Dynamic control of smart home using wearable device
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing home automation systems lack the ability to dynamically adjust appliances based on a user's physiological parameters, leading to potential discomfort and health issues due to inflexible control mechanisms.
Innovation Solution
A method utilizing a wearable device with sensors to monitor physiological aspects of a user, which communicates with smart appliances to adjust settings automatically, ensuring the user's health profile is maintained by synchronizing data from both the wearable device and appliances.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If home automation systems use fixed routine programming, then device operation is simplified and reliable, but the system cannot adapt to changing user physiological conditions
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors user physiological parameters (heart rate, temperature, activity level) via wearable devices and uses this feedback to dynamically adjust appliance settings. This closed-loop feedback mechanism enables the system to adapt to changing physiological conditions while maintaining manageable complexity through automated decision-making algorithms.
Solution Approach 2:
The home automation system automatically adjusts appliance settings based on physiological data without requiring user intervention. The system self-regulates by interpreting physiological signals and making appropriate adjustments to lighting, temperature, and other environmental controls, reducing the burden on users while providing personalized adaptation.
2Ease of operation
If home automation systems manually adjust appliances, then control precision is high, but user convenience and time efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system replaces manual mechanical adjustment with automated electronic control based on physiological sensing. Sensors continuously monitor physiological parameters and automatically translate them into precise appliance settings, eliminating the need for manual intervention while maintaining or exceeding the precision that would be achievable through careful manual adjustment.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary layer of physiological sensing and automated processing between the user and the appliances. This intermediary automatically interprets physiological signals and makes precise adjustments, providing both user convenience and control precision by removing the need for direct user-appliance interaction while maintaining accurate control.
3Reliability
If home automation systems ignore physiological data, then system simplicity is maintained, but user comfort and health management deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system integrates multiple functions into a unified platform: physiological monitoring, data analysis, and automated appliance control. By combining these functions into a single multi-functional system, the patent achieves reliable user comfort and health management without proportionally increasing overall system complexity, as the same hardware and software infrastructure supports multiple capabilities.
Data Source
AI summary
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for dynamically controlling an appliance based on information received from a wearable device, to regulate the user's health. A wearable device is identified and configured to monitor at least one physiological aspect of the user. A controllable appliance with at least one sensor and at least one controllable setting is also identified. Health information of the user is received and utilized in generating, a user profile which comprises parameters related to the health of the user. Data from the wearable device and date from the controllable appliance is analyzed and it is determined whether the data matches the parameters related to the health of the user. If the data does not match the parameters related to the health of the user, then at least one controllable setting of the at least one controllable appliance is adjusted.