Interface Device Coordinating Vehicle and Building Actuators
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Solution Overview
Problem
Motor vehicles are not integrated into the living space, limiting their utility beyond transportation and preventing seamless coordination with home environments, such as maintaining ambiance or providing additional living space.
Innovation Solution
A method using an interface device to communicate and synchronize settings between a motor vehicle's actuator devices and building actuator devices, allowing for coordinated control of infotainment systems, temperature, lighting, and structural elements like partition walls, to create a unified living space experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the motor vehicle is used solely as a means of transport, then its basic transportation function is fulfilled, but it cannot provide additional living space or seamless integration with home environments
Solution Approach 1:
The motor vehicle is transformed from a single-function transportation device into a multi-functional system that serves both as a vehicle and as an extension of the living space. The coordination system enables the vehicle to maintain and transfer living space parameters (temperature, lighting, music) between home and vehicle environments, making it adaptable to dual purposes: transportation and temporary living space.
Solution Approach 2:
A coordination system acts as an intermediary between the motor vehicle and home environment systems. This mediator transfers parameter settings (temperature, lighting, music playback) between the two environments, enabling seamless integration without requiring direct physical connection or complex user intervention. The intermediary handles the complexity of coordination automatically.
2Productivity
If the motor vehicle is parked and not used, then energy consumption is minimized, but it cannot contribute to the living area or provide utility to the user
Solution Approach 1:
The coordination system performs preliminary actions by transferring parameter settings (temperature, lighting, music) from the home environment to the motor vehicle before the user arrives or before the vehicle is needed. This allows the vehicle to be prepared for immediate use as a living space extension without requiring energy-intensive operations during actual use, optimizing energy consumption while maintaining productivity.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the motor vehicle and building are technically adapted to each other, then seamless coordination and extended living space are achieved, but the system complexity and integration requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The coordination system serves as an intelligent intermediary that manages the technical adaptation between motor vehicle and building systems. It automatically handles parameter transfer (temperature, lighting, music settings) and system coordination, shielding users from the underlying complexity while enabling seamless integration. The intermediary abstracts complex integration requirements into simple automated operations.
4Ease of operation
If actuator devices in the motor vehicle and building are coordinated, then consistent ambiance and unified living space experience are provided, but communication and control infrastructure requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The coordination system implements a universal communication framework that handles multiple functions (temperature control, lighting, music playback, privacy management) through a single integrated infrastructure. This multi-functional approach reduces the need for separate communication channels for each function, simplifying the overall infrastructure while providing comprehensive user comfort across all actuator devices in both vehicle and building environments.
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AI summary
The invention relates to a method for coordinating two actuator devices (14, 15, 16, 18, 20) , wherein one comprises a motor vehicle system and the other a motor-vehicle-external device which is arranged on a building (12); and wherein the method is carried out by an interface device (24) which forms a data communication interface between the actuator devices (14, 15, 16, 18, 20). The interface device (24) establishes a current configuration of the first actuator device (14, 15, 16, 18, 20) (S2), in accordance therewith specifies the second actuator device (14, 15, 16, 18, 20) as an adaptable actuator device (14, 15, 16, 18, 20) (S2) and, on the basis of the established configuration of the first actuator device (14, 15, 16, 18, 20), specifies setting data for configuring the second actuator device (14, 15, 16, 18, 20, S3) and generates a corresponding control signal, which it transmits to the second actuator device (14, 15, 16, 18, 20) in order to configure the second actuator device (14, 15, 16, 18, 20, S6).