Smart Router Address Mapping for Home Power Supply Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current smart home power control systems lack efficient and user-friendly methods for managing and optimizing the power supply of multiple smart home devices, leading to potential energy wastage and inconvenience.
Innovation Solution
A method and device that utilize a smart router to automatically match and assign addresses to smart home power supplies, allowing users to control these devices through a centralized system, enabling remote operation, energy-saving features, and optimized usage habits management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users manually control each smart home power supply individually, then device control capability is maintained, but operation convenience deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple power supply control functions into a single integrated system. The control device consolidates the ability to manage multiple power supplies (first, second, and third power supplies) into one unified interface, allowing users to control all devices through a single platform rather than individually managing each power supply unit.
Solution Approach 2:
The control device is designed with universal functionality to manage diverse types of smart home devices connected to different power supplies. It can simultaneously handle switching control for air conditioners, televisions, computers, and other appliances across multiple power supply units, providing a multi-functional control solution.
2Loss of energy
If smart home power supplies operate independently without coordination, then device autonomy is maintained, but energy efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the control device receives status information from various smart home devices connected to different power supplies. Based on this feedback, the control device automatically adjusts power supply switching to optimize energy consumption, such as turning off unused devices or coordinating operation times of multiple devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The control device performs preliminary switching operations based on predetermined schedules or user-defined preferences. For example, it can pre-turn off power supplies before expected idle periods or coordinate the startup sequences of multiple devices to avoid peak load conflicts, thereby reducing energy wastage proactively.
3Productivity
If centralized control is implemented across all power supplies, then energy optimization is improved, but system complexity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the control system into modular functional units that can independently manage different power supplies while reporting to a central control device. Each power supply controller operates as an independent module with standardized communication interfaces, allowing the system to scale by adding or removing modules without redesigning the entire system architecture.
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AI summary
The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for controlling a smart home power supply. The method includes: after successful automatic matching of a smart router with a plurality of smart home power supplies, obtaining (S11, S21, S31) addresses assigned for the smart home power supplies by the smart router, and obtaining information on a plurality of home electronics connected to the smart home power supplies; establishing (S12, S22, S32) a correspondence between the information on the home electronics and the addresses of the smart home power supplies; and obtaining (S13, S23, S33) control information set for a home electronic by a user, searching an address of a smart home power supply connected to the home electronic from the correspondence, and sending a control instruction to the smart router according to the control information and the address of the smart home power supply.