TWI645271B - Home appliance system with location function and control method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses a home appliance system with a positioning function and a control method thereof. The home appliance system with positioning function includes a mobile communication device, a cloud server, and a home appliance device. The mobile communication device sets the home appliance script and provides execution options. The mobile communication device includes a positioning module, a storage module and a processing module, the storage module stores the home appliance script and the home appliance positioning information, and the positioning module generates the action positioning information of the mobile communication device. The processing module obtains the distance according to the home appliance positioning information and the action positioning information, and generates a control command according to the distance of the distance. The cloud server receives the control command and outputs a control signal according to the control command. The home appliance receives the control signal and operates according to the control signal.

Description

Home appliance system with positioning function and control method thereof

The invention relates to a home appliance system and a control method thereof, in particular to a home appliance system with a positioning function and a control method thereof.

Due to the rapid development of technology, most of the household appliances used in homes have remote control functions. It is common to control the home appliances in the home by remote control before arriving at home.

However, due to the above-mentioned control method, it is still necessary for the user to determine when to start the home appliance, and if the home appliance is activated by the control, but the situation is delayed while returning home, the home time may be delayed, which may cause unnecessary power consumption.

In view of the above-mentioned problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a home appliance system having a positioning function and a control method thereof for solving the problems faced by the prior art.

Based on the above objects, the present invention provides a home appliance system having a positioning function, including a mobile communication device, a cloud server, and a home appliance. The mobile communication device is equipped with a script application, the script application sets the home appliance script and provides execution options for the corresponding home appliance script, the mobile communication device includes a positioning module, a storage module and a processing module, and the storage module stores the home appliance script and the home appliance positioning information. The positioning module locates the mobile communication device to generate action positioning information, and the processing module is based on the home appliance positioning The information and action positioning information obtains the distance of the journey, and generates control commands according to the distance traveled by the home appliance script corresponding to the selected execution option. The cloud server connects the mobile communication device and receives the control command, and outputs the control signal according to the control command. The home appliance device corresponds to the home appliance positioning information, and connects to the cloud server and receives the control signal, and operates according to the control signal.

Preferably, the home appliance script may include a script condition and an action instruction after satisfying the script condition.

Preferably, the processing module can generate a power consumption evaluation value corresponding to the action instruction of the home appliance script.

Preferably, the processing module can generate the travel time according to the distance and the traffic information, and generate a control command according to the travel time of the home appliance script corresponding to the selected execution option.

Preferably, the traffic information may include vehicle information, road condition information, route information, or a combination thereof.

Based on the above object, the present invention further provides a control method for a home appliance system having a positioning function, which is suitable for a home appliance system having a positioning function, and the home appliance system having a positioning function includes a mobile communication device, a cloud server and a home appliance device, and a cloud server connection. The home appliance device and the mobile communication device, and the control method of the home appliance system having the positioning function includes the following steps: setting and storing the home appliance script by the mobile communication device, and storing the home appliance positioning information. The execution option of the corresponding home appliance script is selected by the mobile communication device. The distance traveled by the mobile communication device based on the home appliance positioning information and the action positioning information. The mobile communication device generates a control command according to the distance traveled by the home appliance script corresponding to the selected execution option. The cloud server outputs a control signal according to the control command, so that the home appliance is actuated accordingly.

Preferably, the mobile communication device can generate a power consumption evaluation value corresponding to the action command of the home appliance script.

Preferably, the mobile communication device can generate the travel time according to the distance and the traffic information, and generate a control command according to the travel time of the home appliance script corresponding to the selected execution option.

According to the above description, the home appliance system with the positioning function and the control method thereof can store the set home appliance script, and obtain the distance according to the home appliance positioning information and the action positioning information, and even obtain the travel time to correspond to the corresponding correspondence. The travel distance or the travel time of the home appliance script generates control requirements, and the home appliance is driven by the cloud server to facilitate the convenient use and appropriate use of the home appliance.

100‧‧‧Home appliance system with positioning function

110‧‧‧Mobile communication device

111‧‧‧ Positioning Module

112‧‧‧ storage module

113‧‧‧Processing module

120‧‧‧Cloud Server

130‧‧‧Home Appliances

S21 to S25‧‧‧ steps

Figure 1 is a block diagram of a home appliance system having a positioning function of the present invention.

2 is a flow chart of a control method of a home appliance system having a positioning function according to the present invention.

The features, contents, and advantages of the present invention, as well as the advantages thereof, will be understood by the present invention. The present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. The use of the present invention is not intended to be a limitation of the scope of the present invention, and the scope of the present invention is not limited by the scope and configuration of the accompanying drawings.

The advantages and features of the present invention, as well as the technical methods of the present invention, are described in more detail with reference to the exemplary embodiments and the accompanying drawings, and the present invention may be implemented in various forms and should not be construed as limited thereby. The embodiments of the present invention, and the embodiments of the present invention are intended to provide a more complete and complete and complete disclosure of the scope of the present invention, and The scope of the patent application is defined.

Please refer to FIG. 1 , which is a block diagram of a home appliance system with positioning function according to the present invention. As shown in the figure, the home appliance system 100 with positioning function of the present invention includes a mobile communication device 110, a cloud server 120, and a home appliance 130.

The home appliance 130 can be connected and transmitted and received by the PCIE, PCI, UART, etc., and has a remote communication unit, such as WIFI, ZIGBEE, RF, Bluetooth, etc. In addition, the home appliance 130 can be The command code of the transfer control command is transmitted to the cloud server 120 in the MQTT format, and when the cloud server 120 installs the script application on the mobile communication device 110, it is transmitted to the command code mobile communication device 110 of the control command to enable the mobile communication. The home appliance script generated by the device 110 includes the command code of each control command, and the control signal can be generated according to the control request, and then the control command to be executed according to the control signal is only an example, and is not intended to limit the present invention.

The mobile communication device 110 is equipped with a script application for setting a home appliance script and providing an execution option for the corresponding home appliance script. The mobile communication device 110 includes a positioning module 111, a storage module 112, and a processing module 113. The module 111 connects the storage module 112 and the processing module 113, and the storage module 112 is coupled to the processing module 113. The storage module 112 stores home appliance scripts and home appliance positioning information. The positioning module 111 locates the mobile communication device 110 to generate the mobile positioning information. When the mobile communication device 110 is adjacent to the home appliance 130, the positioning module 111 can also locate the home appliance 130 to generate the home appliance positioning information and store it in the storage module 112. The processing module 113 obtains the distance according to the home appliance positioning information and the action positioning information, and generates a control command according to the distance traveled by the home appliance script corresponding to the selected execution option.

The cloud server 120 is connected to the mobile communication device 110 and receives the control command, and outputs a control signal according to the control command; the home appliance 130 corresponds to the home appliance positioning information, that is, by the positioning module. 111 can obtain home appliance positioning information of the home appliance 130, and the home appliance 130 connects to the cloud server 120 and receives the control signal, and operates according to the control signal.

Further, the home appliance script may include a script condition and an action instruction after satisfying the script condition. The processing module 113 can generate the travel time according to the distance and the traffic information, and generate a control command according to the travel time of the home appliance script corresponding to the selected execution option. The traffic information may include vehicle information, road condition information, route information, or a combination thereof. Therefore, due to considerations such as the speed of the vehicle, the road condition and the length of the route, etc., the same distance will be caused by the same distance, so the vehicle information, road condition information, route information and other factors will be further added. In the calculation, the travel time is estimated, which can be used as a basis for setting the script condition of the home appliance script, and the processing module 113 determines whether the script condition is met.

It is worth mentioning that when the user goes out and the home appliance 130 is turned on by the mobile communication device 110 in a remote control manner, the positioning module 111 can generate the current action positioning information, and the processing module can be based on the current The action positioning information and the home appliance positioning information of the controlled home appliance device 130 obtain the distance of the travel or further obtain the travel information, and the travel distance or the distance information can be used as a script condition, and the control command of the user's current remote control is used as the action command. To complete the setting of the home appliance script. Here, the processing module 113 can automatically complete the setting of the home appliance script, or first store the current travel distance or distance information and the current remote control control command in the storage module 112, and prompt the interrogating user whether to set The home appliance script can be taken out as a basis for setting up the new information after the user agrees to set the home appliance script.

However, in the actual application of the home appliance system 100 with positioning function of the present invention, it is assumed that the home appliance device 130 takes an air conditioner as an example, and the mobile communication device 110 takes a smart phone as an example; first, when the mobile communication device 110 is adjacent to the home appliance device 130 The home appliance 130 can be positioned by the positioning module 111. The home appliance positioning information is stored in the storage module 112, and the mobile communication device 110 is installed with a script application. Therefore, after the script application is started, the home appliance script can be set. Since the air conditioner is taken as an example, the script condition of the home appliance script is used. It can be the trigger distance, the triggering time, etc., and the action command can be set temperature, set air volume, turn on the mitigation function or other air-conditioner function; when the script condition and its action command are set, it can be stored and assumed Name it A script.

Then, the script application displays an execution option named A script through the mobile communication device 110. When the user is in the field, the execution option can be selected from the mobile communication device 110, and after the execution option is selected, the script application is triggered. The script condition set by the A script causes the processing module 113 to generate a control request corresponding to the A script, and the control request is an operation command that is required to be set before the home appliance 130 executes the A script. For example, when the script condition of the A script is the trigger distance: 1 km, the action command is the set temperature: the air temperature is 25 degrees, so after the user selects the execution option corresponding to the A script, the processing module 113 according to the home appliance positioning information and When the distance information of the home appliance device and the mobile communication device is less than 1 km, the processing module 113 generates a control request corresponding to the set temperature: the air conditioner 25 degrees, and transmits the control request to the cloud server 120 to generate the control signal. Then, the home appliance 130 is moved to operate, that is, the home appliance 130 is caused to execute an operation command for setting the temperature to 25 degrees of cold air. However, the above is only an example and is not limited thereto.

In addition, the processing module 113 can generate the power consumption evaluation value according to the action command of the home appliance script, and the user can refer to the power consumption evaluation value of each home appliance script as the basis for selecting the execution option of the corresponding home appliance script. The storage module 112 can store various power consumption data of the home appliance 130 as a basis for the processing module 113 to calculate the power consumption evaluation value.

In addition to the above, in addition to setting a home appliance script, the home appliance control operation can be made more intelligent and simple, and the home appliance script setting storage and related processing operations are connected to the local operation of the mobile communication device 110. Moreover, it is not necessary to perform home appliance script setting storage and related processing operations through the cloud server 120, thereby greatly reducing the workload of the cloud server 120 and making the job processing flow easier.

In the foregoing, in describing the home appliance system having the positioning function of the present invention, the concept of the control method of the home appliance system having the positioning function of the present invention has also been described, but for the sake of clarity, the flow chart is further illustrated below. Description.

Please refer to FIG. 2, which is a flow chart of a control method for a home appliance system with positioning function according to the present invention. As shown in the figure, the control method of the home appliance system having the positioning function of the present invention is applicable to the home appliance system with the positioning function mentioned above, and the home appliance system having the positioning function includes the home appliance device, the mobile communication device, and the cloud server. The cloud server connects the home appliance and the mobile communication device, and the control method of the home appliance system with the positioning function includes the following steps:

In step S21, the home appliance script is set and stored by the mobile communication device, and the home appliance positioning information is stored.

In step S22, the execution option of the corresponding home appliance script is selected by the mobile communication device.

In step S23, the distance traveled by the mobile communication device according to the home appliance positioning information and the action positioning information.

In step S24, a control command is generated according to the distance traveled by the home appliance script by the mobile communication device corresponding to the selected execution option.

In step S25, the cloud server outputs a control signal according to the control command, so that the home appliance is actuated accordingly.

In other words, in addition to the above steps, the present invention can generate the power consumption evaluation value by the action command of the mobile communication device corresponding to the home appliance script. In addition, it can also be based on the distance of the mobile communication device. The travel time is generated from the traffic information, and the control command is generated according to the travel time of the home appliance script corresponding to the selected execution option.

The detailed description and the embodiment of the control method of the home appliance system having the positioning function of the present invention have been described in the foregoing description of the home appliance system having the positioning function of the present invention, and will not be described herein for the sake of brevity.

According to the above description, the home appliance system with the positioning function and the control method thereof can store the set home appliance script, and obtain the distance according to the home appliance positioning information and the action positioning information, and even obtain the travel time to correspond to the corresponding correspondence. The travel distance or the travel time of the home appliance script generates control requirements, and the home appliance is driven by the cloud server to facilitate the convenient use and appropriate use of the home appliance.

The embodiments described above are merely illustrative of the technical spirit and the features of the present invention, and the objects of the present invention can be understood by those skilled in the art, and the scope of the present invention cannot be limited thereto. That is, the equivalent variations or modifications made by the spirit of the present invention should still be included in the scope of the present invention.

Claims (8)

A home appliance system having a positioning function includes: a mobile communication device, and a script application program is installed, the script application program sets an electric script and provides an execution option corresponding to one of the home appliance scripts, and the mobile communication device includes one a positioning module, a storage module and a processing module, wherein the storage module stores the home appliance script and an electric positioning information, wherein the positioning module locates the mobile communication device to generate a motion positioning information, and the processing module Determining a distance and a traffic information according to the home appliance positioning information and the action location information to generate a travel time, and generating a control command according to the travel time corresponding to the home appliance script corresponding to the selected execution option; The cloud server connects the mobile communication device and receives the control command, and outputs a control signal according to the control command; and an electrical device that is connected to the cloud server and receives the control signal according to the home appliance positioning information. And act according to the control signal. The home appliance system with positioning function according to claim 1, wherein the home appliance script includes a script condition and an action instruction after the script condition is met. The home appliance system with positioning function according to claim 2, wherein the processing module generates a power consumption evaluation value corresponding to the action command of the home appliance script. The home appliance system with positioning function as described in claim 2, wherein the traffic information includes vehicle information, road condition information, route information, or a combination thereof. A control method for a home appliance system having a positioning function is applicable to a home appliance system having a positioning function, wherein the home appliance system having a positioning function comprises a mobile communication device, a cloud server and an electric device, and the cloud server is connected The home appliance device and the mobile communication device, the control method of the home appliance system having the positioning function comprises the steps of: setting and storing an electric script by the mobile communication device, and storing an electric positioning information; and the mobile communication device Selecting an execution option corresponding to the home appliance script; the mobile communication device obtains a distance and a traffic information according to the home appliance positioning information and an action positioning information to generate a travel time; and the mobile communication device is selected correspondingly The execution option generates a control command according to the travel time of the home appliance script; and the cloud server outputs the control signal according to the control command, so that the home appliance is actuated accordingly. The method for controlling a home appliance system having a positioning function according to claim 5, wherein the home appliance script includes a script condition and an action instruction after the script condition is satisfied. The method for controlling a home appliance system having a positioning function according to claim 6, wherein the mobile communication device generates a power consumption evaluation value corresponding to the action command of the home appliance script. The method for controlling a home appliance system having a positioning function according to claim 6, wherein the traffic information includes vehicle information, road condition information, route information, or a combination thereof.