System and method for server based control
A system and method in a building or vehicle for an actuator operation in response to a sensor according to a control logic, the system comprising a router or a gateway communicating with a device associated with the sensor and a device associated with the actuator over in-building or in-vehicle networks, and an external Internet-connected control server associated with the control logic implementing a PID closed linear control loop and communicating with the router over external network for controlling the in-building or in-vehicle phenomenon. The sensor may be a microphone or a camera, and the system may include voice or image processing as part of the control logic. A redundancy is used by using multiple sensors or actuators, or by using multiple data paths over the building or vehicle internal or external communication. The networks may be wired or wireless, and may be BAN, PAN, LAN, WAN, or home networks.
1. A method for voice control of a motion actuator and an electric light source in a battery-operated device, the device is configured to communicate with an Internet-connected server via a first wireless network, the method comprising:
producing, by a sensor, sensor data in response to a first physical phenomenon;
capturing, by a microphone in the device, human voice data;
transmitting, by a first transceiver via a first antenna in the device to the server via the first wireless network over the Internet, the captured human voice data;
processing, by a processor in the server, the transmitted captured human voice data;
receiving, by the first transceiver via the first antenna in the device from the server from the first wireless network over the Internet, a second data that is in response to the processing;
causing, by the motion actuator in the device, a linear or rotary motion in response to the received second data and to the sensor data;
emitting, by the electric light source in the device, a visible light for illumination or indication in response to the received second data and to the sensor data;
receiving, by a second transceiver via a second antenna over a second wireless network that is distinct from the first wireless network, a third data;
causing, by the motion actuator in the device, a linear or rotary motion in response to the received third data; and
directly or indirectly affecting, changing, producing, by an actuator, the first physical phenomenon,
wherein the first physical phenomenon comprises a temperature, humidity, pressure, audio, vibration, sound, proximity, or flow rate.
2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the processing comprises performing a voice recognition algorithm.
3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the voice recognition algorithm is operative for identifying a voice of a specific person.
4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the sensor is a thermoelectric sensor that responds to the temperature or to a temperature gradient of an object using conduction, convection, or radiation, or wherein the sensor is a photoelectric sensor that responds to a visible or an invisible light or gamma rays.
5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the device comprises multiple microphones, and wherein the capturing comprises capturing, by the multiple microphones in the device, the human voice data.
6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the multiple microphones are arranged as a directional microphones array operative to estimate a number, magnitude, frequency, Direction-Of-Arrival (DOA), distance, or speed of a phenomenon impinging the microphones array.
7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the microphone is an omnidirectional, unidirectional, or bidirectional microphone that is based on sensing an incident sound-based motion of a diaphragm or a ribbon, or wherein the microphone comprises a condenser, an electret, a dynamic, a ribbon, a carbon, or a piezoelectric microphone.
8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the device further comprises a sounder for converting an electrical energy to an omnidirectional, unidirectional, or bidirectional pattern emitted, audible or inaudible, sound waves.
9. The method according to claim 8 , wherein the sounder comprises an electromagnetic loudspeaker, a piezoelectric speaker, an electrostatic loudspeaker (ESL), a ribbon or planar magnetic loudspeaker, or a bending wave loudspeaker, or wherein the sounder comprises an electric bell, a buzzer, a chime, a whistle, or a ringer.
10. The method according to claim 8 , wherein the method further comprising playing, by the sounder, a digital audio content that is pre-recorded or synthesized in response to the processing.
11. The method according to claim 8 , wherein the method further comprising simulating, by the sounder, a voice of a human being or generating music, or wherein the method further comprising sounding of a syllable, a word, a phrase, a sentence, a short story, or a long story, using a male or female voice.
12. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the Internet-connected server communicates with the device over the first wireless network, and wherein the receiving comprises receiving from the server over the Internet, and the transmitting comprises transmitting to the server over the Internet.
13. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the device is addressable in the first wireless network or the Internet using a digital address stored in a volatile or non-volatile memory for uniquely identifying the respective device in the first wireless network or in the Internet.
14. The method according to claim 13 , wherein the digital address is a Media Access Control (MAC) layer address that is MAC-48, Extended Unique Identifier (EUI) EUI-48, or EUI-64 address type or wherein the digital address is a layer 3 address and is static or dynamic Internet Protocol (IP) address that is IPV4 or IPv6 type address.
15. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first wireless network is a Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN), that is according to, or based on, Bluetooth™ or Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.15.1-2005 standards, or wherein the WPAN is a wireless control network that is according to, or based on, Zigbee™, IEEE 802.15.4-2003, or Z-Wave™ standards.
16. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first wireless network is a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) that is according to, or based on, IEEE 802.11-2012, IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11b, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.11n, or IEEE 802.11ac standard.
17. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first wireless network uses a wireless communication over a licensed or an unlicensed radio frequency band, that is an Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) radio band.
18. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first wireless network is a cellular telephone network that is a Third Generation (3G) network that uses a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA), High Speed Packet Access (HSPA), Time-Division Duplexing (TDD), CDMA2000 1×RIT, Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO), or Global System for Mobile communications (GSM), Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE) EDGE-Evolution, or wherein the cellular telephone network is a Fourth Generation (4G) network that uses an Evolved High Speed Packet Access (HSPA+), Mobile Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX), Long-Term Evolution (LTE), LTE-Advanced, Mobile Broadband Wireless Access (MBWA), or is based on IEEE 802.20-2008.
19. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first data comprises at least part of the captured human voice data.
20. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the causing of the linear or rotary motion is further in response to the second data.
21. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the emitting of the visible light is further in response to the second data.
22. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the motion actuator comprises, or consists of, an electrical motor.
23. The method according to claim 22 , wherein the electrical motor comprises, or consists of, a brushed, a brushless, or an uncommutated DC motor, or wherein the DC motor is a stepper motor that is a Permanent Magnet (PM) motor, a Variable reluctance (VR) motor, or a hybrid synchronous stepper.
24. The method according to claim 22 , wherein the electrical motor comprises, or consists of, a piezoelectric motor, a Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) motor, a Squiggle motor, an ultrasonic motor, or a micro- or nanometer comb-drive capacitive actuator, a Dielectric or Ionic based Electroactive Polymers (EAPs) actuator, a solenoid, a thermal bimorph, or a piezoelectric unimorph actuator.
25. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the device further comprises an additional electric light source that emits a non-visible light that is infrared, ultraviolet, X-rays, or gamma rays.
26. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the electric light source comprises a Solid-State Lighting (SSL), a Light Emitting Diode (LED), an Organic LED (OLED), a polymer LED (PLED), or a laser diode.