Proximity-Based Smart Home Control Using Mobile Terminal Hardware
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Solution Overview
Problem
Smart home devices face challenges in integrating advanced hardware due to limited space, leading to increased manufacturing costs and complexity, while smart terminals like smartphones are underutilized as simple remote controls without significant interaction capabilities.
Innovation Solution
A method for controlling smart home devices using a mobile terminal to detect proximity and identify devices via short-distance wireless communication signals, enabling intelligent control through device information retrieval and execution of corresponding programs without significantly increasing hardware costs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If advanced hardware (high-precision camera, voice recognition module, high-resolution large screen, high-speed processor) is integrated into smart home devices to enhance functions, then device functionality and intelligence are improved, but manufacturing cost and device complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a mobile terminal as an intermediary device that performs complex processing functions. The smart home device only needs basic hardware (processor, memory, wireless communication module) while the mobile terminal handles image recognition, voice recognition, and other intelligent functions through its advanced hardware capabilities, thus reducing the complexity and cost of the smart home device itself.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile terminal serves as a universal controller that can interact with multiple types of smart home devices (lighting, temperature control, entertainment systems, etc.). By using the mobile terminal's existing advanced hardware for multiple purposes across different device types, the need for each individual smart home device to have dedicated expensive hardware is eliminated.
2Adaptability or versatility
If advanced hardware is integrated into smart home devices to improve functions, then device intelligence is enhanced, but manufacturing cost increases sharply
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile terminal acts as an intermediary that provides advanced processing capabilities without requiring them to be built into each smart home device. The smart home device manufacturers only need to produce simple devices with basic communication capabilities, significantly reducing manufacturing costs while still achieving intelligent functionality through the mobile terminal's hardware.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of copying expensive hardware into every smart home device, the patent uses the mobile terminal's hardware capabilities to perform the same functions remotely. The mobile terminal's camera, microphone, and processor effectively become extensions of the smart home device's capabilities without physically being part of it.
3Ease of operation
If smart terminals are used as simple remote controls to operate smart home devices, then control functionality is provided, but interaction effectiveness and use value are minimal
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces simple mechanical remote control operations with intelligent interaction systems. Instead of just sending control signals, the mobile terminal uses its camera for visual recognition, microphone for voice recognition, and processor for analyzing device states, enabling rich bidirectional interaction that provides real feedback and context-aware control.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements comprehensive feedback mechanisms where the mobile terminal receives real-time information from smart home devices (through wireless communication) and provides visual, auditory, and haptic feedback to the user. The camera captures device states, the display shows real-time information, and the system adjusts control based on user responses, creating an effective closed-loop interaction system.
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
Enriches smart home device functions by simplifying user operations and improving user experience, while reducing design complexity and hardware costs by leveraging mobile terminal hardware multiplexing.
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
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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 (S11), and executing a device control program of a corresponding target home device according to the device information so as to control the target home device (S12). A computer program is stored on the medium for implementing the steps of the method. The mobile terminal includes a storage medium and a processor, the processor implementing the steps of the method when executing the computer program on the storage medium.