A Self-regulatory Personal Assistant for a Smart Home

Abstract

In this smart age a speech-triggered interface to manage all electronic house- hold devices for a faraway home owner is a necessity. In a smart home an owner can convey an input in natural language form to a gadget to control one or more electronic home equipment’s. The user gadget can transmit the home owner speech to a server to be converted into a textual representation. The server can find one or more command interface components and appropriate commands to be performed by the one or more electronic gadgets based on the textual representation. The command interface component includes several communication ports, each communication port related with a different type of communication interface for providing communications to and from the multiple electronic gadgets. The component also includes a speech network communication port for receiving the spoken commands from the home owner and a data network communication port for transmitting monitoring and control information between the multiple electronic devices and the home owner. In operation, the command interface component is responsive to speech triggered commands received from a remote owner via an incoming telephone line. A speech recognition unit within the command interface module is utilized to translate the received speech signal into an “action/control” signal and then perform the desired activity.