Smart Device-Sensor Matching for Automatic Home Setup
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Solution Overview
Problem
The process of setting up and integrating multiple intelligent devices in a home system is cumbersome and complex, requiring significant user input and often results in errors, especially when users move or add new devices, leading to reduced convenience and increased costs.
Innovation Solution
An automatic matching system and method that utilizes a matching device to compare input properties of intelligent devices with output properties of surrounding sensors, forming groups based on matching properties and adjusting functions accordingly, with optional user customization and cloud-based rule sharing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual setup of intelligent devices is used, then device integration is achieved, but user time consumption and operation complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service through automatic device discovery and grouping. The matching device autonomously detects intelligent devices in the environment, compares their properties with sensor output properties, and forms groups without user intervention. This eliminates manual information input and significantly reduces setup time while maintaining ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-establishing device-sensor groupings based on property matching before user configuration is needed. The matching device proactively identifies compatible devices and sensors, creates initial group configurations, and prepares the system for immediate use, thereby reducing the time users would otherwise spend on setup.
2Reliability
If manual configuration of device parameters is used, then device functionality is achieved, but operation complexity and error rate increase
Solution Approach 1:
The matching device performs self-service by automatically comparing input properties of intelligent devices with output properties of sensors, determining compatibility, and forming groups autonomously. This eliminates manual parameter configuration, reducing both complexity and potential for user errors while ensuring accurate matching based on objective property comparison.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback through the matching device's continuous comparison of device input properties with sensor output properties. This automated feedback mechanism ensures that only compatible devices and sensors are grouped together, improving configuration accuracy while reducing the complexity of manual verification and adjustment.
3Adaptability or versatility
If traditional device integration method is used, then devices can be controlled, but system adaptability and ease of adjustment deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system achieves dynamics through the matching device's ability to continuously detect new intelligent devices, compare their properties with existing sensor groups, and dynamically adjust groupings. This enables the system to adapt to changing environments and device configurations automatically, improving both adaptability and ease of operation without requiring manual reconfiguration.
Solution Approach 2:
The matching device provides universal functionality by handling multiple tasks: device discovery, property comparison, group formation, and dynamic reconfiguration. This multi-functional approach allows the system to adapt to various device types and scenarios while maintaining a unified, easy-to-operate interface that automatically manages complexity.
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AI summary
An automatically matching system for intelligent devices comprises an intelligent device, at least one sensor, and a matching device. The intelligent device executes an intelligent function and includes at least one input property. The at least one sensor comprises at least one output property and outputs a sensing value. The matching device is connected to the intelligent device and the at least one sensor to receive the at least one input property of the intelligent device and the at least one output property of at least one sensor. Wherein, the matching device makes the intelligent device and the at least one sensor in a group when the at least one input property matches the at least one output property. The intelligent device in the group is configured to execute and adjust the intelligent function according to the sensing value of the at least one sensor.