Gateway-Controlled Sanitary Articles for Hygienic Flush Coordination
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Solution Overview
Problem
Networked sanitary systems lack extended functionalities, particularly in centralized data management and independent control of sanitary articles beyond their intended use, leading to inefficiencies in operational data evaluation and hygienic maintenance.
Innovation Solution
A networked sanitary system comprising sanitary article controllers, gateways with processors and memory for data evaluation, and isolated control instructions that allow for centralized data storage and evaluation, enabling targeted control of sanitary articles independently of their intended use, including hygienic flush functions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If sanitary article controllers are networked with central controllers, then extended functionalities and centralized management are achieved, but system complexity and difficulty of coordinating multiple controllers increase
Solution Approach 1:
The gateway serves as an intermediary device between the sanitary article controllers and the central building management system. It receives operational data from multiple controllers via data connections, performs local evaluation and processing, and then communicates with the central system, thereby reducing the complexity of direct coordination between numerous controllers and the central system.
Solution Approach 2:
The system is segmented into distributed sanitary article controllers that operate independently at the article level, a gateway that handles data collection and preliminary evaluation, and a central building management system. This segmentation allows each component to perform specialized functions, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining extended functionalities.
2Productivity
If operational data are evaluated at centralized location, then data convergence and targeted control are improved, but data transmission requirements and system coordination increase
Solution Approach 1:
The gateway acts as an intermediary that consolidates operational data from multiple sanitary article controllers at a localized central point (the gateway itself) before transmitting to the building management system. This local consolidation improves productivity by enabling efficient data evaluation while reducing the coordination burden on the distant central system.
Solution Approach 2:
Multiple data streams from different sanitary article controllers are merged and converged at the gateway. The gateway combines these data flows, performs unified evaluation, and generates coordinated control instructions, thereby improving operational efficiency while simplifying the coordination requirements for the overall system.
3Reliability
If isolated control instructions are implemented, then hygienic maintenance and targeted control are enhanced, but control system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The gateway performs preliminary evaluation of operational data and generates isolated control instructions for hygienic maintenance functions before these instructions reach the sanitary article controllers. This preliminary action ensures reliable hygienic maintenance while reducing control system complexity by pre-processing control decisions at the gateway level rather than requiring complex real-time coordination.
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AI summary
A sanitary system having at least one sanitary article respectively having a sanitary article controller and an actuator, wherein the sanitary article controller is configured to drive the actuator according to the intended use and wherein the sanitary article controller has a sanitary article communication interface, at least one gateway having a gateway communication interface and a memory which is connected to the gateway communication interface, and a processor. The at least one gateway is connected via the gateway communication interface to the sanitary communication interface via a data connection. The memory is configured to store received operational data, and the processor is configured to evaluate received operational data. When a predetermined evaluation criterion is reached from the evaluation of received operational data, the processor provides an isolated control instruction.