TW201724870A - System for controlling to display home appliance usage based on position of user and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

A system for controlling to display home appliance usage based on a position of a user and a method thereof are provided. By determining location of home appliances, collecting usage of the home appliances, determining a current position of a user based on the location and the usage of the home appliances, and controlling one of the home appliances to display the usage of the home appliances based on the current position of the user, the system and the method can't spend extra time to check each of home appliances, and can achieve the effect of confirming all of home appliances are normal in anywhere and anytime.

Description

Device and method for displaying home appliance usage status according to user position control

A home appliance usage status display system and method thereof, in particular, a system and method for displaying a home appliance usage status according to a user position control.

Household appliances, referred to as home appliances, refer to appliances that are driven (or mechanized) by electrical energy to help perform household chores, such as foraging, food preservation, or cleaning. In addition to the home environment, it can also be used in company lines or industrial environments.

With the development of the Internet, new-style home appliances have also emerged, and Smart Appliance is one of them. Smart home appliances usually refer to home appliances that can be monitored, controlled, and protected based on consumer demand. The monitoring and protection information of smart home appliances will be provided to consumers through network technologies and services. Therefore, household appliances that have the function of connecting to the Internet or networking are all in the category of smart home appliances.

However, regardless of general household appliances or smart home appliances, users cannot immediately understand the use of home appliances, that is, users need to actively check whether each home appliance is functioning properly. But busy modern people often can't make time to check each appliance.

In summary, it can be seen that there has been a long-standing problem in the prior art that it is necessary to check one by one to confirm whether the home appliance is operating normally. Therefore, it is necessary to propose an improved technical means to solve this problem.

In view of the problem that the prior art needs to check one by one to confirm whether the home appliance is operating normally, the present invention discloses a device and a method for displaying the use condition of the home appliance according to the user position control, wherein:

The device for displaying the usage status of the home appliance according to the user position control disclosed in the present invention comprises at least: a home appliance positioning module, configured to detect a correspondence relationship between each smart home appliance and the socket used, thereby determining each smart home appliance according to the correspondence relationship a location data collection module for collecting the usage status of each smart home appliance; a location determination module for determining the current location of the user according to the usage status of each smart home appliance; and a home appliance selection module for using the user's The current location selects one smart home appliance among all smart home appliances, wherein the selected smart home appliance has a display function; the home appliance control module controls the selected smart home appliance to display the use status of all smart home appliances.

The method for displaying the usage status of the home appliance according to the user position control disclosed in the present invention comprises the steps of: collecting the correspondence between each smart home appliance and the socket used, and determining the location of each smart home appliance according to the corresponding relationship; collecting the smart home appliance The use status; determining the current location of the user according to the usage status of the smart home appliance; selecting one smart home appliance among all smart home appliances according to the current location of the user, wherein the selected smart home appliance has a display function; controlling the selected smart home appliance display The use of all appliances.

The device and method disclosed in the present invention are as above, and the difference between the prior art and the prior art is that the present invention judges the user according to the use status and location of the smart home appliance after judging the location of the smart home appliance and collecting the use status of the smart home appliance. The current location, and according to the user's current location, controls a smart home appliance to display the usage status of all smart home appliances, thereby solving the problems existing in the prior art, and achieving the technical effect of confirming whether the home appliances are all functioning anytime and anywhere.

The features and embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings and embodiments, which are sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to fully understand the technical means to which the present invention solves the technical problems, and The achievable effects of the present invention.

Smart home appliances can be directly connected to network devices that can control smart home appliances, such as mobile phones, laptops, tablets, etc. Smart home appliances can also be wired or wireless communication technology and smart gateways via Ethernet, WiFi, Bluetooth, etc. The device is connected and indirectly connected to the network device that can control the smart home through the smart gateway. Through the smart gateway and the Internet connection, even if the user is not at home, the network device can be operated to connect the smart gateway through the Internet to control the smart home connected to the smart gateway or to transmit control commands. Give the smart gateway device so that the smart gateway device controls the corresponding smart home appliances.

According to the present invention, the smart gateway can determine the current position of the user according to the usage status of all the home appliances, and control the usage status of all the home appliances according to the current position of the user, and further control the display even when the usage status of the home appliance is abnormal. The home appliance of the use situation of the home appliance indicates the home appliance that is in an abnormal state of use.

Hereinafter, the operation of the present invention will be described with reference to the element diagram of the apparatus for controlling the display of the state of use of the home appliance according to the user's position, which is referred to in the "Fig. 1". As shown in FIG. 1 , the device (smart gateway 100) of the present invention includes a home appliance positioning module 110, a data collection module 120, a position determination module 130, a home appliance selection module 150, and a home appliance control module. 160, and an additional state determination module 190.

The home appliance positioning module 110 is responsible for collecting the correspondence between one or more smart home appliances 400 connected to the smart gateway 100 and the sockets (not shown) used, so as to be based on the collected correspondence between the smart home appliances 400 and the sockets. The relationship determines the location of each smart home appliance 400. The home appliance positioning module 110 can provide a setting interface. The user can operate the network device (not shown) used to connect to the smart gateway 100 through the network, and then open the setting interface to set the smart home appliance 400 and the socket used. Correspondence and/or location. In some embodiments, the home appliance positioning module 110 can also detect the correspondence between the sockets used by the smart home appliance 400. For example, the smart socket determines the smart home appliance connected to each smart socket, and according to the pre-defined location. The smart socket determines the location of the smart appliance. However, the manner in which the home appliance positioning module 110 collects the correspondence between the smart home appliance and the outlet and determines the location of the smart home appliance is not limited to the above.

The data collection module 120 is responsible for collecting the usage status of each smart home appliance 400. The data collection module 120 can collect whether the smart home appliance 400 is on standby, shut down, or in operation. In some embodiments, the data collection module 120 can also collect the mode or status of the smart home appliance 400 when operating, for example, the air conditioner is In the cold air mode or the dehumidification mode, the temperature of the oven, the water heater is in the middle of heating or insulation, but the invention is not limited thereto.

The location determining module 130 is responsible for determining the current location of the user based on the usage status of one or more smart home appliances 400 connected to the smart gateway 100. For example, when the door of the refrigerator collected by the data collection module 120 is opened, the position determining module 130 can determine that the current position of the user is in front of the refrigerator, and, for example, when the light of the living room and the television are turned on, the position is judged. The module 130 can determine the current location of the user in the living room or the like. However, the manner in which the location determining module 130 determines the current location of the user is not limited to the above.

In some embodiments, the location determining module 130 can continuously determine the current location of the user according to the usage status of the one or more smart home appliances 400 connected to the smart gateway 10, and further determine whether the current location of the user changes. .

The home appliance selection module 150 is responsible for selecting a smart home appliance 401 selected by the home appliance selection module 150 from all the smart home appliances 400 connected to the smart gateway 100 according to the current location of the user determined by the location determining module 130. The smart home appliance 401 must have a function of displaying characters, for example, a television or a computer having a screen, or a home appliance having an LED display, but the present invention is not limited thereto.

The home appliance selection module 150 can continuously select one smart home appliance 402 from the smart home appliances 400 connected to the smart gateway 100 according to the current location of the user. That is to say, the home appliance selection module 150 can select one smart home appliance 402 again from all the smart home appliances 400 connected to the smart gateway 100 according to the current position of the changed user when the current position of the user changes. It is worth mentioning that, in some cases, the smart home appliance 402 that is selected again may be the same as the smart home appliance 401 that is selected before the current location change of the user, for example, when the location of the user does not change much, or the location The changed user can still see the smart home appliance 401 selected before the location change, but the invention is not limited thereto.

The home appliance control module 160 is responsible for controlling the smart home appliance 401 selected by the home appliance selection module 150 to display the usage status of each smart home appliance 400 connected to the smart gateway 100. In general, the home appliance control module 160 can directly transmit the usage status of each smart home appliance 400 collected by the data collection module 120 to the smart home appliance 401 selected by the home appliance selection module 150, but the home appliance control module 160 controls The manner in which the smart home appliance 401 displays the use status of the smart home appliance 400 is not limited to the above.

The home appliance control module 160 can control the smart home appliance 401 selected by the home appliance selection module 150 to display the location of all the smart home appliances 400 connected to the smart gateway 100. Similarly, the home appliance control module 160 can directly transmit the description of the location of each smart home appliance 400 determined by the home appliance positioning module 110 to the smart home appliance 401 selected by the home appliance selection module 150.

The home appliance control module 160 can also continuously control the smart home appliance 401 selected by the home appliance selection module 150 to display the usage status of all the smart home appliances 400 connected to the smart gateway 100, that is, even because of the user's current status. When the location changes, the appliance selection module 150 selects different smart appliances 402 again, and the appliance control module 160 controls the smart appliance 402 newly selected by the appliance selection module 150 to display the usage status of all the smart appliances.

It is worth mentioning that the home appliance control module 160 can also collect the state of the smart home appliance 401 selected by the home appliance selection module 150 when it is selected, and select different ones in the home appliance selection module 150 because the current position of the user changes. In the case of the smart home appliance 402, the smart home appliance 401 selected by the home appliance selection module 150 is controlled to return to the state before the use status of all the smart home appliances 400 is displayed. For example, when the smart home appliance 401 is selected by the home appliance selection module 150, the smart home appliance 401 is in the standby mode, and the home appliance control module 160 can control the smart home appliance 401 selected by the home appliance selection module 150 to change from the standby mode to the operation mode and start the screen. After the use of the smart home appliance 400 is displayed, the home appliance control module 160 can control the smart home appliance 401 selected by the home appliance selection module 150 to close the screen and return. The state previously collected by the appliance control module 160, that is, the control smart appliance 401 enters the standby mode.

The home appliance control module 160 may also control the smart home appliance 401 selected by the home appliance selection module 150 to indicate that the state determination module 190 determines an abnormal smart appliance when the state determination module 190 determines that one or more smart home appliances 400 are abnormal. 403. For example, the smart home appliance 401 that controls the selected smart home appliance 401 displays an abnormal smart home appliance 403 with a different foreground or background color, or an intelligent home appliance 403 that describes an abnormality with an additional message, and even controls the selected smart home appliance 401 to sound a warning sound, but The manner in which the home appliance control module 160 controls the smart home appliance 401 to indicate an abnormal smart home appliance 403 is not limited to the above.

The state determination module 190 can determine whether each of the smart home appliances 400 is abnormal according to the usage status of the smart home appliance 400 collected by the data collection module 120. For example, when the smart home appliance uses a current that is higher than the maximum current used for normal operation defined by the smart home appliance, the state determination module 190 can determine that the smart home appliance is abnormal.

The status determination module 190 can also be based on the usage status of the smart home appliances collected by the data collection module 120 and the usage status of each smart home appliance 400 previously collected by the data collection module 120 (referred to as "history in the present invention". The usage status ") determines whether each of the smart home appliances 400 is abnormal. For example, when the smart home appliance is in operation for a long time, but the historical use status of the smart home appliance records that the smart home appliance has not been used for a long time, the state determination module 190 can determine that the smart home appliance is abnormal. For example, when the historical usage status records that a plurality of smart home appliances normally operate at the same time, when the smart home appliances are not operating at the same time, the state determining module 190 can determine that the smart home appliances that are not operating at the same time or the smart home appliances that operate independently are abnormal. However, the manner in which the state determination module 190 determines that the smart home appliance is abnormal is not limited to the above.

Next, an operation system and method of the present invention will be described with reference to an embodiment. Referring to FIG. 2A, a flow chart of a method for displaying a home appliance usage condition according to a user position control according to the present invention will be described.

After the user sets the smart gateway 100, the smart gateway 100 can be connected to all smart home appliances 400 in the user's home through a wired or wireless network.

After that, the home appliance positioning module 110 of the smart gateway 100 can collect the correspondence relationship between each smart home appliance 400 and the socket used, and determine the location of each smart home appliance 400 according to the collected correspondence relationship (step 210). In this embodiment, it is assumed that the socket used by the smart home appliance 400 is a smart socket, and the home appliance positioning module 110 can detect whether the smart home appliance 400 uses the smart socket through the smart socket, and when the smart socket is used by the smart home appliance 400, The smart socket used collects the data of the smart home appliance 400, and judges the location of the smart home appliance 400 based on the pre-defined location data.

Similarly, after the smart gateway 100 is connected to the smart home appliance 400, the data collection module 120 of the smart gateway 100 can collect the usage status of each smart home appliance 400 (step 222a), and the position determining module of the smart gateway 100 130 can determine the current location of the user according to the usage status of each smart home appliance 400 collected by the data collection module 120 (step 226a). In this embodiment, it is assumed that the usage status of the range hood collected by the data collection module 120 is in operation, and the position determination module 130 can determine the use according to the usage status of the range hood collected by the data collection module 120. Are in the kitchen.

After the location determining module 130 of the smart gateway 100 determines the current location of the user, the home appliance selection module 150 of the smart gateway 100 can determine the current location of the user determined by the location determining module 130. A smart home appliance 401 having display capability is selected among the smart home appliances 400 (step 230a). In the present embodiment, it is assumed that the appliance selection module 150 selects a water heater that also uses a socket in the kitchen and has an LED display.

After the home appliance selection module 150 of the smart gateway 100 selects the smart home appliance 401, the home appliance control module 160 of the smart gateway 100 can control the smart home appliance 401 selected by the home appliance selection module 150 to display the use of all the smart home appliances 400. Status (step 250). In this embodiment, it is assumed that the appliance control module 160 can control the selected water heater to turn on the LED display, and display the kitchen light in the LED display, the kitchen range hood operation, the kitchen water heater standby state information .

As described above, according to the present invention, the user can confirm the use status of each smart home appliance 400 at any time regardless of the location of the home appliance, thereby judging whether or not each smart home appliance 400 is operating normally.

In addition, in the above embodiment, if the smart gateway 100 includes the state determination module 190, after the data collection module 120 of the smart gateway 100 collects the usage status of each smart home appliance 400 (step 222a), the state The determination module 190 can determine whether each of the smart home appliances 400 is abnormal according to the usage status of each of the smart home appliances 400 collected by the data collection module 120 (step 262). In this embodiment, if the usage status of the smart home appliance collected by the data collection module 120 further includes that the door of the refrigerator is continuously turned on, the state determination module 190 can determine that the refrigerator is abnormal.

Thereafter, the home appliance control module 160 of the smart gateway 100 can control the selected smart home appliance 401 when controlling the use status of all the smart home appliances 400 by the smart home appliance 401 selected by the home appliance selection module 150 (step 250). The smart home appliance 403 indicating the abnormality (step 266). In this embodiment, it is assumed that the appliance control module 160 can control the LED display of the selected water heater to display the usage status of the refrigerator in different colors, and additionally display a graphic indicating abnormality when displaying the usage status of the refrigerator. Or symbol.

Furthermore, the above-described embodiment may further include a flow of "2B", after the home appliance control module 160 of the smart gateway 100 controls the selected smart home appliance 401 to display the usage status of all the smart home appliances 400 (step 250). The data collection module 120 of the smart gateway 100 can continuously collect the usage status of each smart home appliance 400 (step 222b). The location determining module 130 of the smart gateway 100 can collect the last (latest) according to the data collection module 120. The current state of use of each of the smart home appliances 400 is determined again (step 226b), and it is determined whether the current position of the user has changed (step 270).

If the current location of the user has not changed, the home appliance control module 160 of the smart gateway 100 can continue to control the same smart home appliance 401 to display the usage status of all the smart home appliances 400 (step 250), and if the current location of the user changes, The home appliance selection module 150 of the smart gateway 100 can select a smart home appliance 402 from all the smart home appliances 400 again by the current location of the user determined by the location determining module 130 (step 230b), and determine the previously selected one. Whether the smart home appliance 401 is the same as the smart home appliance 402 that is selected again (step 282).

If the smart home appliance 401 selected first is the same as the smart appliance 402 selected later, the home appliance control module 160 of the smart gateway 100 can continue to control the same smart home appliance 401 (402) to display the usage status of all the smart home appliances 400 ( Step 250); if the previously selected smart home appliance 401 is different from the smart home appliance 402 selected again, for example, the position determining module 130 of the smart gateway 100 determines that the user moves from the kitchen to the living room, resulting in the smart gateway 100. The home appliance selection module 150 selects the TV using the socket in the living room, and the appliance control module 160 can control the state of the previously selected smart home appliance 401 to be restored to the state before the use state of the smart appliance 400 is displayed (eg, controlling the water heater to turn off the LED display) And the smart home appliance 402 that can control the reselection display shows the usage status of all the smart home appliances 400 (step 250).

In summary, it can be seen that the difference between the present invention and the prior art is that after determining the location of the smart home appliance and the usage status of the smart home appliance, the current location of the user is determined according to the usage status and location of the smart home appliance, and According to the current position of the user, the technical means for displaying the use status of all smart home appliances by a smart home appliance can be solved by using a technical means to solve the problem that the prior art needs to be checked one by one to confirm whether the home appliance is functioning normally, and then can be achieved at any time. The technical effect of confirming whether or not the home appliances are functioning properly.

Furthermore, the method for displaying the state of use of the home appliance according to the position control of the user can be implemented in hardware, software or a combination of hardware and software, or can be implemented in a centralized manner in a computer system or distributed by different components. The decentralized implementation of several interconnected computer systems.

While the embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the above description is not intended to limit the scope of the invention. Any modification of the form and details of the practice of the present invention, which is a matter of ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention pertains, is a patent protection of the present invention. range. The scope of the invention is to be determined by the scope of the appended claims.

100‧‧‧Wisdom Gateway
110‧‧‧Home Appliance Positioning Module
120‧‧‧ data collection module
130‧‧‧Location Judgment Module
150‧‧‧Home appliance selection module
160‧‧‧Home appliance control module
190‧‧‧State Judgment Module
400‧‧‧Smart Appliances
401, 402‧‧‧Smart Appliances
403‧‧‧Exceptional Smart Home Appliances Step 210‧‧‧ Collect the correspondence between smart home appliances and the sockets used, and judge the location of smart home appliances based on the correspondence. Step 222a‧‧‧Collect the use of smart home appliances Step 222b‧ ‧Continue to collect the use status of smart home appliances Step 226a‧‧‧Determination of the user's current location based on the use status of smart home appliances Step 226b‧‧‧Re-determine the current location of the user based on the use status of smart home appliances Step 230a‧‧‧Based on use Step 2: Select the smart home appliance according to the current position of the user. Step 225. ‧ Control the selected smart home appliance to display the use status of the smart home appliance. Step 262 ‧ ‧ Determine whether the smart home appliance is abnormal 266‧‧‧ Control the selected smart home appliance to indicate abnormal smart home appliance steps 270‧‧‧Determine whether the user's current location changes step 282‧‧‧Consult whether the previously selected smart home appliance is the same as the re-selected smart home appliance ‧ ‧ control of previously selected smart home appliances recovery Display state before the usage of wisdom appliances

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of components of a device for displaying a home appliance usage condition according to a user position control according to the present invention. FIG. 2A is a flow chart showing a method for displaying the usage status of the home appliance according to the user position control according to the present invention. FIG. 2B is a flow chart of an additional method for displaying the usage status of the home appliance according to the user position control according to the present invention.

Step 210‧‧‧ Collect the correspondence between the smart home appliance and the socket used, and judge the location of the smart home appliance based on the correspondence relationship

Step 222a‧‧‧Collect the use of smart home appliances

Step 226a‧‧‧determine the current location of the user based on the usage status of the smart home appliance

Step 230a‧‧‧Select smart home appliances based on the user's current location

Step 250‧‧‧ Control the selected smart home appliance to display the use status of smart home appliances

Step 262‧‧‧Check if the smart home appliance is abnormal

Step 266‧‧‧ Control the selected smart home appliances to indicate abnormal smart appliances

Claims (10)

A method for displaying the usage status of a home appliance according to a user position control is applied to a smart gateway device. The method includes at least the following steps: collecting a correspondence relationship between a plurality of smart home appliances and a socket used, and determining according to the corresponding relationships The location of each smart home appliance; collecting the use status of the smart home appliances; determining a current location of the user based on the use status of the smart home appliances; selecting the smarter from the smart home appliances according to the current location of the user The home appliance, wherein the selected smart home appliance has a display function; and controlling the selected smart home appliance to display the use status of the smart home appliances. The method for controlling the use status of the home appliance according to the user position control according to the first aspect of the patent application, wherein the step of controlling the selected smart home appliance to display the use status of the smart home appliances further comprises controlling the selected smart home appliance display. The steps of the location of each smart home appliance. The method for displaying the use status of the home appliance according to the user position control according to the first aspect of the patent application, wherein the method further comprises: determining whether the smart home appliance is abnormal according to the use status of each smart home appliance, or according to each smart home appliance When the history of use and the use status of each smart home appliance determine that the smart home appliance is abnormal, the step of controlling the selected smart home appliance to indicate the abnormal smart home appliance is determined. The method for displaying the usage status of the home appliance according to the user position control according to the first aspect of the patent application, wherein the method further comprises: determining the current location of the user according to the usage status of the smart home appliances, when the current user is When the location is changed, the smart home appliance is selected again from the smart home appliances according to the changed current location of the user, and the smart home appliance that is selected again is displayed to display the use status of the smart home appliances. The method for displaying the usage status of the home appliance according to the user position control according to the fourth aspect of the patent application, wherein the method is the step of selecting the smart home appliance from the smart home appliances according to the changed current location of the user. Then, when it is determined that the selected smart home appliance is different from the smart home appliance that is selected again, the step of controlling the selected smart home appliance to return to the state before displaying the use status of the smart home appliances is controlled. The device for displaying the usage status of the home appliance according to the position control of the user, the device at least includes: a home appliance positioning module, configured to detect a correspondence between the plurality of smart home appliances and the socket used, and thereby determining each of the corresponding relationships according to the corresponding relationship a location of the smart home appliance; a data collection module for collecting the use status of the smart home appliances; a position determination module for determining the current location of the user based on the use status of the smart home appliances; a module for selecting a smart home appliance from the smart home appliances according to the current location of the user, wherein the selected smart home appliance has a display function; and an electric control module for controlling the selected smart device Home appliances show the use of these smart appliances. The device for controlling the use of the home appliance according to the user position control according to the sixth aspect of the patent application, wherein the home appliance control module is further configured to control the selected smart home appliance to display the location of each smart home appliance. The device for displaying the state of use of the home appliance according to the user position control according to the sixth aspect of the patent application, wherein the device further includes a state determination module, configured to determine whether each smart home appliance is abnormal according to the usage status of each smart home appliance. Or determining whether the smart home appliance is abnormal according to the usage status of each smart home appliance and the historical usage status of each smart home appliance collected by the data collection module, and the home appliance control module is further configured to determine by the state determination module When the smart home appliance is abnormal, the selected smart home appliance is instructed to indicate the abnormal smart home appliance. The device for displaying the usage status of the home appliance according to the user position control according to the sixth aspect of the patent application, wherein the position determining module is further configured to continuously determine the current location of the user according to the usage status of the smart home appliances, and determine Whether the current location of the user is changed, and the appliance selection module is further configured to: when the location determination module determines that the current location of the user is changed, according to the changed current location of the user, the smart appliances are again Selecting the smart home appliance, the home appliance control module is further configured to control the smart home appliance that is selected again to display the use status of the smart home appliances. The device for controlling the use of the home appliance according to the user position control according to the ninth application of the patent application, wherein the home appliance control module is further configured to control when the selected smart home appliance is different from the reselected smart home appliance The selected smart home appliance is restored to the state before the use status of the smart home appliances is displayed.