Home appliance equipment remote manipulation system and its modus operandi

摘要

By simply connecting consumer equipments physically to a home network, configurations are set automatically for the consumer equipment, and the consumer equipment is enabled to be remote operated easily via a home gateway that is not necessarily fixed in address. A home gateway 51 includes: a home management table 212a that manages equipment information of consumer equipment connected to the home network; an equipment detector 206 that cyclically transmits a detection request along the home network, detects consumer equipment, and acquires the equipment information of the detected consumer equipment; an equipment management unit 211 that updatingly registers the equipment information of the detected consumer equipment into the above-described home management table 212a; a DHCP server function 210a that sets network configurations for newly detected consumer equipment; and an equipment information registration unit that updatingly registers the equipment information in the home management table cyclically into a portal server 4.