Automatically registrable home appliance and method therefor

Abstract

An embodiment provides a first home appliance comprising: a Wi-Fi module that receives medium access control (MAC) information of a second home appliance and broadcast information of the second home appliance from a server; and a control unit that determines whether the MAC information received via the Wi-Fi module matches with MAC information included in the broadcast information, and controls the Wi-Fi module, wherein the control unit requests the server to register the second home appliance on the basis that the MAC information received via the Wi-Fi module matches with the MAC information included in the broadcast information.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.