Smart Home Control Using Server-Mediated Device Communication Groups
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current smart household robot technologies are limited by outdated control methods with simple interaction information, lacking advanced communication capabilities between smart devices and users, which restricts their potential for efficient and personalized control.
Innovation Solution
A smart household control method and system that enables communication between mobile terminals and smart devices through a communication group, using natural language text and voice information, allowing users to control devices by establishing user-device permissions and executing control instructions based on user authentication and device status, with feedback mechanisms for status updates.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If smart household robot uses outdated instruction level control, then device control is achieved, but interaction information remains simple and smart characteristics are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary component that establishes communication groups between mobile terminals and smart household devices. This server mediates the interaction, enabling rich communication information exchange while keeping the device control logic relatively simple. The server handles the complexity of group management and information routing, allowing devices to benefit from enhanced interaction capabilities without proportionally increasing their own complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If communication group is established between mobile terminal and smart device, then personalized control is enabled, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the control system into distinct components: mobile terminals, smart household devices, and a central server. Each component has specific responsibilities - terminals provide user interfaces, devices execute control functions, and the server manages communication groups and coordinates interactions. This segmentation allows personalized control through flexible group configurations without requiring each individual device to be complex, as the server handles the coordination overhead.
3Ease of operation
If natural language text and voice information is used for control, then user-friendly interaction is achieved, but information processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The server acts as an intermediary that receives, processes, and interprets natural language text and voice information from mobile terminals. Instead of requiring smart devices to have complex natural language processing capabilities, the server handles the sophisticated information processing tasks. Devices receive simplified control instructions from the server, maintaining ease of operation for users while concentrating processing complexity in the centralized server infrastructure.
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AI summary
A smart household control method, apparatus and system. The method comprises: a smart household control apparatus (300) stores configuration information of a smart household device (400) in a control list (S210), the configuration information of the smart household device (400) comprising a device communication identifier; after the smart household control apparatus (300) establishes a first connection with the smart household device (400), the smart household control apparatus (300) establishes a second connection with a smart household control server (200), so that the smart household control server (200) establishes a communication group comprising at least one mobile terminal (100) and at least one smart household device (400), and sends first communication information sent by the at least one mobile terminal (100) in the communication group to the smart household control apparatus (300) (S220); and the smart household control apparatus (300) receives the first communication information, the first communication information comprising control information and a communication group identifier and the communication group identifier comprising the device communication identifier, the smart household control apparatus (300) parses the control information and generates a control instruction, and sends the control instruction to the corresponding smart household device (400) (S230).