Flexible Network Building for Remote Smart Home Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional smart home systems lack flexibility, requiring specific central server hosts for networked appliances, making it difficult for users to modify or expand their smart home setups without professional assistance, and limiting compatibility with different network domains.
Innovation Solution
A flexible network building method using intelligent network devices, a local area network router, and a dominant host, allowing users to designate devices as local area hosts or slave nodes, enabling remote monitoring and control through a master and node communication channel system, without the need for a dedicated central server host.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a specific dedicated central server host is used to control networked electrical appliances, then the system can provide centralized control functionality, but the flexibility and adaptability of the system deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal control protocol that allows the same communication standard to work across different network domains and device types. The dominant host can communicate with various electrical appliances using a standardized protocol, eliminating the need for appliance-specific control mechanisms and enabling the system to adapt to different device configurations without compromising centralized control functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adapts its configuration by allowing the dominant host to be reassigned among different electrical appliances based on user needs. The protocol supports dynamic joining and leaving of devices from the network domain, enabling the system to reconfigure itself flexibly while maintaining reliable centralized control through the currently designated dominant host.
2Reliability
If controlling procedures are pre-stored in the central server host and networked electrical appliances, then the system can operate with established control logic, but the ease of modification and reconfiguration deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent pre-stores a universal control protocol template in the dominant host that can be dynamically instantiated for different controlling procedures. Instead of pre-storing fixed control logic for each specific appliance combination, the system prepares a flexible protocol framework that can be configured at runtime, allowing users to modify control procedures without reprogramming individual devices while maintaining reliable control execution.
Solution Approach 2:
The dominant host creates copies of the universal control protocol template for each controlling procedure needed. When users want to modify control logic, they can create new protocol copies with different parameters rather than modifying existing embedded logic in appliances, making reconfiguration easier while ensuring reliable execution through the proven protocol structure.
3Reliability
If the system requires professional assistance or specialized equipment for modifying configuration, then the system can maintain controlled access to settings, but the ease of operation for ordinary users deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a self-service configuration mechanism where the dominant host automatically manages protocol instantiation and device registration. Ordinary users can simply add or remove electrical appliances from the network domain without professional assistance - the dominant host handles the configuration automatically using the universal protocol, maintaining configuration integrity through automated validation while greatly improving user accessibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The dominant host acts as an intermediary that shields ordinary users from complex configuration details. Users interact with simple high-level commands to add or remove devices, and the dominant host mediates by translating these into proper protocol configurations, ensuring configuration integrity through automated error checking while making the system easily operable for non-experts.
4Reliability
If networked electrical appliances are designed to work with a specific central server host, then the system can provide optimized performance for that host, but the adaptability to different network domains and hosts deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent designs the control protocol to be universally applicable across different network domains and host devices. The same protocol can be instantiated on any dominant host regardless of the specific network domain, allowing electrical appliances to work optimally with any host while maintaining cross-network compatibility. The protocol's parameter-based configuration enables performance optimization for each specific host-appliance pairing without sacrificing adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses parameter-based configuration where the universal protocol can be instantiated with different parameters suitable for each network domain and host combination. This allows the protocol to be optimized for specific performance requirements of each deployment while maintaining the same underlying structure, enabling both performance optimization and cross-network compatibility through parameter adjustment rather than structural modification.
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AI summary
A flexible network building method for a remote-programmable monitoring and controlling system including an intelligent network device, a local area network router, and a dominant host in communication with the local area network router, including: sending a dominant host beacon containing router connection data for the local area network router through the dominant host; the intelligent network device receiving the dominant host beacon sent from the dominant host, and logining to the local area network router; the dominant host logining to the intelligent network device; sending a control command to the intelligent network device through the dominant host; receiving and executing the control command using the intelligent network device; and the intelligent network device responding to the dominant host with an executing status message after the execution of the control command.