JP2005284628A - Visiting security system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a visiting security system maintaining high security without causing the physical burden and mental uneasiness of a user when a helper or the like visits the user in home care service, life support service, or the like. <P>SOLUTION: This visiting security system is provided with: a means for performing authentication of visiting staff and acquiring position information of the visiting staff when receiving a notice of arrival at the user's house from a portable terminal owned by the visiting staff; a means for acquiring the position information of the user from a portable terminal owned by the user in the case of succeeding in the authentication; a means for determining whether the position information of the visiting staff, the position information of the user and position information in which the user's house is registered, coincide within the tolerance; and a means for unlocking a door part of the user's house. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a visit security system that increases security at the time of a visit of a helper or the like in a home care service, a life assistance service, or the like.

  With the aging of the population, the number of people receiving home care services, life assistance services, etc. is increasing, while crimes targeting such disabled persons and sick people are also increasing.

  In the past, when receiving such home care services or life assistance services, the help of the helper, etc., when the helper, etc. came to the entrance, confirmed the visitor by himself / herself. Open doors and invite them, or help trusted trustees by leaving the door keys in advance and allowing them to enter freely.

In addition, as a prior art document, the visitor's face photo data is transmitted to the customer in advance via the Internet, e-mail images, etc., and the visitor's data can be confirmed by accessing the operator's Internet homepage. A technique for giving a sense of security is disclosed (for example, see Patent Document 1).
JP 2003-288426 A

  As mentioned above, with regard to the entry of helpers etc. into the house, conventionally there is only a policy for the service user to open the door himself or leave the door key in advance with the helper, etc. There is a problem in crime prevention because it is not known whether the person is really a helper or the like, and it is difficult for a bedridden elderly person or sick person to move to the door for unlocking. In the latter case, there is a problem that the user is always anxious about whether or not the key is used illegally, and that the user can enter without permission from the viewpoint of privacy.

  On the other hand, although the technique described in Patent Document 1 is useful for confirming the identity of a visitor, it does not solve all the problems in the entrance scene such as the above-mentioned helper. Absent.

  The present invention has been proposed in view of the above-mentioned conventional problems, and the object of the present invention is to provide a physical burden and a mental burden on a user when visiting a helper in a home care service or a life support service. It is to provide a visit security system that can maintain high security without any fears.

  In order to solve the above-described problems, in the present invention, as described in claim 1, when a notification of arrival at a user's house is received from a mobile terminal owned by a visitor, the visit is performed. Means for authenticating a member and obtaining the location information of the visitor, means for obtaining the location information of the user from a portable terminal possessed by the user when the authentication is successful, and the visitor. If the position information of the user, the position information of the user, and the registered position information of the user's house coincide with each other within a predetermined allowable range, and the result of the determination, Means for unlocking the door portion of the user's house.

  Further, as described in claim 2, the visitor authentication is performed based on information unique to the mobile terminal possessed by the visitor and / or information for identifying the user. Can do.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, the visitor authentication may include verification of the visit period registered by the visitor and the current date and time.

  Further, as described in claim 4, when unlocking the door portion of the user's house, the user's portable terminal is inquired whether to unlock, and the unlocking request from the user. The door portion can be unlocked depending on the situation.

  In addition, as described in claim 5, when a notification of returning home from the user's house is received from the mobile terminal possessed by the visitor, the visitor is authenticated and the visitor's Means for acquiring position information; means for acquiring position information of the user from a portable terminal possessed by the user when the authentication is successful; position information of the visitor; position information of the user And the means for determining whether or not the registered location information of the user's house matches within a predetermined allowable range, and if the result of the determination is the same, the door portion of the user's house is closed. And means for locking.

  In the visit security system of the present invention, it is possible to guarantee that a visitor is an appropriate person when visiting a helper or the like in a home care service, a life assistance service, etc. In addition, the door can be unlocked without moving to the entrance, and there is an effect that high security is maintained and the user is not burdened physically or mentally.

  Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a visit security system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

  In FIG. 1, a portable terminal 1 is a portable terminal carried by a visitor such as a nursing staff (helper), and a portable terminal 2 is a portable terminal carried by a user such as a nursing care service. The mobile terminals 1 and 2 have a function of acquiring their own location information. The door part 3 is a door provided at the entrance of the user's house, and can be unlocked / locked by a remote control operation from the outside.

  The base station 4 is a mobile phone base station provided in an area covering the user's house, and is connected to the mobile phone network 5. The mobile phone network 5 is provided with a positioning server 6 for providing location information to the mobile terminals 1 and 2. If the mobile terminals 1 and 2 have a function of acquiring position information autonomously such as GPS (Global Positioning System), the positioning server 6 can be omitted.

  On the other hand, a visit management server 7 managed by an operator providing care service or the like is provided and connected to the mobile phone network 5. The visit management server 7 is provided with an input / output terminal 9 for inputting / outputting data via the communication line 8.

  FIG. 2 shows an example of the configuration of the visit management server 7, which includes a CPU 70 that performs main processing, a ROM 71 that stores fixed program data, a RAM 72 that is a work work area, a keyboard, a mouse, and the like. An operation unit 73, a display unit 74 that displays processing contents, and the like, a communication unit 75 that transmits and receives data to and from the outside, and a storage device 76 such as a hard disk device that stores programs and data are provided. In addition, the storage device 76 includes a data storage program unit 77 that controls data storage, an authentication program unit 78 that performs processing such as authentication at the visit of a visitor, and visit information that manages visit information in a care service and the like. A table portion 79 is included.

  FIG. 3 shows an example of a visit information table included in the visit information table section 79 in FIG. 2. A “customer number” field for identifying a user such as a care service and a “customer” indicating a user name are shown. "Name" field, "Customer Address" field indicating the user's address, "Contact Person" field indicating the visitor in charge, "Customer Phone Number" field indicating the user's mobile phone number, and visit "Personal phone number" field that shows the phone number of the worker's mobile terminal, "Keyword" field that is used to increase security when checking the visitor, and "Visit period" that shows the day of the week and the time zone of the visit It includes a field and a “status” field indicating the presence or absence of confirmation. In addition, you may provide the field which shows the other information specific to a visitor's portable terminal, and the other information for identifying a user.

  FIG. 4 shows a configuration example of the portable terminals 1 and 2 in FIG. 1, a display unit 11 that displays processing contents, an operation unit 12 such as a numeric keypad, and a communication unit 13 that transmits and receives data to and from the outside. A position acquisition unit 14 that acquires its own position information from the positioning server 6 (FIG. 1) or the positioning unit 15 provided in the terminal and stores it in the position information storage unit 16, and a position in response to an external request. A position notification unit 17 for notifying information and a remote control unit 18 for performing remote control processing for lock control using Bluetooth, infrared rays, or the like are provided. Note that the mobile terminal 1 possessed by the user may not include the remote control control unit 18.

  FIG. 5 shows a configuration example of the door unit 3 in FIG. 1, and includes a communication unit 31 that transmits / receives data to / from the outside and a lock control unit 32 that performs unlocking / locking.

  The operation of the above embodiment will be described below.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the flow of operations and processes during a visit.

  First, a user who wants to receive a care service or the like requests a business operator to dispatch a visitor (step S101). In response, the business operator registers an application and determines a visitor (step S102). In this process, contents are registered in each field of the visit information table shown in FIG. Then, according to the contents of the request, a visitor is dispatched to the user's house on a predetermined day (step S103).

  When the visitor arrives at the user's home, as the operation at the time of arrival, he / she operates the portable terminal 1 possessed by himself / herself to acquire his / her position information (step S104) and notifies the operator side (step S105). At this time, in order to enhance security, information including information unique to the mobile terminal 1 such as a visitor's telephone number, customer number, keyword, and status and / or information for identifying the user is also notified. . Here, the telephone number or the like of the visitor can be automatically notified by the caller number or the like, but items that cannot be automatically acquired are input by the visitor's operation.

  Next, the business side performs authentication (security check) with reference to the visit information table based on the notified telephone number, customer number, keyword, status, etc. of the visitor (step S106). Then, the user's mobile terminal 2 is requested to perform position positioning (step S107), and the user's mobile terminal 2 that has received the request performs position positioning (step S108), and sends the acquired position information to the operator side. Transmit (step S109).

  On the business side, based on the location information acquired from the mobile terminal 1 of the visitor, the location information acquired from the mobile terminal 2 of the user, and the address of the user registered in the visit information table, these are the closest. It is determined whether or not the distance is within the distance (step S110). This is to prevent the door from being accidentally unlocked when the visitor does not actually arrive at the user's house or when the user is absent.

  When the positional relationship is confirmed, the user's portable terminal 2 is instructed to unlock (step S111). Note that unlocking may be performed through user operation or automatically performed without user operation.

  The mobile terminal 2 of the user who has received the unlocking instruction from the operator side instructs the door unit 3 to unlock automatically (step S112) or by user operation (remote control operation) (step S112). S113), unlocking is performed (step S114).

  FIG. 7 is a sequence diagram showing in more detail the operation of each part during the visit.

  First, when there is a visitor dispatch request from the user, the operator side inputs information related to the visit by operating the input / output terminal 9 (step S201), and the registration information is transmitted to the visit management server 7. (Step S202). The visit management server 7 registers the received registration information in the visit information table unit 79 (FIG. 2) (step S203).

  Thereafter, when a visitor ordered to be dispatched to the user's home arrives at the user's home, the customer number, keyword, status, etc. are input by the mobile terminal 1 as an operation upon arrival (step S204). 1, the position is measured (step S205), and the location information is transmitted to the visit management server 7 together with the visitor's telephone number, customer number, keyword, status, etc. (step S206).

  The visit management server 7 performs authentication by comparing with the registered content of the visit information table based on the notified telephone number, customer number, keyword, status, etc. of the visitor (step S207). Position information is requested from the user's portable terminal 2 (step S208).

  FIG. 8 shows an example of the visitor's operation when the visitor arrives at the user's home. The customer number, keyword, etc. are entered according to the instructions on the display screen of the mobile terminal 1, and the entry is completed. Positioning is performed (step S301). Then, the telephone number, location information, and the like are transmitted to the operator's visit management server 7 (step S302), and the registration contents are checked in the operator's visit management server 7 (step S303). At the time of this check, by comparing the value of the “visit period” field indicating the day of the week and the time zone of the visit in the visit information table (FIG. 3) and the current date and time, it is confirmed that the visit is appropriate. Security can be further improved.

  Returning to FIG. 7, in the portable terminal 2 that has received the request for position information from the visit management server 7, after performing input for confirmation by the user (step S <b> 209), position measurement is performed (step S <b> 210), The acquired position information is transmitted to the visit management server 7 (step S211). It should be noted that input for confirmation by the user (step S209) can be omitted.

  The visit management server 7 is based on the location information acquired from the mobile terminal 1 of the visitor, the location information acquired from the mobile terminal 2 of the user, and the user address registered in the visit information table. It is determined whether or not the distance is within the distance (step S212). When the positional relationship is confirmed, the user's portable terminal 2 is requested to unlock (step S213).

  The user's portable terminal 2 that has received the unlocking request performs input for confirmation by the user (step S214), activates the remote control function (step S215), and opens the door unit 3. A lock is requested (step S216). In the case of automatically unlocking without user operation, the remote control function is activated without performing an input for confirmation by the user (step S214). Then, the door unit 3 that has received the unlocking request unlocks (step S217), and if the unlocking is properly performed, the door management server 7 is notified of the unlocking (step S218). .

  FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a user's operation when a visitor arrives at the user's home and unlocking is performed. (A) shows a case where unlocking is performed through the user's operation. Shows a case where unlocking is automatically performed without user operation. That is, when unlocking is performed through the user's operation (a), a message indicating that a visitor has come is displayed on the display screen of the portable terminal 2 and a button for selecting whether or not to unlock is displayed (step) S401) When “Yes” is selected here (step S402), an indication to unlock is displayed (step S403), followed by a display indicating that the remote control is being operated (step S404), and the door section. 3 is unlocked (step S405).

  In addition, when unlocking is automatically performed without user operation (b), a message indicating that a visitor has arrived is displayed on the display screen of the mobile terminal 2 and a message indicating unlocking is displayed. (Step S406), automatic transition is made from this state (Step S407), a display indicating that the remote controller is being operated is displayed (Step S408), and the door unit 3 is unlocked (Step S409).

  FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a flow of operations and processes when a visitor finishes the work such as a care service and returns to the business operator or home.

  When a visitor returns home, as the operation when returning home, the mobile terminal 1 owned by the visitor is operated to acquire his / her position information (step S501) and notified to the operator side (step S502). At this time, information including information unique to the portable terminal 1 such as a visitor's telephone number, customer number, keyword, and status and / or information for identifying the user is also notified.

  The business side performs authentication (security check) by referring to the visit information table based on the notified telephone number, customer number, keyword, status, etc. of the visitor (step S503). The user's portable terminal 2 is requested to perform positioning (step S504), and the user's portable terminal 2 receiving the request performs positioning (step S505), and transmits the acquired position information to the provider side. (Step S506).

  On the business side, based on the location information acquired from the mobile terminal 1 of the visitor, the location information acquired from the mobile terminal 2 of the user, and the address of the user registered in the visit information table, these are the closest. It is determined whether or not the distance is within the distance (step S507).

  When the positional relationship is confirmed, the user's portable terminal 2 is instructed to be locked (step S508).

  The mobile terminal 2 of the user who has received the locking instruction from the operator side instructs the door unit 3 to lock automatically (step S509) or by user operation (remote control operation) (step S509). (S510), locking is performed (step S511).

  FIG. 11 is a sequence diagram showing in more detail the operation of the visitor when he / she goes home.

  When the visitor returns home, the customer number, keyword, status, etc. are input by the mobile terminal 1 as an operation when returning home (step S601), and the mobile terminal 1 measures its own position (step S602), and visit management. The location information is transmitted to the server 7 together with the visitor's telephone number, customer number, keyword, status, etc. (step S603).

  The visit management server 7 performs authentication by comparing with the registered contents of the visit information table based on the notified telephone number, customer number, keyword, status, etc. of the visitor (step S604). The position information is requested to the user's portable terminal 2 (step S605).

  The mobile terminal 2 that has received the request for location information from the visit management server 7 performs input for confirmation by the user (step S606), performs location measurement (step S607), and acquires the obtained location information. It transmits to the visit management server 7 (step S608). It should be noted that input for confirmation by the user (step S606) can be omitted.

  The visit management server 7 is based on the location information acquired from the mobile terminal 1 of the visitor, the location information acquired from the mobile terminal 2 of the user, and the user address registered in the visit information table. It is determined whether the distance is within the distance (step S609). When the positional relationship is confirmed, the user's portable terminal 2 is requested to be locked (step S610).

  Upon receiving the lock request, the user's mobile terminal 2 performs input for confirmation by the user (step S611), activates the remote control function (step S612), and closes the door unit 3 A lock is requested (step S613). Note that in the case of automatically locking without the user's operation, the remote control function is activated without performing the input for confirmation by the user (step S611). The door unit 3 that has received the lock request locks (step S614), and if the lock is properly performed, reports to the visit management server 7 that the door has been locked (step S615). .

  With the above operations, it is possible to ensure that the visitor is an appropriate person when visiting the visitor in home care services, etc., and unlocking and closing the door without passing the key to the visitor in advance. There is an advantage that it can be performed without moving to the entrance, and high security is maintained, and the user is not burdened physically or mentally.

  Further, since it is possible for the dispatching business operator to accurately grasp that the visitor has entered and exited the user's home, the data can also be used for attendance management of the visitor.

  The present invention has been described above by the preferred embodiments of the present invention. While the invention has been described with reference to specific embodiments, various modifications and changes may be made to the embodiments without departing from the broad spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the claims. Obviously you can. In other words, the present invention should not be construed as being limited by the details of the specific examples and the accompanying drawings.

It is a block diagram of the visit security system concerning one Embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram of a visit management server. It is a figure which shows the example of a visit information table. It is a block diagram of a portable terminal. It is a block diagram of a door part. It is a figure which shows the flow of operation and processing at the time of a visit. It is a sequence diagram which shows the operation | movement at the time of a visit. It is a figure which shows a visitor's operation when a visitor arrives at a user's house. It is a figure which shows a user's operation when a visitor arrives at a user's house. It is a figure which shows the flow of operation and processing when a visitor returns home. It is a sequence diagram which shows operation | movement at the time of a visitor returning home.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Mobile terminal 11 Display part 12 Operation part 13 Communication part 14 Position acquisition part 15 Positioning part 16 Position information storage part 17 Position notification part 18 Remote control part 2 Mobile terminal 3 Door part 31 Communication part 32 Lock control part 4 Base station 5 Carrying Telephone network 6 Positioning server 7 Visit management server 70 CPU
71 ROM
72 RAM
73 Operation section 74 Display section 75 Communication section 76 Storage device 77 Data storage program section 78 Authentication program section 79 Visit information table section 8 Communication line 9 Input / output terminal

Claims (5)

Means for authenticating the visitor and obtaining the location information of the visitor when receiving notification of arrival at the user's house from a mobile terminal possessed by the visitor;
Means for acquiring the user's location information from the mobile terminal possessed by the user when the authentication is successful;
Means for determining whether the location information of the visitor, the location information of the user, and the registered location information of the user's house match within a predetermined allowable range;
A visit security system comprising: means for unlocking the door portion of the user's house when the determination results in a match.   2. The visit security system according to claim 1, wherein the visitor authentication is performed based on information unique to the mobile terminal possessed by the visitor and / or information for identifying the user.   3. The visit security system according to claim 1, wherein the authentication of the visitor includes a comparison between information on a visit cycle registered by the visitor and a current date and time. 4.   When unlocking the door part of the user's house, the user's mobile terminal is inquired whether to unlock, and the door part is unlocked in response to the unlocking request from the user. The visit security system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that: Means for authenticating the visitor and obtaining the location information of the visitor when receiving a notification from the mobile terminal possessed by the visitor that the user returns home from the user's house;
Means for acquiring the user's location information from the mobile terminal possessed by the user when the authentication is successful;
Means for determining whether the location information of the visitor, the location information of the user, and the registered location information of the user's house match within a predetermined allowable range;
The visit security system according to any one of claims 1 to 4, further comprising means for locking the door portion of the user's house when the determination results in a match.

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