阅读说明：本技术 一种空调系统 (Air conditioning system ) 是由 李健 矫晓龙 张吉雪 于 2021-07-08 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明提出的空调系统,用户终端将各类网关具备的控制功能以并集形式合并为一个列表进行显示,实现了APP显示简洁的效果,适配于简洁的APP显示,本发明在控制上通过云控制单元实施一键匹配功能的控制方式,在存在唯一标识相同的室内机且唯一标识相同的室内机所处网关下的室内机数量一致时,将各类网关均具备的功能的控制指令通过设定网关下发,将非各类网关均具备的功能的控制指令通过设定网关以外的其他网关下发,从而使得用户只需针对某种控制功能实施操控,而无需关心具体由哪类网关进行控制指令的下发,提高了系统控制效率,并减小了系统的控制负担,使用户对控制操作方便易懂的同时能够享受不同联网模块带来的功能。(The air conditioning system provided by the invention has the advantages that the control functions of various gateways are combined into a list by the user terminal in a union mode for display, the effect of concise APP display is realized, the system is suitable for the concise APP display, the control mode of one-key matching function is implemented by the cloud control unit in the aspect of control, when the indoor units with the same unique identification exist and the number of the indoor units under the gateway where the indoor units with the same unique identification are located is consistent, the control instruction with the functions of all the gateways is issued through the set gateway, the control instruction with the functions of all the gateways is issued through other gateways except the set gateway, therefore, the user only needs to implement operation and control aiming at a certain control function without being concerned about the specific type of gateway to issue the control instruction, the system control efficiency is improved, and the control burden of the system is reduced, so that the user can enjoy the functions brought by different networking modules while the user is convenient and understandable for control operation.)

1. An air conditioning system comprising:

at least two indoor units, each indoor unit is provided with a unique identifier;

at least two types of gateways, wherein the network access modes of the gateways are different; each indoor unit is set to access one or more types of gateways according to one or more network access modes;

characterized in that the system further comprises:

the user terminal is used for combining the control functions of various gateways into a list in a union mode and displaying the list through a display unit of the list;

the cloud control unit is used for issuing a control instruction according to the following operations after receiving a one-key matching instruction sent by the user terminal: acquiring unique identifiers of all indoor units, judging whether the indoor units with the same unique identifiers exist under all gateways or not, if so, issuing control instructions with functions of all kinds of gateways through a set gateway when the number of the indoor units under the gateways where the indoor units with the same unique identifiers are located is consistent, and issuing control instructions with functions of all kinds of gateways through other gateways except the set gateway; wherein the set gateway is selected from various gateways.

2. The air conditioning system according to claim 1, wherein when the number of indoor units under the gateway where the indoor units with the same unique identifier are located is not consistent, the cloud control unit is further configured to:

and configuring the gateway with the largest number of indoor units as the set gateway.

3. The air conditioning system of claim 1, wherein the cloud control unit is further configured to: when the air conditioning system is judged to have at least two types of network access modes, an intelligent matching instruction is sent to the user terminal;

after receiving the intelligent matching instruction, the user terminal displays a one-key matching control on a display unit of the user terminal; the one-key matching control generates the one-key matching instruction after being triggered and sends the one-key matching instruction to the cloud control unit.

4. The air conditioning system according to claim 1 or 3, wherein if the gateways cannot send the unique identifier of the indoor unit to the cloud control unit, the cloud control unit issues a control command in the following manner:

judging the consistency of the system numbers of the indoor units under various gateways;

judging the consistency of the number of indoor units under various gateways;

judging the consistency of the system addresses of the indoor units under various gateways;

and when the consistency is sequentially obtained in the third judgment, issuing a control instruction through the set gateway.

5. The air conditioning system of claim 1, wherein the cloud control unit is further configured to:

and issuing the control instruction of the function of the single gateway through the corresponding gateway.

6. The air conditioning system of claim 1, wherein the user terminal is further configured to:

and displaying the list combined in the union form through a display unit of the gateway in a master control mode of the set gateway.

7. The air conditioning system of claim 1, wherein the user terminal is further configured to:

and in scene control, displaying the selection list through a display unit of the gateway in a master control mode of the set gateway.

8. The air conditioning system of claim 1, wherein the user terminal is further configured to:

in the device details, the details of various gateways and the conditions of the connected indoor units are displayed through the display units.

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of central air conditioners, in particular to an air conditioning system for optimizing multiple network access modes of a unit.

Background

The access to the internet of things or internet control is a basic function of the current household appliance, on one hand, the use of the household appliance can be facilitated, on the other hand, the use information of the user, the unit operation information and the like can be collected more widely, and data support is provided for upgrading and optimizing products in the future.

In the practical use of air conditioning products, it may appear that the same air conditioning unit has multiple access modes, for example: an air conditioner indoor unit standard WIFI module, a line controller standard WIFI module, an outdoor unit standard NB-IOT module and the like; different functions are usually designed for different internet of things or internet modules, for example, a wire controller of a standard WIFI module can be an OTA (over the air technology) and supports additional functions of an air conditioner such as silence, sleep, no wind sensation and the like, and the internet of things module of the standard indoor unit/outdoor unit cannot realize the additional functions but can realize OTAs of indoor and outdoor unit software and the like.

According to the current design, if a user adds various access modes to the APP of a user terminal, multiple sets of units appear in a control list of the APP: for example, as shown in fig. 1, if a user is a four-split air conditioning unit at home, the unit has two modes of network access, where a line controller is labeled with WIFI, and an outdoor unit is labeled with NB-IOT, when the user is bound at the APP side, it may be actually displayed in the user APP that 8 indoor units can be controlled, as shown in fig. 2, this phenomenon may also occur in scene selection, which may cause confusion to the user; similarly, when a group control scene instruction is issued, the same object issues the same instruction in two ways, so that unnecessary burden is caused to the system; if the user only uses one mode to access the network, such as a WIFI wire controller, the control side can be consistent with the reality, 4 indoor units are displayed in the APP, but the function added based on the NB-IOT cannot be realized.

Disclosure of Invention

For solving the problem that APP that exists shows confusion and the system control burden is big when present same air conditioning unit has multiple access to the net access mode, the function that all kinds of gateways all possess is preferred to be in order to set for the gateway and issue control command, the supplementary mode implementation control of the control command that other gateways except that set for the gateway issue the uneven function that possesses, combine to show control function with the union at the APP end, realize that APP shows succinct and the technological effect that system control burden reduces, make the user can enjoy the function that different networking modules brought when easy and understandable to control operation, and guaranteed user remote control's reliability with furthest.

The invention adopts the following technical scheme:

an air conditioning system is proposed, comprising:

at least two indoor units, each indoor unit is provided with a unique identifier;

at least two types of gateways, wherein the network access modes of the gateways are different; each indoor unit is set to access one or more types of gateways according to one or more network access modes; the system further comprises:

the user terminal is used for combining the control functions of various gateways into a list in a union mode and displaying the list through a display unit of the list;

the cloud control unit is used for issuing a control instruction according to the following operations after receiving a one-key matching instruction sent by the user terminal: acquiring unique identifiers of all indoor units, judging whether the indoor units with the same unique identifiers exist under all gateways or not, if so, issuing control instructions with functions of all kinds of gateways through a set gateway when the number of the indoor units under the gateways where the indoor units with the same unique identifiers are located is consistent, and issuing control instructions with functions of all kinds of gateways through other gateways except the set gateway; wherein the set gateway is selected from various gateways.

Compared with the prior art, the technical scheme of the invention has the following technical effects: in the air conditioning system provided by the invention, the control functions of various gateways are combined into a list by a user terminal in a union mode for display, compared with the existing mode that various gateways respectively display the control functions, the effect of concise APP display is realized, the system is suitable for concise APP display, the invention implements the control mode of one-key matching function by a cloud control unit in control, acquires the unique identifier of each indoor unit after receiving a matching instruction sent by the user terminal, judges whether the indoor units with the same unique identifier exist under each gateway, sends the control instruction with the functions of various gateways through a set gateway when the indoor units with the same unique identifier and the unique identifier under the gateway are consistent in number, sends the control instruction with the functions of various gateways through other gateways except for the set gateway, therefore, the user only needs to implement control aiming at a certain control function, and does not need to care about which type of gateway specifically issues the control instruction, the cloud control unit issues the control instruction according to the priority in order to set the gateway, the mode of issuing the control instruction by the non-set gateway is assisted, the system control efficiency is improved, the control burden of the system is reduced, the user can enjoy the functions brought by different networking modules while the user is convenient and easy to understand the control operation, and the reliability of remote control of the user is ensured to the maximum extent.

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In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings needed to be used in the description of the embodiments are briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art to obtain other drawings based on these drawings without creative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an air conditioning system with multiple access modes;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a control function interface displayed at a user terminal APP corresponding to the air conditioning system shown in FIG. 1;

fig. 3 is a functional architecture diagram of an air conditioning system according to the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of a user terminal combining control functions of various gateways in a union form according to the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a flow chart of one-touch matching control implemented by the air conditioning system of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a second flowchart of the air conditioning system according to the present invention implementing one-touch matching control.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "center", "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on those shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplicity of description, and do not indicate or imply that the referenced devices or elements must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus, are not to be construed as limiting the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly and may be, for example, fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected unless otherwise explicitly stated or limited. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood in specific cases to those skilled in the art. In the foregoing description of embodiments, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples.

The terms "first", "second" and "first" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of that feature. In the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means two or more unless otherwise specified.

As shown in fig. 3, the air conditioning system proposed by the present invention for optimizing multiple access modes of an air conditioning unit simplifies the user APP control list and reduces the system control burden, so that the user only needs to control the air conditioner according to the control function, and does not need to care which gateway performs the control, specifically, the air conditioning system includes:

at least two indoor units, each indoor unit having a unique identifier, such as a manufacturing number.

In the following embodiments of the present invention, a WIFI gateway and an NB-IOT gateway are taken as examples for explanation; each indoor unit 1 is configured to access one or more types of gateways according to one or more types of access methods.

The user terminal 3 is accessed to the cloud platform 4, sends a control instruction to the cloud platform 4 and receives air conditioning data based on the self-installed APP, and the cloud platform 4 sends the control instruction to the air conditioning unit through the corresponding gateway according to the content of the control instruction and receives the air conditioning data through the corresponding gateway; in the embodiment of the present invention, the user terminal 3 is further configured to merge the control functions of the gateways into a list in a union form, and display the merged list through the display unit, as shown in fig. 4.

The cloud control unit 41, running on the cloud platform 4, is configured to issue a control instruction to the air conditioning unit according to the operation shown in fig. 5, and includes the following steps:

step S51: and judging whether a one-key matching instruction sent by the user terminal is received.

A one-key matching control is designed in an APP of a user terminal, so that a user can select to start or close a one-key matching function, wherein the one-key matching function refers to: after starting this function, the user only need be according to the corresponding air conditioner internal unit of function control, need not to consider through which kind of gateway implementation control, simultaneously, in the APP interface, only show air conditioning unit according to control function, compare in present according to gateway classification display air conditioning unit, control interface is succinct more direct, the more convenient operation of user.

After the one-key matching control is triggered by the user, the user terminal 3 generates a one-key matching instruction and sends the one-key matching instruction to the cloud control unit 41.

The initial state of the one-key matching control can be set in the APP of the user terminal: and starting or closing, wherein when the initial state is starting, after the user terminal 3 installs the APP and associates the air conditioning unit, the user terminal 3 automatically sends a one-key matching instruction to the cloud control unit 41.

In some embodiments of the present invention, a one-key matching function may be added to an air conditioning unit that does not have a one-key matching function in an earlier stage in a system upgrade manner, in this case, after the system upgrade and the user terminal upgrade are completed, the cloud control unit 41 determines whether the air conditioning system has at least two types of network access manners, if so, sends an intelligent matching instruction to the user terminal 3, after receiving the intelligent matching instruction, the user terminal 3 displays or enables the one-key matching control on a display interface of its APP, and if the air conditioning unit has only one type of network access manner, the cloud control unit 41 does not send the intelligent matching instruction to the user terminal 3, and the APP display interface of the user terminal 3 does not display or forbids the one-key matching control.

After the user selects or defaults to start the one-key matching function, step S52 is executed, otherwise, the operation is executed according to the existing operation mode, which is not specifically described in the present invention.

Step S52: and acquiring the unique identifier of each indoor unit, and judging whether the indoor units with the same unique identifier exist under various gateways.

After the air conditioning unit is connected with the gateway, the unique identifier of the indoor unit is sent to the gateway through an indoor bus and an outdoor bus, and the gateway reports the information to the cloud platform 4; under the condition that the unit is connected with the NB-IOT, the unique identification of the indoor unit is sent to an NB-IOT module of the outdoor unit through a communication bus of the indoor unit and the outdoor unit, and the NB-IOT module reports the information to the cloud platform 4.

The cloud control unit 41 records unique identifiers of the indoor units under the gateways, and judges whether the gateways have the indoor units with the same unique identifier, if the gateways have the indoor units with the same unique identifier, it indicates that the same indoor unit has two or more types of network access modes, and the corresponding gateways can issue control instructions with the same function, based on the inventive idea of the present invention, the control of the indoor unit can be displayed and implemented with the control function, the issue of the control instructions is implemented by the system according to the default or user-selected set gateways, and compared with the user terminal, the control function does not need to be displayed according to the gateway classification, compared with the user, the gateway does not need to be selected for implementing control, and specifically, step S53 is further executed; if the indoor units with the same unique identification do not exist under various gateways and the situation that the indoor units can be combined does not exist, the control instruction with the function of a single gateway is issued through the corresponding gateway.

Step S53: and judging whether the number of the indoor units under the gateway where the indoor units with the same unique identification are located is consistent.

Further, whether the number of the indoor units under the gateway where the indoor units with the same unique identifier are located is consistent or not is judged, if yes, it is indicated that each indoor unit in the air conditioning unit is accessed to the network according to multiple network access modes, and at this time, step S54 is executed, and the control functions are uniformly distributed by one gateway.

Step S54: and issuing the control instruction with the function of each gateway through a set gateway, and issuing the control instruction with the function of each gateway other than the set gateway.

The gateway is set as the default gateway of the system, or the gateway can be set by the user through the selection of the APP option.

When the number of the indoor units under the gateways where the indoor units with the same unique identification are located is consistent, the system only needs to set the gateways to issue the control instructions, and for the same function, the user only needs to select the control options according to the control functions, and does not need to search the control options according to the gateway types, as shown in fig. 4.

If the numbers of the indoor units under the gateways where the indoor units with the same unique identifier are located are not consistent, the gateway with the largest number of the indoor units is configured as the set gateway, and then step S54 is executed.

In some embodiments of the present invention, if each indoor unit is not configured with a unique identifier and does not have the capability of reporting the unique identifier to the gateway connected to the indoor unit, then each type of gateway cannot report the unique identifier of the indoor unit connected to the indoor unit to the cloud platform 4, and as shown in fig. 6, the one-key matching function is implemented in the following manner:

step S61: and when the cloud platform judges that the air conditioning unit has two or more types of gateways, sending an intelligent matching instruction to the user terminal.

Through the step, the cloud platform 4 actively initiates the one-key matching inquiry.

Step S62: and after receiving the intelligent matching instruction, the user terminal starts or enables a one-key matching control on the display interface of the APP of the user terminal.

The user may select to trigger or not trigger the one-key matching control, the cloud platform 4 already stores the gateway and unit information of the air conditioning unit, and after the user selects to trigger the one-key matching control, the process goes to step S63.

Step S63: and judging whether the system numbers of the indoor units under various gateways are consistent.

If not, not performing one-key matching, and prompting matching failure and failure reasons at the user terminal; if they match, the process proceeds to step S64.

Step S64: and judging the consistency of the number of the indoor units under various gateways.

If not, not performing one-key matching, and prompting matching failure and failure reasons at the user terminal; if they match, the process proceeds to step S65.

Step S65: and judging the consistency of the system addresses of the indoor units under various gateways.

If not, not performing one-key matching, and prompting matching failure and failure reasons at the user terminal; if they match, the process proceeds to step S66.

Step S66: and issuing the control instruction through a set gateway.

In the above, when the indoor unit does not have the unique identifier or cannot send the unique identifier to the connected gateway, the way of issuing the control instruction from the set gateway is implemented based on the idea that the indoor units with the consistent system number, number and system address are regarded as the same indoor unit to implement one-key matching control; similarly to the above, if there are indoor units with inconsistent system numbers, inconsistent numbers and/or inconsistent system addresses, the control command is issued in a manner that the gateway configuration with the largest number of indoor units is used as the set gateway, and the control command of the function of a single gateway is issued through the corresponding gateway.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the lists merged in the union form as shown in fig. 4 are displayed on the APP display interface of the user terminal in a master control manner for setting the gateway, and the user selects from the control lists for setting the gateway according to the control requirements.

In some embodiments of the present invention, in the scene control, the selection list of the scene is displayed on the APP display interface of the user terminal in a master control manner for setting the gateway, and compared with a manner in which the scene control is set for different gateways in the existing scene control, the control interface is simple and clear.

In some embodiments of the invention, an equipment detail interface is set in the user terminal APP, details of various gateways and connection conditions of indoor units are displayed, and a user can know connection modes and information of the household air conditioning unit in detail.

The above description is only for the specific embodiments of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any changes or substitutions that can be easily conceived by those skilled in the art within the technical scope of the present invention are included in the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.