Smart Mesh Socket Segments Wireless Networks
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing technologies face difficulties in interconnecting devices in environments with multiple rooms, such as buildings, limiting the benefits of mesh networks for smart devices.
Innovation Solution
Development of smart-mesh sockets equipped with wireless transmission capabilities and computing units, allowing multiple devices to interact and form interconnected mesh networks for distributed functionality, including communication with external devices like mobile devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If wireless transmission techniques are used to interconnect devices, then device connectivity and smart functionality are improved, but network reliability and communication stability deteriorate in multi-room building environments
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the building into multiple zones with dedicated gateway devices in each zone. These gateways segment the large-scale wireless network into smaller, more manageable local networks, reducing interference and improving reliability within each segment while maintaining overall system connectivity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces intermediary devices such as mesh network nodes and gateway devices that act as mediators between end devices and the central cloud infrastructure. These intermediaries relay communications, providing stable local routing that reduces direct wireless transmission distances and improves network reliability in multi-room environments.
2Adaptability or versatility
If mesh networks are deployed across multiple rooms, then distributed functionality and smart-building capabilities are improved, but network complexity and device coordination requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple functions into integrated mesh network nodes that simultaneously provide wireless routing, device coordination, and smart-building protocol translation. This merging reduces the number of separate components needed and simplifies network management while enabling distributed functionality across multiple rooms.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent designs universal mesh network nodes that can perform multiple roles including wireless access points, protocol gateways, and building automation controllers. This multi-functionality reduces network complexity by eliminating the need for separate specialized devices in each room while maintaining distributed smart-building capabilities.
Data Source
AI summary
Techniques are described for providing a smart-mesh socket. The smart-mesh socket may be sized and shaped to be engaged with a conventional electrical socket of one or more types (e.g., a USB receptacle providing DC electrical power) to provide power to one or more circuits housed within the smart-mesh socket. These circuits may include, for example, a main circuit that includes at least a dual processor for controlling the operation and communications of at least two communication circuits. The dual processors may execute instructions for an operating system, thus allowing the smart-mesh socket to provide enhanced capabilities for networked devices. One or more first communication circuits may each include one or more transceivers that allow the first communication circuit to send and receive communications with other devices over wireless network(s) using one or multiple wireless communication protocols.