Indoor and Remote Controls. and Management of Home Appliances by a Smartphone with a Four-quadrant User Interface

This paper proposes a design both for indoor and remote controls and for management of home appliances by a smartphone by utilizing a four-quadrant user interface. This design features the use of a low power Bluetooth to connect indoor home appliances. A mobile Internet is used to connect home appliances to a smartphone at the remote-side mode. For home appliance management, this design not only measures but also monitors the power consumption of the home appliances. For the user interface, this design uses the Bluetooth allocation function to display the exact position of home appliances at home and combines with a four-quadrant user interface of a smartphone to provide a more user-friendly operation.