Home Appliance Scheduling With Environmental Feedback Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Home appliances often fail to operate in a desired state even when scheduled, leading to issues like excessive energy waste, unnecessary damage, and poor indoor air quality due to inaccurate predictions of outdoor environments.
Innovation Solution
An information processing system for home appliances that includes a terminal, an individual service area, and an information processing apparatus connected through a network. This system identifies user needs and provides corresponding application services, optimizing the operation of home appliances based on environmental information and user behavior.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If home appliances operate based on scheduled reservations, then user convenience is improved, but operation accuracy in desired state deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors indoor environmental parameters (temperature, humidity, air quality) and compares them against target values to dynamically adjust appliance operations. This feedback mechanism ensures that scheduled operations achieve desired states by making real-time corrections based on actual environmental conditions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary environmental assessments before executing scheduled operations and makes pre-adjustments to appliance settings based on predicted conditions. This allows the system to proactively prepare for scheduled operations, ensuring they start in optimal conditions and reach desired states more accurately.
2Productivity
If home appliances operate based on inaccurate outdoor environment predictions, then scheduled operations are executed, but energy waste increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses real-time indoor environmental feedback to verify whether scheduled operations are actually needed. If indoor conditions already meet comfort criteria, the system cancels or modifies scheduled operations, preventing unnecessary energy consumption while maintaining productivity when operations are genuinely required.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts scheduled operations based on current environmental conditions, transitioning from static pre-programmed schedules to flexible adaptive scheduling. This allows the system to optimize energy usage by modifying or canceling operations when conditions change, while maintaining operational productivity when needed.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If air purifier operates continuously to improve air quality, then indoor air purification is enhanced, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements periodic air quality monitoring and adjusts air purifier operation accordingly, switching between active purification, standby, and shutdown states based on real-time air quality measurements. This periodic operation maintains air quality within acceptable ranges while significantly reducing energy consumption compared to continuous operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes operational parameters of the air purifier (speed, power level, on/off state) based on measured air quality parameters. When air quality is good, the purifier operates at lower power or shuts down; when air quality deteriorates, the system increases purification intensity, optimizing the balance between air quality maintenance and energy consumption.
4Adaptability or versatility
If multiple home appliances operate independently according to schedules, then individual appliance functionality is maintained, but coordinated operation for optimal performance is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges individual appliance schedules into a unified coordinated schedule by analyzing interactions between appliances. It combines temperature control, humidity control, and air quality management operations into synchronized sequences that achieve optimal environmental conditions more efficiently than independent operations, while maintaining the functional independence of each appliance.
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AI summary
An information processing system for a home appliance according to the present invention may include: at least one home appliance; a terminal configured to process information of the at least one home appliance; an individual service area configured to provide an individual service; and an information processing apparatus connected to the terminal and the at least one home appliance through a network and configured to provide an application service using the individual service. The system may identify user needs for the individual service and provide a corresponding application service.