外文翻譯--為控制家庭網絡所有家電設計的基于zigbee的集成遙控器（英文）

1、1300 IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Vol. 55, No. 3, AUGUST 2009Home Network Configuring Scheme for All Electric Appliances Using ZigBee-based Integrated Remote ControllerIl-Kyu Hwang, Member, IEEE and Dae-Su

2、ng Lee, Jin-Wook BaekAbstract— Controlling the electric appliances is the essential technique in the home automation, and wireless communication between the residence gateway and electric appliances is one of the most

3、 important parts in the home network system. In these days, most of the electric appliances are controlled by infrared remote controllers. However, it is very difficult to connect most of the electric appliances to a

4、 home network, since the communication protocols are different.In this paper, we propose an integrated remote controller to control electric appliances in the home network with no extra attachment of communication dev

5、ice to the appliances using ZigBee protocol and infrared remote controller technology. The integrated remote controller system for home automation is composed of integrated remote controller, ZigBee to infrared conve

6、rter, and ZigBee power adapter. ZigBee power adapter is introduced for some appliances which do not have even infrared remote device to be connected in home network. This paper presents a prototype of the proposed sy

7、stem and shows a scheme for the implementation. It provides high flexibility for the users to configure and manage a home network in order to control electric appliances. 1Index Terms — Integrated Remote Control, ZigB

8、ee, Power Adapter, Infrared, Home Network.I. INTRODUCTIONHome automation technologies have been greatly getting attentions, because they provide residents with a lot of convenience and completeness by controlling the h

9、ome appliances in the house. Home network has become the network of consumer related electronics for various useful applications such as entertainments, telecommunications, automation systems, and remote control and

10、monitoring systems.Controlling the appliances is the essential technique in the home automation, and communication between the residential gateway and appliances is essentials of1This work was supported by

11、 the Seoul R&BD Program under Grant No. 10655.Il-Kyu Hwang is with the school of Robot and Automation Systems, Dongyang Technical College, Kochuck-dong, Kuro-ku, Seoul, 152-714, Republic of Korea (e-mail: ihwang@yma

12、il.com).Dae-Sung Lee is with the PriVia Co. Ltd., Dongyang Incubation Center#109, Kochuck-dong, Kuro-ku, Seoul, 152-714, Republic of Korea (e-mail: daesungy@gmail.com).Jin-Wook Baek is with Department of Internet Commer

13、ce, Ansan College, Il-dong, Sangrok-gu, Ansan, Kyunggi-do, 426-701, Republic of Korea (e- mail: jwbaek@ansan.ac.kr).Contributed Papercontrolling electric appliances. That is, one of the important communication techniqu

14、es in the home networking is to control electric appliances and to communicate within the house. A home network, a residential local network, is used to connect several electric appliances within home. The network is

15、 composed of communications with electric appliances such as a broadband modem, a router, PCs, a wireless access point, entertainment peripherals, and other electronic devices. It allows users to control electric app

16、liances remotely through the external network like Internet or mobile network. Many of the users can use the convenient and practical applications such as entertainments, telecommunications, and remote control and

17、 monitoring systems on the home network. By the rapid growth of personal computers, Internet, and high advanced telecommunication technologies, the importance of the home networking has increasingly emphasized in the

18、 research and commercial society. As the cost of wireless devices falls down in these days, many new applications are able to be made with wireless methods [1] [2]. There are many of wireless methods, such as Bluetoot

19、h and ZigBee, in the area of home networking. Especially, ZigBee, a protocol for wireless sensor networks based on the IEEE 802.15.4 specification [3] [4], has become the most attractive technique in the system enviro

20、nments because of open standard, low cost, and low power characteristics [5] [11].There have been a lot of researches for controlling the electric appliances at home. They allow users to control and manage ele

21、ctric appliances in the home network. They used remote controllers, PCs, mobile phones, PDAs, voice, human movement and gesture to control appliances which connected to the home network. Remote controllers were replac

22、ed with human hand gestures [12]. It is focused on control friendliness especially for elderly or disabled people. Reference [13] tried to use the same remote controller to control different kind of appliances using

23、radio and infrared technologies. Reference [14] allowed wireless handheld devices such as mobile phones and palm-size computers to be used as remote controls for applications on PCs and appliances within home. Univers

24、al control environments were proposed to browse multiple devices and select services [15].There have been some studies using the integrated remote controller based on wireless network technologies to control the elec

25、tric appliances within the house. These studies used Bluetooth and ZigBee protocols [16]-[18], and paid attention that electric appliances in the house are managed by the infrared (Ir) remote controller. Reference

26、 [18] proposed aManuscript received July 14, 2009 0098 3063/09/$20.00 © 2009 IEEE1302 IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Vol. 55, No. 3, AUGUST 2009Appl icati onⅠ (Remocon)Appl icationⅡ (ZigBee_Server

27、)QT/ E Li br ari es Shel l Librari esOS Libr ari esAppl icati onⅠ (Remocon)Li nux KernelAppl icationⅡ (ZigBee_Server )Appl icationⅢ (Ir_Ser ver)? ZigBee_Engine: a database engine that communicates to the Zi

28、gBee_Server periodically and manages a list of devices connected to the IRC? Ir_Engine: It receives a signal from Ir_Server and manages Ir signals of each button of remote controller.? UI-Main: an initial display

29、of IRC for the main user interface (UI)? UI-Device List: a user interface, which manages a list of devices (e.g., ZB2Ir and ZPA) connected to IRC? UI-Add Remocon: It assigns virtual remote controllers in the device list

30、by clicking the Add Remote button on UI- Device List. That is, user can assign remote controller ofIr Reader Devi ce Dri verFig. 3. IRC software structureApplication I (Remocon) operates based on the QT/E lib

31、raries, displays functions of the IRC on the screen, and waits for user input on the screen. Application II and III should be processed before the operation of the Application I. Socket is used for the data communicat

32、ion between the two applications.Fig. 4 shows a state transition diagram of Application I, which is a set of state transitions by the user input and state changes. The solid line means clicking the button on the scree

33、n, and the dot line means the automatic state change as soon as the operation is complete.home appliances to the IRC. It is also possible to assign new buttons for the on/off control of appliances to the IRC.? UI-Remot

34、e Controller List: It manages a list of virtual remote controllers assigned to each device in UI-Add Remocon.? UI-Remocon: A virtual remote controller UI that controls electric appliances. It is shown

35、 by selecting a virtual remote controller on UI-Remote Controller List. Therefore remote controller learning should be done before using virtual remote controller. IRC executes UI-Ir Learning for remote controlle

36、r learning by clicking Ir Learning button on UI- Remocon.? UI-Ir Learning: An UI of Ir remote controller learningStar tRemocon_Engine init ializeUI: MainScanButton Scan new deviceDevice List Butt onUI:SelectSet Cur

37、r ent Zigbee DeviceApplication II (ZigBee_Server) passes data from the ZigBee module to Remocon (Application I) using socket, and controls ZigBee module to process packets from Application I.Zigbee_EngineIr _Engine

38、Close Button(Idle)Close Butt onDevice L ist sInput DeviceAdd Remocon But tonUI:AddRemocon Application III (Ir_Server) controls Ir reader device driver of the OS kernel that detects infrared signals. Once infraredUI:

39、Show RemoconBut tonSelectSet Cur r ent RemoconAdd ButtonClick Act ionreceiver module of IRC detects infrared signal, it become the input to the the Ir reader device driver of the kernel. Ir readerRemoconList sRemove

40、 But tonNor mal Act ionBackgr ound PS device driver measures high and low time durations andUI:Ir Lear ningShow Remocon ButtonUI: RemoconClose ButtonContr ollingRemove The RemoconNor mal Stat eNor mal St

41、 at e w it h GUI transfers to Ir_Server by the order of precedence. Ir_Server analyzes data from Ir reader device driver, and transfersIr Lear ning Butt onButtonsRemocon_EngineZigbee_Engineformat and lengt

42、h data of infrared signals to Remocon (Application I) to compare the leader and custom codes. DataIr _EngineFig. 4. A state transition diagram of Application Iformat of Ir signals sent to Application I is shown i

43、n Fig.5.1Byte 2Byte VariableAfter the initialization state (initialize), the state changes tothe four types of state, namely Remocon_Engine, ZigBee_Engine, Ir_Engine, and UI-Main. Fig. 4 shows a transition state

44、at UI-Main. The functions of each state are as follows:‥ ‥ ‥? Remocon_Engine: a database engine that manages remote controller list such as remote controller insertion andDataFormatDataLengthDatadeletion Fig. 5.