Home Automation Home-Location Updates via Wi-Fi Presence Checks
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing home automation systems face challenges in accurately determining the location of a user's device when it is moved outside the primary home location, leading to incorrect automation operations due to mismatched time zones or network connections.
Innovation Solution
A system that uses a primary controller device to detect disconnection from the local area network, interpreting it as the user leaving the home location, and updates the home location based on geolocation information from the user's device, ensuring accurate location detection through local network compatibility checks and message transmission restrictions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the system uses user device location to determine home location, then location-based automation can be implemented, but incorrect home location detection occurs when device is moved outside primary location
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary verification mechanism using local area network (LAN) connectivity status as a mediator between device location and home location determination. The system checks whether the device is connected to the home LAN before accepting location updates, preventing false location changes when devices are temporarily outside the home network coverage area.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback by continuously monitoring LAN connection status and using this information to validate location-based automation triggers. When the device disconnects from the home LAN, the system receives feedback that the device has left the home location, preventing incorrect automation operations.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the system allows home location updates from any location, then system flexibility is improved, but incorrect automation operations occur due to mismatched time zones and network connections
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses LAN connection status as an intermediary condition that must be satisfied before allowing home location updates. This mediator ensures that location updates only occur when the device is genuinely at the home location and connected to the home network, preventing automation errors caused by incorrect time zones or network environments.
3Measurement precision
If the system detects device disconnection from LAN as leaving home location, then location tracking accuracy is improved, but false disconnections may trigger incorrect automation operations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies beforehand cushioning by implementing a validation check that compares the device's current location data with the registered home location before triggering automation operations. This cushioning mechanism prevents false disconnection events from causing incorrect automation, as the system verifies whether the disconnection actually corresponds to leaving the home location.
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AI summary
The present application relates to devices and components, including apparatus, systems, and techniques updating the home location of a home automation system. The user device is associated with a home automation system that is configured at a home or office. The user device may be in a location other than the primary location associated with the home automation system. The user device may send a message to update the location of the home automation system. The transmission of the update message is restricted to be sent using a specific technology, e.g., using Wi-Fi®.