Mixed Motorized Shutter Group Control Without Home Automation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing motorized shutters, particularly non-solar powered ones, lack efficient automated control without requiring a home automation system, leading to inefficiencies in energy management and comfort control.
Innovation Solution
A method for controlling a group of motorized shutters using a solar-powered shutter as a central unit to broadcast an identification code and control instructions to non-solar shutters via broadcast transmission, enabling automated group operation without additional hardware or home automation systems.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If a home automation system is used to control non-solar shutters automatically, then automation capability is improved, but device complexity and installation cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The solar-powered shutter acts as an intermediary device that receives external condition data (light, temperature) and transmits control commands to non-solar shutters via radio frequency. This mediator eliminates the need for complex home automation systems while enabling automated control of mixed shutter groups.
Solution Approach 2:
The solar-powered shutter autonomously monitors external conditions through its sensors and automatically generates control commands for the group without requiring external automation systems. The shutter serves itself as both sensor and controller, simplifying the overall system architecture.
2Ease of operation
If individual remote controls are used for each shutter, then ease of operation is improved, but loss of information about group coordination increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges individual shutter control capabilities with group coordination by having the solar-powered shutter broadcast its control commands to all non-solar shutters in the group. This allows each shutter to operate individually when needed while maintaining automatic group coordination through the broadcast mechanism.
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AI summary
Method for controlling a group of motorized shutters of a building, said group comprising at least one solar shutter driven by a motor connected to at least one solar panel for supplying the motor with energy, said group also comprising non-solar shutters, the drive of which is each controlled by a motor powered by the mains, each motor being controllable by means of an individual remote control capable of being programmed by the user between an automated operating mode and a non-automated operating mode of the shutter and being provided with telecommunication means connecting it to a shutter control unit comprising transmission/reception means, an additional remote control being associated with said group of shutters, said additional remote control comprising an identification code stored in the control units of the shutter motors of the group.This method comprises: - the broadcasting by the transmission/reception means of the solar motor control unit of a control frame, said frame including the identification code of the additional remote control of the group; - the verification by each non-solar shutter having received the frame of its belonging to the group of the solar shutter whose control unit broadcast the frame, by comparison between the identification code of the additional remote control broadcast and the identification code of the additional remote control stored by its control unit; and - the subsequent control of the motors of the non-solar shutters belonging to the group of the solar shutter whose control unit broadcast the frame.