TWI564836B - Smart home integration server - Google Patents

Description

Smart Home Integration Server

The invention relates to a server, in particular to a smart home integration server.

With the rapid development of information technology, household equipment has been able to combine the use of computers and the Internet to provide a holistic and efficient service function, thereby enhancing home security, the convenience of home environment, and creating a humane living environment.

The architecture of existing smart homes mostly controls the operation of household equipment by integrating a computer and network integrated server, for example, controlling lighting equipment, air conditioning equipment, and the like. However, at present, manufacturers are more focused on the control of home equipment, and have not further considered the public facilities available to residents in the community.

On the other hand, due to the large number of items that can be controlled by home equipment, some home equipment is not suitable for all family members. For example, electric heating products can be controlled by children in an environment without accompanying adults, and unpredictable dangers may occur. Therefore, how to flexibly increase or decrease the home device project controlled by the integrated server according to different users is an important issue for developing and integrating the server. If this problem can be solved, it will be further ensured to be included in the community. The control of the facility is safe and secure. of.

Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a smart home integration server.

Therefore, the smart home integration server of the present invention is connected to at least one community-based community server and a plurality of home devices that can be controlled by the smart home integrated server, and the household devices include at least one lighting device. a curtain device, an environment sensor, a security switch, a card reader or a telephone device, the integrated server includes at least one resident card, a reading unit, a control unit, and a memory Unit and a display unit.

The reading unit reads the resident card in a contact or non-contact manner.

The control unit is configured to read a usage information and a device information of the community public device and the home device when the user is connected to the community public device and the at least one of the household devices, and the usage information and the device information generate a Corresponding to the community public facilities and the control items of the household equipment, whether the public control of each community can be used for access, and for the lighting equipment, the curtain equipment, the environmental sensor, the security switch, the card machine or the The telephone device performs control operations.

The memory unit is electrically connected to the reading unit and the control unit for storing identification information of each resident card, and an operating system for generating an operation interface, wherein the operation interface generates the control item according to the identification information of the resident card .

The display unit is electrically connected to the memory unit and configured to display the operation interface to provide the user with the operation interface to select the control item to control the operation of the community public and household equipment.

The effect of the invention is that the identification information stored in the resident card enables different users to control different household equipment items and community public facilities through the integrated server according to the authority.

1‧‧‧Smart Home Integration Server

11‧‧‧Household Card

12‧‧‧Reading unit

13‧‧‧Control unit

131‧‧‧Permission Module

132‧‧‧ hardware control module

133‧‧‧State Judgment Processing Module

134‧‧‧Control signal conversion module

135‧‧‧Internet Control Module

14‧‧‧ memory unit

15‧‧‧Display unit

16‧‧‧Operating system

2‧‧‧Community server

3‧‧‧Mobile devices

61‧‧‧Permission Control Process

611~614‧‧‧Steps

62‧‧‧Control generation process

621~625‧‧‧Steps

63‧‧‧Mobile device control process

631~637‧‧‧Steps

Other features and effects of the present invention will be apparent from the following description of the drawings, wherein: FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating an environment to which the preferred embodiment of the smart home integrated server of the present invention is applied; FIG. Is a block diagram illustrating the components of the preferred embodiment; FIG. 3 is a flow chart illustrating a flow of authority control performed by the preferred embodiment; FIG. 4 is a flow chart illustrating the preferred embodiment A control item generation process executed; and FIG. 5 is a flow chart illustrating a mobile device control flow executed by the preferred embodiment.

Referring to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, a preferred embodiment of the smart home integration server 1 of the present invention is connected to a community server 2 capable of controlling a plurality of community public facilities, and is suitable for setting a user. of In a family home, the family home includes a plurality of household appliances, and the integrated server 1 is used to control a plurality of household appliances of different categories of the family home, including lighting devices of a situation control category, curtain devices, etc., environmental sensing categories Carbon monoxide sensor, temperature and humidity sensor, etc., reed switch, emergency button switch, etc., access control management card reader, network camera for real-time image monitoring, and communication type of local telephone Internet telephony equipment, etc., and the community publicity controlled by the community server 2 includes community gates, access to public facilities such as a library, a swimming pool, and a gym.

The integrated server 1 includes at least one resident card 11 storing identification information, a reading unit 12 for reading the resident card 11 in a contact or non-contact manner, a control unit 13, a memory unit 14, and a display unit 15, And an operating system 16 stored in the memory unit 14.

The control unit 13 is configured to read a usage information and a device information of the community public device and the home device, and the device information and device information, when the user community is connected to the community device and the at least one of the home devices. Generate a corresponding community public facility and control items for the household equipment.

The memory unit 14 is electrically connected to the reading unit 12 and the control unit 13 for storing identification information of each resident card 11 and an operating system 16 for generating an operation interface, wherein the operation interface is identified according to the resident card 11 Information generates this control.

The display unit 15 is electrically connected to the memory unit 14 and configured to display the operation interface to provide the user with the user interface to open the operation interface to select the control item to control the community public and household equipment. Operation.

In this embodiment, the resident card 11 is loaded with an NFC chip and the reading unit 12 is an NFC reader. The display unit 15 of the integrated server 1 is a touch screen and is used to display the operating system 16 The operation interface (not shown) allows the user to perform control operations on the community public facilities and the household devices respectively through the operation interface. In addition, the integrated server 1 can externally transmit the operation interface to a mobile device 3 such as a tablet or a smart phone via a wireless network. In use, the mobile device 3 transmits through a pre-installed matching interface. Connecting to the smart home integration server 1 and performing pairing confirmation through the resident card 11 and the reading unit 12, obtaining the operation interface for the user to operate by executing an application module of the mobile device 3 The operation interface, wherein the application module can be an application specifically developed for the integrated server 1, or an existing web browser such as Google Chrome, Firefox, or IE (Internet Explorer).

The control unit 13 includes a rights module 131, a hardware control module 132, a state determination processing module 133, a control signal conversion module 134, and an internet control module 135, and is configured to perform an access control. The pipe flow 61, a control item generation process 61, and a mobile device control flow 62.

Referring to FIG. 3, in the privilege control process 61, first, the user allocates one of the privileged household cards 11 at the time of check-in to perform the login of the operating system 16 by the reading unit 12 (step 611), and through the The permission module 131 changes the identification information of the household card 11 according to the authority to be opened (step 612), and the knowledge of the resident card 11 After the other data is changed (step 613), the identification information stored in the memory unit 14 is synchronously updated and transmitted back to the community server 2 for storage (step 614).

Furthermore, since the setting of each authority must be set through the smart home integration server 1, the first step is to confirm that the user is divided into the household and avoid outsiders or non-community members. In addition, because of the procedure of returning to the household, each household card 11 has a record of corresponding identification data in the community server 2. If the household card 11 is accidentally lost, the card can be integrated through the smart home integration server 1. The loss logout is performed. At this time, the identification data of the resident card 11 will be changed, and the identification information stored in the memory unit 14 is synchronously updated, and returned to the community server 2 for storage, and the resident card 11 is further turned on. The operation interface selects the control item to control the cancellation of the operation function of the community public and household equipment.

Referring to FIG. 4, a flow 62 is generated for the control item. First, the user triggers device information of each household device connected by the hardware control module 132 and a community publicity controlled by the community server 2 via the operation interface (step 621). Then, the hardware control module 132 generates a control item information file according to the device information of all the home devices and the community use information, and stores the control item information file in the memory unit 13 (step 622). Then, the user reads the control item information file through the operation interface (step 623); then, the user confirms whether the content of the control item information file is correct (step 624); finally, if the confirmation result is yes The user triggers the hardware control module according to the situation through the operation interface. The environment control category, the environmental sensing category, the security security category, the access control management category, the communication category and the available community publicity category generate control items corresponding to each household equipment and community publicity, and the user can perform the operation The interface selects any of the controls to control the operation of the corresponding home device or community public (step 625).

In particular, in the home environment, the use of various household equipment is mainly based on the corresponding authority of the identification data stored in the household card 11 and corresponding control by the operation interface. On the other hand, it is publicly established in the community. In addition to the use of the control interface generated by the operation interface, the above mentioned reference needs to be moved by the user to use the library, swimming pool, gym, etc., when the control item is selected, The identification data of the user card is returned to the community server 2 for registration, so that the usage status can be effectively managed.

Referring to FIG. 5, the mobile device control flow 63 mainly provides a user control operation of the home device and the community publicity via the mobile device 3. First, the mobile device 3 is connected to the smart home integration server 1 via a pre-installed mating interface (step 631), and after the pairing confirmation is performed by the resident card 11 and the reading unit, the operation interface is obtained (step 632). When the user operates the mobile device 3 and selects a control item through the operation interface, the mobile device 3 sends a network control command to the Internet control module 135 (step 633); then, the Internet The control module 135 sends the network control command to the control signal conversion module 134 (step 634); then, the control signal conversion module 134 translates the network control command and sends a translated network control command to the hard Body control module 132 Step 635); then, the hardware control module 132 sends the translated network control command to the home device or community public device corresponding to the control item (step 636); then, the state determination processing module 133 obtains the control Status information of the item and sending the status information to the control signal conversion module 134 (step 637); then, the control signal conversion module 134 translates the status information and sends a translated status information to the internet control module 135 (step 638); Finally, the internet control module sends the translated status information to the mobile device 3 to display the translated status information on the mobile device 3 (step 639). In this embodiment, the path of the network communication may be one of Wifi, Zigbee, Bluetooth, etc., and is not limited thereto, and the user may select and use according to the existing situation.

It is worth mentioning that although the present invention is used in conjunction with the community server to perform the rights control and subsequent operation of the community connection with the community server, the invention is not limited thereto, and the community server can be replaced with other The cloud server (not shown) connected to the smart home integration server 1 of the present invention through the Internet control module 135 is similarly controlled by the user card 11 authentication process in the operation interface, and simultaneously The control item generated on the display interface performs the use or operation of the device or related service connected to the cloud server.

In summary, the smart home integration server 1 of the present invention allows the different users to control different home equipment projects and community publicity through the integrated server according to the design of the rights control. The object of the invention can be achieved.

However, the above is only the preferred embodiment of the present invention. The scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, that is, the simple equivalent changes and modifications made by the present invention in the scope of the invention and the patent specification are still within the scope of the invention.

1‧‧‧Smart Home Integration Server

11‧‧‧Household Card

2‧‧‧Community server

3‧‧‧Mobile devices

Claims (4)

A smart home integration server connected to at least one community-provided community server and a plurality of home devices that can be controlled by the smart home integration server, and the home devices include at least one lighting device, a curtain device, an environment sensor, a security switch, a card reader or a telephone device, the integrated server comprises: at least one resident card, storing identification information; and a reading unit in contact or non-contact manner Reading the household card; a control unit for reading a usage information and a device information of the community public device and the household device when the user is connected to the community public device and the at least one of the household devices respectively Using information and equipment information to generate a pair of control items that should be used by the community and the household equipment, respectively, whether the public control of each community can be used, and for the lighting equipment, the curtain equipment, the environmental sensor, the security a switch, the card reader or the telephone device performs a control operation; a memory unit electrically connected to the reading unit and the control unit And an operation system for generating an operation interface, wherein the operation interface generates the control item according to the identification information of the resident card; and a display unit electrically connected to the memory unit, and The operation interface is configured to provide the user with the operation interface to select the control item to control the public operation of the community and the operation of the household devices. The integrated server is further adapted to display the operation interface. On one line In the mobile device, the control unit has an internet control module, and the mobile device is connected to the internet control module through a pre-installed matching interface, and the pairing confirmation is performed through the resident card and the reading unit. After that, the operation interface is obtained. The smart home integration server according to claim 1, wherein the control unit has a permission module for modifying the identification data of the resident card, and when the identification data of the resident card is changed, the synchronization update is stored in the memory. The identification information of the unit is returned to the community server for storage. The smart home integration server of claim 2, wherein the control unit has a hardware control module for generating a control information file according to the device information and storing the control information file in the memory unit. After the user confirms the content of the control information file through the operation interface, the hardware control module generates the control item and displays the control item on the operation interface. The smart home integration server according to claim 3, wherein the control unit further has a control signal conversion module, and when the user selects the control item through the operation interface, the operation system sends a control command to the control a signal conversion module, and then the control signal conversion module translates the control command and sends a post-translation control command to the hardware control module, and the hardware control module controls the post-translation according to the corresponding target of the control item The instructions are sent to the home device corresponding to the control item to control the home device or sent to the community server for community use.