Electrolux Appliances Aktiebolag

Kurt Reul

Christoph Luckhardt

Arnd Hofmann

Michael Herzog

Brendan McGinnis

Harald Hoffmann

Jennifer Burkhardt

Ulrich Häutle

Ashish Ainapure

Martin Knausenberger

Lukas Kencl

Steve Swayne

Frank Blümel

Petr Tahal

Andreas Folkesson

Bianca Puchinger (Former Häuslein)

Stefano Carrella

Kersten Kaiser

Jennifer Kling

Thomas Schulz

Bianca Häuslein

A method of controlling a home appliance connected to the Internet via a gateway and an appliance control server of an appliance control cloud. The appliance executes control commands for operating the appliance received from the Internet via the gateway only if the commands are received from the appliance control cloud. A control command supply server of a control command supply cloud is connected to the home appliance control cloud via the Internet, and has at least one repository storing control instruction sets to operate the appliance. The method includes authenticating a request for remote control of the appliance received from the control command supply server via the Internet, and, responsive to positive authentication, forwarding control commands from the control command supply server to the appliance. The control commands are part of a set of instructions from the repository selected based on input received by a user terminal device.

Method of controlling a home appliance and control system

A wireless communication used in a kitchen environment can be supervised and improved as a consequence of the supervision and indication. A sensor device () that communicates with a household appliance e.g. a kitchen hob () via a wireless communication line () can be used for automated cooking processes, and the kitchen hob () includes an indicator () to indicate the received signal strength of a wireless signal. A receiver () can be used to generate signal strength information for the indicator (). A user is readily informed and can take corrective measures, once no proper wireless signal is available. Also, a feedback to a user can be given at the sensor device () by light or vibrating signals in order to take corrective measures.

Household appliance, household appliance arrangement and cooking system

A method to safeguard an automated process in a household appliance, such as an assisted cooking process which has failure detection routines and failure handling routines. A number of failures and errors are discussed and a response to a detected failure is based on a control parameter such as an input power to the cooking process in order to trigger the magnitude of the response. A corresponding computer program product and kitchen hob with a sensor are provided as well.

Method, computer program product and arrangement for guarding an automated process to operate a household appliance based on a sensor measurement to provide an expected process parameter

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Kurt Reul