Smart home Wifi pcba controller for home appliance

Network PCBA controller for home appliances

Home appliance manufacturers can turn their legacy products into completely new generation of products by using our OEM/ODM services of network PCBA controllers. These new products will have network control capability upgrade and can bring unprecedented convenience and ease to the end users. The hardware upgrade is usually a fairly straightforward integration of a network module into the traditional home appliance PCBA controllers. It is the software upgrade and new ways to control home appliance that revitalize the legacy products.

Our dedicated teams have extensive experience and expertise in developing application software. Although the user interfaces can have many different varieties, the ways to control home appliance with network PCBA controller can be defined as either Smartphone Direct Control or Central Hub Control. The most striking difference between these two ways of controls is as follows:

Smartphone Direct Control: Manual control for individual appliance only, and

Central Hub Control: Automatic control for one or more appliances. It usually involves other smart devices such as smart sensors.

Smartphone Direct Control is the simplest way to control home appliance with PCBA network controller. It relies on point-to-point communication. This document explains Smartphone Direct Control only.

As shown in Fig. 1, a smartphone can be used simply as a remote to control home appliance with a PCBA network controller. Of course, it is the best remote control! Its friendly user interface can deliver very enjoyable experience, its WiFi signal can work very reliably at relatively long distance, and it can show operation status of home appliance because of available two-way communication.

Another way of Smartphone Direct Control is point-to-point control via internet, as shown in Fig. 2. The home appliance with network PCBA controller can be linked to the internet through a wireless router, and then it can be monitored and controlled by a smartphone anywhere as long as the smartphone can have access to the internet via a WiFi access point or via direct web service of a phone service provider. The smartphone can be even thousands miles away from the home appliance.

Smartphone Direct Control is cool, but unfortunately it is still not automatic. The user is still the one controlling everything manually. For many applications, minimum human intervention is desirable or even essential once the system is set up. To respond to changes in real time, Home System or Building System must be fully automated. The system needs to automatically collect information about a home environment or a building environment, such as temperature, humidity, occupancy, etc., to process the collected information and send control commands to home appliance such as air conditioner, humidifier, etc. All these tasks can be coordinated or performed by a central control hub. For further details, please see another document titled Central Hub Control of Home Appliance with Network PCBA Controller.