Router-Based Remote Intelligent Control for Smart Home Appliances

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Solution Overview

Problem

Traditional methods for controlling household appliances are inadequate for meeting user demands for convenience and efficiency, as they lack advanced remote control capabilities and integration with smart home technologies.

Innovation Solution

A method and device for remote intelligent control that acquire trigger events, generate notification messages, and push them to terminals, allowing users to receive and respond with control instructions to manage appliances remotely, using a router that classifies and delivers notifications based on preset conditions and types of appliances.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If traditional push button or infrared remote control methods are used, then the control system is simple, but the user convenience and remote control capability are insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser convenienceVSAvoidcontrol system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a router as an intermediary device that mediates between terminals and appliances. The router receives trigger events from terminals, pushes notification messages to user terminals, and delivers control instructions to appliances, thereby enabling convenient remote control without requiring direct complex connections between each terminal and appliance

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The router is designed to perform multiple functions: acquiring trigger events from terminals, generating and pushing notification messages, receiving control instructions, and controlling multiple different types of appliances. This multi-functional approach simplifies the overall control system architecture while enhancing user convenience

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Loss of information

If notification messages are pushed to all terminals regardless of trigger event type, then the system is simple to implement, but the precision of message delivery and user experience deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemessage delivery precisionVSAvoidmessage routing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements local quality by associating specific terminal types with specific trigger event types. Different terminals receive different notification messages based on the trigger event, ensuring that each terminal gets relevant information tailored to its function and the specific event occurred, rather than receiving all notifications universally

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Adaptability or versatility

If remote intelligent control functionality is added to enable users to control appliances remotely, then user convenience is improved, but the device complexity and system integration requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveremote control capabilityVSAvoidsystem integration complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The router serves as a central intermediary that handles all communication between terminals and appliances. It manages the complexity of network connections, protocol conversions, and device registrations, allowing terminals to control appliances remotely without each terminal needing direct integration with every appliance

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-registering appliances with the router and establishing communication channels in advance. When a trigger event occurs, the router can immediately push notifications to appropriate terminals without requiring real-time discovery or complex handshaking, thus enabling smooth remote control operations

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentEP2930704B1Method and device for remote intelligent control
Publication Date: 2018.05.02 XIAOMI INC
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AI summary

The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for remote intelligent control. The method and the device for remote intelligent control includes: acquiring a trigger event; generating a notification message according to the trigger event; pushing the notification message to a first terminal; by the first terminal, generating a notification message according to the trigger event; receiving a control instruction returned by the first terminal; and controlling a second terminal corresponding to the control instruction according to the control instruction. Through the above method and device for remote intelligent control, a function of remote intelligent control may be achieved through the router by the user. The method for remote intelligent control may enrich control manners on household appliances, and provide technical basis for achieving a smart home.