CONTROLLER, INDOOR ENVIRONMENT ADJUSTMENT SYSTEM, AND INDOOR ENVIRONMENT ADJUSTMENT METHOD

• US 20170138626A1
• Filed: 12/11/2015
• Published: 05/18/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co Ltd. (BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.), BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co Ltd. (BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.), BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: XU, Rui, WANG, Lei, LIU, Peng, LIU, Jiantao, LU, Pengcheng, CHEN, Xiaochuan, YANG, Ming, WANG, Qian
• Granted Patent: US 10,234,162 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/30 for purposes related to the operation of the system, e.g. for safety or monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/52 Indication arrangements, e.g. displays
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/62 characterised by the type of control or by internal processing, e.g. using fuzzy logic, adaptive control or estimation of values
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/63 Electronic processing
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/65 for selecting an operating mode
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2110/10 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2110/20 Humidity
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2110/64 Airborne particle content
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2110/72 Carbon monoxide
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/2614 HVAC, heating, ventillation, climate control
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 30/70 Efficient control or regulation technologies, e.g. for control of refrigerant flow, motor or heating

Abstract

A controller, an indoor environment adjustment system and an indoor environment adjustment method are provided so as to automatically adjust an indoor environment. The controller is connected to at least one sensor and at least one smart home device, and configured to acquire indoor environment parameters collected by the at least one sensor, and send an adjustment instruction to the at least one smart home device in accordance with the indoor environment parameters.

Claims

1. A controller, connected to at least one sensor and at least one smart home device, and configured to acquire indoor environment parameters collected by the at least one sensor, and send an adjustment instruction to the at least one smart home device in accordance with the indoor environment parameters.

2. The controller according to claim 1, further comprising a control module, and a touch display module configured to display operation control information, acquire a user instruction in accordance with the operation control information, and send the user instruction to the control module,

wherein the operation control information at least comprises indicators for indicating full-automatic control information, semi-automatic control information and the smart home device;

the control module is configured to acquire the indoor environment parameters from the at least one sensor in accordance with the user instruction, and send the adjustment instruction to the at least one smart home device in accordance with the indoor environment parameters; and

the touch display module is further configured to display the indoor environment parameters acquired by the control module.

3. The controller according to claim 2, wherein in response to the user instruction indicating that a user has selected the full-automatic control information, the control module is configured to acquire the indoor environment parameters from all the sensors, determine whether or not the indoor environment parameters acquired by each sensor meet a predetermined requirement subsequently in accordance with a predetermined priority level, and in the case that the indoor environment parameters acquired by each sensor do not meet the predetermined requirement, send the adjustment instruction to the corresponding smart home device;

and

in response to the user instruction indicating that the user has selected the semi-automatic control information and the smart home device, the control module is configured to acquire the indoor environment parameters from the sensor corresponding to the smart home device, determine whether or not the indoor environment parameters meet the predetermined requirement, and in the case that the indoor environment parameters do not meet the predetermined requirement, send the adjustment instruction to the smart home device.

4. The controller according to claim 3, further comprising a warning device connected to the control module, and in the case that the control module determines that a gas concentration in the indoor environment parameters does not meet the predetermined requirement, a warning signal is sent to the warning device so that the warning device sends an audible warning.

5. The controller according to claim 4, wherein the operation control information further comprises an indicator for indicating the warning device, and in response to the user instruction indicating that the user has selected the warning device, the control module is further configured to turn off the warning device connected to the control module.

6. The controller according to claim 2, further comprising a communication module,

wherein the operation control information further comprises an indicator for indicating network connection information;

in response to the user instruction indicating that the user has selected the network connection information, the control module is further configured to acquire outdoor environment parameters via the communication module; and

the touch display module is further configured to display the outdoor environment parameters acquired by the control module.

7. An indoor environment adjustment system, comprising at least one sensor, at least one smart home device and the controller according to claim 1, wherein the sensor is configured to collect indoor environment parameters, and the smart home device is configured to receive an adjustment instruction from the controller and perform an adjustment operation in accordance with the adjustment instruction.

8. The indoor environment adjustment system according to claim 7, further comprising a mobile terminal,

wherein the control module of the controller is further configured to send the indoor environment parameters to the mobile terminal;

the mobile terminal is configured to receive the indoor environment parameters from the control module, and send the adjustment instruction to the control module in accordance with the indoor environment parameters; and

the control module is further configured to receive an adjustment instruction from the mobile terminal, and send the adjustment instruction to the at least one smart home device.

16. An indoor environment adjustment system, comprising at least one sensor, at least one smart home device and the controller according to claim 2, wherein the sensor is configured to collect indoor environment parameters, and the smart home device is configured to receive an adjustment instruction from the controller and perform an adjustment operation in accordance with the adjustment instruction.

17. An indoor environment adjustment system, comprising at least one sensor, at least one smart home device and the controller according to claim 3, wherein the sensor is configured to collect indoor environment parameters, and the smart home device is configured to receive an adjustment instruction from the controller and perform an adjustment operation in accordance with the adjustment instruction.

18. An indoor environment adjustment system, comprising at least one sensor, at least one smart home device and the controller according to claim 4, wherein the sensor is configured to collect indoor environment parameters, and the smart home device is configured to receive an adjustment instruction from the controller and perform an adjustment operation in accordance with the adjustment instruction.

19. An indoor environment adjustment system, comprising at least one sensor, at least one smart home device and the controller according to claim 5, wherein the sensor is configured to collect indoor environment parameters, and the smart home device is configured to receive an adjustment instruction from the controller and perform an adjustment operation in accordance with the adjustment instruction.

20. An indoor environment adjustment system, comprising at least one sensor, at least one smart home device and the controller according to claim 6, wherein the sensor is configured to collect indoor environment parameters, and the smart home device is configured to receive an adjustment instruction from the controller and perform an adjustment operation in accordance with the adjustment instruction.

9. An indoor environment adjustment method, comprising steps of:

acquiring indoor environment parameters from at least one sensor; and

sending an adjustment instruction to at least one smart home device in accordance with the indoor environment parameters so that the at least one smart home device performs an adjustment operation in accordance with the adjustment instruction.

10. The indoor environment adjustment method according to claim 9, wherein prior to the step of acquiring the indoor environment parameters, the indoor environment adjustment method further comprises displaying operation control information and acquiring a user instruction in accordance with the operation control information, wherein the operation control information at least comprises indicators for indicating full-automatic control information, semi-automatic control information and the smart home device;

the step of acquiring the indoor environment parameters from the at least one sensor comprises acquiring the indoor environment parameters from the at least one sensor in accordance with the user instruction; and

subsequent to the step of acquiring the indoor environment parameters, the indoor environment adjustment method further comprises displaying the indoor environment parameters.

11. The indoor environment adjustment method according to claim 10, wherein in response to the user instruction indicating that a user has selected the full-automatic control information, the step of acquiring the indoor environment parameters from the at least one sensor in accordance with the user instruction and sending the adjustment instruction to the at least one smart home device in accordance with the indoor environment parameters comprises:

acquiring the indoor environment parameters from all the sensors in accordance with the user instruction, determining whether or not the indoor environment parameters acquired by each sensor meet a predetermined requirement subsequently in accordance with a predetermined priority level, and in the case that the indoor environment parameters acquired by each sensor do not meet the predetermined requirement, sending the adjustment instruction to the corresponding smart home device; and

in response to the user instruction indicating that the user has selected the semi-automatic control information and the smart home device, the step of acquiring the indoor environment parameters from the at least one sensor in accordance with the user instruction and sending the adjustment instruction to the at least one smart home device in accordance with the indoor environment parameters comprises;

acquiring the indoor environment parameters from the sensor corresponding to the smart home device in accordance with the user instruction, determining whether or not the indoor environment parameters meet the predetermined requirement, and in the case that the indoor environment parameters do not meet the predetermined requirement, sending the adjustment instruction to the smart home device.

12. The indoor environment adjustment method according to claim 11, further comprising:

in the case that a gas concentration in the indoor environment parameters does not meet the predetermined requirement, sending a warning signal, to enable a warning device to send an audible warning.

13. The indoor environment adjustment method according to claim 12, wherein the operation control information further comprises an indicator for indicating the warning device, and in the case that the user instruction indicates that the user has selected the warning device, the indoor environment adjustment method further comprises turning off the warning device.

14. The indoor environment adjustment method according to claim 11, wherein the operation control information further comprises an indicator for indicating network connection information, and in response to the user instruction indicating that the user has selected the network connection information, the indoor environment adjustment method further comprises acquiring and displaying outdoor environment parameters.

15. The indoor environment adjustment method according to claim 14, further comprising sending the indoor environment parameters to a mobile terminal, acquiring an adjustment instruction sent by the mobile terminal in accordance with the indoor environment parameters, and sending the adjustment instruction to the at least one smart home device.