Method and device arrangement for implementing remote control of properties

摘要

In a remote control method and system, a virtual private network is created between a home control network key and a home control network device. Both the home control network key and the home control network device determine their network paths to the Internet from the data transfer network to which they are connected. The determined network paths are stored in a home control network server on the Internet. When it is desired to form a virtual private network, the home control network server supplies the stored network paths to the home control network key and the home control network device. By using the received network paths, the home control network key and the home control network device create between them a virtual private network, to which the client device used by the person performing the remote-controlling and the actuators to be remote-controlled are also connected to implement the remote control.

主权项

1. A remote control method for actuators in a property, in which a virtual private network is created between a user's client device controlling the actuators and situated in a first data transfer network and an actuator to be remotely controlled and situated in a second data transfer network, the method comprising:
connecting the client device to a first network terminal in the first data transfer network, connecting the actuator, by remote-control to a second network terminal in the second data transfer network: wherein both the first network terminal and the second network terminal make contact with a home control network server residing in the Internet; wherein both the first network terminal and the second network terminal request routing information from the home control network server for establishing an end-to-end data transfer connection between said network terminals; and wherein the home control network server sends, after receiving routing requests from both the first network terminal and the second network terminal, the requested routing information to the first network terminal and the second network terminal, by using, which the first network terminal and the second network terminal establish among themselves the virtual private network to which the home control network server does not belong, wherein the home control network server identifies the first network terminal and the second network terminal as a during manufacturing defined device pair before sending the network path information needed for forming the virtual private network to the first network terminal and the second network terminal; and wherein the virtual private network formed between the first network terminal and the second network terminal, to which virtual private network both the client device and the device to be remote-controlled are connected, is formed either in the OSI model data link layer (Layer 2) or in the network layer (Layer 3).