Vehicle Control Module Integrating Smart Home Wireless Communication
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current vehicle-based remote control systems lack the ability to seamlessly integrate with smart home devices for real-time vehicle status updates and control instructions, particularly through voice commands, limiting their functionality and user convenience.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle control module with a wireless communication circuit and a control circuit that communicates with smart home devices and a remote server, enabling status inquiries and control requests via a bus interface, allowing for voice-controlled vehicle system management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a vehicle-based remote control system is implemented, then vehicle status monitoring and control capabilities are improved, but integration with smart home devices and real-time communication functionality deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The control module is designed to perform multiple functions: it monitors vehicle status through the controller, communicates with smart home devices via wireless communication circuits, and enables two-way control. This multi-functional design allows the same hardware platform to serve both traditional vehicle monitoring and modern smart home integration needs, resolving the contradiction between reliability and adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The control module acts as an intermediary between the vehicle controller and smart home devices. It receives control requests from smart home devices, processes them through the controller, and returns status information. This intermediary role enables seamless integration without compromising the core vehicle monitoring functionality.
2Adaptability or versatility
If wireless communication circuits are added for smart home device integration, then adaptability and remote control functionality are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the wireless communication circuit, control circuit, and vehicle controller into a single integrated control module. By combining these previously separate components into one unified device, the system achieves smart home integration while actually reducing overall system complexity through consolidation rather than addition.
3Ease of operation
If real-time status updates are implemented through smart home devices, then user convenience is improved, but communication protocol complexity and system integration difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The control module implements a feedback mechanism where it receives control requests from smart home devices, executes them through the vehicle controller, and automatically returns status identification information. This automated feedback loop provides real-time updates to users through their smart home devices without requiring complex manual communication protocols, thus improving ease of operation while managing integration complexity.
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AI summary
A control module for a vehicle comprises a wireless communication circuit in communication with a smart home device and a remote server. The control module further comprises a control circuit in communication with the wireless communication circuit and a controller of the vehicle via a bus interface. The control circuit is configured to receive a status request from the smart home device via the wireless communication circuit. Based on the status request, the control circuit requests a status identification from the controller according to the status request. The control circuit receives the status identification from the controller and communicates the status identification to the smart device via the wireless communication circuit. The status identification is announced by the smart home device.