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Sylvain Pognant

Florent Pellarin

Hubert Cosserat

The present disclosure relates to a method of configuring a central control unit belonging to a home-automation installation or a home-automation device including a central control unit and belonging to a home-automation installation, the method being implemented by the central control unit and including the following steps: Obtaining of a location identifier of a first remote configuration service; Dispatching of a configuration request destined for the first remote configuration service (Svclc) by using the location identifier and linked with an identifier of the central control unit; Reception of at least one set of data or of configuration instructions and/or of at least one identifier of a second functional remote service originating from the first remote configuration service (Svclc); Configuration on the basis of the at least one set of data or of configuration instructions and/or of the at least one identifier of a second functional remote service.

Method of configuring a central control unit belonging to a home-automation installation

A method of remotely configuring access to at least one home automation device that is part of a home-automation installation, the home automation installation comprising at least one home automation device and at least one central control unit, and the method being performed by a first remote access service carried out by a management unit and including the following steps: receiving an information message relating to the presence of the home automation device from a central control unit to which the device is linked; determining a second service associated with the type of home automation device for which remote access must be configured with corresponding access rules; configuring an access rights reference system in order to accept at least one control command from the second service or transmitting monitoring data to the second service on behalf of the home automation device. The present application also relates to a control and monitoring method.

Method for remotely configuring access to, controlling and monitoring at least one home automation device forming part of a home automation installation

The present invention relates to a method for configuring a second home automation device (D) by means of replacing a first home automation device (D), the method comprising the following steps: recording (ERU) at least one set of configuration data or instructions (cfg) associated with a unique identifier of a first home automation device (D); receiving (ERU) a configuration request from a second home automation device (D); determining (ERU) an association between the second home automation device (D) on the one hand and the first home automation device (D) on the other hand; determining (ERU) at least one set of configuration data or instructions (cfg) associated with the second home automation device (D); sending (ERU) at least one configuration message (MCfg) comprising the at least one set of configuration data or instructions (cfg) to the second home automation device (D).

Method for configuring a home automation device belonging to a home automation installation

The present invention relates to a method for configuring a management unit connected to at least one home automation equipment comprising at least one home automation device (D) and at least one central control unit (U), the method being implemented by a management unit (Sv) and comprising the following steps: configuring (EcfSv) an alert (Al) corresponding to the triggering of an alert notification and/or an action when a triggering condition (Cnd) is produced relating to at least one state variable for a home automation device (D), a group of home automation devices (D), a type of home automation device (DT) or a group of types of home automation devices (DT); the step of configuring an alert (Al) being carried out on the basis of instructions of a first user (Usr) having a first user profile type; declaring (ECfUsr) the monitoring of an assembly of home automation devices (D) comprising at least one home automation device (D) for which at least one alert (Al) has been configured by a second user (Usr) having a second user profile type, downloading the alert (Al) condition (Cnd) on at least one central control unit (U) to which at least one home automation device (D) belonging to the group of home automation devices (D) is connected, in order to configure the home automation device (D) for evaluating the condition (Cnd) and sending a notification of production of the condition to the management unit. The present invention also relates to a method for monitoring said equipment.

Method for configuring and supervising a home automation installation

A method for configuring home automation installation including at least one home automation device capable of communicating with at least one central control unit, the method being executed by a management unit capable of communicating with the at least one central control unit; the method including the following steps: receiving, from the central control unit, at least one configuration message relating to at least one home automation device; obtaining a location identifier of the at least one home automation device; recording a correspondence between the location identifier of the at least one home automation device and at least one identification element contained in the configuration message; recording at least one type of the at least one home automation device; and/or the at least one definition of a function, a state variable and/or a function conversion rule. Also disclosed is a control method and a monitoring method.

Method for configuring, monitoring or supervising a home automation installation

The present invention relates to a method of remotely configuring access to at least one home automation device (D) that is part of a home automation installation (Su), the home automation installation comprising at least one home automation device (D) and at least one central control unit (U), and the method being performed by a first remote access service (Svc) carried out by a management unit and comprising the following steps: receiving (ECfSvc; ECfSvc) a remote access request (MP, Min) relating to at least one home automation device (D) linked to the profile of a user (Usr) and intended for a second service (Svc), the request being relative to an identifier (UsrlID) of the user (UsrlID) with the first service (Svc); receiving (ECfSvc, ECfSvc) an authorization in reply to the access request by the user (Usr); configuring (ECfSvc) an access authorization repository so as to accept at least one control command (MCa) arriving from a second service (Svc), or the transmission of monitoring data (MSa) to the second service (Svc) for the home automation device (D) linked to the user profile (USr). The invention also relates to a control and monitoring method.

Method for configuring remote access controlling, and supervising at least one home automation device belonging to a home automation installation

The present invention relates to a method of remotely configuring access to at least one home automation device (D) that is part of a home-automation installation (Su), the home automation installation comprising at least one home automation device (D) and at least one central control unit (U), and the method being performed by a first remote access service (Svc) carried out by a management unit (Sv) and comprising the following steps: receiving (ECfSvc) an information message (MIn) relating to the presence of the home automation device (D) from a central control unit (U) to which the device (D) is linked; determining (ECfSvc) a second service (Svc) associated with the type of home automation device (D) for which remote access must be configured with corresponding access rules; configuring (ECfSvc) an access rights reference system in order to accept at least one control command (MCa) from the second service (Svc) or transmitting monitoring data (MSa) to the second service (Svc) on behalf of the home automation device (D). The invention also relates to a control and monitoring method.

Method for configuring remote access, control and supervision of at least one home automation device belonging to a home automation installation

The present invention relates to a method for configuring, a method for monitoring and a method for controlling at least one home-automation system of a building, said home-automation system comprising a plurality of home-automation devices, wherein each home-automation device is represented by at least one instance of a generic device model (GDM) and least one instance of a low-level device model (RDM), the method being executed by a CPU connected to the at least one home-automation system and comprising the following steps: determination of a status, model or control conversion that converts status, model or control variables between the low-level model and the generic model.

Methods for configuring, monitoring and controlling at least one home automation installation of a building

The present invention relates to a method for controlling access to a user service (Svc) intended to control a home-automation installation (Su) comprising at least one home-automation device (D) and at least one central control unit (U), the method being implemented by a managing unit (Sv) and comprising the following steps: a step (Escv) of receiving from a maintenance user (Usr) a request to access the user service (Svc) as a final user (Usr), based on an identifier of the final user (UsrID) and an authentication token (TkD); a step (ESvc) of verifying the validity of the authentication token (TkD) via a repository (SvAuth) for authenticating token validity, in order to authenticate as a final user (Usr) with a view to access to the user service (Svc); and a step (ESvc) of authorising access of the maintenance user (Usr) to the user service (Svc) as final user (Usr) if the identification token (TkD) is observed to be valid.

Method for monitoring access to a user service intended for monitoring of a home-automation installation

The present invention relates to a method for incident management of home automation equipment comprising at least one home automation device (D) and at least one central control unit (U), the method being implemented by a management unit (Sv) and comprising the following steps: a step (EDSv) of receiving a diagnosis request concerning at least one central control unit (U) belonging to the home automation equipment or at least one home automation device belonging to the home automation equipment (St); a step (EDS) of sending at least one diagnosis request message to the at least one central control unit (U) concerned by the diagnosis request or to the at least one central control unit (U) to which the at least one home automation device concerned by the diagnosis request is attached; a step (EDSv) of receiving a diagnosis result coming from a central control unit (U); a step (EDSv) of providing a diagnosis report to the maintenance user (USAV), comprising: information concerning the communication between the management unit and the home automation device or the central control unit concerned by the diagnosis request, and/or, if the home automation device or the central control unit can communicate such a result: the last known values of the state variables for the home automation devices (D) and for the central control units (U); and/or the results of commands or connection attempts initiated by the end user (UsrF).

Method for incident management of a home automation installation

The present invention relates to a home automation equipment configuration method including the following steps: receiving (ELRSv) at least one configuration message (Mcf), the at least one configuration message being related to at least one attribute for access of a user (Usr) to at least one home automation device (D) from the equipment, selecting (ELRSv) or creating a user profile (UsrP) corresponding to the user (Usr) in question, selecting (ELRSv) or creating an entity (RE) representing the at least one home automation device in the event that there is no representative entity in the representative entity repository (RERf), and selecting (ELRSv) or creating an association (A) between the at least one user profile (UsrP) and the at least one representative entity (RE), the at least one access attribute being assigned to said association (A). The present invention also relates to a method for controlling and monitoring said equipment.

Method for configuring, monitoring or supervising a home automation equipment

The present invention relates to a method for configuring home automation equipment, which comprises at least one It home automation device (D, D) likely to communicate with a central control unit (U) via at least one first local protocol (P), the method comprising the following steps: receiving at least one configuration message relative to a location identifier (PAD, PAD) of at least one home automation device (D, D) according to the first local communication protocol (P); obtaining a location identifier (PAD, PAD) of the at least one home automation device (D, D) according to a second target communication protocol (P); recording (ECfU) the correspondence between the location identifier (PAD, PAD) of the at least one home automation device (D, D) according to the first communication protocol and the location identifier (PAD, PAD) of the at least one home automation device (D, D) according to the second communication protocol (P); recording (EcfU) the at least one type (PTD, PTD) of the at least one home automation device (D, D) and/or the at least one definition of a function or a group of functions of the at least one home automation device (D, D) and/or the at least one definition of a status variable or a group of status variables of the at least one home automation device (D, D) and/or a function conversion rule. The present invention also relates to a method for controlling and monitoring said equipment.

The invention relates to a method for configuring a home automation apparatus including a plurality of home automation devices and a plurality of central control units (U, U). The method is executed by a management unit (Sv) connected to the at least one home automation apparatus and includes the following steps: receiving (ETCfSv) a configuration message (MCf) from a user (Usr) or an application (A) that is executed on the management unit (Sv) or another connected management unit, determining (ETCfSv) a list (UL) of central control units (U, U) capable of executing at least one condition (Cnd) and/or at least one action (AcU, AcU) of a conditional expression (CE), and sending (ETCfSv) a configuration message (MCfU, MCfU), including a definition of a conditional software code module (CCM), to the at least one central control unit (U, U) included in the list (UL).

Method for configuring and method for controlling a home automation apparatus

The present invention relates to a method for configuring a management unit connected to at least one home automation equipment () comprising at least one home automation device (D) and at least one central control unit (U), the method being implemented by a management unit (Sv) and comprising the following steps: configuring (EcfSv) an alert (AI) corresponding to the triggering of a notification (N) and/or an action (Ac) when a triggering condition (Cnd, Cndp) is produced relating to at least one state variable (S) for a home automation device (D), a group of home automation devices (D), a type of home automation device (DT) or a group of types of home automation devices (DT); the step of configuring an alert (AI) being carried out on the basis of instructions of a first user (Usr) having a first user profile type (UsrT); declaring (ECfUsr) the monitoring of an assembly (SDS) of home automation devices (D) comprising at least one home automation device (D) for which at least one alert (AI) has been defined by a second user (Usr) having a second user profile type (UsrT). The present invention also relates to a method for controlling and monitoring said equipment.

The present invention concerns a method for registering a central control unit (U) belonging to a home automation installation, the method comprising steps (ERSv) of receiving a first registration request message (MRU) of a first central control unit (U), obtaining (ERSv) a first attachment information of the first central control unit (U) to a representative entity (St) of a home automation installation, creating (ERSv) a representative entity (St) of the installation and attaching the first central control unit (U) to said representative entity (St), receiving (ERSv) a second registration request message (MRU) of a second central control unit (U), obtaining (ERSv) a second attachment information (StI) of the second central control unit (U) to a representative entity (St), and attachment (ERSv) of the second central control unit (U) to a representative entity (St) of the installation to which the first central control unit (U) is also attached.

Method for registering a central control unit belonging to a home automation installation, method of control and configuration of a home automation installation

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