Appliance Control System for User Position-Based Setting Adjustment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing appliance control systems struggle to anticipate and automatically adjust settings based on user preferences and location, leading to inefficient operation and comfort issues.
Innovation Solution
A system that monitors user position data to identify travel scenarios and adjusts appliance settings accordingly, prioritizing user preferences and correlating appliances with registered users to optimize comfort and energy efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If appliance settings are manually configured by users, then user preference accuracy is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates and time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables appliances to automatically detect user presence, identify travel scenarios, and adjust settings without manual user input. The appliance serves itself by monitoring user position data and autonomously selecting appropriate settings based on detected scenarios, eliminating the need for users to manually configure each setting while maintaining accuracy through automated user profile matching.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-configures multiple user profiles with preferred appliance settings and pre-identifies travel scenarios based on user movement patterns. When a user arrives home, the system has already prepared the appropriate settings in advance, allowing immediate automatic adjustment without requiring real-time user input or manual configuration during the user's arrival.
2Measurement precision
If appliance settings are manually configured by users, then setting accuracy is improved, but productivity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The appliance automatically monitors user position data, identifies travel scenarios, and adjusts settings without requiring user intervention. This self-service capability maintains setting accuracy by using pre-configured user profiles while dramatically improving productivity by eliminating repetitive manual configuration tasks for each user arrival.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors user position data and provides feedback to automatically adjust appliance settings. By tracking user movement and detecting arrival at home, the system receives real-time feedback that triggers automatic setting adjustments, maintaining accuracy through user profile matching while improving productivity through automated real-time response.
3Adaptability or versatility
If real-time sensors are used to improve programmability, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses user position data and travel scenario detection as intermediary elements between the user and appliance settings. Rather than requiring complex direct user-programming interactions, the intermediary travel scenario detection automatically translates user presence into appropriate settings, improving adaptability while reducing the perceived complexity for users.
Solution Approach 2:
The appliance integrates multiple functions including user position monitoring, travel scenario identification, user profile management, and automatic setting adjustment into a single unified system. This multi-functionality approach improves adaptability by handling various user scenarios while managing device complexity through integrated rather than separate components.
4Ease of operation
If the system monitors user position data and identifies travel scenarios, then user comfort is improved, but use of energy increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system monitors user position data at periodic intervals rather than continuously, identifying travel scenarios based on detected movement patterns over time. This periodic monitoring approach improves user comfort through timely detection of arrivals while reducing energy consumption by allowing the monitoring function to enter low-power states between detection cycles.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-identifies travel scenarios and prepares appropriate appliance settings in advance of user arrival. By detecting movement patterns and predicting arrival times, the system can pre-adjust settings before the user actually arrives, improving comfort through timely preparation while reducing energy waste by avoiding continuous operation of all appliance functions.
Data Source
AI summary
For controlling an appliance setting based on user position, systems, apparatus, methods, and program products are disclosed. The apparatus may include a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. In one embodiment, the processor monitors user position data for at least one registered user. In another embodiment, the processor identifies a travel scenario based on the user position data. In a further embodiment, the processor controls a setting of an appliance based on an identity of a registered user corresponding to the travel scenario.