1835 results about "Smart appliance" patented technology

A system and device for harvesting various frequencies and polarizations of ambient radio frequency (RF) electromagnetic (EM) energy for making a passive sensor (tag) into an autonomous passive sensor (tag) adapted to collect and store data with time-stamping and some primitive computation when necessary even when an interrogating radio frequency identification (RFID) reader is not present (not transmitting). A specific source of ambient RF EM energy may include wireless fidelity (WiFi) and / or cellular telephone base stations. The system and device may also allow for the recharging of energy storage units in active and battery assisted passive (BAP) devices. The system could be a “smart building” that uses passive sensors with RF EM energy harvesting capability to sense environmental variables, security breaches, as well as information from “smart appliances” that can be used for a variety of controls and can be accessed locally or remotely over the Internet or cellular networks.

A system and method for the remote configuration and control of a access devices via a broadband access gateway is disclosed. The broadband access gateway may comprise a wireless interface and a broadband network connection for exchanging information via, for example, a digital subscriber loop, a cable connection, a T1 connection, and T3 network connection. A user using any of a plurality of access devices may communicate with the broadband access gateway via the wireless interface or the broadband network connection to make remote requests of another of the access devices. Such requests may comprise, for example, accessing, recording, playing, exchanging, transmitting, receiving, converting, translating of multimedia information. The remote requests may include enabling, disabling, configuring, monitoring, administering, and scheduling of smart appliances and premise systems such as, for example, security, heating, and cooling systems.

The instantaneous power consumption of an appliance is used to determine the status of the appliance, from which further actions may be taken. This invention is premised on the observation that most appliances have a characteristic power consumption pattern that can be used to determine the state of operation of the appliance. An electric coffee pot, for example, consumes high power substantially continuously during the brewing state, then reduces its power level, or power duration, or both, while keeping the pot warm, then terminates its power consumption when it is turned off. In like manner, the power consumption patterns of other appliances, such as toasters, washing machines, dryers, and so on may also be used to determine the state of each appliance. The communicated state may be used by a home-automation system to effect a variety of actions, including notifying the user, terminating the available power to the appliance, initiating an action by another appliance, and so on.

A system and device for harvesting various frequencies and polarizations of ambient radio frequency (RF) electromagnetic (EM) energy for making a passive sensor (tag) into an autonomous passive sensor (tag) adapted to collect and store data with time-stamping and some primitive computation when necessary even when an interrogating radio frequency identification (RFID) reader is not present (not transmitting). A specific source of ambient RF EM energy may include wireless fidelity (WiFi) and / or cellular telephone base stations. The system and device may also allow for the recharging of energy storage units in active and battery assisted passive (BAP) devices. The system could be a “smart building” that uses passive sensors with RF EM energy harvesting capability to sense environmental variables, security breaches, as well as information from “smart appliances” that can be used for a variety of controls and can be accessed locally or remotely over the Internet or cellular networks.

The invention provides a method for authorization aiming at an intelligent household electrical appliance. The method includes: a platform server receives a first request message sent by the intelligent household electrical appliance according to a user command; the platform server generates an identification code according to the first request information and generates a corresponding two-dimensional code according to the identification code and an address of the platform server; the platform server sends the two-dimensional code to the intelligent household electrical appliance and displays the two-dimensional code to a user through the intelligent household electrical appliance; the platform server receives a second request message aiming at the address and generated after the user shoots and parses the two-dimensional code by the aid of mobile terminal; and the platform server verifies the identity of the user according to the second request message and authorizes the intelligent household electrical appliance after the user passes identity verification. Platform server data access can be achieved without needing the intelligent household electrical appliance to provide an input device and a browser, and additionally, the method is simple in process, easy to operate and good in user experience. Besides, the invention further discloses a system for authorization aiming at the intelligent household electrical appliance, the intelligent household electrical appliance and the mobile terminal.

The invention discloses a method for automatically registering an intelligent home appliance in a network by one key. The method comprises the following steps: obtaining the device number of the newly purchased intelligent home appliance by scanning; obtaining the IPv6 address and the general network configuration parameters of the home appliance from a server; sending registration request information to a home wireless gateway by a mobile terminal; sending device activation information to the home appliance by the home wireless gateway; returning detailed device information to the home wireless gateway by the home appliance; updating a home appliance registry and sending optimized home network configuration parameters to the home appliance by the home wireless gateway; updating home network relevant parameter configuration and activating a home appliance Web service interface by the home appliance; and finishing the binding configuration of the mobile terminal and the home appliance by the home wireless gateway. By the method, the configuration for finishing the registration of the intelligent home appliance in a computer is simplified for users and professional staffs, the binding of the mobile terminal and the intelligent home appliance is finished automatically, and the later safer remote control on the Web service interface of the intelligent home appliance through an authorized mobile terminal is facilitated.

The present invention provides a visible and controllable intelligent household control system and a control method thereof. The control system utilizes an instant image of the intelligent household electrical appliances which is caught on the spot to identify the intelligent household electrical appliances, then generates a virtual entity operation interface and / or auxiliary operation interface based on the intelligent household electrical appliance instant image or a preset image, and then users can operate and control the intelligent household electrical appliances. The control system of the present invention utilizes the instant image of the intelligent household electrical appliances to identify the to-be-controlled intelligent household electrical appliances of users, so that users do not need to select the intelligent household electrical appliances needing to be controlled from a household electrical appliance list any more, and can control the intelligent household electrical appliances as long as seeing the intelligent household electrical appliances. The virtual entity operation interface provided by the control system of the present invention is completely same with an entity operation interface, so that users have the feelings of operating the intelligent household electrical appliance entities directly. The control system is strong in visibility and good in user experience, is convenient to operate and easy to use, even can be used by the illiteracy. In addition, the control system of the present invention can be realized by a portable intelligent terminal, is simple and easy in equipment, good in universality and low in cost.

Provided is a smart home appliance. The smart home appliance includes: a voice input unit collecting a voice; a voice recognition unit recognizing a text corresponding to the voice collected through the voice input unit; a capturing unit collecting an image for detecting a user's visage or face; a memory unit mapping the text recognized by the voice recognition unit and a setting function and storing the mapped information; and a control unit determining whether to perform a voice recognition service on the basis of at least one information of image information collected by the capturing unit and voice information collected by the voice input unit.

The invention relates to the field of intelligent household appliances, and in particular to an open-type intelligent household appliance and a control system for the intelligent household appliance. An internal controller of the open-type intelligent household appliance is provided with a software API (application program interface) matched with the internal controller, a user or a third party is allowed to program on control equipment and invoke a specific API program to realize a specific control program, and then various sensors, execution mechanisms and operation panels of the intelligent household appliance are accessed via the internal controller of the intelligent household appliance, so that a control logic configured by the user on the control program can be analysed and running control on the household appliance can be performed according to the logic. According to the open-type intelligent household appliance and the control system, the basic functions of hardware equipment in the original household appliance can be extended in a software manner, and the intelligent household appliance can become equipment performing control logic update via software configuration and equipment capable of communicating with other intelligent systems and equipment on the basis of no remarkable increase for the cost of the control system.

A communications module, and a consumer device comprising the communications model, is provided for use in a communication network with one or more consumer devices or “smart” appliances. The communications module includes a wireless transceiver for communication with the network, for example in accordance with the ZigBee protocol, and an interface for communicating with a host processor of the consumer device. The module receives scheduled event data over a wireless link on behalf of the host processor, and schedules events for execution by the host processor upon receipt of commands transmitted by the module. The communications module may include a virtual host module, which translates commands between a protocol used by the host processor and a protocol used by the communications module. The communications module is also configured to automatically seek and join a network, and to discover and bind to services provided over the network.

The invention discloses an intelligent household appliance control method, device and system. The intelligent household appliance control method comprises the steps that an intelligent household appliance controller obtains a household appliance control instrument, wherein the intelligent household appliance controller is connected with a plurality of controlled household appliance devices; the intelligent household appliance controller determines a target household appliance device from the controlled household appliance devices according to a household appliance control instrument, wherein the target household appliance device is controlled by the household appliance control instrument; the intelligent household appliance controller controls the target household appliance device according to the household appliance control instrument. According to the intelligent household appliance control method, device and system, the problem that control over the multiple intelligent household devices is not flexible is solved.

The invention discloses an intelligent household electrical appliance operating authorization control method and device, relates to the technical field of intelligent household electrical appliances, and aims to solve the problems that an authorization control method of an intelligent household electrical appliance easily brings hidden dangers of family member and property safety and the intelligent household electrical appliance is inconvenient to use in the prior art. The method includes the steps: receiving access request messages containing identity information of users from clients; determining whether the users have operating authorizations for each function of each intelligent household electrical appliance according to the identity information of the users or not; transmitting the information of the intelligent household electrical appliance with the operating authorizations and corresponding function information of the intelligent household electrical appliance to the clients, and shielding the information of the intelligent household electrical appliance without the operating authorizations and the corresponding function information of the intelligent household electrical appliance towards the clients.

The invention discloses a control device and method of an intelligent home appliance. The control device of the intelligent home appliance comprises an acquisition module, a search module and a control module, wherein the acquisition module is used for acquiring physical characteristic parameters, detected by an external detection device, of a user, the search module is used for searching for environmental parameters matched with the physical characteristic parameters acquired by the acquisition module according to the physical characteristic parameters acquired by the acquisition module, physical characteristic parameter ranges pre-stored in a cloud server, environmental parameters pre-stored in the cloud server and the corresponding relation between the physical characteristic parameter ranges and the environmental parameters, and the control module is used for controlling the intelligent home appliance to execute operations according to the environmental parameters found by the search module. According to the technical scheme, the problem that home control in the prior art is not intelligent, not accurate and not timely is solved; by searching for the environmental parameters matched with the physical characteristic parameters of the user according to the physical characteristic parameters of the user and dynamically controlling the working state of the intelligent home appliance, fine adjustment and scientific management are achieved, and good user experience is achieved.

A consumable-goods reordering system in which a system controller has access to the signals transmitted by each smart appliance relevant to the environment being monitored, such as a home. Each appliance monitors a particular physical condition that is related to the appliance's usage of a consumable good, senses changes in the condition being monitored, and reports states of the condition. Meanwhile, the system controller memorizes and maintains the states of various processing events, such as when an appliance reported a particular state of the monitored condition. By considering the information reported by the multiple smart appliances, as well as by accounting for the states corresponding to the various events, the system controller is able to continually update a representation of the state of the monitored environment. Having such context awareness enables the system controller to generate intelligently various reorder messages for transmission to the various suppliers of the consumables.

The invention discloses a method, device and system for controlling a television by using voice, relating to a voice service technology. The problem that the operation of controlling the television through a remote control device key by a user is complex is solved. After the user presses and starts a voice input key, a remote control device indicates a control device to establish a communication connection with a cloud computing platform server, receives a voice command sent by the user, and sends the voice command to the control device; and the control device sends the voice command to the cloud computing platform server, receives television control information returned by the cloud computing platform server, and controls the television according to the television control information. The technical scheme provided by the embodiment of the invention can be applied in the field of intelligent household appliances and realize intelligent voice control over the television.

The invention discloses a connection configuration method for an intelligent household appliance. The method includes the steps that a WiFi module of the intelligent household appliance is configured to be in a stray mode so as to monitor various wireless data packets; when the WiFi module, in the stray mode, of the intelligent household appliance monitors a specific multicast or broadcast message coming from a terminal and carrying a wireless router SSID and a connection password, the specific multicast or broadcast message is analyzed, and a corresponding wireless router is automatically connected according to the analyzed router SSID and the analyzed connection password. By the adoption of the method and system, the connection configuration process of the intelligent household appliance can be simple, reliable and good in user experience.

An automatic local electric management system provides a comprehensive method and apparatus for consumers to more efficiently use energy. The system includes an intelligent service panel, numerous smart connectors, and system operation software. The intelligent service panel comprises microcontrollers, program controlled circuit breakers, sensors, and various interface and control circuits. By automatically monitoring power consumption and dynamically controlling the power connection to the grid and branch power lines, the intelligent service panel reduces unnecessary power consumption, eliminates the need for the subservices panel, the transfer switch, and additional wiring that is required for installing a local generator or renewable energy electric system. A smart connector can be used to monitor and control the power consumption of the appliance individually. The system operation software enables the intelligent service panel to communicate with smart appliances, smart connectors, local computer, remote servers, or the utility grid.

The invention relates to an intelligent household system which comprises a set-top box, an intelligent household controller, and an intelligent household control center, wherein the set-top box is wirelessly communicated with the intelligent household controller; and the set-top box is connected with the intelligent household control center by an Internet network. In the invention, the concept of the energy-saving family is introduced, the position of the user can be acquired by various sensors so as to realize the aims that the light is turned on when the user exists and the lights is turned off when the user leaves; electrical appliances such as air conditioners, televisions and the like can be turned off or enter a standby state automatically when the user leaves home; the air conditioner is linked to an electric window; the window can be closed automatically when the air conditioner is started, and the effective utilization of the energy resource can be ensured.

The invention provides digital and intelligent remote control system and method for household electrical appliances on the basis of interactive TV application. In order to realize communication between a mobile phone and digital and intelligent household electrical appliance equipment, in the invention, a mobile phone portal, an SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) proxy server, an interactive TV system and a user household electrical appliance management system are arranged in the same network and can communicate via the network; a set top box of the traditional interactive TV system serves as a gateway to build a Wifi (Wireless Fidelity) network; all digital and intelligent household electrical appliance equipment in a family are connected with the set top box via a network interface; and the set top box is accessed into the network by an IP protocol. According to the invention, the mobile phone and the digital and intelligent household electrical appliance equipment can communicate via the network and the Wifi network so as to remotely control the digital and intelligent household electrical appliance equipment. The method is easy to realize and provides the profit point of the value added service for interactive TV operators.

The invention provides an intelligent household electric appliance system based on ZigBee and page generation and an implementation method thereof, wherein the system comprises a computer, an embedded Web gateway and a plurality of terminal devices. The embedded Web gateway comprises an ARM (Advanced RISC Machine) microprocessor, a Flash SDRAM (synchronous dynamic random access memory), a time circuit, a power circuit, a network card interface and a ZigBee coordinator module, wherein the automatic generation of the household electric appliance control page is achieved based on the embedded Web server. The ZigBee coordinator module is wirelessly connected with the terminal devices via a ZigBee protocol for transmitting operation instructions and uploading the date of the terminal devices. The terminal devices receive the gateway instructions, execute the control instructions and unload the operation state of the devices and the environment parameter data. The computer remotely accesses the embedded Web gateway via the internet so as to obtain the household electric appliance control page, to manage the names of the terminal devices and to check and control the operation state of the devices and the environment parameter.

The invention relates to an intelligent household electrical appliance linkage control method based on middleware. The method relates to an intelligent household electrical appliance terminal which comprises at least two intelligent household electrical appliances. After the intelligent household electrical appliance terminal is connected to a remote server through the interaction engine middleware, the interaction engine middleware collects using data of the intelligent household electrical appliances in the intelligent household electrical appliance terminal and transmits the collected using data to the remote server, and the interaction engine middleware controls other intelligent household electrical appliances to conduct corresponding linkage according to the operating state of at least one intelligent household electrical appliance. By the adoption of the method, the intelligent household electrical appliances form an organic whole which is orderly, capable of being organized and easy to operate. When a user operates one intelligent household electrical appliance, the opening or closing of other relative intelligent household electrical appliances and corresponding operating parameters can be automatically linked and controlled through the interaction engine middleware, user experience is greatly improved, and control is simplified.

The secure intelligent household gateway includes microprocessor, memory module, external network interface connected to Internet, internal network interface, serial port connected to intelligent household appliance, and interface of electrical source (IES). IES is connected to adapter of power supply. The microprocessor includes Web module, remote communication module (RCM), security management module (SMM), remote control module, and remote logging on module (RLM). The communication module of handset is connected to RCM, which is connected to SMM and the remote control module. SMM, the remote control module, and RLM are connected to module of Web server. The invention discloses reliable secure intelligent household gateway with simple operation based on remote control of handset.

The invention relates to the field of intelligent household appliances and discloses an intelligent cooking machine. The cooking machine comprises a cooker body and a connecting rod feeding device, wherein the connecting rod feeding device comprises one or more main feeding boxes, the feeding device feeds cooking raw materials in the main feeding boxes into the cooker body, and the bottom of at least one main feeding box is provided with a heating device and / or a bottom leak-spraying device. According to the intelligent cooking machine, some main feeding boxes in the feeding device are provided with heating, stir-frying and bottom rotary-spraying devices, and complicated functions such as secondary feeding can be achieved by combining with the cooking machine cooker body, an auxiliary feeding box, a combined plastic box and a movable filter screen as well as the cooker body bottom leak-spraying devices, a cooker cover cavity and a cooker body bottom spliced plate for feeding. The cooking machine has the advantages of compact structure, small size and reasonable layout.

The invention is suitable for the field of automatic control, and provides an intelligent household electrical appliance master control method. The method includes: sending a search command to search a communicable household electrical appliance and establishing a control protocol therewith; generating a control command; inquiring operating state information of the intelligent household electrical appliance according to the control command and sharing the operating state information with all communicable household electrical appliances; and an intelligent household electrical appliance adjusting operating parameters of itself according to shared operating state information. The abovementioned intelligent household electrical appliance main control method can not only realize local and remote centralized control of all intelligent household electrical appliances in a household, but can also realize mutual cooperative control among all intelligent household electrical appliances in an intelligent household electrical appliance network, so that an intelligent household electrical appliance adjusts internally preset control parameters according to the shared operating state information to realize automatic control operation, thereby enabling the operating state of the intelligent household electrical appliance control network to achieve the best effect, and the intelligent household electrical appliance control system has a flexible control method and a good control effect.

The invention discloses a method for uniform control of intelligent household electrical appliances, which comprises the steps that: a management and control platform receives a registration request sent by a control terminal, a user identity (ID) of the control terminal, equipment IDs of the intelligent household electrical appliances controlled by the control terminal and enterprise IDs corresponding to the intelligent household electrical appliances are bound when the registration successes; the management and control platform provides an equipment list of the intelligent household electrical appliances bound with the control terminal according to the user ID of the control terminal when a control request of the control terminal for carrying out management and control on the intelligent household electrical appliances; and the control terminal selects corresponding intelligent household electrical equipment to be managed and controlled from the equipment list and carries out management and control operations on the intelligent household electrical appliances to be managed and controlled. The invention further provides a management and control platform and a control terminal. Uniform management and control are carried out on the intelligent household electrical equipment possessed by a user through the uniform management and control platform and the control terminal, thereby reducing the tediousness in management and control operations of the user, and being convenient for carrying out uniform control management on the intelligent household electrical appliances by the user.

The invention discloses a control authority sharing method and system. The method comprises the following steps that: a first terminal logs in to a server through a master account number to generate authorization control information, and shares the authorization control information with a second terminal; the second terminal obtains a sub account number of the master account number from the server through the authorization control information, logs in to the server through the sub account number to enter a control interface so as to control a controlled device bound by the master account number. Thus, the rapid sharing of control authority of an intelligent household appliance is realized, so that temporary users do not need to download and install applications, register and log in and carry out device binding and other complicated operations, the intelligent household appliance can be controlled only by activating the authorization control information, the operation is simple and convenient, and the flexibility of the intelligent household appliance in control is improved. At the same time, the sub account number is controlled by the master account number, security risks caused by authority conflict do not exist, and the reliability of control on the intelligent household appliance is improved.

Described herein are embodiments of methods and systems of communicating with smart appliances through a smart grid and smart meter infrastructure. In one aspect, a method is described comprising a smart meter connected to a first network receiving via the first network registration information for an appliance operably connected to the first network, wherein the registration information includes a unique identifier for the appliance; transmitting at least a portion of the registration information and a smart meter identifier that uniquely identifies the smart meter to a second computing device connected to a second network; receiving, by the second computing device, update information for the appliance; transmitting, by the second computing device, the update information to the smart meter via the second network using the unique identifier for the device and the smart meter identifier; transmitting, by the smart meter, the update information to the appliance; and updating the appliance with the update information.

The invention discloses an access control method of an intelligent home appliance. The access control method comprises the following steps: an intelligent terminal receives hotspot information of the intelligent home appliance, wherein the intelligent home appliance is in a hotspot AP mode or a compatible mode, and the compatible mode is the co-existence mode of a workstation STA mode and the AP mode; the intelligent terminal receives login information inputted by a user; the intelligent terminal transmits the login information of a wireless local area network to the intelligent home appliance according to the hotspot information; the intelligent home appliance saves the login information and is accessed into a wireless network according to the login information and through relay equipment. According to the access control method, the intelligent home appliance is accessed into the wireless network according to the login information, so as to validate whether the wireless network is accessed or not according to the login information, therefore, the safety is high; the intelligent home appliance can save the login information inputted by the user, so that the saved login information is adjusted along with the change of the user; as the login information only is known by the user, the safety is high. The invention also discloses an intelligent home appliance system.

The invention discloses a method and system for connecting an intelligent household appliance into a router. The method comprises the steps that the working mode of the intelligent household appliance is set as an AP mode; an APPS is installed on an intelligent mobile terminal; the intelligent mobile terminal is connected with the intelligent household appliance; the APPS establishes TCP connection with the intelligent household appliance; the intelligent household appliance searches for a WIFI network of the router and feeds back information to the APPS; the APPS displays a list, selects the router to be connected into and transmits relevant network configuration instructions to the intelligent household appliance, so the configuration updating operation of the intelligent household appliance is completed, the working mode of the intelligent household appliance is updated to be an STA mode, and information of the router to be connected into is saved; the APPS automatically switches WIFI hotspot networks connected with the intelligent mobile terminal, so the intelligent mobile terminal is connected to the WIFI hotspot networks of the router and automatically searches for the intelligent household appliance connected into the router; the APPS reminds a user of success in operation of connecting the intelligent household appliance into the router after finding the intelligent household appliance in access equipment of the router.