KR20060097844A - Method for providing visitor confirmation service using door phone on home network - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention is provided for a service provided when a public IP is assigned and a door phone equipped with an RG (home gateway) supporting a connection between an external device and a home network device, a camera, a microphone, and a speaker, a digital door lock, and a going out mode. A visitor identification device that supports the connection between the digital door lock and the RG and supports the connection between the door phone and the PSTN network, and a home network based network in a network including a home management server and an SMSC connected to the RG through the Internet. The present invention relates to a method of providing a remote visitor verification service using a door phone, and stores visitor shooting information taken by the door phone's camera when the visitor visits the Internet server and sends an SMS to the service person using the URL of the Internet server as a callback URL. To be. After that, when the service target person connects to the callback URL, the Internet server provides a service menu, which allows the visitor to provide photographing information, call with the visitor, and open the digital door lock according to the user's choice.

Home network, digital door lock, remote visitor verification, callback URL

Description

How to provide remote visitor confirmation service using home network based door phone {Method for providing visitor confirmation service using door phone on home network}

1 is a network configuration showing a first network environment to which the present invention is applied.

Figure 2 is a network diagram showing a second network environment to which the present invention is applied.

3 is a data flow diagram showing a remote visitor verification service using a home network-based door phone according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The present invention relates to a remote visitor identification service, and more particularly, visitor identification or / and call connection and / or call to a specific person at the remote site when a visit event occurs from the door phone installed in the entrance of the home where the home network is built The present invention relates to a remote visitor verification service providing method and a recording medium using a home network-based door phone to open a door.

The general visitor confirmation is that when the visitor presses the door phone, the video of the visitor is captured and output to the indoor video phone, and the door phone and the indoor video phone enable the conversation between the owner and the visitor. It uses a phone key to open and close the doorway.

 However, such a visitor identification method is a possible method when the owner is in the home, and there is a problem in that the visitor cannot be checked without a person in the home.

Thus, in the related art, in order to solve the above-mentioned problem, as known in the Republic of Korea Patent No. 459047, the owner of a remote place to check the visitor in the home. The registered patent has a controller (wireless internet server) connected to a video phone, a door phone, an entrance opening and closing control unit and capable of wireless internet, and stores visitor photographing information photographed by the door phone when the visitor visits the controller. A short message containing access information is sent to the owner's mobile phone so that the owner knows the visitor's visit. Thereafter, the owner accesses the controller according to the access information included in the short message and checks the stored visitor. The owner is provided with a CDMA module to enable the owner to talk with the visitor through an interphone connected to the controller.

However, the conventional remote visitor identification service is a service provided in a network environment in which a home network is not established.

Therefore, there is a demand for a method of enabling a remote owner to check a visitor, make a call, and open or close a door to a home network based home visitor that will be gradually expanded for ubiquitous.

The present invention has been made in accordance with the conventional requirements, the object of the visitor to visit the home network built home network, the object of the remote site to check, call and door opening and closing.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a digital door lock, an RG, a door phone provided with a microphone, a speaker, and a camera, which is provided with an authorized IP and supports interworking between an external device and a home network device. A visitor identification device that supports the connection between the digital door lock and the RG and supports the connection between the door phone and the PSTN network, a home management server connected to the RG via the Internet, and a home network in a network including an SMSC. A method for providing a remote visitor verification service using a network-based door phone, the visitor verification device comprising: a first step of receiving a photographed image of a visitor from the door phone in an outing mode; The visitor identification device may further include providing the visitor photographed image information to the home management server; A third step of the home management server storing the visitor photographed image information and providing the SMSC with the mobile phone number of the service subject and its URL information; The SMSC, transmitting a short message having the URL of the home management server as a callback URL to a mobile phone of the service subject; A fifth step of providing a visitor photographed image, opening a digital door, and providing a call connection menu item with the visitor to the mobile phone connected to the callback URL; And the home management server provides a remote visitor verification service providing method using a home network-based door phone comprising a sixth step of performing an operation corresponding to the menu selected by the user of the connected mobile phone.

The present invention also provides a computer readable recording medium for carrying out the method.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a network diagram showing a first network environment to which the present invention is applied. As shown in FIG. 1, the first network environment of the present invention includes a digital door lock 100 and a door phone 200 installed in a door of a home, a visitor checking device 300, a landline phone 400, and an RG provided in a home. (Home Gateway, Residential Gateway; 500), a home management server 600 that is an external device, a database 610 connected to the home management server 600, and a Short Message Service Center (SMSC) 700.

The digital door lock 100 is a locking device that detects a password, an RF card, a fingerprint, and the like and generates an electrical signal instructing the opening and closing of the door to control the operation of opening and closing the door, and the door phone 200 and the visitor checking device 300. It is connected.

The door phone 230 obtains a doorbell button 230 operated by a visitor, a speaker 210 for voice output, a microphone 220 for voice input, and a camera 240 for visitor shooting, and confirms the visitor. Connected to the device 300.

Visitor confirmation device 300 for the service of the present invention, visitor confirmation, visitor photographing information transmission to the home management server 600, door opening and closing control of the digital door lock 100, wired and / or wireless door phone 200 Connection to the PSTN, communication with the RG 500, service setting and release of the present invention, and the like.

That is, the visitor checking apparatus 300 includes an encoder 310 for encoding visitor photographing information received from the door phone 200 into a data form recognizable by the home management server 600, and the door phone 200 with a wired telephone ( Wireless communication module 320 and PSTN module 330 to connect to 400, and a short-range communication module 340, which is one of the Zig bee, Bluetooth, wireless LAN for communication with the RG (500). The landline telephone 400 is a general landline telephone connected to a PSTN (public telephone network).

The RG 500 is a gateway for interworking between home appliances and external devices based on a home network, and is provided with a fixed public IP or a public public IP. The IP of the RG 500 is registered in the home management server 600. do. Since the RG 500 is connected to the home network management server 300 through the Internet, the digital door lock 100 can be immediately connected to the home management server 600.

The home management server 600 performs authentication on the use of the home network and authentication on the use of various services (including the remote visitor verification service of the present invention) provided for the home network subscriber, and has a member registration service function. Manage your information. The home management server 600 stores RG information (ie, RG IP information) of a subscriber's home registered as a member and identifies the subscriber through the RG information. The subscriber information identified in the remote visitor identification service is the mobile phone number of the service target. In addition, the home network management server 300 is provided with a variety of applications for the remote visitor identification service. Various application programs store visitor image information received from the digital door lock 100, SMS transmission request including a callback URL to induce access to the home management server 600, a mobile phone connected to the callback URL and the corresponding home. It provides call connection with door phone and the function of providing visitor's video information to mobile phone connected through callback URL.

The SMSC 700 transmits an SMS including a callback URL to a specific mobile phone according to a request of the home management server 600.

Meanwhile, unlike the first network, the network of the present invention may be configured as a second network configured as shown in FIG. 2. 2 is a network diagram illustrating a second network environment to which the present invention is applied.

As can be seen from the comparison between FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the second network is almost identical to the first network, but does not use the wireless call module 320 and the wired telephone 400, but uses only the PSTN module 320a. There is a difference in connecting directly to the PSTN network. At this time, a wired telephone number is assigned to the PSTN module 320a. In addition, the second network has a difference in that the communication between the digital door lock 100 and the RG 500 is wired communication using the wired communication module 340a, not wireless short range communication.

Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of the service of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 3. 3 is a schematic flowchart of a remote visitor identification service using a home network-based door phone according to the present invention.

If the owner is set to go out mode using a mode controller (not shown) when going out, the home server (Home Automation Server, not shown) recognizes that the set subscriber is out. In such a mode of going out, when the visitor presses the doorbell button 230 of the door phone 200, the door phone 200 provides a signal indicating the visitor generation to the visitor verification device 300 or 300a (S401). The door phone 200 photographs the visitor through the camera 240 at the operation of the super-gun button 230 (S402), and provides the visitor identification device 300 or 300a with the photographed visitor (image) information. (S403).

Then, the visitor checking device 300 or 300a encodes the received visitor's photographing information into a data form recognizable by the home management server 600, and then encodes the visitor's photographing information encoded by the wired communication module 340a or the short-range communication module ( 340 is provided to the home management server 600 through the RG (500) (S404).

The home management server 600 stores the photographed information of the received visitor (S405), and grasps the IP of the RG 500 included in the photographed visitor's photographed information, and then checks the IP of the RG 500. Know the number. Then, the home management server 600 requests to send an SMS having its URL as a callback URL to the mobile phone number of the service target (S406). The SMSC 700 transmits the SMS including the URL of the home management server 600 to the mobile phone number of the service target person (S407).

Then, the owner of the mobile phone number is connected to the home management server 600 with the callback URL included in the received SMS (S408). The home management server 600 checks the phone number of the connected mobile phone, checks whether there is a visitor's shooting information matched with the mobile phone number, and knows that the callback URL is a visitor.

The home management server 600 requests menu selection by providing the default three menu item information to the mobile phone connected to the callback URL (S409), and the mobile phone user of the three menus provided by the home management server 600. One is selected (S410).

The three menus provided by the home management server 600 are visitor photographing information provision S1, a call connection with the visitor S2, and a digital door lock open S3.

The home management server 600 performs an operation corresponding to one menu selected by the mobile phone user to provide a corresponding menu service (S411). Here, the mobile phone user may select another menu after requesting menu item information from the home management server 600 when selecting a menu after selecting one menu. As a result, mobile phone users can select all three menus.

Here, operations corresponding to three menus of the home management server 600 will be described.

In the case of providing visitor photographing information (S1), the home management server 600 reads the visitor photographing information stored in correspondence with the cellular phone number and provides the photographed information to the cellular phone. In the case of the call connection (S2), the home management server 600 provides a mobile phone number matched to the mobile phone number to the mobile phone and then disconnects the data channel with the mobile phone, and makes a call to the wired telephone number received from the mobile phone. . In the case of opening the digital door lock (S3), the home management server 600 provides a command signal for instructing the open to the digital door lock 100 through the RG (500).

The technical spirit of the present invention has been described above with reference to the accompanying drawings, but this is by way of example only and not intended to limit the present invention. In addition, it is obvious that any person skilled in the art can make various modifications and imitations without departing from the scope of the technical idea of the present invention.

The present invention has the effect of enabling the visitor who visited the home where the home network is constructed to check the visitor from a remote location, and to have a conversation and a door open.

Claims (4)

Digital door lock, RG that supports the interworking between external device and home network device, door phone with microphone, speaker, and camera, and when the outing mode is set, it performs operation to provide service. Visitor identification device that supports the connection with the RG and supports the connection between the door phone and the PSTN network, remote visitor identification using a home network based door phone in a network including a home management server and SMSC connected to the RG via the Internet In the service providing method, The visitor identification device may include a first step of receiving a photographed image of a visitor from the door phone in an outing mode; The visitor identification device may further include providing the visitor photographed image information to the home management server; A third step of the home management server storing the visitor photographed image information and simultaneously providing the SMSC with the mobile phone number and the URL information of the service subject; The SMSC, transmitting a short message having the URL of the home management server as a callback URL to a mobile phone of the service subject; A fifth step of providing a visitor photographed image, opening a digital door, and providing a call connection menu item with the visitor to the mobile phone connected to the callback URL; And The home management server comprises a sixth step of performing an operation corresponding to the menu selected by the user of the mobile phone connected to the remote visitor verification service providing method using a home network-based door phone. The method of claim 1, In the second step, the visitor photographing information received from the door phone is encoded into a data form that can be recognized by the home management server, and then the visitor photographing information is provided to the home management server. How to provide remote visitor verification service using door phone. The method of claim 1, The visitor identification device is a remote visitor verification service providing method using a home network-based door phone, characterized in that for connecting the short-range wireless communication between the digital door lock and the RG. On your computer, The visitor checking apparatus may include a first step of receiving a photographed image of the visitor from the door phone in the outing mode; The visitor identification device may further include providing the visitor photographed image information to the home management server; The home management server stores the visitor photographed image information and the landline telephone number information by matching the mobile phone number of the service subject, and provides the SMSC with the mobile phone number and its URL information of the service subject. Three steps; The SMSC, transmitting a short message having the URL of the home management server as a callback URL to a mobile phone of the service subject; A fifth step of providing a visitor photographed image, opening a digital door, and providing a call connection menu item with the visitor to the mobile phone connected to the callback URL; And The home management server is a computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing a sixth step of performing an operation corresponding to a menu selected by a user of a connected mobile phone.

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