Wireless Doorbell Alarm System Using Lamp Relay Networks
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional doorbell systems are ineffective in notifying homeowners across large areas or multiple floors due to low volume settings, complex wiring, and limited alarm functionality, often resulting in missed notifications and maintenance challenges.
Innovation Solution
An intelligent wireless doorbell alarm system utilizing lamps with wireless communication protocols (Bluetooth, WiFi, or Zigbee) for setup and operation, where lamps receive startup signals and relay them to ensure coverage across large areas, and can provide both visual and auditory alarms, with optional integration of buzzers for enhanced notification.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If additional buzzers are installed at different places of the house to improve notification effectiveness, then the alarm coverage is improved, but the number of connected wires and required circuits increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical wiring system with a wireless communication system. Instead of installing additional buzzers connected by physical wires throughout the house, the system uses wireless modules in smartphones or tablets to transmit alarm signals. This substitution eliminates the need for complex wiring while maintaining broad alarm coverage across multiple locations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent makes existing smartphones or tablets serve multiple functions: they act as both communication devices and alarm notification devices. By installing a wireless module in these universal devices, the system leverages their existing presence in households to provide alarm functionality without requiring dedicated alarm hardware at each location.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If the buzzer volume is set to low to avoid disturbing neighbors, then noise disturbance is reduced, but the house owner may ignore or not hear the doorbell when busy or at a distance
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the notification function into multiple independent channels: visual notification through the smartphone/tablet display and auditory notification through the buzzer. This segmentation allows each channel to operate at appropriate volumes - the display provides clear visual alarm even at low audio volumes, while the buzzer provides auditory warning without excessive noise disturbance to neighbors.
Solution Approach 2:
The smartphone or tablet acts as an intermediary device between the doorbell switch and the final notification. It receives the alarm signal wirelessly and processes both visual and auditory notifications, allowing the system to deliver reliable alerts without requiring high-volume sound that would disturb neighbors.
3Area of stationary object
If multiple buzzers are installed to improve alarm effectiveness, then notification coverage is improved, but maintenance and repair become inconvenient due to complicated circuits
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the complex mechanical wiring system with wireless communication technology. Instead of having multiple buzzers connected by physical wires throughout the house, the system uses wireless modules in smartphones or tablets to transmit and receive alarm signals. This eliminates physical wiring connections, making installation, maintenance, and repair significantly easier while maintaining broad notification coverage.
4Reliability
If all drivers are driven to produce very loud sound when switch is triggered, then alarm effectiveness is improved, but it affects others and fails to achieve the original intention of reducing volume
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the alarm notification into visual and auditory components. The visual notification through smartphone/tablet display provides strong alarm effectiveness without producing sound, while the auditory buzzer provides supplementary warning at controlled volume levels. This segmentation allows the system to achieve reliable alarm effectiveness while preventing excessive noise disturbance to others.
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AI summary
An intelligent wireless doorbell alarm system driven and set by a wireless communication protocol includes at least one doorbell switch, plural lamps and an electronic device. The doorbell switch has a wireless signal module for generating a startup signal after the being triggered. The lamps are electrically coupled to one another. Each lamp has a wireless transmission module and a driving module and is electrically coupled to the doorbell switch for receiving the startup signal. The electronic device is electrically coupled to the lamps and has a setup module for setting the lamps.