Intelligent gardening system and external device communicating therewith

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10791684-B2
Application number	US-201615547337-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 29, 2016
Priority date	Jan 29, 2015
Publication date	Oct 6, 2020
Grant date	Oct 6, 2020

Abstract

The present invention relates to an intelligent gardening system, for monitoring and controlling gardening apparatuses in a gardening area, including: multiple sensors that collect environmental information of the gardening area; one or more gardening apparatuses that perform gardening work according to a control instruction; and a control center that generates the control instruction based on the environmental information; wherein the sensors, the gardening apparatuses and the control center communicate with each other to form an Internet of Things.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An intelligent gardening system, for monitoring and controlling gardening apparatuses in a gardening area, comprising:
multiple sensors that collect environmental information of the gardening area;
multiple gardening apparatuses that perform gardening work according to a control instruction;
a self-moving device that is capable of autonomously moving in the gardening area; and
a control center that generates the control instruction based on the environmental information; wherein the sensors, the gardening apparatuses and the control center communicate with each other to form an Internet of Things;
wherein the intelligent gardening system comprises multiple operating modes that comprise a party mode, a security mode, a vacation mode and a home mode, the control center configures operating statuses of the sensors and the gardening apparatuses according to one of the modes in response to a user instruction, wherein:
in the party mode, the intelligent gardening system configures operating parameters suitable for holding a party in the gardening area and multiple gardening apparatuses leave or stop operating in personnel activity areas in the gardening area;
in the security mode, the intelligent gardening system configures operating parameters suitable for users' leaving home and the gardening apparatuses perform security work;
in the vacation mode, the intelligent gardening system configures operating parameters suitable for users' leaving home for several days and some facilities in the gardening area are turned off; and
in the home mode, the intelligent gardening system configures operating parameters suitable for users' being at home and the intelligent gardening system adjusts operating parameters of the gardening apparatuses to reduce operating noise;
wherein the intelligent gardening system communicates with an external device, and sends data generated in the operation to the external device, and the external device comprises at least one of a manufacturer device, a service provider device, a distributor device, and a designer device.

2. The intelligent gardening system according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of the gardening apparatuses is disposed on the self-moving device capable of autonomously moving in the gardening area.

3. The intelligent gardening system according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of the sensors is located on the self-moving device capable of autonomously moving in the gardening area, and the sensor moves with the self-moving device to collect environmental information of multiple positions.

4. The intelligent gardening system according to claim 1 , wherein the sensors comprise at least one of a thermistor sensor, an environment detection sensor, a soil detection sensor, a vegetation detection sensor, a lawn detection sensor and a foreign substance detection sensor, the thermistor sensor is located on a housing of the self-moving device, the thermistor sensor detects an environment temperature value, the environment detection sensor detects at least one of humidity, temperature, wind speed, illumination, PM2.5, PM10, pollen concentration, UV intensity, rain condition, snow condition and noise value in an environment of the gardening area, the soil detection sensor detects at least one of humidity, temperature, nutrients and PH value of the soil, the vegetation detection sensor detects at least one of moisture, nutrition, pests and heights of vegetation, the lawn detection sensor detects at least one of density, distribution, bald grasses and weeds of a lawn, the foreign substance detection sensor detects at least one of pets, excrement, metal, glass, dead leaves and ground collapse in the gardening area.

5. The intelligent gardening system according to claim 1 , wherein the gardening apparatuses comprise at least one of a sprinkler, a fertilizer apparatus, a plant pruning apparatus, a soil treatment apparatus and an animal herding apparatus, the animal herding apparatus herds animals using at least one of ultrasound, sound and water column.

6. The intelligent gardening system according to claim 1 , wherein the intelligent gardening system further comprises a locating apparatus located on the self-moving device, to acquire position information of a particular position while acquiring environmental information of the particular position, and the control module generates, according to the environmental information and the position information of the particular position, a control instruction of controlling an operating module at the particular position.

7. The intelligent gardening system according to claim 1 , wherein the control center is located on the self-moving device.

8. The intelligent gardening system according to claim 1 , wherein the control center comprises a memory that stores data monitored by the sensor and/or analytical/statistical data of the intelligent gardening system.

9. The intelligent gardening system according to claim 1 , wherein the control center comprises a depth learning module that learns, according to input signals of at least one sensor, users' usage habits and optimizes operating parameters of the intelligent gardening system.

10. The intelligent gardening system according to claim 1 , wherein the Internet of Things transmits data between at least part of nodes in the form of encryption.

11. The intelligent gardening system according to claim 1 , wherein the control center comprises a data sharing module that can send data of the intelligent gardening system to a particular target under the control of a user.

12. The intelligent gardening system according to claim 11 , wherein the particular target is a social network platform, and the data comprises at least one of gardening images, gardening achievement and summarized gardening data.

13. The intelligent gardening system according to claim 11 , wherein the particular target is a commercial data platform, and the data comprises at least one of user gardening condition information, user habit information and gardening material requirement information.

14. The intelligent gardening system according to claim 1 , wherein the intelligent gardening system is connected to an external Internet of Things, and optimizes an operating procedure of the intelligent gardening system based on data of the external Internet of Things.

15. The intelligent gardening system according to claim 14 , wherein the external Internet of Things is an Internet of Things of a user's home.

16. The intelligent gardening system according to claim 1 , wherein the intelligent gardening system has a distributed computing network that comprises multiple sensors and/or computing units of the gardening apparatuses.

17. The intelligent gardening system according to claim 16 , wherein the distributed computing network is connected to external computing resources, and receives computing results from the external computing resources.

18. The intelligent gardening system according to claim 1 , wherein the intelligent gardening system comprises a D-GPS base station, and the intelligent gardening system is connected to an external Internet of Things system and shares signals of the D-GPS base station therewith.

19. The intelligent gardening system according to claim 1 , wherein the self-moving device is an unmanned aerial vehicle that is provided with a camera.

20. The intelligent gardening system according to claim 1 , wherein the control center generates, according to gardening data produced in the work of the intelligent gardening s

Assignees

• Positec Power Tools Suzhou Co Ltd

Inventors

• He Mingming
• Sun Gen
• Rao yue
• Shao Yong
• Liu Fangshi
• Wu Jun
• Zhou Chang

Classifications

• A01G25/167 Primary

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• H04L67/12 Primary

  specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks · CPC title

• H04L65/40

  Support for services or applications · CPC title

• H04L67/52

  specially adapted for the location of the user terminal · CPC title

• Y02P60/21

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