Mobile Terminal Proximity Control for Space-Limited Smart Home Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Smart home devices face challenges in accommodating additional hardware due to limited space, leading to increased manufacturing costs and design complexities, while current smart terminal usage is limited to remote control functions, offering little additional value to users.
Innovation Solution
A method for controlling smart home devices using a mobile terminal that involves obtaining the distance and device information of the target device via short-distance wireless communication signals, such as Bluetooth or NFC, to execute control programs, allowing for intelligent device control and enriched functionality without significant hardware cost increases.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If expensive hardware (high-precision camera, voice recognition device, high-resolution display, high-speed processor) is added to smart home devices to update and iterate new functions, then device functionality and performance are improved, but manufacturing cost increases sharply and device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by enabling the mobile terminal to perform multiple functions: it serves as both a remote control and an interactive display device. The mobile terminal's existing hardware (camera, display, processor) is leveraged to provide smart home control capabilities without adding corresponding hardware to the smart home device itself.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile terminal acts as an intermediary between the user and the smart home device. Instead of equipping smart home devices with expensive interactive hardware, the mobile terminal mediates the interaction by receiving control commands and providing visual feedback, thus eliminating the need for high-resolution displays and complex processors in the smart home device.
2Adaptability or versatility
If expensive hardware is added to smart home devices to achieve advanced functions, then device performance is improved, but manufacturing cost increases sharply
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the expensive interactive hardware (high-resolution display, complex processor, advanced camera) from the smart home device and relocates these functions to the mobile terminal. The smart home device retains only essential control reception capabilities, dramatically reducing manufacturing costs while preserving advanced functionality through the mobile terminal's hardware.
3Device complexity
If smart terminal products are used as simple remote controls, then device simplicity is maintained, but user experience and additional value are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile terminal is transformed from a simple remote control into a multi-functional device that combines remote control capabilities with interactive display functions. The device can show real-time visual feedback from the smart home device's camera or sensors, providing users with both control simplicity and enhanced user experience through the mobile terminal's existing hardware capabilities.
4Adaptability or versatility
If more hardware is accommodated in smart home devices, then device functionality is improved, but space constraints make this difficult to realize
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts advanced interactive hardware functions from the smart home device and places them in the mobile terminal. This extraction resolves the space constraint problem by eliminating the need to accommodate cameras, high-resolution displays, and complex processors within the limited space of the smart home device, while still providing these functionalities through the mobile terminal.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This approach simplifies user operations, enhances user experience, and reduces design complexity by leveraging mobile terminal hardware multiplexing, enabling advanced functions in smart home devices without excessive hardware additions.
Implementation Method 1
scanning and detecting a short-distance wireless communication signal transmitted by the target home device, and calculating the distance between the target home device and the mobile terminal according to a signal strength value of the short-distance wireless communication signal
Implementation Method 2
the short-distance wireless communication signal is a near-field communication signal
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AI summary
A smart home device control method, a medium, a terminal, and an apparatus. By approaching a target home device and obtaining device information thereof, and executing a device control program of a corresponding target home device according to the device information, the user operation is simplified, and the user experience of the home device is improved. The use of hardware multiplexing of a mobile terminal can enrich the function of the home device without significantly increasing the hardware cost of the home device, and reduce the design difficulty and complexity of the home device. The method includes: obtaining a distance between a target home device and a mobile terminal, and obtaining device information of the target home device when the distance is less than or equal to a preset distance.