Patent ID: 11960258
Assignee: HAIER SMART HOME CO., LTD.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method for controlling a smart plug of a home system, wherein the home system comprises the smart plug and a plurality of household appliances, wherein the smart plug has a plurality of sockets with different priorities, and each of the sockets can access one household appliance and supply power to the household appliance; and
the smart plug is programmed to implement the control method comprising:
acquiring conditions of all currently running household appliances accessing the sockets, wherein the conditions of all currently running household appliances accessing the sockets are positions of the sockets into which each currently running household appliance is accessed;
setting a priority sequence of all the currently running household appliances according to the conditions of all the currently running household appliances accessing the sockets;
judging whether a household appliance to be run is accessed into the socket;
acquiring a remaining running duration of each currently running household appliance in response to the household appliance to be run being accessed into the socket;
acquiring a shortest remaining running duration of all the remaining running durations;
comparing the shortest remaining running duration with a preset duration;
acquiring conditions of the household appliance to be run accessing the socket in response to the shortest remaining running duration being longer than the preset duration, wherein the condition of the household appliance to be run accessing the socket is a position of the socket into which the household appliance to be run is accessed;
determining a priority of the household appliance to be run according to acquired condition of the household appliance to be run accessing the socket;, determining a position of the priority of the household appliance to be run in the priority sequence; and
coordinating a running state between all the currently running household appliances and the household appliance to be run by selectively adjusting the running state of the currently running household appliance according to the position of the priority of the household appliance to be run in the priority sequence.