SMART HOME NETWORK SYSTEM AND REGISTER CONTROLLER AND METHOD FOR REGISTERING HOME DEVICES

• US 20140066062A1
• Filed: 07/26/2013
• Published: 03/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: CHEN, TE-SHENG, LI, XIAO-GUANG, HSIEH, KUAN-HONG, XIAO, YUN, PI, SHANG-HUI
• Application Number:
  US13/951,478
• Publication Number:
  US 20140066062A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/435.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2809 indicating that an appliance service is present in a home automation network monitoring functionality H04L43/0817; discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services, H04L67/51
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/283 Processing of data at an internetworking point of a home automation network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/2841 Wireless
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/00 Affiliation to network, e.g. registration; Terminating affiliation with the network, e.g. de-registration

Abstract

A smart home network system includes a number of home devices, a smart gateway, and at least one register controller. The register controller generates and sends a registration request to the smart gateway. After receive the registration request, the smart gateway assigns a register region and a region code in a mapping list stored in the smart gateway. The register controller further generates and sends a registration code to the home devices in the area where the register controller is placed, in order to control the home devices to register their configuration information in the mapping list stored in the smart gateway. Therefore, the smart gateway is able to control each individual home device.

Claims

1. A register controller applied to a smart home network system, the system comprising a number of home devices and a smart gateway, the register controller comprising:

a communication module configured to obtain a UID code of the smart gateway and a region code assigned by the smart gateway; and

a control module and an input module, the control module configured to generate a registration request in response to user'"'"'s input in the input module, and control the communication module to send the registration request to the smart gateway;

the control module further configured to generate a registration code, and control the communication module to send the registration code to the home devices in a particular area where the register controller is placed, wherein the registration code contains the UID code of the smart gateway and the region code.

2. The register controller as described in claim 1, wherein the communication module comprises a wireless communication module, the wireless communication module emits and receives near field wireless signals, so as to enable the register controller to communicate with the smart gateway via wireless communication technology, wherein the near field wireless signal is selected from a group consisting of infrared, Bluetooth, Z-wave, NFC, ZigBee, and WIFI signals.

3. The register controller as described in claim 1, wherein the communication module comprises a wired communication module, the wired communication module emits and receives wired signals, so as to enable the register controller to communicate with the smart gateway via wired communication technology, wherein the wired communication technology is selected from a group consisting of PLC, OPLC, Internet communication, coaxial cable communication, and telephone line communication technologies.

4. A smart home network system comprising a number of home devices, a smart gateway and at least one register controller,

the smart gateway comprising:

a first storage module storing a UID code of the smart gateway and a mapping list;

a first communication module configured to send the UID code of the smart gateway to the at least one register controller, and receive registration requests from the at least one register controller and registration information from the home devices, wherein the registration request comprises the UID codes of the smart gateway and the register controller, the registration information comprises the UID code of the smart gateway, a region code, and the configuration information of the home device; and

a first control module configured to assign a register region and the region code in the mapping list for the home devices placed in a particular area where the register controller is placed, and controls the first communication module to send the region code to the register controller;

the first control module further configured to register the configuration information of the home devices in the corresponding register region in the mapping list, according to the region code contained in the registration information;

each of the at least one register controller comprising;

a third communication module configured to obtain the UID code of the smart gateway and the region code assigned by the smart gateway; and

a third control module and an input module, the third control module configured to generate the registration request in response to user'"'"'s input in the input module, and control the communication module to send the registration request to the smart gateway;

the control module further configured to generate a registration code, and control the communication module to send the registration code to the home devices in the particular area where the register controller is placed, wherein the registration code contains the UID code of the smart gateway and the region code; and

each of the home devices configured for receiving the registration code from the register controller, and sending its registration information to the smart gateway.

5. The system as described in claim 4, wherein the at least one register controller comprises a plurality of register controllers, the first control module of the smart gateway assigns the UID code of the register controller that sent out the registration request as the region code for the home devices placed in the particular area where the register controller is placed.

6. The system as described in claim 4, wherein the at least one register controller comprises a register controllers, the first control module of the smart gateway assigns the region code according to a number and an order of the received registration requests.

7. The system as described in claim 4, wherein the smart gateway further comprises an interface displaying module, the interface displaying module is configured to display a control interface according to the mapping list, wherein the control interface comprises a plurality of regions, each region comprises a number of icons corresponding to the home devices placed in a corresponding area, and each icon comprises corresponding control options to control the corresponding home device.

8. The system as described in claim 4, further comprising a control device, wherein the control device communicates with the smart gateway, and displays a control interface according to the mapping list stored in the smart gateway, wherein the control interface comprises a plurality of regions, each region contains a number of icons corresponding to the home devices placed in a corresponding area, and each icon comprises corresponding control options to control the corresponding home device.

9. The system as described in claim 4, wherein each of the first communication module, the second communication module, and the third communication module comprises a wireless communication module, which emit and receive near field wireless signals, so as to enable the smart gateway to communicate with the home devices and the register controller via wireless communication technology, wherein the near field wireless signal is selected from a group consisting of infrared, Bluetooth, Z-wave, NFC, ZigBee, and WIFI signals.

10. The system as described in claim 4, wherein each of the first communication module, the second communication module, and the third communication module comprises a wired communication module, which emit and receive wired signals, so as to enable the smart gateway to communicate with the home devices and the register controller via wired communication technology, wherein the wired communication technology is selected from a group consisting of PLC, OPLC, Internet communication, coaxial cable communication, and telephone line communication technologies.

11. The system as described in claim 4, wherein the smart gateway is connected to each home device and the register controller via power lines, and communicates with each home device and the register controller via PLC or OPLC technologies;

each of the first communication module, the second communication module, and the third communication module comprises a wired communication module, which is a modulation module, and is configured to extract data from or inject data to the power lines.

12. A method applied to a smart home network system, for registering a number of home devices with a smart gateway, the system further comprising at least one register controller, the method comprising:

obtaining an UID code of the smart gateway using the register controller;

generating a registration request in response to user'"'"'s operation using the register controller when the register controller is carried to a particular area, wherein the registration request contains the UID codes of the smart gateway and the register controller;

receiving the registration request from the register controller, and assigning a register region and a region code in a mapping list stored in the smart gateway for the home devices placed in the particular area, and sending the region code back to the register controller that sent out the registration request using the smart gateway;

receiving the region code, and generating and sending a registration code to all of the home devices in the particular area using the register controller, wherein the registration code contains the UID code of the smart gateway and the region code;

receiving the registration code from the register controller, and sending their registration information to the smart gateway using the home devices in the particular area, wherein the registration information comprises the UID code of the smart gateway,

the region code and their configuration information;

receiving the registration information from the home devices, and registering the registration information in the corresponding register region in the mapping list using the smart gateway, according to the region code contained in the registration information.

13. The method as described in claim 12, wherein after the step of assigning the register region and the region code in the mapping list for the home devices placed in the particular area using the smart gateway, the method further comprises:

generating an enquiry message that contains the region code, and sending the enquiry message to all home devices in the system using the smart gateway.

14. The method as described in claim 13, wherein after the home devices receive the enquiry message from the smart gateway and the registration code from the registration controller, the home devices send their registration information to the smart gateway if the region code in the received enquiry message matches the region code contained in the registration code.

15. The method as described in claim 14, wherein the configuration information comprises the UID code and functions of the home devices.

16. The method as described in claim 15, further comprising:

displaying a control interface using the smart gateway, according to the mapping list, wherein the smart gateway displays a schematic diagram of a number of regions according to the region codes in the mapping list, displays a number of icons in corresponding regions according to the UID code of the home devices and the region codes registered in the mapping list, and displays the control options for the corresponding icons according to the functions of the corresponding home device registered in the mapping list.