Patent Application
20180253952
The present invention relates to an electrical socket, and more particularly to a smart wall-mounted socket for directly replacing an existing wall-mounted socket to achieve a smart home with ease.
With the development of wireless network and cloud technology, the concept of “smart home” has become an emerging fashion trend. More and more appliances on the markets not only have self-monitoring functions but also have remote manipulation functions, allowing users to directly use a mobile APP (mobile application) to operate the household appliances wirelessly. The so-called smart home, namely, intelligent digital home, is to ensure that digital lifestyle will not affect the user's personal preferences, lifestyle and habits, and enhances the safety of buildings, health, energy saving, convenience and comfort. It includes home security monitoring, temperature and humidity, light, and air quality, gas and fire warnings, power saving settings, and so on.
It is well known to those skilled in the art that the term “digital” is derived from the application of telecommunication. A conventional smart socket system 1, as shown in
Accordingly, the inventor of the present invention has devoted himself based on his many years of practical experiences to solve these problems.
In view of the problems of the prior art, the primary object of the present invention is to provide a smart wall-mounted socket conforming to the specification of the existing socket trough of the wall, allowing users to replace the existing wall-mounted socket at will to monitor the power while achieving a tidy home environment.
In order to achieve the aforesaid object, the smart wall-mounted socket comprises a power control module and a wireless network module having an antenna for electrical connection of at least one electrical apparatus. The power control module is used to detect a power consumption state of the electrical apparatus and then transmit a power detection signal to a terminal controller through the wireless network module. The smart wall-mounted socket includes a substantially square housing and a panel. The panel has a plurality of alternating current jacks and is connected to one side of the housing. The wireless network module is disposed in the housing. The antenna is disposed in a wall of the housing abutting against the panel or the antenna extends slightly out of the housing and abuts against the panel. The smart wall-mounted socket is directly embedded in a socket trough of a wall of a building and electrically connected with positive and negative wires of a mains electricity supply. The antenna transmits the power detection signal to the terminal controller without being interfered.
Wherein, the socket trough of the wall is adapted to accommodate a 86 type, 118 type, 146 type, or 120 type socket. The power control module is disposed in the housing far away from the panel. The wireless network module is disposed in the housing near the panel. The housing is integrally formed. When a front side of the housing is connected to the panel, the housing is a closed square housing. The power control module has a positive power line and a negative power line inserted through a rear side of the housing to be respectively connected with the positive and negative wires of the mains electricity supply. The wireless network module transmits the power detection signal to the terminal controller through at least one of WiFi, ZigBee and Bluetooth. The power control module is electrically connected with the mains electricity supply and transforms an alternating current voltage of the mains electricity supply into a direct current voltage. The panel has at least one USB port or at least one Type C jack for electrical connection of the electrical apparatus so as to get the direct current voltage directly.
Furthermore, the housing includes at least one of a temperature sensing module, a humidity sensing module, a light sensing module, an infrared distance sensing module, an image detection module, a smoke sensing module, and an air quality detection module therein for respectively sensing room temperature, humidity, human activity, indoor conditions in the building to form at least one of a temperature signal, a humidity signal, an access control signal, a burglar signal, a fire alarm signal, and an air signal to be transmitted to the terminal controller through the wireless network module to achieve burglarproof and disaster prevention functions and to enhance the indoor comfort. The terminal controller is provided with an application program for at least one user to directly control the operation of the power control module through the application program. The wireless network module transmits at least one of the power detection signal, the temperature signal, the humidity signal, the access control signal, the burglar signal, the fire alarm signal, and the air signal to a cloud server for the user to check or analyze. When there is an abnormality, the application program alerts the user by mans of text, voice, or video.
In view of the above, the smart wall-mounted socket of the present invention has a plurality of detection functions and wireless transmission functions, so that the user can directly install it in the building or replace the existing wall-mounted socket for detecting the static environment and the dynamic environment by means of a network, allowing the user to remotely monitor the indoor conditions at any time to achieve environmental quality maintenance, access control security, disaster prevention, and so on for a smart home. Thus, unlike the commercially available smart sockets, the smart wall-mounted socket of the present invention breaks through the difficulty of the antenna being limited by the wall of the building and by electromagnetic interference and overcome the problem that it is difficult to be mounted in a housing. Without spending a lot of money and labors to reconstruct or decorate the building, the present invention can low construction costs to complete all aspects of home security monitoring system and to achieve high industrial economic benefits.
Embodiments of the present invention will now be described, by way of example only, with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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The wireless network module 201 may be connected with a terminal controller 4 and a cloud server (not shown) by electrical communication. When the power control module 200 detects the magnitude of the output current of each of the alternating current jacks 210 and the current output time to form a power detection signal, the wireless network module 201 transmits the power detection signal to at least one of the terminal controller 4 and the cloud server through a wireless transmission means, such as wireless mobile signal, WiFi, ZigBee or Bluetooth, for informing the user that the relay of each alternating current jack 210 is actuated by the terminal controller 4 to cut off the power supply to the corresponding electrical apparatus or to adjust the magnitude of the output current from each of the alternating current jacks to affect the actuation state of the corresponding electrical apparatus.
In an embodiment, the panel 21 may further have at least one USB port 211 and at least one Type C jack 212. The power control module 200 may directly distribute the mains electricity supply through the alternating current jacks 210, or an alternating current voltage of the mains electricity supply is transformed into a direct current voltage and then the direct current voltage is supplied to the electrical apparatus 3 through the USB port 211 or the type C jack 212 to facilitate the direct application of 3C products. The housing 20 may further include at least one of a temperature sensing module 202, a humidity sensing module 203, a light sensing module 204, an infrared distance sensing module 205, an image detection module 206, a smoke sensing module 207, an air quality detection module 208, a wireless reed switch 209, an LED lamp 22, and a magnetic amplifier 23 therein. The temperature sensing module 202, the humidity sensing module 203, the light sensing module 204, the infrared distance sensing module 205, the image detection module 206, the smoke sensing module 207, the air quality detection module 208, the wireless reed switch 209, and the LED lamp 22, and the magnetic amplifier 23 are electrically connected with the power control module 200 and the wireless network module 201, respectively. The terminal controller 4, such as a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a computer or the like, may be provided with an application program 40, as shown in
The aforesaid various sensing or detection modules may be used alone or in combination in a single smart wall-mounted socket 2. The commercialized smart wall-mounted sockets 2 may have different combinations of sensing or detection modules. For example, the temperature sensing module 202, the humidity sensing module 203, and the smoke sensing module 207 may be used independently to sense the temperature, humidity, and smoke level in the building to form a temperature signal 2020, a humidity signal and a smoke signal to the power control module 200, and the signals are transmitted to the terminal controller 4 through the wireless network module 201 for the user to use the application program 40 to control the relay of each alternating current jack 210 to adjust the operation of air conditioners, dehumidifiers, water oxygen machines, exhaust fans or air filters so as to adjust the overall room temperature and humidity to enhance the indoor comfort. Alternatively, when the humidity sensing module 203 detects a decrease in humidity and the temperature sensing module 202 detects an increase in temperature, the power control module 200 transmits a fire alarm signal to the terminal controller 4 through the wireless network module 201 to alert the user of the attention and view. Further, when the humidity sensing module 203 detects a decrease in humidity and the temperature sensing module 202 detects an increase in temperature and the smoke sensing module 207 detects smoke, the power control module 200 transmits a fire alarm signal to the terminal controller 4 through the wireless network module 201.
The light sensing module 204 may be a brightness sensing device and may be used alone or in cooperation with the infrared distance sensing module 205 to detect the room brightness to form a brightness signal 2040 or to sense a human body or an object crossing a door or a window to form an access control signal 2041. The access control signal 2041 is transmitted through the wireless network module 201 to the terminal controller 4 for burglarproof use. Further, a plurality of smart wall-mounted sockets 2 are mounted at different heights, which can be used to distinguish whether the sensing result is a human or an animal, that is, when both infrared distance sensing modules 205 of different heights generate sensing signals at the same time, the sensing result is a human, such that the power control module 200 generates a burglar signal for the application program 40 to inform the user of close attention to the human activity and indoor conditions. On the other hand, if only the infrared distance sensing module 205 of the low installation position generates a sensing signal, it is an animal.
Moreover, the image detection module 206 may be further provided to further analyze whether the sensing result is a family member, a burglar, a cat or dog, or an insect to form the burglar signal accordingly. Of course, the application program 40 may transmit a message or instantaneous detection data to the user by text, voice or video, etc., to alert the user, while allowing the user to view the indoor real image captured by the image detection module 206 at any time.
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It is worth mentioning that the wireless network module 201 may synchronously transmit at least one of the power detection signal, the temperature signal 2020, the humidity signal, the brightness signal 2040, the access control signal 2041, the burglar signal, the fire alarm signal, and an air signal 2080 to the cloud server for the user to check or analyze the sensing data anytime anywhere. When receiving the access control signal 2041 or the burglar signal, the application program 40 can automatically synchronously make a phone call to the security unit to request for help, or when receiving the fire alarm signal or the air signal 20810, the application program 40 can synchronously make a phone call to the fire department.
In addition, the smoke sensing module 207 and the air quality detecting module 208 may be used alone or used together to sense the indoor air quality and smoke level to form an air signal 2080 when the indoor air quality is poor. The application program 40 alerts the user or drives the power control module 200 to turn on the relay of the alternating current jack 210 corresponding to the exhaust fan or the air filter to automatically operate the exhaust fan or the air filter. When the humidity sensing module 203 detects a decrease in humidity, or the humidity sensing module 203 detects a decrease in humidity and the air quality detection module 208 detects an abnormality in room air quality ratio, for example carbon dioxide and combustible gas content is too high or there is a lot of smoke, the power control module 200 determines that a gas leak or a fire may occur and transmits the fire alarm signal to the terminal controller 4 through the wireless network module 201 to warn the user of the fire alarm. The small wall-mounted socket 2 automatically switches off the relay of the corresponding alternating current jack 210, thereby realizing a disaster prevention function.
Although particular embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail for purposes of illustration, various modifications and enhancements may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Accordingly, the present invention is not to be limited except as by the appended claims.
