Adaptive Drainage Control for Equipment Floor Drain Overflow
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Solution Overview
Problem
Household electrical appliances, such as washing machines, often experience water overflow from their drain pipes into floor drains, leading to cleanliness and safety issues due to inadequate overflow prevention mechanisms.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that detect the risk of drainage overflow by monitoring the floor drain's water level, sound, and drain rate, and adjust the water discharge from the drain pipe to prevent overflow, using sensors and image recognition algorithms to control the electronic valve or water pump.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If the equipment discharges water at normal rate into the floor drain, then the drainage efficiency is maintained, but water overflow occurs when the floor drain is blocked or slow-draining
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary detection of floor drain status (blockage or slow-draining conditions) before overflow occurs. By monitoring water level, flow rate, and drain pipe conditions in advance, the equipment can identify at-risk states and adjust drainage accordingly to prevent overflow
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors drainage conditions through sensors detecting water level, flow rate, and drain pipe status. This feedback loop allows the equipment to detect when the floor drain is blocked or slow-draining, and automatically adjust the water discharge rate to prevent overflow while maintaining efficient drainage when conditions are normal
2Object-affected harmful factors
If the equipment reduces water discharge to prevent overflow, then water overflow is avoided, but drainage efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the water discharge rate based on real-time detection of floor drain conditions. When the floor drain is normal, the equipment drains at full capacity for high efficiency. When blockage or slow-draining is detected, the system automatically reduces discharge rate to prevent overflow, creating an adaptive drainage system that optimizes both safety and efficiency
3Measurement precision
If the equipment continuously monitors drainage conditions, then overflow detection accuracy is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The monitoring system uses multi-functional sensors that detect multiple parameters (water level, flow rate, drain pipe blockage) with single devices. This approach improves overflow detection accuracy through comprehensive monitoring while minimizing device complexity by avoiding redundant specialized sensors for each parameter
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AI summary
The disclosure relates to a method, apparatus and storage medium for controlling drainage of equipment. The method includes: determining that the equipment is in a drain state; detecting whether a floor drain connected to the drain pipe of the equipment is at risk of drainage overflow or the drainage overflow occurs; and if it is detected that the floor drain is at risk of drainage overflow or the drainage overflow occurs, reducing the amount of water discharged from the drain pipe per unit time. The present disclosure may avoid that the water discharged from the drain pipe overflows from the floor drain.