CN104183031A - Household appliance system, household appliance recording device and detection method for household appliance system - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a household appliance system, a household appliance recording device, and a detection method for the household appliance system. The household appliance system includes: a household appliance recording device, the household appliance recording device is electrically connected to a household power supply; at least one household appliance device, the at least one household appliance device is electrically coupled to the household power supply through the household appliance recording device; and a cloud server, the cloud server is coupled to the household appliance recording device through a network, wherein the household appliance recording device detects the power usage information and status information of the at least one household appliance device, and transmits the power usage information and the status information to the cloud server, and the cloud server tracks the power usage of the at least one household appliance device based on the power usage information and the status information. The present invention allows the cloud server to continuously track and compare the usage status of the household appliance device, and perform different judgments and processing based on the usage status, and related manufacturers can also use the database of the cloud server to track the usage status of household appliances.

Description

Home appliance system, home appliance recording device, and detection method for home appliance system

technical field

The invention relates to a home appliance system, a home appliance recording device and a detection method for the home appliance system, in particular to a home appliance system capable of analyzing power consumption information and state information of the home appliance, a home appliance recording device and a detection method for the home appliance system.

Background technique

Modern life is full of various home appliances, but the condition maintenance and maintenance of home appliances are often handled by users themselves. Generally speaking, it is not until there is a problem with the home appliance that it will be repaired. Although the service life of the current household electrical appliances has been greatly increased, it is easier for users to ignore the usage of the household electrical appliances themselves, and they can only find out when there is an abnormality or failure in the household electrical appliances. In addition, the current home appliances only have specific brands and products that have the Internet connection function, and the Internet connection functions of these traditional Internet-connected home appliances only add smart services such as usage methods, timing or switches, and cannot be tracked Record the usage status of home appliances.

Therefore, it is necessary to provide a home appliance system, a home appliance recording device and a detection method for the home appliance system to solve the above problems.

Contents of the invention

In view of this, the present invention provides a household appliance system, which can track and record the usage status of the household appliances, and can further detect the abnormal usage status of the household appliances in advance. The home appliance system includes: a home appliance recording device electrically connected to a home power supply; at least one home appliance device electrically coupled to the home power supply through the home appliance recording device; and a cloud server , the cloud server is coupled to the home appliance recording device through a network, wherein the home appliance recording device detects the power consumption information and status information of the at least one home appliance device, and transmits the power consumption information and the status information to the cloud server, And the cloud server tracks the power consumption of the at least one electrical appliance according to the power consumption information and the status information.

The present invention also provides a home appliance recording device. The home appliance recording device is used in a home appliance system. The home appliance system includes at least one home appliance device, the home appliance recording device and a cloud server. The home appliance recording device includes: a first power interface, The first power interface is used to connect a household power supply; a detection device, the detection device is electrically connected to the first power interface, and is used to detect the power consumption information and the status information of the at least one household appliance device; a second a power interface, the second power interface is electrically coupled to the detection device to provide power for the at least one electrical appliance; a memory unit; a communication unit; and a microprocessor, the microprocessor is used to perform a detection An application program and a synchronization management program, wherein the detection application program is used to collect the power consumption information and the status information detected by the detection device, and convert the power consumption information and the status information into a corresponding digital signal and stored in the memory unit, and the synchronization management program transmits the digital signal stored in the memory unit to the cloud server via the network through the communication unit, so that the cloud server can track the power consumption of the at least one electrical appliance .

The present invention also provides a detection method for a home appliance system, the home appliance system includes at least one home appliance device, a home appliance recording device and a cloud server, the detection method for the home appliance system includes: electrically connecting the home appliance recording device to a household power supply; provide the power supply of the at least one household appliance device through the household appliance recording device; use the household appliance recording device to detect the power consumption information and status information of the at least one household appliance device, and transmit the power consumption information and the status information to the cloud server; and using the cloud server to track the power consumption of the at least one electrical appliance according to the power consumption information and the status information.

The present invention can be applied to old-style home appliances or home appliances with home appliance recording devices. For old-style home appliances, users only need to add an additional home appliance recording device to allow the cloud server to continuously track and compare The use status of the home appliance, and make different judgments and treatments for the use of the home appliance (such as warning the user that the home appliance is abnormally aging, or it is approaching or exceeding the service life, etc.), and the relevant manufacturers of the home appliance The database of the cloud server can also be used to track the usage status of the home appliances purchased by its customers.

Description of drawings

FIG. 1A shows a functional block diagram of a home appliance system according to an embodiment of the invention.

FIG. 1B shows a functional block diagram of a home appliance system according to another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 shows a functional block diagram of a home appliance recording device according to an embodiment of the invention.

FIG. 3 shows a detection method for a home appliance system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4A shows a schematic diagram of a historical power consumption waveform of an electrical appliance device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4B shows a schematic diagram of a current power consumption waveform of an electrical appliance device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Description of main component symbols:

20 network

100 Home appliance system

110 Household appliances

120 Home appliance recording device

121 The first power interface

122 Power supply

123 Detection device

124 microprocessors

125 memory cells

126 storage units

127 Communication unit

128 Second power interface

131 Detection application

132 Synchronization management program

133 operating system

150 cloud servers

155 database

t1, t2 time

Detailed ways

In order to make the above objects, features and advantages of the present invention more comprehensible, a preferred embodiment will be described in detail below together with the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1A shows a functional block diagram of a home appliance system according to an embodiment of the invention. The home appliance system 100 includes a home appliance device 110 , a home appliance recording device 120 and a cloud server 150 . For example, the home appliance device 110 can be various appliances in the home, such as refrigerators, air conditioners, electric fans, hair dryers, televisions and other devices. The home appliance recording device 120 can record the electricity consumption information of the home appliance 110 (such as information such as power consumption time, voltage, current, etc., and/or historical data or statistical data that can be used to analyze the operation of the home appliance) and status information (such as the product of the appliance). coding). In one embodiment, the home appliance recording device 120 is connected to a household power supply (for example, a 110V/60Hz power supply), and the household appliance device 110 is electrically connected to the household power supply through the home appliance recording device 120 . For example, in this embodiment, the home appliance recording device 120 may have a one-turn multi-tap power socket design, which can supply power to at least one home appliance. In other words, the user can add the home appliance recording device 120 to record the power consumption information and status information of the electrical device in addition to the originally purchased electrical device. FIG. 1B shows a functional block diagram of a home appliance system according to another embodiment of the present invention. In another embodiment, as shown in FIG. 1B , the home appliance recording device 120 can be integrated into the home appliance device 110 , for example, the integrated home appliance device 110 can be called a network home appliance.

In addition, the home appliance recording device 120 also has a communication unit, which has a network connection function, and can send the recorded power consumption information and status information of the home appliance (if the home appliance has this product code for identification) through a wired network. Or a wireless network (such as PSTN, Wifi, Zigbee, Bluetooth, USB, Ethernet, infrared and other networks, not limited) is transmitted to the cloud server 150, such as the network 20 in FIG. 1A. The cloud server 130 can analyze the usage information and status information from the home appliance recording device 120, and can track according to the analysis results. The cloud server 150 also has a database 155, and the obtained analysis results can be stored in the database 155 (the details will be described later). For example, the cloud server 150 can be a personal computer or similar computing device, but the present invention is not limited thereto.

FIG. 2 shows a functional block diagram of the home appliance recording device 120 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The home appliance recording device 120 includes a first power interface 121, a power supply 122, a detection device 123, a microprocessor 124, a memory unit 125, a storage unit 126, a communication unit 127 and a second power interface 128 . The first power interface 121 is electrically connected to a household power supply (for example, 110V/60Hz) to provide power for the power supply 122 . The power supply 122 converts the household power into an appropriate operating voltage (eg 5V) to other components of the appliance recording device 120 , such as the detection device 123 , the microprocessor 124 , the memory unit 125 , the storage unit 126 , and the communication unit 127 . The detection device 123 is electrically connected to the first power interface 121 and the second power interface 128 , and is used for detecting power consumption information and status information of the household electrical appliance 110 connected to the second power interface 128 . Furthermore, the household power supplies power to the detection device 123 through the first power interface 121 , and provides power to the connected household electrical device 110 through the second power interface 128 . Therefore, the detection device 123 (eg, including a current detection component and a thermistor) can detect the power consumption information and the status information of the household electrical appliance 110 . The storage unit 126 stores a detection application program 131 , a synchronization management program 132 and an operating system 133 , wherein the operating system 133 can be a basic input/output system (BIOS). For example, the storage unit 126 can be a storage device such as a hard disk, a flash memory, a read-only memory (ROM), and/or an electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), but the invention is not limited thereto.

The microprocessor 124 reads the operating system 133 (such as the program code of the BIOS) from the storage unit 126 to the memory unit 125, and executes the operating system 133 as a working platform. The microprocessor 124 also executes the detection application program 131 and the synchronization management program 132 stored in the storage unit 126, wherein the detection application program 131 can collect the power consumption information and the status information of the household electrical appliances 110 detected by the detection device 123, And through sampling (sampling), the power consumption information (such as the analog signal of the voltage change waveform) is converted into a corresponding digital signal and stored in the memory unit 125, and the synchronization management program 132 can be stored in the memory unit through the communication unit 127 The electricity consumption information (being an analog signal) and its status information in 125 are sent to the cloud server. Furthermore, in one embodiment, the communication unit 127 can use modulation technology to convert information such as digital signals stored in the memory unit 125 into analog carrier signals or network packets to transmit data to Cloud server 150.

Please refer to FIG. 1A , FIG. 1B and FIG. 2 . In one embodiment, after the cloud server 150 receives the power consumption information and status information from the home appliance recording device 120 , the cloud server 150 will judge whether there is corresponding home appliance data in the database 155 according to the status information. If there is corresponding household electrical appliance data, the cloud server 150 can directly perform subsequent comparison actions (details will be described later). If there is no corresponding data of the home appliance, the cloud server 150 can add a product number corresponding to the home appliance in the database 155, so as to register the home appliance and update the corresponding electricity consumption record. In another embodiment, if there is no corresponding home appliance data, the cloud server 150 can further send a notification message to the user of the home appliance through a telephone line or a wired/wireless network, so that the user can access the Internet Register or update the data of the home appliance. For example, the home appliance recording device 120 may further include a display unit, a speaker and a warning light (not shown). After receiving the notification information from the cloud server 150, the home appliance recording device 120 can display the notification information on the display unit, or turn on a warning light to remind the user, and play a prompt sound through the speaker to notify the user. At this time, the user can log in the cloud server 150 through his Internet access device (such as a personal computer or a mobile device) to register the home appliance device 110 for the home appliance recording device 120 . In yet another embodiment, the home appliance recording device 120 also includes a transmission interface (such as a USB interface, a network interface, etc.), and the user can use his personal computer or mobile device to pre-set in the home appliance recording device 120 through the transmission interface. The brand, model, product serial number and other data of its home appliances. When the home appliance recording device 120 transmits the status information to the cloud server 150, the cloud server 150 can immediately identify the brand, model and serial number of the home appliance from the received status information.

In accordance with the above-mentioned embodiment, when the cloud server 150 can identify the home appliance from the received status information or the corresponding home appliance is registered by the user, the cloud server 150 will further track and compare the relevant records of the home appliance, such as Compare the relevant waveform records of usage time and electricity consumption records (as shown in Figure 4A) with the current electricity consumption waveform (as shown in Figure 4B). For example, please refer to FIG. 4A and FIG. 4B , the cloud server 150 can compare the waveform changes (such as power changes) between time t1˜t2 (that is, the time of ΔT). When the power consumption value of the home appliance is higher than the average value, the cloud server 150 can send a warning message to the home appliance recording device 120 or the user's terminal device (such as a personal computer or a mobile device) to remind the home appliance system 100 of power consumption The level (such as current or power consumption) has reached a predetermined threshold, for example, the power consumption of the home appliance system 100 is greater than two standard deviations or greater than a predetermined value compared with the average power consumption of the same brand of home appliances. If the power value is low, it can be determined that the household electrical appliance 110 has abnormal aging. In addition, the cloud server 150 can also send a notification message to a manufacturer or a third-party home appliance repair station, so as to provide a repair service for the user's home appliance.

In another embodiment, the cloud server 150 can also determine whether the use time of the home appliance system 100 has reached its service life or has exceeded the service life. If so, the cloud server 150 can provide the user with purchase suggestions related to home appliances (for example, they can be distinguished by electrical appliance category or energy-saving category), for example, send a message to the user's terminal device for the user to view. For example, if the cloud server 150 determines that the usage of the household electrical appliance 110 is normal, the cloud server 150 will keep recording the electricity usage of the household electrical appliance 110 .

In yet another embodiment, the microprocessor 124 in the home appliance recording device 120 can also determine whether the operating current, power or temperature of the home appliance 110 exceeds a corresponding predetermined threshold according to the electricity consumption information from the detection device 123 . If so, the microprocessor 124 can perform corresponding processing measures, such as directly cutting off the power of the household electrical appliance 110, turning on a warning light or playing a warning sound to remind the user, or sending a reminder message to the user's mobile device through the network. device, but the invention is not limited thereto.

To sum up, the home appliance system of the present invention can be applied to old-style home appliances or home appliances with the home appliance recording device 120 . For old-style home appliances, the user only needs to add an additional home appliance recording device 120, so that the cloud server 150 can continuously track and compare the usage status of the home appliance, and make different adjustments based on the usage status of the home appliance. Judgment and processing (such as warning users that the home appliances are abnormally aging, or have approached or exceeded the service life, etc.), and the relevant manufacturers of home appliances can also use the database of the cloud server to track the use of home appliances purchased by their customers situation.

FIG. 3 shows a detection method for a home appliance system according to an embodiment of the present invention. Please refer to FIG. 2 and FIG. 3 at the same time. In step S310 , electrically connect the home appliance recording device 120 to a household power supply (such as a 110V/60Hz power supply). In step S320 , the home appliance recording device 120 provides power to the at least one home appliance device 110 . In step S330, use the home appliance recording device 120 to detect the power consumption information (such as current, power, temperature) and status information (such as product number, brand, model, etc.) of the at least one household appliance, and store the power consumption information and the The status information is sent to the cloud server 150 . In step S340, the cloud server 150 tracks the power consumption of the at least one electrical appliance device 110 according to the power consumption information and status information.

Although the present invention is disclosed as above with preferred embodiments, it is not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. Any person of ordinary skill in the art should be able to make some modifications without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Changes and modifications, so the protection scope of the present invention should be defined by the scope of the appended claims.

Claims (15)

1. an appliance system, this appliance system comprises:

An electrographic device, this family's electrographic device is electrically connected to a domestic power supply;

At least one electric household appliance, this at least one electric household appliance is electrically coupled to this domestic power supply by this family's electrographic device; And

One cloud server, this cloud server passes through a network-coupled to this family's electrographic device, wherein this family's electrographic device detects power information and the status information of this at least one electric household appliance, and this power information and this status information are sent to this cloud server, and this cloud server is followed the tracks of the electricity consumption situation of this at least one electric household appliance according to this power information and this status information.

2. appliance system as claimed in claim 1, wherein this family's electrographic device comprises:

One pick-up unit, this pick-up unit is in order to detect this power information and this status information of this at least one electric household appliance;

One memory cell;

One communication unit; And

One microprocessor, this microprocessor is in order to carry out a detection application program and a synchronous supervisory routine, wherein this detection application program is in order to detected this power information of collection and detection device and this status information, and by this power information and this status information are converted to a corresponding digital signal and are stored to this memory cell, and this management by synchronization program is sent to this cloud server via this network by this digital signal being stored in this memory cell by this communication unit.

3. appliance system as claimed in claim 2, wherein this digital signal represents a current electrical waveform of using of this at least one electric household appliance, and this cloud server is also compared this current electrical waveform and history electrical waveform used of this at least one electric household appliance, uses the electricity consumption situation that determines this at least one electric household appliance.

4. appliance system as claimed in claim 2, wherein this pick-up unit also comprises:

One current sensing component, this current sensing component is in order to detect an operating current of this at least one electric household appliance; And

One thermistor, this thermistor is in order to detect an operating temperature of this at least one electric household appliance, and wherein this microprocessor also judges whether this operating current exceedes a first threshold or whether this operating temperature exceedes a Second Threshold.

5. appliance system as claimed in claim 4, wherein, in the time that this operating current exceedes this first threshold or this operating temperature and exceedes this Second Threshold, this microprocessor also cuts off the power supply of this at least one electric household appliance.

6. appliance system as claimed in claim 4, wherein, in the time that this operating current exceedes this first threshold or this operating temperature and exceedes this Second Threshold, this microprocessor also lights a warning lamp of this family's electrographic device or plays caution sound by a loudspeaker of this family's electrographic device.

7. appliance system as claimed in claim 4, wherein, in the time that this operating current exceedes this first threshold or this operating temperature and exceedes this Second Threshold, this microprocessor also transmits at least one end device of an information warning to a user of this at least one electric household appliance by this network.

8. family's electrographic device, this family's electrographic device is for an appliance system, and this appliance system comprises at least one electric household appliance, this family's electrographic device and a cloud server, and this family's electrographic device comprises:

One first power interface, this first power interface is in order to connect a domestic power supply;

One pick-up unit, this pick-up unit is electrically connected to this first power interface, in order to detect this power information and this status information of this at least one electric household appliance;

One second source interface, this second source interface is electrically coupled to this pick-up unit, in order to the power supply of this at least one electric household appliance to be provided;

One memory cell;

One communication unit; And

One microprocessor, this microprocessor is in order to carry out a detection application program and a synchronous supervisory routine, wherein this detection application program is in order to detected this power information of collection and detection device and this status information, and by this power information and this status information are converted to a corresponding digital signal and are stored to this memory cell, and this management by synchronization program is sent to this cloud server via this network by this digital signal being stored in this memory cell by this communication unit, use the electricity consumption situation that allows this cloud server follow the tracks of this at least one electric household appliance.

9. for the detection method of appliance system, this appliance system comprises at least one electric household appliance, electrographic device and a cloud server, and this detection method that is used for appliance system comprises:

This family's electrographic device is electrically connected to a domestic power supply;

The power supply of this at least one electric household appliance is provided by this family's electrographic device;

Utilize this family's electrographic device to detect power information and the status information of this at least one electric household appliance, and this power information and this status information are sent to this cloud server; And

Utilize this cloud server to follow the tracks of the electricity consumption situation of this at least one electric household appliance according to this power information and this status information.

10. the detection method for appliance system as claimed in claim 9, also comprises:

Utilize this family's electrographic device to carry out one and detect application program and a synchronous supervisory routine, wherein this detection application program is in order to detected this power information of collection and detection device and this status information, and by this power information and this status information are converted to a corresponding digital signal, and this management by synchronization program is sent to this cloud server via this network by this digital signal by this communication unit.

11. detection methods for appliance system as claimed in claim 9, wherein this digital signal represents a current electrical waveform of using of this at least one electric household appliance, and the method also comprises: utilize this cloud server to compare this current electrical waveform and history electrical waveform used of this at least one electric household appliance, use the electricity consumption situation that determines this at least one electric household appliance.

12. detection methods for appliance system as claimed in claim 9, wherein this pick-up unit also comprises:

One current sensing component, this current sensing component is in order to detect an operating current of this at least one electric household appliance; And

One thermistor, this thermistor is in order to detect an operating temperature of this at least one electric household appliance, and wherein the method also comprises: utilize this family's electrographic device to judge whether this operating current exceedes a first threshold or whether this operating temperature exceedes a Second Threshold.

13. detection methods for appliance system as claimed in claim 12, also comprise:

In the time that this operating current exceedes this first threshold or this operating temperature and exceedes this Second Threshold, utilize this family's electrographic device to cut off the power supply of this at least one electric household appliance.

14. detection methods for appliance system as claimed in claim 12, also comprise:

In the time that this operating current exceedes this first threshold or this operating temperature and exceedes this Second Threshold, light a warning lamp of this family's electrographic device or play caution sound by a loudspeaker of this family's electrographic device.

15. detection methods for appliance system as claimed in claim 12, also comprise:

In the time that this operating current exceedes this first threshold or this operating temperature and exceedes this Second Threshold, utilize this family's electrographic device to transmit at least one end device of an information warning to a user of this at least one electric household appliance by this network.