IoT Control Device for Automatic Mode Selection
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Solution Overview
Problem
In IoT environments, particularly in smart systems like smart homes and hotels, users face inconvenience and complexity when controlling multiple electronic devices due to the need for manual setting of multiple scenarios, which does not align with their intentions and increases personnel costs for guidance.
Innovation Solution
A method and device that collect sensing information to determine a user's situation, display pre-stored control modes, receive user input for selection, and transmit control commands to corresponding electronic devices, thereby simplifying the control process and improving user convenience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a conventional group control method is used where users manually set situations and select devices one by one, then electronic devices can be controlled, but user convenience deteriorates and interface complexity increases as the number of devices and situations increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically determines user situations by collecting and analyzing sensing information from sensors, eliminating the need for users to manually set situations. The control device autonomously identifies user needs and presents relevant control modes, allowing the system to serve itself rather than requiring user configuration.
Solution Approach 2:
Sensing information acts as an intermediary between the user and the control system. Instead of directly interacting with complex device settings, users indirectly influence the system through their physical presence and actions, which are detected by sensors and translated into appropriate control modes.
2Ease of operation
If users are provided with detailed guidance systems or additional personnel for device operation instructions, then user understanding improves, but personnel expenses and operational costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides automated guidance through the control interface that adapts to user needs based on detected situations. Instead of requiring external personnel or separate guidance systems, the interface itself becomes self-instructive by presenting relevant control modes and options tailored to the user's current situation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously collects sensing information and adjusts the presented control modes based on user responses and behavioral patterns. This feedback loop enables the system to learn and adapt to user preferences over time, providing increasingly accurate and helpful guidance without additional personnel.
3Productivity
If users must control each device individually even when familiar with the devices, then precise control is achieved, but operational time and effort increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges control of multiple electronic devices into unified control modes based on user situations. Instead of requiring separate control actions for each device, the system combines related devices and presents integrated control options that manage multiple devices simultaneously, significantly reducing the number of individual control operations needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The control interface is designed to be universal across different situations and device types. A single control mode can manage multiple devices with different functions, allowing users to control diverse electronic devices through a consistent, situation-based interface rather than device-specific controls.
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AI summary
The present disclosure relates to a technology for a sensor network, machine to machine (M2M), machine type communication (MTC), and Internet of things (TOT). The present disclosure can be utilized for intelligent services (smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail, security and safety related services, etc.) on the basis of the above technology. The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for controlling operations of electronic devices. According to the present disclosure, a method for controlling electronic devices by a control device comprises the steps of: collecting, by the control device, sensing information through at least one sensor; determining, by the control device, a user's situation on the basis of the collected sensing information; displaying at least one candidate control mode among a plurality of pre-stored control modes on the basis of the result of the determination; receiving a selection input for selecting one control mode from the at least one displayed candidate control mode; and transmitting a control command for at least one electronic device which can be controlled in the one control mode, in response to the selection input.