1690 results about "Home control" patented technology

A home control and automation system and method. The system generally includes one or more wireless remote controls, a plurality of appliances (including network enabled appliances and traditional legacy appliances in the exemplary system), associated control centric devices, and associated content centric devices. Various methods for control and operation of appliances in the networked home control and automation environment are disclosed. Specifically, methods are disclosed which enable advanced home control features such as location based control setup and operation, network enabled legacy appliances and system integration, save and recall capabilities for appliance and media states, generic command based appliance controls, dynamic/complex macro command generation, and Internet based control capabilities from remote locations are disclosed in conjunction with the system of the current invention.

A voice-activated command interface module for interacting with a plurality of home-based electronic devices so as to allow for a remotely-located home owner to communicate with, command and control various ones of the electronic devices. The module includes a plurality of communication ports, each communication port associated with a different type of communication interface for providing communications to and from the plurality of electronic devices. The module also includes a voice network communication port for receiving the voice commands from the home owner and a data network communication port for transmitting monitoring and control information between the plurality of electronic devices and the home owner. In operation, the command interface module is responsive to voice commands received from a remote user via an incoming telephone line (either data or voice). A voice recognition unit within the command interface module is utilized to translate the received voice signal into an “action/control” signal and then perform the desired activity.

Home security detectors configured with the control components of the home comprising interactive detectors enhanced to support location-awareness and home occupant-awareness and functionality. The system includes at least one motion sensor configured with communication devices operatively arranged to transmit information about any motion of occupants in the various sections of the home as part of the information about the occupancy of the home during an emergency. At least one sensor is provided in various rooms of a home each sensing a state of the home. A central communication device is coupled, wired or wirelessly, directly or indirectly, to each home sensor configured to transmit the state of the home. The number of occupants in the home are determined by at least one body heat sensor and at least one heartbeat sensor each configured with the interactive detectors to detect the presence of emergency and home occupants and to know the present situations such as their heartbeats, such that the number of occupants and their locations are determinable from the number of detected body heat and their security and safety conditions are determinable by their heartbeats. The detection method includes the steps of sensing a state of the home and transmitting the state of the home to at least a server. Images of the home are captured by at least a camera means configured with at least a MOS and/or CMOS based active sensor array for producing real-time images and stored in the server for wireless retrieval. The images ideally include at least an intruder of the home. The server is configured with a central processor for enabling controlling security vigilance monitoring and for enabling rapid distribution of detection data, voice, and other detection signals within the monitoring environment. The system establishes a network which includes configuring home audio/visual devices, media destination means such as televisions, monitors, PDAs, notepads, notebooks, MP3, wireless stereo, cell phones etc for the detection means. The control server supports video/audio servings, telephony, messaging, file sharing, internetworking, and security monitoring and allows home occupants to access and control the home network environment from any location within a controlled residential, commercial/industrial and/or non-residential, commercial/industrial environment with at least a computer means such as a cell phone.

A home control system using galvanic skin responses and heart rate information and a method thereof. Whether a user is awake is judged using a galvanic skin response sensor, and the extent of stress of a user is determined using the user's heart rate, thereby extracting a user's emotional state and sleeping state. Furthermore, based on these, various systems in the home network of a user are controlled according to the user's emotional state and sleeping state. In addition, those control results are stored in a database so as to create the optimum control conditions.

Systems and methods for controlling a climate control system of a smart-home environment that includes a plurality of smart devices are provided. One method includes detecting, with a hazard detector of the smart devices, a level of carbon monoxide (CO) at the hazard detector that exceeds a threshold CO level at a location of the hazard detector, determining, by one of the smart devices, that the climate control system includes a combustion based heat source, and in response to the detecting and the determination, transmitting, by a system controller of the climate control system, a first signal to turn off at least one aspect of the climate control system.

A building monitoring computer system for monitoring building integrity may be provided. Various types of sensors may be embedded throughout or within certain portions of different types of building or construction material making up the building, such as within roofing, foundation, or structural materials. The sensors may be in wireless communication with a home controller. The sensors may be water, moisture, temperature, vibration, or other types of sensors, and may detect unexpected or abnormal conditions within the home. The sensors and/or home controller may transmit alerts to a mobile device of the home owner associated with the unexpected condition, and/or that remedial actions may be required to repair the home or mitigate further damage to the home. The sensor data may also be communicated to an insurance provider remote server to facilitate the insurance provider communicating insurance-related recommendations, updating insurance policies, or preparing insurance claims for review for home owners.

An improved home automation system is provided to facilitate senior care, as well as to facilitate care for individuals suffering from Alzheimer's disease or other dementias. A home control unit is provided that is connected to, and interfaces with, a combination of health equipment, smart home appliances, a smart medicine cabinet, a smart pantry, wearable sensors, motion detectors, video cameras, microphones, video monitors, speakers, smart thermostat, lighting, floor sensors, bed sensors, smoke detectors, glass breakage detectors, door sensors, and other perimeter sensors. A distributed computational architecture is provided having a CPU associated with each video camera and an associated proximate microphone and speaker, wherein speech detection and processing, and video processing, is performed by each such CPU in conjunction with its associated video camera, microphone, and speaker. Remote backup for such distributed speech processing is selectively provided by a remote server based upon confidence scopes generated by each such CPU. The distributed computational architecture is also utilized for video processing to facilitate peer-to-peer video conferencing communication using industry standard formats and to reduce latency and response times that would otherwise be encountered using remote servers.

The invention pertains to an intelligent home control technical field, a telephone and ZigBee technology based intelligent home control system, which consists of home control center and several ZigBee technology based wireless communication control modules. The home control center and each control modules are connected with one ZigBee wireless communication module, through these wireless communication modules, the data or commands may be transferred between the control center and control module. The home control center is connected with the telephone network, realize the control of the whole system through the home phone or remote phone. Moreover, through wireless branch phones or mobile phone, the user may control all home equipment at any places. Compared with the communication means such as available bluetooth, and infrared ray etc., it is low cost, low power consumption, large coverage etc, especially comply with the IEEE802.15.4 protocol, if interconnect with other relevant products, the system may have an excellent versatility and expansibility.

The invention discloses a device, a system and a method for realizing intelligent household application. The device comprises an intelligent household gateway, a family control center and terminal agent equipment, wherein the intelligent household gateway is used for being connected with the terminal agent equipment to finish signaling transfer between the family control center and the terminal agent equipment and transmit the transferred signaling to the family control center or the terminal agent equipment; the family control center is used for executing an intelligent household control logic according to the received user command or the preallocated task, transmitting the command to local terminal equipment through the intelligent household gateway via the terminal agent equipment, and realizing an intelligent household service through the local terminal equipment; and the terminal agent equipment is used for connecting the local terminal equipment to allocate identifiers to the local terminal equipment and finishing underlying protocol transfer between the intelligent household gateway and the local terminal equipment. The invention can realize intelligent household application on the basis of uniformly controlling the terminal equipment.

Provided are an apparatus and method for controlling a plurality of controlled devices in a first home control network employing various topologies in a second home network. The apparatus which has a first interface unit which supports a first protocol for controlling one or more controlled devices in a first home control network, includes a second interface unit supporting a second control protocol used in a second home network, and a control unit having a proxy which allows the controller to operate as a virtual second home network device representing the controlled devices by performing protocol conversion between the first and second interface units.

The invention discloses a system and a method for achieving intelligent home device control on a smart watch. The system comprises an smart watch terminal module, an intelligent home terminal control module, a cloud voice dialogue module and a home device name customizing module, wherein the smart watch terminal module is used for collecting data from a microphone, transmitting user voice data and receiving system synthetic voice data in real time; the intelligent home terminal control module is used for sending control instructions to home devices and receiving the voice data from the smart watch by calling an SDK (software development kit) interface; the cloud voice dialogue module receives the voice data from the SDK interface, completes the man-machine dialogue process and feeds dialogue results back to the intelligent home control module; the home device name customizing module is used for customizing personalized nicknames for the home devices. By collecting the user voice data from the smart watch, uploading the data to the cloud for performing intelligent voice dialogue and feeding the dialogue results to an intelligent home control center, the system for achieving intelligent home control on the smart phone can achieve convenient and rapid home device control.

The invention relates to the field of smart home, and discloses a smart home system and a control method thereof. The smart home system of the invention comprises smart home nodes (such as LED lamps and all kinds of sensors), dedicated smart home control equipment (such as a remote controller, a wireless switch, and a wireless temperature and humidity control panel), and universal smart home control equipment (such as a smart phone and a tablet computer). The universal smart home control equipment is used to configure a network, and a Mesh network containing multiple pieces of smart home equipment and dedicated control equipment can be established. The nodes and the equipment configured into the network can interact to achieve smart home functions. The smart home system is highly stable, and has a flexible structure. The user experience is greatly improved.

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.

The invention discloses a smart home system based on context awareness, comprising a sensor, an execution part, a user recognizer, a smart home control module, a context management module, a context extracting module and a context reasoning module. When a user uses the smart home control module to operate, the smart home control module triggers corresponding action to sense the basic information and the environment position information of the user to be sent to the context extracting module; the context extracting module generates the basic context information and advanced context information which are sent to the context reasoning module; according to the context information, the context reasoning module invokes a user preference record from the context management module and matches the user preference record with the basic context information for reasoning; the context management module stores the operation record of the user, and the operation record can be invoked by the context extracting module and the context reasoning module. The smart home system based on the context awareness of the invention has the advantages of high and active intellectualization and favourable configurability.

The invention discloses an intelligent home device remote monitoring device and method which are used for solving the problems of space limit and safety, instantaneity and efficiency of remote monitoring of a remotely monitored mobile terminal, and home devices. The intelligent home remote monitoring device comprises a home control host, a mobile terminal, a remote server and a controlled home device. A monitoring device on the mobile terminal is connected with the home control host under the assistance of the remote server in a P2P connection manner; the home control host is connected with the home device; and the home control host is provided with a configurable, extensible and customizable protocol device used for adapting to the home device. The intelligent home remote monitoring device has wide remote monitoring application range, high safety, high instantaneity and high efficiency.

The invention discloses an intelligent home control system which combines a near field communication (NFC) technology and a zigbee/bluethooth/zwave technology and a control method of the intelligent home control system, wherein the system comprises an NFC label, a mobile control terminal and a controlled unit, and an NFC module for receiving the data information, a first control unit which is connected with the NFC module and a first wireless communication unit which is connected with the first control unit are arranged in the mobile control terminal; a second wireless communication unit and a second control unit are arranged in the controlled unit, and are in data connection with each other; and the method is that after the mobile control terminal receives the data information which is sent out by the NFC label, and sends the control command information to the controlled unit, so the home equipment is controlled. The system enables the home life to be more humanized and more intelligent, and has the characteristics of close range, low complexity, low power consumption, low rate and low cost, so more humanized and better user experiences are realized.

The invention discloses a wireless intelligent home security system, which is characterized by comprising an advanced RISC machine (ARM) processor, a plurality of ZigBee node modules, a plurality of control circuit module and a mobile communication terminal, wherein the plurality of ZigBee node modules and the plurality of control circuit modules are embedded into home equipment, alarming sensors or home appliances; the ARM processor is connected with a mobile communication module, a ZigBee center transceiver module and a touch screen; the mobile communication module and the mobile communication terminal transmit data to each other by a mobile communication network; and the ZigBee center transceiver module and the ZigBee node modules wirelessly transmit data to each other by a ZigBee protocol. The control of the system comprises a remote control way and a local control way. The system realizes remote control over a master control system by a mobile phone and other intelligent terminals; and a human-computer interface or a remote controller is operated by the touch screen to directly realize local control over the system. Therefore, wireless, intelligent, secure and integrated home control is realized.

The invention provides an intelligent home optimization system based on data mining, which comprises a user authentication module, a journal memory module, a data extraction module, a data mining algoritic module, a sensor monitoring module, a synchronous renewal module, a database module, a scheduler module, and a communication module. An intelligent home control system is internally added with the function of then data mining algoritic and the communication module which can communicate with other homes to cause that after a home system passes through authentication, the home system counts and analyzes a series of actions of family members after the family members go home, analyzes habits and customs of people by the data mining algoritic so as to obtain some regularity, and then transmits the regularity, namely, associative rules to the scheduler module of the intelligent home control system; the scheduler module transmits a control command to each home which is connected with a central control system; therefore, the system can control home without needing operation of the family members in a humanity intelligent way.

The invention discloses an intelligent home system, and an intelligent home control apparatus and method. The intelligent home control apparatus includes a communication module, a face detection module, a face identification module and a control module, wherein the communication module is used for communication with each home equipment, and sending a control command to each home equipment to control the working state of each home equipment; the face detection module is used for acquiring the face image information in a detection area; the face identification module is used for identifying the face image information to obtain the user information; and the control module is used for acquiring a home equipment control strategy corresponding to the user information, and generating a corresponding control command according to the home equipment control strategy. The intelligent home system, and the intelligent home control apparatus and method can solve the problem that in the prior art, control of intelligent home is not intelligent enough and cannot satisfy the user requirement, and can realize intelligentization of intelligent home to enable the intelligent home to automatically identify the user and provide the corresponding service, thus improving the convenience for usage for the user and satisfying the user requirement.

Embodiments provide methods and apparatus for effectively using signal strength and other data from a robot to optimize robot operation. In one embodiment, the cleaning robot can interact with other home controllers over a network to optimize the operation of the cleaning robot. In one embodiment, the cleaning robot measures a variety of data as it travels through a space, and generates a map (e.g., a heat map). The data is provided in different layers for easy display and selection by a user. In one embodiment, the cleaning robot can act as a hub for communicating with other home controllers and coordinating actions.

The invention relates to an implementing method for a home control system based on a network and the cloud technology. The implementing method for the home control system includes the following steps that (1), a sensing and control terminal, a sensor network of Things and internet protocol conversion device and a service processing and cloud computing platform are arranged and sequentially connected; (2), after the three devices are connected, corresponding modules including the control module, the sensing module and the instruction sending and receiving module are arranged in the sensing and control terminal; (3), a protocol conversion module is installed on the sensor network of Things and internet protocol conversion device; (4), a connection managing module, an instruction receiving and recognizing module, an instruction generating and sending module and a service processing module are arranged in the service processing and cloud computing platform. The implementing method can conveniently and fast help a user to remotely control corresponding facilities at home through a smartphone, the 3G and the broadband network commonly used by people, and is committed itself to creating an intelligent, environmentally friendly and safe home environment for the user.