Looking for breakthrough ideas for innovation challenges? Try Patsnap Eureka!

Firmware upgrade method and device of Zigbee equipment

A firmware upgrade and device technology, applied in the field of communication, can solve the problems of long time consumption, long time consumption, high upgrade cost, etc., and achieve the effect of reducing data volume, solving excessively long upgrade time, and shortening upgrade time

Inactive Publication Date: 2017-08-29
SHENZHEN OURUIBO ELECTRONICS
View PDF1 Cites 26 Cited by
  • Summary
  • Abstract
  • Description
  • Claims
  • Application Information

AI Technical Summary

Problems solved by technology

[0003] The existing Zigbee device firmware upgrade scheme adopts a one-to-one unicast method to upgrade each Zigbee device one by one, and the transmission rate of communication between devices using the Zigbee protocol is low, so in the deployment of Zigbee devices In the network, it usually takes a long time to upgrade the firmware of Zigbee devices (each device takes tens of minutes), especially when there are many Zigbee devices, it will take a very long time to complete the upgrade of all devices, resulting in The upgrade efficiency is extremely low and the upgrade cost is high

Method used

the structure of the environmentally friendly knitted fabric provided by the present invention; figure 2 Flow chart of the yarn wrapping machine for environmentally friendly knitted fabrics and storage devices; image 3 Is the parameter map of the yarn covering machine
View more

Image

Smart Image Click on the blue labels to locate them in the text.
Viewing Examples
Smart Image
  • Firmware upgrade method and device of Zigbee equipment
  • Firmware upgrade method and device of Zigbee equipment
  • Firmware upgrade method and device of Zigbee equipment

Examples

Experimental program
Comparison scheme
Effect test

Embodiment 1

[0048] See figure 1 , A firmware upgrade method for a Zigbee device according to the first embodiment of the present invention is proposed. The method includes the following steps:

[0049] S11. The gateway groups the connected Zigbee devices, and each group of Zigbee devices has the same type of firmware.

[0050] S12. When the gateway receives the firmware upgrade notification, it determines the target group that needs to be upgraded, and performs a batch upgrade of the firmware of all Zigbee devices in the target group.

[0051] In step S11, the gateway (or Zigbee gateway) divides the Zigbee devices with the same firmware into a group. During specific implementation, the device information of the connected Zigbee device can be read, and the Zigbee devices are grouped according to the device information. Information includes device type, program type, firmware type, firmware version, etc. Among them, the solution type refers to the Zigbee chip solution, a description that needs to...

Embodiment 2

[0106] See Figure 5 , A firmware upgrade device for Zigbee equipment according to the second embodiment of the present invention is proposed. The device is applied to a gateway and includes a grouping module and an upgrade module, wherein:

[0107] Grouping module: used to group all connected Zigbee devices, each group of Zigbee devices has the same type of firmware.

[0108] The grouping module divides Zigbee devices with the same firmware into a group. During specific implementation, it can read the device information of the connected Zigbee devices, and group the Zigbee devices according to the device information. The device information includes device type, solution type, and firmware Type, firmware version, etc. Among them, the solution type refers to the Zigbee chip solution, a description that needs to be used in the upgrade, such as TI solution, NXP solution, EMBER solution, etc. The firmware of different solutions is not compatible, that is, different solutions correspond...

the structure of the environmentally friendly knitted fabric provided by the present invention; figure 2 Flow chart of the yarn wrapping machine for environmentally friendly knitted fabrics and storage devices; image 3 Is the parameter map of the yarn covering machine
Login to View More

PUM

No PUM Login to View More

Abstract

The invention discloses a firmware upgrade method and device of Zigbee equipment. The method comprises the following steps: a gateway groups the accessed Zigbee equipment, each Zigbee equipment has the firmware at the same type; when receiving a firmware upgrade notice, the gateway determines a target group needing to upgrade, and performs batch upgrade on the firmware of all Zigbee equipment in the target group, thereby simultaneously upgrading multiple Zigbee equipment. Compared with the way of upgrading the Zigbee equipment one by one, the upgrade time is greatly shortened by use of batch upgrade, the upgrade efficiency is doubled. And meanwhile, the firmware upgrade is performed by use of a differential upgrade way, so that only the different part data needs to transmit in the data transmission process, thereby greatly reducing the data size transmitted to the Zigbee equipment by the gateway, the effect of improving the firmware upgrade speed about dozens of times even hundreds of times; the problems of high upgrade cost and long upgrade time are effectively solved, and the user experience is promoted.

Description

Technical field [0001] The present invention relates to the field of communication technology, in particular to a method and device for upgrading firmware of Zigbee equipment. Background technique [0002] Zigbee (Zigbee Protocol) is a wireless communication protocol similar to Wi-Fi. Devices that use zigbee technology to communicate are called zigbee devices. Compared with Wi-Fi, Zigbee has the advantages of convenient networking and lower power consumption. It is widely used in some scenarios with larger network scales and higher power consumption requirements (such as the smart home field). Every Zigbee device has a fixed software system, referred to as firmware for short. In practical applications, when the firmware in the Zigbee device has defects or the function needs to be expanded, the firmware of the Zigbee device needs to be upgraded. [0003] The existing firmware upgrade solution for Zigbee devices uses a one-to-one unicast method to upgrade each Zigbee device one by o...

Claims

the structure of the environmentally friendly knitted fabric provided by the present invention; figure 2 Flow chart of the yarn wrapping machine for environmentally friendly knitted fabrics and storage devices; image 3 Is the parameter map of the yarn covering machine
Login to View More

Application Information

Patent Timeline
no application Login to View More
IPC IPC(8): H04L12/24
Inventor 黄秀峰何海亮
Owner SHENZHEN OURUIBO ELECTRONICS
Who we serve
  • R&D Engineer
  • R&D Manager
  • IP Professional
Why Patsnap Eureka
  • Industry Leading Data Capabilities
  • Powerful AI technology
  • Patent DNA Extraction
Social media
Patsnap Eureka Blog
Learn More
PatSnap group products

Browse by: Latest US Patents, China's latest patents, Technical Efficacy Thesaurus, Application Domain, Technology Topic, Popular Technical Reports.

© 2024 PatSnap. All rights reserved.Legal|Privacy policy|Modern Slavery Act Transparency Statement|Sitemap|About US| Contact US: help@patsnap.com