AI Home Monitoring Device for User-Specific Appliance Access Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is a need for an artificial intelligence system that can effectively control access to external devices based on user identification, particularly in home or office environments, to limit usage by specific individuals, such as children, and prevent access to potentially hazardous devices.
Innovation Solution
An AI apparatus that uses image recognition to identify users and their surroundings, storing user information and authority settings, and controls device access by comparing predetermined conditions with the current state, limiting use when conditions are not met.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If image recognition is used to identify users and control device access, then user safety and authorized access are improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
An AI apparatus acts as an intermediary between users and external devices. The apparatus receives image data, processes it through an image recognition model to identify users and devices, checks authority information, and then controls device access accordingly. This intermediary structure isolates the complexity of image recognition and authority management from both users and external devices, maintaining reliability while managing system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs self-identification and self-validation through automated image recognition. When a user approaches a device, the system automatically captures an image, identifies the user and device, checks authority information, and controls access without requiring manual authentication. This self-service approach improves reliability by ensuring consistent authorization checks while reducing the operational complexity for users.
2Reliability
If authority checking is performed for each device access attempt, then unauthorized access prevention is improved, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by capturing and processing images in advance of actual device usage. The AI apparatus continuously monitors the environment, identifies users and devices, and pre-checks authority information before access is requested. This preliminary processing ensures that when a device access attempt occurs, the authorization decision can be made quickly, improving both unauthorized access prevention and reducing processing time.
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AI summary
An artificial intelligence (AI) home monitoring device including a camera configured to monitor a home environment including a home appliance controlled by the AI home monitoring device; and a processor configured to in response to the monitored home environment including a detection of a first user intending to use the home appliance, check an authority of the first user based on mapping data mapping the home appliance, the first user and a predetermined condition associated with using the home appliance, and compare the predetermined condition with a condition of a current state of the authority of the first user based on the mapping data, in response to the authority of the user matching a preset authority authorizing the first user to use the home appliance, and the predetermined condition associated with using the home appliance matching the condition of the current state of the authority of the user, control the home appliance to allow the first user to use the home appliance, and in response to the authority of the user not matching the preset authority authorizing the first user to use the home appliance, control the home appliance to prevent the first user from using the home appliance.