A home automation (HA) system may include addressable HA devices each having a respective HA device signature associated therewith and each wirelessly communicating using respective different wireless communications protocols from among different wireless communications protocols. The HA system may also include a controller and a memory coupled thereto. The memory may store HA device signatures for paired and unpaired ones of the addressable HA devices. The controller may poll the addressable HA devices, determine an unpaired addressable HA device based upon the polling, and compare the associated HA device signature of the unpaired addressable HA device with the stored HA device signatures. The controller also, when there is a match between the HA device signature of the unpaired addressable HA device and one of the stored HA device signatures, may permit pairing of the unpaired addressable HA device to communicate therewith using the respective wireless communications protocol.

Home automation system including device signature pairing and related methods

A smart communications controller for building equipment includes an equipment port connected to the building equipment and a plurality of autoconfiguration objects. Each of the autoconfiguration objects is configured to perform a protocol testing process for a particular communications protocol. The protocol testing process includes automatically determining whether the communications protocol is used by the building equipment connected to the equipment port. The smart communications controller further includes an autoconfiguration manager configured to cause the autoconfiguration objects to iteratively perform their protocol testing processes until the communications protocol used by the building equipment is identified. The smart communications controller further includes an equipment controller configured to use the identified communications protocol for the building equipment to generate protocol-specific control signals for the building equipment.

Building automation system with smart communications controller for building equipment

The invention discloses an Internet of Things intelligent gas meter system, and relates to the technical field of Internet of Things intelligent gas meters. The Internet of Things intelligent gas meter system comprises an intelligent gas meter sensing and control system, a gas network communication system and a gas company gas integrated management system. The intelligent gas meter sensing and control system comprises an intelligent gas meter sensing unit and an intelligent gas meter control unit. The intelligent gas meter sensing unit is in communication with the gas company gas integrated management system through a sensing information communication system. The gas company gas integrated management system is in communication with the intelligent gas meter control unit through a control information communication system. According to the Internet of Things intelligent gas meter system, mutual interference between intelligent gas meter sensing information and intelligent gas meter control information in the transmission process is avoided. Meanwhile, the Internet of Things intelligent gas meter system is simple in structure, the transmission process is diversified, and information transmission is securer and more reliable.

Internet of Things intelligent gas meter system

The invention discloses an Internet of Things intelligent gateway for multi-data protocol conversion, and belongs to the technical field of the Internet of Things intelligent gateway. The intelligent gateway comprises the following functions: equipment management, multi-protocol accessing, protocol conversion and standard data format data transmission; the Internet of Things intelligent gateway comprises three parts: an embedded hardware platform, an operation system and application software. The intelligent gateway has the advantage that the predicament that multiple node and multiple protocol equipment is accessed into the Internet of Things cloud platform in low efficiency and high complexity is solved. The equipment access of multi-protocol is supported, and Internet of Things protocol data can be uploaded the cloud platform, thereby facilitating the popularization and transplanting of the intelligent gateway in the industrial and urban Internet of Things project. By adding an equipment management and configuration module, the use of the user is greatly facilitated.

Internet of Things intelligent gateway for multi-data protocol conversion

The invention discloses an intelligent home furnishing equipment control method, device and system. The intelligent home furnishing equipment control method includes the steps that a field name corresponding to current operation of a controlled object in an intelligent home furnishing system is obtained, and the controlled object is electrical equipment; the field name corresponding to current operation of the controlled object is converted into a preset standard field name, the preset standard field name and the field name corresponding to current operation of the controlled object meet a field name mapping relationship; the controlled object is controlled to execute the current operation according to the preset standard field name. By means of the intelligent home furnishing equipment control method, device and system, the problems that in the same intelligent home furnishing system, only home furnishing equipment of a certain brand can be controlled separately through related technologies, and linkage control over the home furnishing equipment of multiple brands cannot be achieved are solved.

Intelligent home furnishing equipment control method, device and system

The invention supports access and integration of multiple heterogeneous networks including a wireless network, an on-site bus, an Ethernet and the like, and provides a household gateway protocol conversion and configuration method and device, and a device description file. A configurable protocol method is mainly employed to solve the problem of conversion among multiple heterogeneous protocols. A gateway is provided with configurable protocol software, the software generates description files of various device protocols, and a protocol conversion driving file is generated through a configuration method according to protocol attributes by use of a software tool. The gateway, after loading the driving file, converts the driving file to a communication protocol which can be identified by a device and automatically maps to generate a unified TCP/IP protocol frame routing table. The description files, based on a ClassAD task description language, are used for providing a flexible and extensible heterogeneous network model to describe any services or data. The gateway, through identification and description of device information, determines the type and meaning of the information, omits information parsing, reduces the time for processing the information by the gateway, and improves the real-time performance of a system.

Wu Chuan

Papers

Multiprotocol intelligent household gateway apparatus and system thereof