Smart Home Mobile Element Controlling Data Transmission via Air Interfaces
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current smart home networking technologies face challenges in providing a user-friendly, efficient, and cost-effective solution for wireless communication and telecommunication within a smart home environment, requiring multiple devices for various functions and lacking seamless integration of text, audio, video, and control data transmission.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that utilizes a mobile element, such as a cordless telephone handset or mobile telephone, with a user-friendly interface, capable of generating and transmitting control commands for targeted data transmission between devices within the smart home network, acting as both data source and sink, and interfacing with a base station connected to circuit-switched and packet-switched networks via air interfaces like Bluetooth or IEEE 802.11, allowing for direct or indirect data transfer without intermediate connections.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple devices are used for different smart home functions, then functional versatility is improved, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile element is designed to perform multiple functions including telecommunication, data transmission, and control commands for various smart home devices. A single mobile element can handle voice calls, text messaging, audio streaming, video transmission, and appliance control, replacing the need for multiple separate devices and reducing overall system complexity
2Reliability
If multiple intermediate connections are used for data transmission between devices, then communication reliability is improved, but transmission efficiency and speed deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments data transmission into two types: direct transmission for compatible devices within the smart home network, and indirect transmission through the base station for external network communication. This segmentation allows efficient direct peer-to-peer communication when possible, while maintaining reliable indirect routing through the base station when needed, optimizing both speed and reliability
3Device complexity
If a single air interface is used for all data transmission, then device complexity is reduced, but susceptibility to interference increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system assigns different air interfaces to different types of data transmission based on local requirements: Bluetooth for short-range low-power communication with mobile phones, DECT for cordless telephone communication, and WLAN for high-speed data transmission. Each air interface is optimized for its specific function, reducing interference while maintaining manageable device complexity through standardized protocols
4Ease of operation
If simplified user interface is used, then ease of operation is improved, but control functionality may be limited
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile element provides a unified user interface that handles multiple communication functions including voice calls, text messaging, audio playback, video reception, and smart home device control. The interface presents these diverse functions in a consistent, user-friendly manner while maintaining full control functionality through standardized telecommunication protocols and control commands
Data Source
AI summary
In order to achieve simple, user-friendly “smart home” scenarios in a telecommunications system in the context of the transmission of textual, audio, video and/or control data between a data source and a data sink, a mobile element of the telecommunications system generates control commands and transmits the latter in a target manner in message traffic between the units that form part of the wireless communication or telecommunication process via the air interface. The mobile element is preferably configured as a cordless telephone handset or a mobile telephone. Textual, audio, video and/or control data that has been stored in the data source is detected, issued, released or externally transferred to a data sink or issued to a data source with the aid of the control commands.