MULTIFUNCTIONAL HOME NETWORK SYSTEM USING UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING

• US 20120221713A1
• Filed: 11/17/2009
• Published: 08/30/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: E-Comm Inc.
• Original Assignee: E-Comm Inc.
• Inventors: Shin, Woosoon
• Application Number:
  US13/127,030
• Publication Number:
  US 20120221713A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2825 Reporting to a device located outside the home and the home network access arrangements H04L12/2856; for remote control or remote monitoring of applications H04L67/025; telephonic communication systems adapted for combination with telemetering systems H04M11/002
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/285 Generic home appliances, e.g. refrigerators

Abstract

The invention is related to a multifunctional home network system using ubiquitous computing. The system includes a home network equipment that communicate to a home gateway with wire/wireless inside a room, and can provide various services including security, home automation, multimedia, and medical service and transmit these information to a user located outside.

The multifunctional home network system using ubiquitous computing of this invention has technical characteristic in that it includes a home network equipment that comprises one of more among a security system that comprises an imaging device that is connected to a home gateway with wire/wireless communication method, cooling and heating system, and application equipments; a wire/wireless controller that can communicate wire/wireless with said home gateway to directly control said home network equipment via said home gateway, or to input control value for control under set value; an internet center that comprises a server to receive and store operation signal for said home network equipment via wire/wireless network, and transmits letters and images to user'"'"'s external PC and portable wireless terminal that can control said home network equipment; and one or more receiving places among a security system, medical system and emergency rescue system that receive and monitor image and voice signals among said operation signals stored in said internet center.

Claims

1. A multifunctional home network system using ubiquitous computing comprising:

a home network equipment that comprises one of more among a security system that comprises an imaging device that is connected to a home gateway with wire/wireless communication method, cooling and heating system, and application equipments;

a wire/wireless controller that can communicate wire/wireless with said home gateway to directly control said home network equipment via said home gateway, or to input control value for control under set value;

an internet center that comprises a server to receive and store operation signal for said home network equipment via wire/wireless network, and transmits letters and images to user'"'"'s external PC and portable wireless terminal that can control said home network equipment; and

one or more receiving places among a security system, medical system and emergency rescue system that receive and monitor image and voice signals among said operation signals stored in said internet center.

2. The multifunctional home network system using ubiquitous computing in claim 1, further comprising a blind system that can communicate with said home gateway via RS-485.

3. The multifunctional home network system using ubiquitous computing in claim 2, wherein the blind system comprises an illumination sensor and an electronic curtain.

4. The multifunctional home network system using ubiquitous computing in claim 1, wherein said security system can communicate with said home gateway with an RCA cable.

5. The multifunctional home network system using ubiquitous computing in claim 4, wherein said security system comprises one or more among web-cam, CCTV, door bell, lock device, video phone and motion detection sensor.

6. The multifunctional home network system using ubiquitous computing in claim 5, wherein said web cam comprises a CMOS sensor, and LED lighting, a microphone, a speaker and a passive infrared ray detection sensor.

7. The multifunctional home network system using ubiquitous computing in claim 1, further comprising a multimedia platform that comprises an input port for input image signal and voice signal that are taken one or more among the webcam and the CCTV, a converter for converting the image signal that is input to said input port into analog image signal, a CPU for converting said image signal into a compressed image file format, an output port for outputting said compressed image file format, and a speaker for outputting said voice signal.

8. The multifunctional home network system using ubiquitous computing in claim 1, wherein said cooling and heating system can communicate with said home gateway using one or more among PLC and Zigbee.

9. The multifunctional home network system using ubiquitous computing in claim 8, wherein said cooling and heating system comprises a temperature sensor, a heater and a cooler.

10. The multifunctional home network system using ubiquitous computing in claim 1, wherein said application equipments comprise a kitchen device, a living room device and a wired medical measurement device.

11. The multifunctional home network system using ubiquitous computing in claim 1, further comprising one or more among an environment sensor and a wireless medical measurement device that can communicate with said home network by Zigbee.

12. The multifunctional home network system using ubiquitous computing in claim 11, wherein said environment sensor can sense heat, temperature, humidity, illumination, air clarity, and gas.

13. The multifunctional home network system using ubiquitous computing in claim 1, wherein said wire/wireless controller comprises a remote controller that can communicate with said home gateway by Zigbee, and a home PC that is connected with said home gateway by wire.