Smart Home Scene Priority Switching for Adaptive Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing smart home scene switching systems lack efficiency and reliability, often requiring users to manually adjust settings, failing to adapt to current environmental conditions, and losing control parameters during scene switching, leading to suboptimal user experiences.

Innovation Solution

A smart home scene switching method that dynamically calculates priority orders for scene groups based on current status parameters and historical records, allowing for seamless switching and selection of scenes according to predefined rules, ensuring reliable and stable operation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If manual scene switching is used according to control instructions, then user control is achieved, but switching efficiency is low

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvescene switching efficiencyVSAvoidtime for scene switching
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically switches scenes based on detected events (motion detection, time changes, temperature changes) without requiring manual user input. The control center autonomously determines which scene to activate by matching current environmental parameters and event types against predefined scene conditions, enabling self-service operation that eliminates manual switching delays

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously monitors environmental parameters (temperature, humidity, light intensity) and device status information, using this feedback to dynamically determine the appropriate scene to switch to. The control center receives real-time data from sensors and appliances, processes this information against scene definitions, and automatically activates the most suitable scene, creating a closed-loop control system that responds to changing conditions

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Adaptability or versatility

If environment sensing is used to adjust parameters, then automatic adaptation is achieved, but scene requirements are not met due to simple control conditions

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveenvironmental adaptationVSAvoidscene switching reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts scene selection based on real-time environmental parameters and device status information. Rather than using fixed control conditions, the control center continuously evaluates current temperature, humidity, light intensity, and appliance states against multiple scene definitions, allowing the system to adapt to changing environmental conditions while maintaining reliable scene switching through comprehensive parameter matching

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The control center integrates multiple sensing functions (temperature sensing, humidity sensing, light sensing, motion detection) and processes various types of information (environmental parameters, device status, event types) to determine scene switching. This multi-functional approach allows a single control system to handle diverse environmental conditions and trigger appropriate scenes based on comprehensive analysis of multiple parameters simultaneously

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Ease of operation

If scene switching is based on user preference only, then switching operation is simplified, but control parameters are lost and scene expectations are not met

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveswitching operation simplicityVSAvoidcontrol parameters
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

Users pre-define scene configurations including control parameters, device associations, and triggering conditions during system setup. The control center stores these predefined scene definitions with all associated parameters (temperature thresholds, light intensity levels, device groups). When scene switching is triggered, the system retrieves and applies the complete set of pre-configured parameters, ensuring no control information is lost while maintaining simple user operation through predefined scenarios

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously monitors environmental parameters and device status information, using this feedback to verify and adjust scene execution. The control center compares actual environmental conditions against the control parameters defined in scene configurations, ensuring that scenes are activated only when appropriate conditions are met. This feedback mechanism preserves control parameters by continuously referencing the predefined scene definitions during automatic switching

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentEP3070557B1Smart home scenario switching method and system
Publication Date: 2023.06.07 ZHUHAI UNILINK TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

The invention discloses a smart home scene switching method and system, in which a priority order of several scenes is calculated dynamically according to the status parameters of the current scene and/or historical record of past scenes, and scenes are sequentially switched according to the priority order, based on the event causing scene change and a switching rule between the event and the scene. The smart home scene switching method and system according to the invention expand switching and selecting of smart home scenes. The scenes are switched according to the priority order, thus simplifying user's switching and selecting operation on scenes and further improving the efficiency of switching scenes, which improves the reliability and stability of smart home scene switching.