Server-Based AV Device Routing and Protocol Translation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems lack an efficient and hardware-independent method for managing and routing data among multiple devices in a presentation environment, including audiovisual systems, and configuring devices across multiple spaces while ensuring secure and customized user access.
Innovation Solution
A server-based system that communicates with and controls devices to establish interconnections, allowing users to manage and route audiovisual data streams and control other devices, with features for reconfiguring based on user credentials and providing a customized user interface, using a communication transceiver to convert commands into appropriate formats for different devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a server-based system is implemented to manage and route multiple devices and data streams, then device management efficiency and control capability are improved, but system complexity and infrastructure requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
A server acts as an intermediary between multiple controllable devices and users, centralizing the management and routing functions. The server receives control inputs from users and automatically routes them to the appropriate devices, eliminating the need for complex point-to-point connections and manual configuration between devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The server-based system provides universal control capabilities that can manage diverse device types (audiovisual equipment, lighting, climate control, security systems) through a single platform. This multi-functional approach consolidates multiple device management tasks into one system, improving efficiency while maintaining manageable complexity through standardized interfaces.
2Adaptability or versatility
If hardware-independent device control is implemented, then system adaptability and flexibility are improved, but communication protocol complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The server serves as a protocol translation intermediary, converting between different device-specific communication protocols and a standardized control interface. This allows hardware-independent control by abstracting away the underlying protocol differences, enabling diverse devices to be managed through uniform commands while the server handles the protocol complexity in the background.
3Ease of operation
If automated user authentication and customization is implemented, then user experience personalization is improved, but security requirements and system overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
User authentication and preference configuration are performed in advance before device control operations. The system pre-validates user credentials and pre-configures personalized interfaces and device access permissions based on user profiles. This preliminary setup enables seamless customized operation while maintaining security through pre-established authentication frameworks.
4Ease of operation
If geographically dispersed device control is implemented, then system accessibility and remote management capability are improved, but network infrastructure requirements and latency increase
Solution Approach 1:
The server acts as a centralized intermediary that receives control commands from users at any location and routes them to the appropriate devices. This architecture enables geographically dispersed control by providing a single access point that abstracts away the physical distance between users and devices, with the server handling command routing and coordination to minimize latency.
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AI summary
A system and method for managing, routing and controlling devices and inter-device connections located within an environment to manage and control the environment using a control client is presented. A user configures a presentation environment into one or more sub-environments, restricts access to one or more devices of a presentation sub-environment, or schedules one or more resources within a presentation sub-environment.