Communication System and Method of Controlling the Same

• US 20110003547A1
• Filed: 09/11/2008
• Published: 01/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Innotek Company Limited (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Innotek Company Limited (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Cho, Young Bin, Oh, Yong Taek
• Granted Patent: US 8,811,899 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/51 based on terminal or device properties
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/30 Network data restoration; Network data reliability; Network data fault tolerance
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/10 Small scale networks; Flat hierarchical networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

Disclosed are a communication system and a control method thereof. The communication system comprises a terminal apparatus for converting regional information or position information into network connection information, and a communication apparatus for performing network communication by generating a data packet comprising the network connection information. In the communication system and the control method thereof, a number, a floor and a room of a building, a number of a shelf, a multilayer, and positions of goods are input, so that a network having no data collision is established, and thus a user conveniently use an office/home network service. An integral input system for network connection information is provided using regional or position information, so that communication is stably performed without using an additional manager.

Claims

1. A communication system comprising:

a terminal apparatus for converting regional information or position information into network connection information; and

a communication apparatus for performing network communication by generating a data packet comprising the network connection information.

2. The communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the terminal apparatus comprises:

a first data processor for converting the received regional or position information into the network connection information; and

a first connection unit for transmitting the network connection information to the communication apparatus.

3. The communication system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the communication apparatus comprises:

a second connection unit for receiving the network connection information from the first connection unit;

a second data processor for interpreting the network connection information; and

a controller for generating the data packet according to the interpreted the network connection information and processing protocols.

4. The communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the network connection information comprises channel information and PAN IDs.

5. The communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the regional or position information comprises numerical values representing a number, a floor and a room of a building, a number of a shelf, a multilayer, and positions of goods.

6. The communication system as claimed in claim 5, wherein the terminal apparatus converts the numerical values into the PAN IDs and the channel information.

7. The communication system as claimed in claim 6, wherein the terminal apparatus converts the numerical values representing the number and room of the building into the two byte PAN ID and converts the numerical value representing the floor of the building into the one byte channel information.

8. The communication system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the terminal apparatus comprises:

a display for displaying a user menu for receiving the regional or position information; and

a key input unit for receiving the regional or position information to transmit the received information to the first data processor.

9. The communication system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the first and second connection units transmit/receive the network connection information using at least one wireless communication scheme of an NFC (near field communication), an RFID (radio frequency identification), Wi-Fi, a UWB (ultra wide band), a Bluetooth, a WiMax (world interoperability for microwave access), and a DSRC (dedicated short range communication).

10. The communication system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the first and second connection units transmit/receive the network connection information using at least one wired communication scheme of a USB (universal serial bus), a UART (universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter), an SPI (serial peripheral interface) and an I2C (inter-integrated circuit).

11. The communication system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the communication apparatus comprises:

an RF transmitter and an RF receiver for transmitting and receiving an RF signal through the network;

a phase lacked loop for providing an oscillation frequency signal to the RF transmitter and the RF receiver; and

a power control circuit for adjusting amount of power of a signal transmitted from the RF transmitter by determining intensity of a signal received through the network; and

an MAC processor for processing data of an MAC layer according to the network connection information.

12. The communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the communication apparatus is connected with at least one of a photo sensor unit, a humidity sensor unit, a temperature sensor unit, an illuminator, a humidifier, a dehumidifier, an air conditioner and a heater, and is connected with the network to control operations of the photo sensor unit, the humidity sensor unit, the temperature sensor unit, the illuminator, the humidifier, the dehumidifier, the air conditioner and the heater.

13. The communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the network comprises at least one of Zigbee, WLAN (WiFi) and UWB.

14. A method for controlling a communication system, the method comprising the steps of:

converting regional or position information input to a terminal into network connection information;

transmitting the network connection information to a communication apparatus connected to a network; and

performing network communication by generating a data packet comprising the network connection information using the communication apparatus.

15. The method as claimed in claim 14, wherein the regional or position information comprises numerical values representing a number, a floor and a room of a building, a number of a shelf, a multilayer and positions of goods.

16. The method as claimed in claim 14, wherein the network connection information comprises channel information and PAN IDs.

17. The method as claimed in claim 14, wherein the network comprises at least one of Zigbee, WLAN (WiFi) and UWB.

18. The method as claimed in claim 14, wherein, in the step of transmitting the network connection information to the communication apparatus, the network connection information is transmitted to the communication apparatus using at least one wireless communication scheme of an NFC (near field communication), an RFID (radio frequency identification), Wi-Fi, a UWB (ultra wide band), a Bluetooth, a WiMax (world interoperability for microwave access), and a DSRC (dedicated short range communication).

19. The method as claimed in claim 14, wherein, in the step of transmitting the network connection information to the communication apparatus, the network connection information is transmitted to the communication apparatus using at least one wired communication scheme of a USB (universal serial bus), a UART (universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter), an SPI (serial peripheral interface) and an I2C (inter-integrated circuit).