the present invention, which is controlled according to a control signal transmitted through a telephone line P installed in a home, and generates state information accordingly, and transmits it through the telephone network P. A plurality of household appliances (A1, A2, A3) installed in the home and the household appliances (A1, A2, A3) to the home appliances (A1, A2, A3) to transmit and receive signals over the telephone line (P) (P) the telephone network (PNA) module (P1, P2, P3) for connecting to and managing the connection, and the telephone network (P) using Ethernet communication with the telephone network modules (P1, P2, P3). The communication device (B1, built-in home appliance) for storing the IP address corresponding to the home appliances (A1, A2, A3) while simultaneously processing the information transmitted and received through the home appliances (A1, A2, A3) B2, B3).

Between the home appliance communication module (B1, B2, B3) and the telephone network (P) by combining the general telephone network module (P1, P2, P3), the home appliance embedded communication module (B1, B2, B3) is the telephone network (P) Transmit / receive information of general telephone network (P) according to Ethernet protocol and general telephone network protocol to enable communication through each, and do not install separate dedicated line for all home appliances (A1, A2, A3) in the home It is configured to enable the Internet communication using the telephone network (P) without.

That is, the general telephone network module (P1, P2, P3) converts the information received through the general telephone network (P) to the Ethernet standard to transfer to the built-in communication device (B1, B2, B3) The information transmitted from the home appliance built-in communication module (B1, B2, B3) to the general telephone network (P) is converted to suit the general telephone network standard and transferred to the general telephone network (P).

The plurality of home appliances (A1, A2, A3) further includes a built-in communication module (B1, B2, B3) to the home appliance, each of the home appliances (A1, A2, A3) without a computer or a separate drive system Ethernet protocol It is possible to simply connect to the Internet by using a communication module between the home appliance built-in communication module (B1, B2, B3) and the general telephone network module (P1, P2, P3) to perform the transmission and reception of data through the Ethernet protocol and the Ethernet protocol In the general telephone network module (P1, P2, P3) is converted into a general telephone network protocol to communicate with the telephone network (P) to perform communication between the telephone network (P).

Figure 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the built-in communication module embedded in the home appliance control system of the present invention, the home appliance is embedded in the general telephone network module and the transmission and reception information of the main control unit of the home appliance Ethernet A data processing unit 11 for converting and processing a protocol and a main controller of a home appliance according to a protocol and a data storage unit for storing various transmission / reception information processed through the data processing unit 11 and an IP address set in the home appliance ( 12) and an interface storage unit 13 for storing a user interface suitable for controlling a home appliance corresponding to an IP address stored in the data storage unit 12 and detecting a state of the home appliance.

The data processing unit 11 compares the IP address included in the control information transmitted and received through the Internet network with the set IP address of the home appliance stored in the data storage unit 12, and controls only the control information corresponding to the home appliance. The control information is analyzed / processed to be delivered to the device.

Looking at the operation of the home appliance control system of the present invention configured as described above are as follows.

An external command or information input to control a plurality of home appliances A1, A2, A3 through a telephone network installed in the home is connected to the telephone network P via a general telephone network module P1. , P2 and P3 are converted to an Ethernet protocol suitable for communication with the home appliances A1, A2 and A3.

Data of the general telephone network converted by the general telephone network module (P1, P2, P3) is transmitted to the home appliances (A1, A2, A3) via Ethernet communication, wherein the data is the IP address of the home appliance to be controlled It includes information about the IP address embedded in the home appliance built-in communication module (B1, B2, B3) and IP address included in the data transmitted through the general telephone network module (P1, P2, P3) match Only when the data is converted into the Ethernet protocol and transferred to the home appliances (A1, A2, A3).

The data converted by the Ethernet protocol is transferred to each of the home appliance main controllers M1, M2, and M3 through the built-in communication module B1, B2, and B3 of the home appliance, and thus, each of the home appliances A1, A2, and A3. Control operation is performed.

As described above, the home appliance control system according to the present invention enables the home appliance to be easily connected to the Internet through the Ethernet protocol without using a computer or a separate driving device using the built-in communication module of the home appliance, and the Ethernet protocol is a general telephone network protocol. It is a communication system in which a general telephone network module is installed to convert and communicate through a home telephone line.

The home appliance control system of the present invention configured as described above has the home appliance embedded communication module for converting the Ethernet protocol data to conform to the home appliance standard so as to be interconnected through a general telephone network in the home and to transmit and receive information. By simply installing a general telephone network module that connects the module and the general telephone network, Internet communication is possible through the existing telephone network without installing a separate LAN cable, thereby reducing the cost of installing a dedicated line.

Claims (2)

A plurality of home appliances installed in the home to be controlled according to a control signal transmitted through a telephone network and to generate status information accordingly, and to transmit the signals through a telephone line to the household telephone. A general telephone network (PNA) module for accessing and managing the connection, and processing the information transmitted and received through the telephone network to the household electrical appliance by using the Ethernet communication with the general telephone network module. Home appliance control system, characterized in that consisting of a communication device built-in communication module for storing the corresponding IP address. The method of claim 1, The general telephone network module (PNA) is connected between the home appliance built-in communication module and a telephone line so that the home appliance built-in communication module can transmit / receive information of the general telephone network to the Ethernet standard and the general phone network standard, respectively, to enable communication through the phone line. Home appliance control system, characterized in that the mutual conversion according to.