KR20050059388A - Home automation control / management system using instant messenger - Google Patents

Abstract

      The present invention connects to a home server that manages a home automation system using a device capable of using an instant messenger service, and is connected to a home network. By controlling various home appliances of the home appliance and sending a problem message to the equipment used by the administrator by using an instant messenger when a problem occurs, the home automation system is accessed to efficiently control the equipment connected to the home network. It relates to a control system and a control method that can be managed. In addition, the home network is divided into room area networks for efficient management of the home network, and the home network is conveniently managed by using commonly used sentences.

Description

Home Automation Control Management System Using Instant Messenger {Home Automation Control / Management System Using Instant Messenger}

              The present invention is connected to a home server of a home automation system using a device capable of using an instant messenger service, and connected to a home network. By controlling the home appliances and using the instant messenger service when a problem occurs in the home network connected to the home network, the administrator sends the problem message to the equipment used by the administrator to access the home automation system and efficiently manage the equipment connected to the home network. The present invention relates to a control system and a control method capable of controlling and managing the same.

  Recently-produced information appliances can be given IP (Internet Protocol) to each household appliance using IPv6 and have a simple computing power. It is possible to control the home appliances, it is possible to manage and control the home appliances connected to each other if necessary. For this reason, the home network environment is managed and integrated with each other in order to increase the efficiency of management and convenience of use beyond simple control for the operation of a specific home appliance using infrared communication.

  Improving the communication function of the home appliance and improving the computational ability is leading to a natural approach to the ubiquitous environment. In addition, the emergence of a high-speed communication network enables an Internet-based remote control system to enable a home network manager to directly access a home network and to control a connected information appliance if the Internet is available. 1 shows a configuration of a home network system that is generally used.

  The home network system used in the related art can be divided into a wireless home network unit that moves frequently and a wired network unit where movement rarely occurs, as shown in FIG. 1. In detail, the wireless home network unit, video phone, and water for forming and using the wireless cyber home in connection with the home server managing the resources connected to the home network and the wireless LAN of Bluetooth and IEEE 802.1b standards. Home control network unit for controlling and managing energy resources such as lighting, security, security / security, cyber office unit connecting laptops, computers, and key phones to the home phoneline networking alliance (PNA); A / V network unit that connects many digital video and audio devices such as game machines using IEEE 1394, and kitchen network unit that connects kitchen appliances such as washing machines, refrigerators, microwave ovens, and rice cookers using power line modems. It consists of PC network section for management.

  An operation process of the home network system is described as follows.

  The home server stores important messages that need to be notified to the user, such as malfunction of the home appliance such as abnormalities of the home appliance that occurred during initialization and execution, to the auxiliary storage device. Then, when the administrator accesses the home server built on the home network using the Internet, the home server first requests the user's user ID and password to authenticate the user and goes through a user authentication process. When the user authentication process is completed normally, the home server displays an important message in the web browser that needs to be delivered to the user. The user then manages and controls the information appliance while viewing the commands or results that appear in the web browser.

  In order to control information appliances using a web server, the home server displays a list of available information appliances to an administrator through a web browser. The administrator selects a device to be managed or controlled from the list of available information appliances displayed in the web browser and delivers it to the home server. The home server receives this, allowing the device's status and available commands to be presented back to the administrator's web browser, and the administrator sends the command along with options to devices connected to the home network via executable commands displayed in the web browser. The home server receiving the transmitted message then analyzes the message and controls the specific information appliance. The information home appliance receives the command, processes it, and notifies the home server of the execution result thereof, and the home server manages the home network by displaying the received message on the web browser of the administrator. The existing home server provided an interface between the home network and the administrator by using a web server and a common gateway interface (CGI). This approach requires the use of another communication medium to allow administrators to receive errors from information appliances connected to the home network if they are not connected to the home server.

  In addition, when using a web server, a server that can have a fixed IP or one-time operation without causing a fatal error in uninterrupted execution should use a server that is operated continuously until the administrator stops working. However, using a fixed IP has a lot of additional burden. When using a floating IP as a fixed IP, if another user owns the IP, the user must stop using the home server while waiting for the occupied user to release the IP. do. In addition, even if the same IP can be used, it is difficult to keep the login status continuously due to the characteristics of the computer. If you are using a floating IP, you need a way to recognize the IP of a separate home server.

  Even if the home network can be accessed from outside the home to control digital appliances, the provided user interface is not designed for the user's convenience or the user is unfamiliar with the provided user interface. It is inconvenient to access and control the home network and the state of home appliances connected to the home server. The present invention implements a method for efficiently managing and controlling a home network system and a home network management server by transmitting a command composed of sentences used in everyday life through natural language processing and analyzing the same using natural language processing.

  As a type of instant messenger mainly used in the related art, MSN, IRC, Nate and the like exist in various ways. In recent years, the number of instant messengers is increasing rapidly. If only the Internet is available, it is possible to chat with users registered in the chat client regardless of their IP address. The trend is to use multiple instant messages together.

              The present invention is to provide all the advantages provided in the prior art, and to solve the problems of the prior art, a home server or a home appliance connected to a home network for managing a home network constructed using an instant messenger flows Even if it works on IP, it makes it possible to access home server or home network from outside.

  Another home network of the present invention is to separate and manage a home network in a small unit called a room area network. The classification of the room area network suggests a method that can effectively handle the sentences even if they use the instant messenger. The use of natural language processing allows users to use everyday terminology so that they can easily use information appliances without knowing it.

         The present invention relates to a home networking system and a home server for efficiently operating the same. In particular, a system for accessing a home server using an instant messenger on a floating IP and efficiently managing and controlling information appliances connected to the home network system. It is about. To this end, the system includes Internet-enabled devices for running instant messenger services, a message processing system for receiving and processing messages delivered to instant messengers, and a room area for managing devices in the same area for home networks for efficient management of home networks. It consists of a network. The structural diagram of the present invention is shown in FIG.

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

  When the home server is initialized or when the device connected to the home network is powered on, the home server will send the status information of the devices connected to the home network and options such as its commands to the home server. To a specific directory on your home server. The home network management program of the home server reads the contents and executes the initialization process.

  The home network may be divided into a wireless home network unit that moves frequently and a wired network unit where movement rarely occurs. A room information property for obtaining and setting location information of a specific information home appliance is added to a document storing state information of the information home appliance for use of the room area network, and the home network administrator can set it. Room naming is designed to be done in two ways: manual and automatic. Administrators can either name themselves or register their location automatically using messages coming from the router. Routers used to automatically enter their room should be designed to add their own information to the forwarded messages.

  For example, a process of recognizing the state information of the TV in the home room by the server will be described. When the TV is powered up first, the TV tries to transmit its status information through a nearby router. At this time, the router receiving the message from the TV adds its serial number to the message and transmits it. The home server can register the information of the room where the TV is located by grasping the information of the first router stored in the received message, and can analyze the arrangement of the routers listed in the delivered message to determine the optimized path. In order to prevent recursive recursion, hop information is added to the message and the router automatically discards the message after a certain hop. The maximum number of hops can be defined as the number of routers with the maximum length from the server to the information appliances. Therefore, it is possible to access all the devices by using the name of the information appliance and the room information.

  After the initializing process of the server, the instant messenger installed in the home server is executed. After that, you must be registered as a friend in the instant messenger of the home server to access the instant messenger installed in the home server. The process of registering as a friend informs the home server of the existence of the user requesting friend registration, as seen in most instant messengers. The home server is registered as a friend through a process for determining whether the user is a legitimate user. If the friend registration is completed normally, you can access the instant messenger of the home server. At the same time, the execution of the instant messenger can occur like the home network management program, and the home network management program reads the state of the electric machine and sets the information in the memory.

  In real-world access, the mobile device or the Internet-enabled device is used to deliver an invitation message to the home server, and when the home server accepts the session and establishes a session, it manages the home network by intercepting the message transmitted through the administrator's Internet-enabled device. Deliver it to the program. In addition, when a problem occurs in an information appliance, a home server may immediately transmit a problem to a user through an instant messenger installed in a home server or broadcast it to a registered administrator. If the instant messenger has an SMS function, it is also possible to send it via SMS if the user is not logged in to the chat client.

  Home network management program is a program for determining the location of specific information and perform efficiently. The delivered message may be a string, and for the user who is familiar with the existing method, it is possible to produce a program that is similar to the existing method and more efficient by using the chat message protocol only and changing the appearance of the messenger. Figure 4 shows the contents of the window of the instant message through the appearance of two types of instant messages for the instant messenger for a mobile phone for controlling the home network system.

  By using this method, even if the server of the home network system uses a floating IP, it is possible to access from the outside and to process the home network system efficiently by using natural language processing and room area network.

         The home network system of the present invention configured as described above uses an instant messenger and uses an e-mail address rather than an IP as in the conventional method. Therefore, it is possible to access a home server without problems even on a floating IP, and to receive a problem occurring in an information appliance in real time. In addition, because natural language processing is used, information home appliances can be searched and processed by name, and the home network can be managed efficiently by separating the network into room areas.

    1 is a block diagram of a conventional home network system

    2 is a diagram illustrating a home network implemented in an embodiment of the present invention

    3 is a component to be added for the present invention

    4 is an exemplary view of a screen appearing through a mobile phone in an embodiment of the present invention

Claims (4)

       Managing a home network using an instant messenger service in a network network constructed for home networking; Home network management system that delivers the message of the problem of information appliances to a user by using an instant messenger The method of claim 1  Home network management system that classifies messages delivered using instant messenger into local information, device information and option information using natural language processing and efficiently manages home network using them According to claim 1 Home network and home network management system for separating and managing home networks into room area networks Network system that manages the network by separating the home network into room areas