Multi-Room Air Conditioning Alerts via Mobile Push Notification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in conveniently monitoring and managing high temperatures across different locations, such as home and workplace, using existing air conditioning systems, as they lack a simple and efficient method to receive temperature information and control air conditioning units remotely.
Innovation Solution
An air conditioning system that utilizes push notifications on a mobile terminal to inform users of high temperatures and allows for the registration of multiple air conditioners, enabling users to confirm and respond to temperature conditions across various locations, with features like adapter registration, ventilation operations, and operation startup prompts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users register multiple air conditioners in different locations, then the ability to monitor high temperatures across multiple locations is improved, but the complexity of device registration and management increases
Solution Approach 1:
The server is designed to universally manage multiple air conditioners across different locations through a unified system. The server can register, store, and manage information from multiple air conditioners connected through different adapters, providing a multi-functional platform that handles various locations and devices through a single management interface.
Solution Approach 2:
The server acts as an intermediary between the mobile terminal and multiple air conditioners. It receives connection information from adapters, manages the registration process, and handles communication between the mobile terminal and various air conditioners, thereby simplifying the complexity of direct multi-device management for the user.
2Reliability
If the system sends push notifications for high temperature alerts, then the timeliness of temperature information delivery is improved, but the frequency of notifications may cause user annoyance
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements a feedback mechanism where the server monitors temperature conditions and sends push notifications only when high temperature thresholds are exceeded. The server receives temperature information from air conditioners, evaluates whether high temperature conditions exist, and provides targeted push notifications to the mobile terminal, creating a responsive feedback loop that avoids unnecessary notifications.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameter of notification triggering from continuous monitoring to threshold-based triggering. By setting a specific high temperature threshold, the system only initiates push notifications when the temperature parameter exceeds this threshold, thereby reducing notification frequency while maintaining reliable alert timeliness for actual high temperature conditions.
3Measurement precision
If the system performs air-ventilation operation before temperature determination, then the accuracy of high temperature state detection is improved, but the time required for temperature assessment increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs air-ventilation operation as a preliminary action before determining the high temperature state. By circulating air through ventilation beforehand, the system ensures that temperature readings reflect the actual room temperature conditions more accurately, eliminating localized hot spots that could skew measurements. This preliminary ventilation step prepares the environment for more reliable temperature assessment.
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AI summary
An air conditioning system (100) comprising: air conditioners (10a, 10b, ...) having a room temperature sensor for detecting the temperature of rooms (30a, 30b, ...); a mobile terminal (50) carried by a user of the air conditioners (10a, 10b, ...); and information mediation devices for causing exchange of information between the air conditioners (10a, 10b, ...) and the mobile terminal (50) using a public circuit (80). An air-conditioning management program installed in the mobile terminal (50) is capable of causing an image that includes information related to a registered plurality of the air conditioners (10a, 10b, ...) to be displayed on a display screen of the mobile terminal (50). When the rooms (30a, 30b, ...) have been determined to be in a predetermined high-temperature state on the basis of detection results of the room temperature sensor of the registered air conditioners (10a, 10b, ...), the information mediation devices provide a push-notification about the high-temperature information to the mobile terminal (50) in correspondence with the determination results.