TW201944265A - Method for querying indoor location information in combination with AI chatting robot wherein the indoor location information can be queried with a natural language in combination with the chatting robot - Google Patents

Abstract

This invention discloses a method for querying indoor location information. The method includes: receiving a natural language instruction of a user from a chatting robot and then transmitting the natural language instruction to a background application program by virtue of an application program interface; parsing the natural language instruction by using the background application program, and identifying at least one location query keyword from the natural language instruction; acquiring one indoor location information corresponding to the location query keyword from a location database by the background application program; transmitting the indoor location information to the chatting robot by the background application program, and making the chatting robot reply the indoor location information to the user. Therefore, the indoor location information can be queried with a natural language in combination with the chatting robot. The operation is intuitive, natural and friendly to the user, additional applications are not needed to be installed, and furthermore, better practicability and user convenience can be achieved.

Description

   Query method of indoor positioning information combined with AI chat robot   

The invention relates to a query method for indoor positioning information.

According to conventional positioning systems such as GPS (Global Positioning System), which has high positioning accuracy, but requires more computing resources, it is more energy-consuming and can only be used outdoors. To this end, the industry has developed indoor Positioning devices mostly use Bluetooth technology, such as Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology. The current typical indoor positioning technology solutions usually deploy Bluetooth gateways at different locations in the room.俾 When users with Bluetooth transceivers (such as Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones, smart bracelets, smart watches, etc.) are close to the Bluetooth gateway, they can send and receive Bluetooth signals and detect signal strength. And other principles to achieve positioning of the user.

In the known patent documents, ROC Patent Publication Nos. 201642687, 201710705 and ROC Patent Publication Nos. M450170, M530957, etc. all disclose indoor positioning systems, devices, or methods. Existing indoor positioning technology solutions focus on how to (finish) positioning, but lack of concern and discussion on the query or access of positioning information. Taking the application of indoor positioning within an enterprise or organization as an example, users such as supervisors may Want to know the current location of an employee, at this time he usually has to connect to the relevant inquiry system within the enterprise, and after certain login and identity verification procedures, he can obtain him through certain operating procedures or instructions. The desired information, the overall query method and operation process are obviously more complicated and inconvenient, so it is less natural and unfriendly to the user.

Therefore, how to improve the above problems is the technical difficulty that the applicant of this case wants to solve.

In view of the above problems of the information query method of the existing indoor positioning system, the object of the present invention is to develop a method for querying indoor positioning information that is fast, simple, and intuitive.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a method for querying indoor positioning information, including: receiving a natural language instruction of a user from a chat robot, and then transmitting the natural language instruction to a background application through an application program interface. Program; the background application parses the natural language instruction, and identifies at least one positioning query keyword from the natural language instruction; the background application retrieves one of the positioning query keywords from the positioning database indoor Positioning information; the background application sends the indoor positioning information to the chat robot, and the chat robot responds to the user with the indoor positioning information.

The indoor positioning information is generated by the positioning gateway detecting the signal of the positioning bracelet.

Further, the positioning gateway is a Bluetooth gateway, and the positioning bracelet is a smart bracelet with a Bluetooth transceiver function.

The chat bot is a messenger bot of LINE Bot or Facebook Messenger.

The chat robot responds to the indoor positioning information of the user in a text format.

The chat robot responds to the indoor positioning information of the user in a graphic format.

The chat robot responds to the user's indoor positioning information in a voice format.

In this way, the present invention can use a chat robot to query indoor positioning information in natural language. The operation mode is intuitive, natural, and user-friendly. No additional applications need to be installed, which can achieve better practicability and convenience.

1‧‧‧chat bot

2‧‧‧ application interface

3‧‧‧ background application

4‧‧‧ Positioning Database

5a‧‧‧area

5b‧‧‧area

61‧‧‧Positioning gateway

62‧‧‧Positioning gateway

71‧‧‧ positioning bracelet

72‧‧‧ positioning bracelet

The first diagram is a flowchart of steps in an embodiment of the present invention.

The second diagram is a schematic diagram of a system architecture according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The third diagram is a schematic diagram of an operation of collecting positioning information by a positioning database according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The fourth diagram is a schematic diagram of an action of a background application program receiving and analyzing a user's query request according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The fifth diagram is a schematic diagram of the operation of the background application program in one embodiment of the present invention transmitting the positioning information retrieved from the indoor positioning database to the chat robot.

The sixth diagram is a schematic diagram of a dialogue screen between a chat robot and a user according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The seventh diagram is another schematic diagram of a dialog screen between a chat robot and a user according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to the first diagram, the second diagram, and the fourth diagram, an embodiment of a method for querying indoor positioning information according to the present invention includes the following steps: S1: receiving a natural language instruction from a user from a chat robot 1, Then, the natural language instruction is transmitted to a background application 3 through an application program interface 2.

Wherein, in one embodiment of the present invention, the chatbot 1 may be a chatbot integrated into an existing instant messenger software or social network app, such as Facebook Messenger. Messenger bot or LINE bot of LINE can also use the chatbot software developed by the company itself. The user is the person who enters the message (that is, the natural language command) to talk with the chatbot 1, such as the manager of the company. Please refer to FIG. 6 for reference. The natural language command is a language message sent by the user for querying the positioning information to the chat robot 1. The specific example is as shown in the figure: " Where is Wang Xiaoming? "Or" Where is Chen Dahua? ", Etc. The background application 3 is a software program module that is responsible for receiving and processing messages sent by the user to the chatbot 1. The application interface 2 is An application interface (API) necessary for the message exchange and processing between the chatbot 1 and the background application 3 For example, LINE ’s Messaging API or Facebook ’s various APIs. Among them, the chatbots and API related information of the well-known social platforms are public information familiar to those skilled in the art, so they are not allowed here. Elaborate.

Please continue to refer to the second figure, which illustrates a schematic diagram of a system architecture of an indoor positioning system according to an embodiment of an indoor positioning information query method according to the present invention. The indoor positioning system is built in an enterprise environment. As an example to explain: In different areas 5a, 5b ... of the corporate environment, positioning gateways 61, 62, ... are set, and people (such as employees) who need to be positioned wear a positioning hand, respectively. The loops 71, 72 ..., and the positioning gateways 61, 62 ... are respectively connected to a positioning database 4, which can also be used to connect the aforementioned background application 3, wherein each of the areas 5a , 5b ... are different spaces or places in the corporate environment, such as factories or offices (can be further subdivided according to actual needs, such as the yellow light area, electroplating area, lathe area, inspection area, etc. of the factory, or office A department or unit, etc.), the number of its partitions can be adjusted according to various conditions or needs such as the size of the corporate environment, the signal range of the gateway, and the accuracy requirements for positioning, each of which should be positioned 61, 62 ... are specifically Bluetooth gateways, and each of the positioning bracelets 72, 72 ... can be a smart bracelet with a Bluetooth transceiver function. In one embodiment of the present invention, each of the positioning gateways The routers 61, 62 ... do not exclude that they can further have other wireless communication functions other than Bluetooth, such as Zigbee, WiFi, mobile Internet (4G / LTE), and so on.

Please continue to refer to the second and third figures. When the positioning bracelet 71 is within the detection range of the positioning gateway 61 in the area 5a, the positioning gateway 61 can detect the positioning. The existence of the bracelet 71, so that it can be known that the employee wearing the positioning bracelet 71 is located in the space in the area 5a, so that the positioning gateway 61 can return or update an indoor positioning information about the positioning bracelet 71 to The positioning database 4 is such that, according to the same operation principle, the positioning database 4 can collect and establish real-time indoor positioning information about each of the positioning bracelets 71, 72 ...

Next, S2: The background application 3 parses the natural language instruction, and recognizes at least one positioning query keyword from the natural language instruction.

Please refer to FIG. 4 and FIG. 6. After the background application 3 receives the natural language instruction, for example, “Where is Wang Xiaoming?”, It will find at least one of the natural language instruction for follow-up. The positioning query keyword processed. In the above example, the positioning query keyword is "Wang Xiaoming", which is the name of an employee.

Next, S3: The background application 3 retrieves indoor positioning information corresponding to the positioning query keyword from the positioning database 4.

Please refer to Figures 4, 5, and 6 for cooperation. For the convenience of explanation, it is assumed that the employee Wang Xiaoming wears the positioning bracelet 71, and the area 5a in which it is located is actually The factory A area of the enterprise, so the indoor positioning information corresponding to this is stored in the positioning database 4. Therefore, the background application 3 can query keywords based on the positioning (that is, "Wang Xiaoming"), The positioning database 4 retrieves the indoor positioning information corresponding to the positioning query keywords.

Finally, S4: The background application 3 sends the indoor positioning information to the chat robot 1, and the chat robot 1 responds to the user with the indoor positioning information.

Please refer to the fifth and sixth figures. The background application 3 can convert the indoor positioning information into a message with a specific format, and then send the message to the chat robot 1 to make the chat robot 1 The user can automatically reply to the indoor positioning information of the user through the message. The specific format can be a text similar to natural language. For example, Wang Xiaoming is now in the A area of the factory (as shown in Figure 6). As shown in the figure 7, the specific format may also be a graphic or an illustration, such as an indoor map or a schematic diagram of an indoor space. Of course, the specific format may also be a sound such as voice, which is not limited in the present invention. At this point, the operation flow of querying indoor positioning information by the user and the chat robot 1 is completed.

Through the above steps, the present invention can integrate the chat robot 1 with an indoor positioning system, so users can use existing and very popular communication platforms or social platform chat robots, combining artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning With the development of technologies such as big data and big data, the indoor positioning information can be queried. As a result, users do not need to install additional applications or go through complicated identity verification procedures. At the same time, the operation of the query is quite intuitive, natural and accurate The user is friendly, and there is no need to memorize or learn additional operation instructions, so that the present invention can have better practicability and convenience.

However, the above detailed descriptions are specific descriptions of the preferred embodiments of the present invention. These embodiments are not intended to limit the patent scope of the present invention, and any equivalent implementation or change that does not depart from the technical spirit of the present invention should be Included in the patent scope of this case.

Claims (7)

    An indoor positioning information query method includes: receiving a user's natural language instruction from a chat robot, and then transmitting the natural language instruction to a background application through an application program interface; the background application analyzes the natural language Instruction, and at least one positioning query keyword is identified from the natural language instruction; the background application retrieves indoor positioning information corresponding to the positioning query keyword from the positioning database; the background application transmits the indoor Positioning information to the chat robot, the chat robot responds to the user's indoor positioning information.         The indoor positioning information query method according to item 1 of the scope of patent application, wherein the indoor positioning information is generated by the positioning gateway detecting the signal of the positioning bracelet.         According to the method for querying indoor positioning information described in item 2 of the scope of patent application, wherein the positioning gateway is a Bluetooth gateway, and the positioning bracelet is a smart bracelet with a Bluetooth transceiver function.         The method for querying indoor positioning information according to item 1 of the scope of the patent application, wherein the chatbot is a LINE Bot or a messenger bot of Facebook Messenger.         According to the indoor positioning information query method described in item 1 of the scope of the patent application, wherein the chat robot responds to the user with the indoor positioning information in a text format.         The indoor positioning information query method according to item 1 of the scope of the patent application, wherein the chat robot responds to the user's indoor positioning information in a graphic format.         The indoor positioning information query method described in item 1 of the scope of the patent application, wherein the chat robot responds to the user's indoor positioning information in a voice format.