JP6558985B2 - Home appliance control apparatus, home appliance control system, and home appliance control program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a home appliance control apparatus, a home appliance control system, and a home appliance control program for controlling home appliances.

  In recent years, interest in energy issues has increased, and EMS (Energy Management System) such as energy management system (HEMS: Home Energy Management System) and energy management system for condominiums (MEMS: Mansion Energy Management System) aiming at energy saving in ordinary households. System) is popular. The EMS includes a display terminal, an information collection device, a power measurement device, a home appliance with a communication function, and the like.

  As an example of HEMS, a HEMS controller installed in a home can collect information on power consumption of home appliances via a home network, and the collected result can be displayed on an information display terminal and provided to a user.

  Patent Document 1 discloses an information providing system that provides information related to home appliances via a network that can be easily applied to existing home appliances while suppressing an increase in cost of the home appliances.

JP 2013-175015 A

  In the information providing system of Patent Document 1, the information display terminal receives information related to the power consumption of the home appliance and presents it to the user. For example, when two or more households such as a two-family house are living in the same residence, the household appliances that are held differ from one household to another, so it is necessary to collect power information for the household appliances individually using multiple HEMS controllers. is there. If the information of a plurality of households is collected by one HEMS controller, there is a problem that the disclosure restriction cannot be performed even when one household does not desire to disclose the information on the home appliances to the other household.

  The present invention has been made in view of the circumstances as described above. When there are two or more groups that use home appliances in the same residence, browsing and operation of information on home appliances is restricted for each group. It aims to make it possible to do.

  To achieve the above object, the home appliance control apparatus according to the present invention displays an operation screen that allows browsing of home appliance information held by two or more groups in the same residence and operation of the home appliance. It is a device control device. The home appliance control apparatus includes a home appliance information acquisition unit, a user information acquisition unit, and an operation screen generation unit. The home appliance information acquisition unit includes two or more groups, home appliances possessed by each group, and a privacy level that indicates whether or not to allow browsing of home appliance information held by each group and operation of the home appliances. Get device information. The user information acquisition unit acquires user group information indicating a group to which the user belongs. The operation screen generation unit refers to the home appliance information and generates an operation screen that matches the privacy level of a group other than the group to which the user indicated by the user group information belongs.

  According to the present invention, when there are two or more groups that use home appliances in the same residence by displaying an operation screen in accordance with the privacy level of a group other than the group to which the user belongs, It is possible to restrict browsing and operation of device information for each group or for each user.

It is a figure which shows the structural example of the household appliance control system which concerns on Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the structural example of the household appliance control apparatus which concerns on Embodiment 1. FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a privacy level according to Embodiment 1. FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of the household appliances information which concerns on Embodiment 1. FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of household appliances information in the case of setting the privacy level which concerns on Embodiment 1 further for every area. It is a figure which shows an example of household appliance information in the case of setting the privacy level which concerns on Embodiment 1 further for every household appliance. It is a figure which shows an example of the operation screen displayed on the remote control of a child household when the privacy level of a parent household is set to "none". It is a figure which shows an example of the operation screen displayed on the remote control of a child household when the privacy level of a parent household is set to "low". It is a figure which shows an example of the operation screen displayed on the remote control of a child household when the privacy level of a parent household is set to "high". It is a figure which shows an example of the operation screen displayed on the remote control of a child household at the time of setting a privacy level for every area further. It is a figure which shows an example of the operation screen displayed on the remote control of a child household at the time of setting a privacy level for every household appliance further. It is a figure which shows the other example of the operation screen displayed on the remote control of a child household at the time of setting a privacy level for every household appliance further. 3 is a flowchart illustrating an example of an operation of home appliance control processing according to the first embodiment. It is a figure which shows an example of the privacy level which concerns on Embodiment 2 of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the household appliance information in the case of setting the privacy level which concerns on Embodiment 2 for every area matched with the user. It is a figure which shows an example of the household appliances information in the case of setting the privacy level which concerns on Embodiment 2 for every household appliances matched with the user. It is a figure which shows an example of the operation screen displayed on the remote control of a child household when a privacy level is set for every area matched with the user and a mother inputs user identification information. It is a figure which shows an example of the operation screen displayed on the remote control of a child household when a privacy level is set for every household appliances matched with the user and a mother inputs user identification information. It is a figure which shows the hardware structural example of the household appliance control apparatus which concerns on embodiment of this invention.

  EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION Below, the form for implementing this invention is demonstrated in detail with reference to drawings. In addition, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected to the part which is the same or it corresponds in a figure.

(Embodiment 1)
FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of a home appliance control system according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. Household appliances 41 to 49 are arranged in the areas 51 to 56 in the residence 10. The users of the household appliances 41 to 45 in the areas 51 to 53 are group A, and the users of the household appliances 46 to 49 in the areas 54 to 56 are group B.

  The home appliance control system 100 includes a remote controller (hereinafter abbreviated as a remote controller) 21 and a remote controller 22 that transmit operation information of the home appliances 41 to 49 to the home appliance controller 1, and a home appliance 41 to the remote controller 21 and the remote controller 22. It is comprised with the household appliances control apparatus 1 which displays the operation screen of the household appliances 49, and can control the household appliances 41-49. The home appliance control apparatus 1 corresponds to, for example, a HEMS controller. On the operation screen displayed on the remote controller 21 and the remote controller 22, the user can browse information on the home appliances 41 to 49 and operate the home appliances 41 to 49. The remote controller 21 and the remote controller 22 can communicate with the home appliance control apparatus 1 wirelessly. Moreover, the household appliances 41-49 can communicate with the household appliance control apparatus 1 by radio | wireless or a wire communication. In the example of FIG. 1, the remote controller 21 is used by the group A, and the remote controller 22 is used by the group B.

  First, the user inputs user group information indicating a group to which the user belongs to the remote controller 21 (22). The user group information may be input manually or by reading an ID card storing user group information. The remote controller 21 (22) transmits the user group information input by the user to the home appliance control apparatus 1. Or when the group which uses each remote control is decided, when a user starts remote control 21 (22) or when a user inputs directions which display an operation screen on remote control 21 (22), The user group information may be automatically transmitted to the home appliance control apparatus 1.

  Based on the user group information received from the remote controller 21 (22), the home appliance control apparatus 1 generates an operation screen that displays the content permitted for the group to which the user belongs, and an operation screen that indicates the generated operation screen Information is transmitted to the remote controller 21 (22).

  The remote controller 21 (22) displays the operation screen indicated by the operation screen information received from the home appliance control apparatus 1. On the operation screen displayed on the remote controller 21 (22), the user inputs an operation on the household electrical appliance permitted to operate. The remote controller 21 (22) transmits operation information indicating the input operation to the home appliance control apparatus 1.

  Based on the received operation information, the home electric appliance control device 1 generates a control signal instructing control of the electric home appliance input with the operation, and transmits the control signal to the home electric appliance for control.

  Communication between the remote controller 21 and the remote controller 22 and the home appliance control apparatus 1 is not limited to wireless, but may be wired. Moreover, the functions of the remote controller 21 and the remote controller 22 may be included in the home appliance control apparatus 1. The number of areas, the number of home appliances, and the number of remote controls are not limited to the example in FIG. There may be two or more groups in the same residence, and there may be one or more home appliances in one or more areas for each group.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of the home appliance control apparatus according to the first embodiment. The home appliance control apparatus 1 includes a group setting unit 11, a privacy setting unit 12, a storage unit 13, a user information acquisition unit 14, an operation screen generation unit 15, an operation screen transmission unit 16, an operation information acquisition unit 17, and a control signal generation unit 18. And a control signal transmission unit 19.

  The group setting unit 11 acquires group information indicating two or more groups and home electric appliances owned by each group. The group information may be input directly to the group setting unit 11 by the user, may be transmitted to the group setting unit 11 from a user terminal used by the user, or transmitted to the group setting unit 11 from the remote controller 21 (22). A possible configuration may be adopted. The privacy setting unit 12 acquires privacy information indicating a privacy level for each group. The privacy level is a setting of whether or not to allow browsing of home appliances of the own group and operation of home appliances. The privacy information may be directly input to the privacy setting unit 12 by the user, may be transmitted from the user terminal used by the user to the privacy setting unit 12, or transmitted from the remote control 21 (22) to the privacy setting unit 12. A possible configuration may be adopted.

  The group setting unit 11 and the privacy setting unit 12 generate home appliance information including two or more groups, home appliances held by each group, and a privacy level for each group based on the group information and the privacy information. Store in the storage unit 13. The group setting unit 11 and the privacy setting unit 12 update the home appliance information in the storage unit 13 each time group information and privacy information are acquired.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a privacy level according to the first embodiment. In the example of FIG. 3, the privacy level has three levels of “none”, “low”, and “high”. In the case of “None”, the information on the home appliances of the own group can be browsed by another group, and the other groups can operate the home appliances of the own group. In the case of “low”, the other group can browse the information of the home appliances of the own group, but the other groups cannot operate the home appliances of the own group. In the case of “high”, the other group cannot view the information of the home appliances of the own group, and the other group cannot operate the home appliances of the own group.

  2 receives the user group information indicating the group to which the user belongs from the remote controller 21 (22), and sends it to the operation screen generation unit 15. When the operation screen generation unit 15 receives the user group information, the operation screen generation unit 15 refers to the home appliance information stored in the storage unit 13 and displays an operation screen that matches the privacy level of the other group other than the group to which the user indicated by the user group information belongs. Generate. For example, when the privacy level of the other group is “high”, the operation screen generation unit 15 generates an operation screen that cannot be browsed and cannot be operated for the home appliances of the other group.

  The user information acquisition unit 14 acquires user identification information for identifying a user, and the operation screen generation unit 15 determines a group to which the user belongs based on information indicating users belonging to each group stored in advance. May be. Or the information which shows the user who belongs to each group is included in household appliance information, and the operation screen production | generation part 15 may determine the group to which a user belongs with reference to household appliance information.

  The operation screen generation unit 15 sends operation screen information indicating the generated operation screen to the operation screen transmission unit 16. When receiving the operation screen information, the operation screen transmission unit 16 transmits the operation screen information to the remote controller 21 (22) that is the transmission source of the user group information. The remote controller 21 (22) displays the operation screen indicated by the operation screen information received from the home appliance control apparatus 1. Note that the operation screen display unit may be configured on the remote controller 21 (22), or may be configured to be mounted on any of the home appliance control device 1 and the home appliances 41 to 49.

  When the operation information acquisition unit 17 receives the operation information from the remote controller 21 (22), the operation information acquisition unit 17 sends the operation information to the control signal generation unit 18. When receiving the operation information, the control signal generation unit 18 generates a control signal instructing control of the home appliance to which the operation is input. For example, when the operation indicated by the operation information is a power-on of the home appliance 41, the operation screen generation unit 15 generates a control signal instructing a control to turn on the home appliance 41. The control signal generator 18 sends the generated control signal to the control signal transmitter 19. When receiving the control signal, the control signal transmission unit 19 transmits the control signal to the home appliance and controls it.

  Note that the functions of the operation information acquisition unit 17, the control signal generation unit 18, and the control signal transmission unit 19 may be provided in the remote controller 21 and the remote controller 22 instead of the home appliance control apparatus 1. Moreover, it may replace with the group setting part 11 and the privacy setting part 12, and you may make it the structure which acquires household appliances information from the outside, and memorize | stores it in the memory | storage part 13. FIG. The group setting unit 11 and the privacy setting unit 12 are home appliance information acquisition units of the present invention.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of home appliance information according to the first embodiment. FIG. 4 shows an example of home appliance information stored in the home appliance control apparatus 1 of FIG. The home appliance information includes a “group” that identifies a group, an “area” that indicates an area corresponding to the group, a “home appliance” that indicates a home appliance owned by the group, and a privacy level of the group. Includes "Privacy Level". The “privacy level” item is set for each group. When the privacy level is set for each group, the “area” item may not be provided. For example, since the privacy level of the group A is “high”, the other groups cannot browse and operate the home appliances 41 to 45 owned by the group A.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of home appliance information when the privacy level according to Embodiment 1 is further set for each zone. FIG. 5 shows an example of home appliance information stored in the home appliance control apparatus 1 of FIG. As in FIG. 4, the home appliance information includes items of “group”, “area”, “home appliance”, and “privacy level”. The item of “privacy level” is set for each area. For example, since the privacy level of the area 51 is “high”, the other groups cannot browse and operate the household appliances 41 and the household appliances 42 arranged in the area 51.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of home appliance information when the privacy level according to Embodiment 1 is further set for each home appliance. FIG. 6 shows an example of home appliance information stored in the home appliance control apparatus 1 of FIG. Similarly to FIG. 4 and FIG. 5, the home appliance information includes items of “group”, “area”, “home appliance”, and “privacy level”. The item of “privacy level” is set for each home appliance. When the privacy level is set for each home appliance, the “area” item may be omitted. For example, since the privacy level of the home appliance 41 is “high”, the other group cannot browse and operate the home appliance 41.

  Hereinafter, an example of a two-family house having two groups of a parent household and a child household will be described with reference to FIGS. In the example of FIGS. 7 to 12, the areas of the child households are a living room 1, a Western-style room 1, a study 1, a Western-style room 2, and a Western-style room 3. The area of the parent household is a Japanese-style room 1, a storeroom 1, a Japanese-style room 2 and a living room 2. In each area, home appliances such as air conditioners, lighting and television are arranged. There is a remote control for each child and parent household.

  FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of an operation screen displayed on the remote control of the child household when the privacy level of the parent household is set to “none”. Since the privacy level of the parent household is set to “None”, the operation screen displayed on the remote control of the child household can browse the information of the household appliances of the parent household and operate the household appliances of the parent household. Is displayed.

  For example, when the display unit of the remote control is a touch panel, the method of browsing information on home appliances is to browse information on the electronic device (information such as power consumption and operating status) by tapping the name of the electronic device on the operation screen. Transition to the browsing screen that can be. The operation method of the home appliance transitions to an input screen where the operation of the electronic device can be input by double-tapping the name of the electronic device on the operation screen. The browsing method of household appliance information and the manipulation method of household appliances are not limited to this, and a browsing screen or an input screen may be displayed using an operation unit (for example, a selection button and a determination button) of a remote controller. You may enable browsing of information on home appliances and operation of home appliances without changing to the browsing screen and the input screen. Alternatively, the browsing screen and the input screen may be displayed in a pop-up manner.

  FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of an operation screen displayed on the remote control of the child household when the privacy level of the parent household is set to “low”. Because the privacy level of the parent household is set to “Low”, the operation screen displayed on the remote control of the child household can view the information on the household appliances of the parent household, but not to operate the household appliances of the parent household It is displayed. In the example of FIG. 8, it is displayed in a shaded manner on the names of household appliances of the parent household that cannot be operated.

  FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example of an operation screen displayed on the remote control of the child household when the privacy level of the parent household is set to “high”. Because the privacy level of the parent household is set to “High”, the operation screen displayed on the remote control of the child household cannot view the information on the household appliances of the parent household and cannot operate the household appliances of the parent household. Is displayed. In the example of FIG. 9, the name of the household electrical appliance of the parent household that cannot be viewed or operated is not displayed, and the frame is displayed with a broken line.

  FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of an operation screen displayed on the remote control of the child household when the privacy level is further set for each area. In the example of FIG. 10, the privacy level of the Japanese-style room 1 of the parent household is set to “low”, the privacy level of the storage 1 is set to “none”, the privacy level of the Japanese-style room 2 is set to “high”, and the privacy level of the living room 2 is set to “high”. Has been. On the operation screen displayed on the remote control of the child household, the home appliances in the Japanese-style room 1 whose privacy level is set to “low” are displayed in a shaded manner on the name. The home appliances in the Japanese-style room 2 and the living room 2 in which the privacy level is set to “high” do not display names, but display frames with broken lines.

  FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating an example of an operation screen displayed on the remote control of the child household when the privacy level is further set for each home appliance. In the example of FIG. 11, the privacy level of the air conditioner in the Japanese-style room 1 of the parent household is “high”, the privacy level of the lighting is “low”, the privacy level of the lighting in the storage 1 is “none”, and the privacy level of the TV in the Japanese-style room 2 is “Low”, the privacy level of the lighting in the living room 2 is set to “none”, and the privacy level of the television is set to “low”. In the operation screen displayed on the remote control of the child household, the lighting of the Japanese-style room 1 with the privacy level set to “low”, the television of the Japanese-style room 2 and the television of the living room 2 are displayed in shades on the names. ing. The name of the air conditioner in the Japanese-style room 1 with the privacy level set to “high” is displayed with a broken line.

  FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating another example of the operation screen displayed on the remote control of the child household when the privacy level is further set for each home appliance. For two or more home appliances in an area shared by a plurality of groups, a group for setting the privacy level of the home appliances may be divided. In the example of FIG. 12, for the lighting 1 of the entrance 1 shared by two households, the child household sets the privacy level to “none”, and for the lighting 2, the parent household sets the privacy level to “low”. On the operation screen displayed on the remote control of the child household, the lighting 2 of the entrance 1 shared by the two households is displayed in a shaded manner on the name.

  FIG. 13 is a flowchart illustrating an example of the operation of home appliance control processing according to the first embodiment. The home appliance control process starts when the remote controller 21 (22) and the home appliance control apparatus 1 are activated.

  When user group information is not input to the remote controller 21 (22) (step S11; NO), step S11 is repeated, and input of user group information is awaited. When the user group information is input (step S11; YES), the remote controller 21 (22) transmits the input user group information to the home appliance control apparatus 1 (step S12).

  When receiving the user group information from the remote controller 21 (22) (step S21), the user information acquisition unit 14 of the home appliance control apparatus 1 sends the user group information to the operation screen generation unit 15. When the operation screen generation unit 15 receives the user group information, the operation screen generation unit 15 refers to the home appliance information stored in the storage unit 13 and specifies the privacy level of a group other than the group to which the user indicated by the user group information belongs (step S22). ). The operation screen generation unit 15 generates an operation screen that matches the privacy level of the other group (step S23), and sends operation screen information indicating the generated operation screen to the operation screen transmission unit 16. When receiving the operation screen information, the operation screen transmission unit 16 transmits the operation screen information to the remote controller 21 (22) that is the transmission source of the user group information (step S24).

  When the remote control 21 (22) receives the operation screen information from the home appliance control apparatus 1 (step S13), the remote control 21 (22) displays the operation screen indicated by the operation screen information (step S14). When no operation is input to the remote controller 21 (22) (step S15; NO), step S15 is repeated and the operation input is waited. When an operation is input (step S15; YES), the remote controller 21 (22) transmits operation information indicating the input operation to the home electric appliance control apparatus 1 (step S16), and the process ends.

  When receiving the operation information from the remote controller 21 (22) (step S25), the operation information acquisition unit 17 of the home appliance control device 1 sends the operation information to the control signal generation unit 18. When receiving the operation information, the control signal generation unit 18 generates a control signal instructing control of the home appliance to which the operation is input (step S26), and sends the generated control signal to the control signal transmission unit 19. The control signal transmission unit 19 transmits the received control signal to the home electric appliance for control (step S27), and ends the process.

  As described above, according to the home appliance control system 100 of the first embodiment, by displaying an operation screen according to the privacy level of a group other than the group to which the user belongs, the home appliance in the same residence can be displayed. When there are two or more groups to be used, it is possible to limit browsing and operation of information on home appliances for each group. Moreover, since one household appliance control device 1 can manage household appliance information of a plurality of groups (households), it is possible to reduce the cost and simplify the management system that links the entire area to which the plurality of houses 10 belong. It becomes possible to plan.

(Embodiment 2)
In Embodiment 1, browsing and operation of home appliance information is limited for each group, but in Embodiment 2, browsing or operation of home appliance information is performed for each user by associating an area or home appliance with the user. Limit to. The configuration of home appliance control system 100 and home appliance control apparatus 1 of the second embodiment is the same as that of the first embodiment.

  In Embodiment 2, the group setting unit 11 of the home appliance control apparatus 1 acquires group information indicating two or more groups, users belonging to each group, and home appliances owned by each group. The privacy setting unit 12 acquires privacy information indicating a privacy level for each area or household appliance associated with the user. The group setting unit 11 and the privacy setting unit 12 include two or more groups, users belonging to each group, home electric appliances owned by each group, and areas associated with the users based on the group information and privacy information. Alternatively, home appliance information including a privacy level for each home appliance is generated and stored in the storage unit 13. Further, similarly to the first embodiment, instead of the group setting unit 11 and the privacy setting unit 12, the home appliance information may be acquired from the outside and stored in the storage unit 13.

  The user inputs user identification information for identifying the user to the remote controller 21 (22). The user identification information may be input manually, by reading an ID card in which the user identification information is stored, or using an authentication technique such as biometric authentication. The remote controller 21 (22) transmits user identification information input by the user to the home appliance control apparatus 1.

  The user information acquisition unit 14 of the home appliance control apparatus 1 receives user identification information from the remote controller 21 (22). The operation screen generation unit 15 refers to the home appliance information stored in the storage unit 13 and generates an operation screen according to the privacy level of the user other than the user indicated by the user identification information.

  FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating an example of a privacy level according to the second embodiment. In the example of FIG. 14, there are four levels of privacy levels: “none”, “low”, “medium”, and “high”. In the case of “None”, the information on the home appliances of the own group can be browsed by the user of the other group, and the home appliances of the own group can be operated by the user of the other group. In the case of “low”, the user of the other group can browse the information of the home appliances of the own group, but the user of the other group cannot operate the home appliances of the own group. In the case of “medium”, the user of the other group cannot view the information of the home appliances of the own group, and the user of the other group cannot operate the home appliances of the own group. In the case of “high”, the information of the home appliances of the own group cannot be browsed by the user of the other group, and the home appliances of the own group cannot be operated by the user of the other group. Further, other users than the user in the own group can view but cannot operate.

  FIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating an example of home appliance information when the privacy level according to Embodiment 2 is set for each zone associated with a user. FIG. 15 shows an example of home appliance information stored in the home appliance control apparatus 1 of FIG. The home appliance information includes items “user” associated with the area in addition to the items “group”, “area”, “home appliance”, and “privacy level” as in FIGS. 4 to 6. The user to be used is determined for each area, and the item of “privacy level” is set for each area.

  For example, since the user in the area 51 is the user U1 and the privacy level is “high”, the home appliances 41 and 42 arranged in the area 51 cannot be viewed by users in other groups, and ,It can not be operated. Moreover, although the user U2 who belongs to the same group A can browse the home appliance 41 and the home appliance 42, the user U2 cannot operate.

  FIG. 16 is a diagram illustrating an example of home appliance information when the privacy level according to Embodiment 2 is set for each home appliance associated with a user. FIG. 16 shows an example of home appliance information stored in the home appliance control apparatus 1 of FIG. The home appliance information includes the items “user” associated with the home appliance in addition to the items “group”, “area”, “home appliance”, and “privacy level” similar to FIG. 4 to FIG. 6. . The user to be used for each home appliance is determined, and the item “privacy level” is set for each home appliance. When the privacy level is set for each home appliance associated with the user, the “area” item may not be present.

  For example, since the user of the household electrical appliance 41 is the user U1 and the privacy level of the household electrical appliance 41 is “high”, users of other groups cannot browse and operate the household electrical appliance 41. In addition, the user U2 belonging to the same group A can view the home appliance 41 but cannot operate it. Since the privacy level of the home appliance 42 is “medium”, users of other groups cannot view and operate the home appliance 42, but the user U2 belonging to the same group A can browse. It is possible to operate.

  Hereinafter, an example of a two-family house having two groups of a parent household and a child household similar to FIGS. 7 to 12 will be described with reference to FIGS. 17 and 18.

  FIG. 17 is a diagram illustrating an example of an operation screen displayed on the remote control of the child household when the privacy level is set for each area associated with the user and the mother inputs the user identification information. In the example of FIG. 17, the living room 1 of the child household is shared by the father, mother and son, the privacy level is “medium”, the user in the Western room 1 is the father and the privacy level is “medium”, and the user in the study 1 is the father and the privacy level. Is set to “high”, the user in Western room 2 is the son and the privacy level is “low”, the user in Western room 3 is the mother and the privacy level is set to “medium”. The privacy level of entrance 1 shared by two households is set to “none”.

  The user in the Japanese-style room 1 of the parent household is the grandfather and the privacy level is “low”, the storage 1 is shared by the grandfather and grandmother and the privacy level is “none”, the user in the Japanese-style room 2 is the grandmother and the privacy level is “medium”, and the living room 2 is The privacy level is set to “high” for sharing by grandfather and grandmother.

  When the mother inputs user identification information to the remote controller, the home appliances in the Japanese-style room 1 with the privacy level of the parent household set to “Low” are shaded on the name on the operation screen displayed on the remote control of the child household. Is displayed. The home appliances in the Japanese-style room 2 and the living room 2 in which the privacy level is set to “high” or “medium” do not display names but display frames with broken lines. Also in the child households, the home appliances in the study 1 in which the user is other than the mother (father) and the privacy level is set to “high” are displayed on the name in a shaded manner.

  FIG. 18 is a diagram illustrating an example of an operation screen displayed on the remote control of the child household when the privacy level is set for each home appliance associated with the user and the mother inputs the user identification information. In the example of FIG. 18, the users in each area are the same as in FIG. The privacy level of the air conditioner in the living room 1 of the child household is “low”, the privacy level of the lighting is “none”, the privacy level of the TV is “high”, the privacy level of the TV in the Western room 1 is “medium”, and the lighting of the study 1 The privacy level is set to “high”, the privacy level of the lighting in the Western-style room 2 is set to “none”, the privacy level of the air conditioner in the Western-style room 3 is set to “low”, and the privacy level of the lighting is set to “medium”. The privacy level of the lighting 1 and the lighting 2 of the entrance 1 shared by two households is set to “none”.

  The privacy level of the air conditioner in the Japanese-style room 1 of the parent household is “high”, the privacy level of the lighting is “low”, the privacy level of the lighting in the storage 1 is “none”, the privacy level of the TV in the Japanese-style room 2 is “medium”, and the living room 2 The privacy level of lighting is set to “none” and the privacy level of the television is set to “low”.

  When the mother inputs user identification information to the remote control, the lighting of the Japanese-style room 1 with the privacy level of the parent household set to “low” and the TV in the living room 2 are displayed on the operation screen displayed on the remote control of the child household. It is shaded on the top. The air conditioner in the Japanese-style room 1 with the privacy level set to “high” and the television in the re-styled room 2 with the privacy level set to “medium” do not display names but display the frames with broken lines. Also in the child household, the lighting of the study 1 in which the user is other than the mother (father) and the privacy level is set to “high” is displayed in a shaded manner on the name.

  In addition, as for two or more shared household electrical appliances, any shared user may be able to change the privacy level, or users who set the privacy level of the household electrical appliance may be distributed.

  As described above, according to the home appliance control system 100 according to the second embodiment, the same operation is performed by displaying an operation screen in accordance with the privacy level of not only a user of another group but also another user of the same group other than the user. When there are two or more groups that use household electrical appliances in their homes, it is possible to restrict browsing and operation of household electrical appliance information for each user. Thereby, for example, it is possible to prevent an undesired operation such as changing the temperature setting of the air conditioner in the room where the child is mischievous or accidentally resting the elderly.

  In the above embodiment, the case where there are two or more groups using home appliances in the same residence has been described. However, the application of the present invention is not limited to residences and home appliances, for example, commercial buildings and factories The present invention can also be applied to cases where there are two or more groups that use electrical equipment in the same building. Thereby, in a commercial building or a factory, it is possible to cope with a case where it is desired to restrict operations from users of other groups, browsing of information on electric devices from specific users of the same group, and operations of electric devices.

  In the above embodiment, an example of a two-family house is given as a residence. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and a residence such as a condominium where a related household lives, a dormitory, or a share house may be used.

  Further, when the above functions are realized by sharing an OS (Operating System) and an application, or by cooperation between the OS and the application, only the part other than the OS may be stored in the medium.

  Furthermore, each program can be superimposed on a carrier wave and distributed via a communication network. For example, the program may be posted on a bulletin board (BBS, Bulletin Board System) on a communication network, and the program may be distributed via the network. And you may comprise so that the household appliance control apparatus 1 can perform each above-mentioned process by starting these programs and performing similarly to another application program under control of OS. Further, the remote controller 21 (22) is configured by a portable terminal such as a portable tablet or a smartphone, and the portable terminal or an external server (not shown) executes an application program, thereby the home appliance control apparatus 1 A part or all of the functions may be realized. Therefore, the “home appliance control apparatus 1” indicates a single device such as a so-called HEMS controller, a server device, or a mobile terminal. In addition, since it is assumed that a function of the home appliance control device 1 is realized by combining a plurality of devices such as a HEMS controller, a server device, or a mobile terminal, the “home appliance control device 1” is not limited to a single device. However, for example, the term “HEMS controller and server device”, “portable terminal and server device”, “HEMS controller and portable terminal”, “HEMS controller, server device and portable terminal”, etc. Good.

  The hardware configuration of such home appliance control apparatus 1 will be described. FIG. 19 is a diagram illustrating a hardware configuration example of the home appliance control apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention. The home appliance control apparatus 1 includes a processor 101 such as a CPU (Central Processing Unit), a memory 102, and an interface 103. The processor 101 reads out and executes an application program stored in the memory 102, thereby controlling the home appliance. Each function of the device 1 is realized. In other words, the home appliance control apparatus 1 stores a program that, when executed by the processor 101, for example, a step of acquiring home appliance information, a step of generating an operation screen, and the like are executed as a result. It can be said that the memory 102 is provided. Moreover, it can be said that such an application program causes a computer to execute procedures and methods such as the home appliance information acquisition unit and the operation screen generation unit 15. Here, the memory corresponds to, for example, a nonvolatile or volatile semiconductor memory such as RAM, ROM, flash memory, EPROM, EEPROM, a magnetic disk, a flexible disk, an optical disk, a compact disk, a mini disk, a DVD, or the like. .

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Home appliance control apparatus, 10 residence, 11 group setting part, 12 privacy setting part, 13 memory | storage part, 14 user information acquisition part, 15 operation screen production | generation part, 16 operation screen transmission part, 17 operation information acquisition part, 18 control signal Generation unit, 19 Control signal transmission unit, 21, 22 Remote controller (remote controller), 41-49 household appliance, 51-56 area, 100 household appliance control system, 101 processor, 102 memory, 103 interface.

Claims (9)

A home appliance control device that displays an operation screen capable of browsing home appliance information held by two or more groups in the same residence and operating the home appliance,
Home appliance information including the two or more groups, the home appliances possessed by each group, and a privacy level that indicates whether the home appliances retained by each group are browsed and whether or not the home appliances are operable. A home appliance information acquisition unit for acquiring
A user information acquisition unit for acquiring user group information indicating the group to which the user belongs;
An operation screen generation unit that refers to the home appliance information and generates the operation screen according to the privacy level of a group other than the group to which the user indicated by the user group information belongs,
Home appliance control device comprising: The home appliance information acquisition unit
A group setting unit for acquiring group information indicating the two or more groups and the home electric appliances each group holds;
A privacy setting unit for acquiring privacy information indicating the privacy level for each group;
Including
The household appliance control apparatus of Claim 1 which produces | generates the said household appliance information based on the said group information and the said privacy information. The residence has two or more areas where the home appliances are arranged,
The home appliance control apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the privacy level of the home appliance information is further set for each of the areas.   The home appliance control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the privacy level of the home appliance information is further set for each home appliance. The residence has two or more areas where the home appliances are arranged,
The home appliance information includes the two or more groups, users belonging to each group, the home appliances held by each group, and a privacy level for each area associated with the user,
The user information acquisition unit acquires user identification information for identifying the user,
The operation screen generation unit refers to the home appliance information, and generates the operation screen according to the privacy level of a user other than the user indicated by the user identification information.
The home appliance control apparatus according to claim 1. The home appliance information includes the two or more groups, users belonging to each group, the home appliances owned by each group, and a privacy level for each home appliance associated with the user,
The user information acquisition unit acquires user identification information for identifying the user,
The operation screen generation unit generates the operation screen according to a privacy level of a user other than the user indicated by the user identification information with reference to the home appliance information.
The home appliance control apparatus according to claim 1. An operation information acquisition unit for acquiring operation information indicating the operation of the home appliance input on the operation screen;
A control signal generation unit for generating a control signal of the home appliance from the operation information;
The home electric appliance control device according to any one of claims 1 to 6, further comprising:   8. The home appliance control system further comprising: the home appliance control apparatus according to claim 1; and at least one remote controller that displays the operation screen and inputs an operation on the home appliance. . On a computer that displays an operation screen that allows browsing of information on home appliances owned by two or more groups in the same residence and operation of the home appliances,
Home appliance information including the two or more groups, the home appliances possessed by each group, and a privacy level that indicates whether the home appliances retained by each group are browsed and whether or not the home appliances are operable. And user group information indicating the group to which the user belongs,
The household appliance control program which produces | generates the said operation screen matched with the said privacy level of other groups other than the said group to which the said user which the said user group information belongs belongs.

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