Inter-system connection adapter and terminal
AssigneeMitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsNoriyuki Komiya, Noriyuki Kushiro
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AssigneeMitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsNoriyuki Komiya, Noriyuki Kushiro
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The present invention is to provide a system connection adapter and a terminal device, which allow a function which is newly developed and added by a maker on a system A to be handled on an open system B even in the case where the system A which is an existing system for supervising and controlling such as an air conditioning apparatus and a lighting apparatus installed in a building or at home is connected with the open system B which is made up by using a protocol different from that used by the system A. This allows for ease in expanding functions. According to the system connection adapter, a conventional command, which is the original of the system A, and therefore not specified in the open system B and has no correspondence available, is added with a frame header B by a frame encapsulation and decapsulation means, and transmitted in its original form. Then, the terminal device connected on the system B is provided with the function of extracting a command A 104 from a frame B transmitted, and interpreting the command A to be processed.
A system connection adapter, comprising:
A terminal device which is connected to a system B in a system which is provided with a system A, the system B and a connection adapter, the system B being made up by using a protocol different from that used by the system A, and the connection adapter performing one of converting a command A relating to the system A and a command B relating to the system B from one to the other and exchanging the command A and the command B by means of encapsulating the command A in a frame B relating to the system B and extracting the command A encapsulated from the frame B, the terminal device comprising:
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