JP2007317108A - Management information distribution system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a management information distribution system allowing direct connection from a reading means such as a card reader to the Internet for transmitting an encrypted mail to a user terminal of a guardian and the like. <P>SOLUTION: For directly connecting a reader 11 to the Internet without using any terminal device such as a PC, a network communication part 112 having a DHCP function and the like is arranged in the reader. The reader 11 is provided with a mail generation part 113 making the reader 11 read identification information of an IC card 21 carried by a student to generate a mail based on read information. The mail is encrypted by an encryption part 114 to be transmitted to the user terminal 31 such as a cellular phone carried by the guardian. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a management information distribution system that distributes predetermined management information created by reading from a recording medium such as an IC card to a user terminal such as a mobile phone or a personal computer by e-mail, and more particularly to a kindergarten, a nursery school, a school, The present invention relates to a management information distribution system for confirming the safety, attendance status, participation status, etc. of attendees attending seminars and events, etc. attending a cram school.

In recent years, there have been many kidnappings and attempted kidnappings for infants, children, and students (hereinafter referred to as children), which have become social problems. For this reason, measures are taken to ensure that school staff and guardians look around the school route when the children go to school, and that the local government prepares a system that allows children to run to the house facing the school route.
In security-related companies and the consumer electronics industry, a safety management system that uses storage media such as IC cards and IC tags is built for children, and children attend school or school and leave school or school. A technology has been developed that automatically informs the guardian when doing this (see, for example, Patent Documents 1 and 2).
Furthermore, an information management system that manages attendance and attendance status of participants participating in seminars and events has been proposed (see, for example, Patent Document 3).
JP 2003-23666 A JP 2002-261969 A JP-A-9-69215

However, from the viewpoint of personal information protection, it is preferable to encrypt information such as e-mails sent to guardians. However, in order to encrypt e-mails etc. in the technique described in the above document, a separate personal computer (PC) Etc. are required. In addition, in order to distribute information by e-mail etc. to mobile phones that most people own, it is necessary to connect a reader such as a card reader to the Internet, but the information read by the reader is processed by a PC or the like At present, a predetermined mail is created, and mail is transmitted using the communication function of the PC.
Therefore, there is a problem that the construction of a safety management system requires a large amount of cost and a space for installing a PC.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and can create a necessary message according to the situation, and can be directly connected to a communication line such as the Internet from a reader such as a card reader, It is an object of the present invention to provide a management information distribution system capable of transmitting an encrypted mail to a user terminal such as a guardian.

  In order to achieve the above object, the inventor of the present invention enables a reader to be directly connected to a communication line such as the Internet without using a terminal device such as a PC, and records an IC card or the like possessed by a student. The reader is made to read the medium identification information, and a specific message based on the read information can be transmitted to a terminal device such as a mobile phone held by the guardian.

Specifically, as described in claim 1, the configuration of the reader includes a recording medium storing specific identification information, and reading the identification information from the recording medium by communicating with the recording medium, via a communication line. A management information distribution system comprising: a reader that transmits a predetermined message; and a user terminal that receives the message transmitted from the reader via the communication line, wherein the reader is connected to the recording medium. The first communication means for performing communication with the second communication means, the second communication means capable of communicating with a predetermined terminal or server via the network, and identification information allocated to each of the management target persons are stored in advance. The identification information storage unit, the identification information read by the first communication means and the identification information stored in the identification information storage unit are collated, and whether or not the matching identification information exists A communication history storage unit that stores a communication history of the identification information related to the IC card in association with the identification information when the determination unit determines that the determination unit matches, and a message to be transmitted A message storage unit that stores the original text of the content, a destination address storage unit that stores an address of a transmission destination in association with the identification information, and a past related to the identification information read when the identification information is read from the IC card A mail creation unit that reads the communication history of the message from the communication history storage unit, determines the content of the mail to be transmitted from the communication history, and creates a predetermined mail using the original text of the message read from the message storage unit; An encryption unit for encrypting the created mail, and reading the encrypted mail from the destination address storage unit It is constituted and a transmission unit for transmitting a predetermined address.
The recording medium may be a contact type, but as described in claim 2, an IC card having a function of communicating with the reader in a non-contact manner and transmitting the identification information to the reader Or an IC tag.
According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the case where a plurality of readers are installed in a communication network, the identification information of the recording medium that has communicated with one reader is the identification of the one reader. When it does not match the identification information stored in the information storage means, it may be configured to search for another reader having the matching identification information and transmit or output a guidance message based on the result. Good.
Further, as described in claim 4, the communication history and the identification information are periodically compared, and when there is no communication history regarding the predetermined identification information in a predetermined time zone, mail transmission and other notifications are performed. You may provide further the alarm means to perform.

According to the present invention, a message can be transmitted directly from a reader to a user terminal without going through a terminal device such as a PC or a server, and the installation cost of the management information distribution system can be greatly reduced.
In addition, by connecting multiple readers via a communication line so that data can be sent and received directly, for example, even if a child accidentally attends another school, the parent or guardian can make a mistake immediately. It is possible to guide and safely guide the child to the original school.
Further, the management terminal device or the management server can grasp the status of the child's going to and from school, and if a mistake is made, the child can be arranged to be picked up to the target school.

DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. In the following description, a case will be described in which the present invention is applied to a management information distribution system that manages children going to and from elementary school.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an overall configuration of a management information distribution system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the management information distribution system 1 of this embodiment includes IC cards 21, 22, 23,... As storage media for storing specific identification information assigned to each child. Card readers 11, 12, 13,... That read the identification information from the IC cards 21, 22, 23,... And create / send mails, and users such as mobile phones and personal computers possessed by parents Are connected to the card readers 11, 32, 33,... And the user terminals 31, 32, 33,.

  The card readers 11, 12, 13... Are installed, for example, for each school in the same city, and are installed at the entrances, school gates, and the like where children and the like always pass when going to and from school. When attending school or leaving school, children bring their IC cards 21, 22, 23... Close to the card readers 11, 12, 13.・ Read the identification information.

  The identification information that can be used in the present invention is not particularly limited as long as it is information that can identify individual children. For example, in addition to the name of the child, the identification information includes the home address of the child, the telephone number, and the name of the guardian. However, it is not preferable from the viewpoint of personal information protection to store such identification information relating to individual identification in the IC cards 21, 22, 23. Therefore, in this embodiment, for example, a management number composed of several digits and assigned to each child is used as identification information.

  The card readers 11, 12, 13... Are connected directly to the Internet 4 without using a terminal device such as a personal computer, and the like for the user terminals 31, 32, 33. Distribute by e-mail that has attended or left school. At this time, the card readers 11, 12, 13... Encrypt the mail and transmit it to the user terminals 31, 32, 33.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a specific configuration of the card readers 11, 12, 13,.
The configuration of the card readers 11, 12, 13... Is the same, so only one card reader 11 will be described, and description of the other will be omitted.
The card reader 11 communicates with the IC card 21 to read out and receive the identification information of each child from the memory of the IC card 21 and connect the card communication unit 111 as the first communication means to the Internet 4. A network communication unit 112 as a second communication means for performing communication, a mail creation unit 113 for creating a mail addressed to the user terminals 31, 32, 33..., And pre-set individual identification information of a child The identification information storage unit 115 that performs communication, the communication history storage unit 116 that stores the history of communications performed with the IC card 21, the message storage unit 117 that stores the original text of messages such as mail text and warning text, and the IC Between the power supply unit 118 that supplies power to the card 21, the voice output unit 119 such as a speaker that outputs the contents of warnings, greetings, guidance, etc. by voice, and these And a CPU110 for inputting and outputting management.

The card communication unit 111 has a function of receiving the identification information transmitted from the IC card 21 and transmitting it to the CPU 110.
The network communication unit 112 is for enabling the card reader 11 to be connected to the Internet 4. When an Internet service provider (ISP) server accesses the card reader 11, the network communication unit 112 is assigned by DHCP. The dynamic global IP address is notified to the ISP server.

  Each storage unit 115, 116, 117 determines whether the CPU 110 is going to school or leaving school based on the identification information read from the IC card 21, and sends an appropriate e-mail according to the situation to the user terminals 31, 32, 33 so that the data can be transmitted to 33. Hereinafter, an example of the storage contents stored in the storage units 115, 116, and 117 will be described with reference to FIG.

  In the identification information storage unit 115, as shown in FIG. 3A, the management number (identification information) assigned to each child to be managed and the user terminals 31, 32, 33,. The mail address (transmission destination) and the name of the child are stored as an identification information management table. Although not shown, in addition to the above information, the grade and class of each child and the second and subsequent mail addresses may be included if desired by the guardian.

  Of the various types of information stored in the identification information management table of FIG. 3A, the “management number” is used for collation with the identification information (management number) in the IC card 21 read by the card communication unit 111. , “Name” and “destination” are used for creating a mail in the mail creating unit 113.

As shown in FIG. 3B, the communication history storage unit 116 stores communication records with the IC card 21 for each identification information as a history management table along with the time.
For example, the child with the management number 10301 reads the IC card 21 at 8:18 and 16:20. In addition, the child with the management number 10304 mistakenly goes to another school (in the table, the data read by the other reader is indicated by zzz), and goes to the regular school at 8:40. After reading the IC card 21, the IC card 21 is also read at 16:30.

Based on the communication history stored in the history management table as shown in FIG. 3B, the CPU 110 determines whether it is “attending school” or “going to school”, and the mail creation unit 113 creates a history when creating a mail. The time in is referenced.
In this embodiment, the communication history is divided into morning and afternoon, and the daily communication history is divided into two at noon. By doing so, for example, if there is no communication history with the IC card 21 in the morning, it is possible to notify the guardian's user terminals 31, 32, 33 to that effect.

The message storage unit 117 includes a message table (FIG. 3C) in which originals of various messages for mail creation are stored, and a voice output table (FIG. 3 (FIG. 3) in which a voice message output from the voice output unit 119 is stored. d)).
When the mail creation unit 113 creates a mail, the original message text stored in the message table is used.
For example, when the child with the management number 10301 goes to school, the original text 1 is extracted from the message table, and the child name in the identification information management table in FIG. 3A and the time in the history management table in FIG. , Create a message saying “Otoo Kono attended school at 8:18”.

  In addition, when performing voice output from the voice output unit 119, a voice message stored in the voice output table is used. For example, when the IC card 21 is brought close to the card reader 11 when going to school, 1 “good morning” in the voice output table is output as voice, and when “2” is left, the second “goodbye” is output as voice.

  In this embodiment, the CPU 110 executes an OS such as I-TRON (registered trademark) or Windows (registered trademark) installed in advance. The creation of a mail in the mail creation unit 113 and the encryption such as SSL in the encryption unit 114 are performed by application software installed in advance. These application software are started and executed on the OS. .

  The CPU 110 is provided with a memory 110 a that temporarily stores identification information read from the IC card 21. The memory 110a stores the identification information read from the IC card 21 for a preset time, for example, about 5 minutes. When the identification information is read from the IC card 21 by the card communication unit 111, first, the memory 110a Collation with the identification information stored in 110a is performed. When the identification information stored in the memory 110a matches the identification information read from the IC card 21, the CPU interrupts the subsequent processing.

The reason for providing such a memory 110a is as follows.
When the reading operation of the identification information of the IC card 21 by the card reader 11 is repeatedly performed in a short time due to mischief or misunderstanding of a child, if all the communication histories are accumulated in the communication history storage unit 116, an erroneous message is displayed. Are transmitted to the user terminals 31, 32, 33.

For example, if a student who has just gone to school causes the card reader 11 to read the identification information of the IC card 21 many times by mischief, the message “I went to school” and the message “I left school” will be displayed for a short time. Will be sent alternately to parents.
Therefore, in order to avoid such inconvenience, when the above-described memory 110a is provided and the identification information of the same IC card 21 is repeatedly read in a short time, it is based on the second and subsequent readings. The processing is not executed.

Next, the operation of the management information distribution system configured as described above will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.
When the card reader 11 is powered on (start), the network communication unit 112 notifies the ISP server of the dynamic global IP address assigned by DHCP. As a result, the card reader 11 is connected to the Internet 4 and mail can be delivered to the user terminals 31, 32, 33.
When the child goes to school and brings the IC card 21 close to the card reader 110, the identification information in the IC card 21 is read by the card communication unit 111 (step S1).

The CPU 110 refers to the identification information management table in the identification information storage unit 115 (step S2) and searches whether there is identification information that matches the identification information read from the IC card 21 (step S3). .
If there is matching identification information in the identification information management table, next, referring to the history management table of the communication history storage unit 116, a past communication history related to the identification information is searched, and it falls under school or falls under school. Judge whether or not.
In this embodiment, it is determined as “going to school” with a proper reading history at the beginning of the identification information management table in one day, and “going to school” is determined with the second proper reading. In addition, as described above, when a plurality of reading operations are repeatedly performed in a short time of about five minutes, the CPU 110 determines that it is misunderstanding or mischief and prohibits updating the history management table within the time. To do.

If it is determined in step S3 that they match, the child's name and destination mail address are read from the identification information management table of the identification information storage unit 115 and sent to the mail creation unit 113 (step S5).
Next, the e-mail creation unit 113 uses the “name of school attendance” and “going to school” sent from the CPU 110, the name of the child, the destination e-mail address and time, and the corresponding message source text in the message table of the message storage unit 117. Create a mail with a predetermined message. (Step S6).
As described above, when the child “Otoo Kono” with the management number 10301 attends the school at 8:18 and causes the card reader 11 to read the identification information of the IC card 21, “Otoo Kono-kun” Is attended at 8:18 ", and an email addressed to the parent's email address" abc@efg.jp "is created.

This mail is encrypted by SSL or the like in the encryption unit 114 (step S7), and then transmitted from the network communication unit 112 to the guardian's user terminal (for example, the user terminal 31) (step S8).
At this time, it is also possible to output a voice such as “Good morning” by voice from the voice output unit 119 provided in the reader 11.
On the display of the user terminal 31 of the parent who received the mail, a message “Otoo Kono attended school at 8:18” is displayed as shown in FIG.

If it is determined in step S3 that the identification information read from the IC card 21 does not match the identification information stored in the identification information storage unit 115, the fact is indicated by the owner of the IC card 21 by voice output or the like. It is possible to notify a child.
In this embodiment, the identification information read from the IC card 21 is transmitted to other readers 12, 13... Connected via the Internet 4 to inquire whether there is matching identification information. (Step S9).

  When a card reader (for example, the card reader 12) having the matching identification information is found, the card reader 12 having the identification information executes the processing from step S3 onward in FIG. At this time, the mail creation unit 113 specifies the name of the school where the card reader 11 that has read the identification information of the child is installed, and reads the corresponding original text (for example, the original text of NO3 in the message table) from the message table. , Insert the name of the child and the name of the school into this, and create a message “You seem to have attended xxx elementary school. Please direct me to △△△ elementary school” (step S12). . Then, this mail is encrypted (step S14) and transmitted to the guardian's user terminal 31 (step S15).

  In addition, for the children who have entered the wrong school, the card reader 11 will give guidance by voice such as "This is a xxx elementary school. Your school is a △△△ elementary school." Is possible (step S13). In the case of a younger grader such as a freshman, for example, send an instruction mail to the PC managed by the teacher of the elementary school to pick up the child and wait for the child on the spot. It is also possible to output sound from the card reader 11

  Further, as a result of collating the identification information with respect to the other readers 12, 13,... In step S9, if no matching identification information is found, an alarm is output (step S11). In this case, it is also possible to inform the child that there is no identification information by voice or the like.

Although a preferred embodiment of the present invention has been described, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment.
For example, in the above description, the personal information such as the guardian's e-mail address and the child's name has been described as being stored on the reader side. However, it may be included in a memory such as an IC card as part of the identification information. It may be.
In the above description, the storage medium has been described by taking a non-contact type IC card as an example. However, a contact type may be used as long as information can be easily exchanged with the storage medium. The form is not limited to the IC card, but may be an IC tag, a mobile phone, a barcode, or a matrix code.
Furthermore, although the Internet has been described as an example of the communication line, the communication line is not limited to this as long as communication with the user terminal is possible, and may be a LAN or a telephone line.

  The present invention is applicable not only to school attendance and attendance management for children in kindergartens, elementary schools, junior high schools, high schools, cram schools, etc., but also to attendance and absence management. It can also be applied to the management of participation status and entrance / exit status at various seminars and events.

It is a block diagram explaining the whole structure of the management information delivery system of this invention concerning one Embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram explaining the specific structure of a card reader. It is a figure which shows an example of the memory content memorize | stored in each memory | storage part. It is a flowchart explaining the effect | action of the management information delivery system in this embodiment. It is a figure which shows an example of the message displayed on the screen of the user terminal which a guardian has.

Explanation of symbols

1 Management Information Distribution System 11, 12, 13 Card Reader 21, 22, 23 IC Card 31, 32, 33 User Terminal 4 Internet (Communication Line)

Claims (4)

A recording medium storing specific identification information; a reader that communicates with the recording medium to read the identification information from the recording medium and transmits a predetermined message via a communication line; and the message transmitted from the reader A management information distribution system having a user terminal that receives the communication line via the communication line,
The reader is
First communication means for communicating with the recording medium;
A second communication means capable of communicating with a predetermined terminal or server via the communication line;
An identification information storage unit that preliminarily stores identification information allocated to each person to be managed;
A determination unit that compares the identification information read by the first communication unit with the identification information stored in the identification information storage unit and determines whether or not the matching identification information exists;
A communication history storage unit that stores a communication history with the recording medium related to the identification information in association with the identification information when it is determined that the determination unit matches;
A message storage for storing the original text of the message to be transmitted;
A destination address storage unit storing a destination address in association with the identification information;
When the identification information is read from the recording medium, the past communication history related to the read identification information is read from the communication history storage unit, the content of the mail to be transmitted is determined from the communication history, and the message storage unit An email creation unit that creates a predetermined email using the original text of the read message;
An encryption unit for encrypting the created mail;
A transmission unit that transmits the encrypted mail to a predetermined address read from the transmission destination address storage unit;
A management information distribution system comprising: The management information distribution system according to claim 1, wherein the recording medium has a function of communicating with the reader in a non-contact manner and transmitting the identification information to the reader. In the case where a plurality of readers are installed in a communication network, the identification information of the recording medium that has communicated with one reader is the identification information stored in the identification information storage unit of the one reader. 3. The management information distribution system according to claim 1, wherein, if they do not match, the other readers having the matching identification information are searched, and a guidance message is transmitted or output based on the result. . The communication history and the identification information are periodically collated, and when there is no communication history with respect to the predetermined identification information in a predetermined time zone, an alarm means is further provided for performing mail transmission and other notifications. The management information distribution system according to any one of claims 1 to 3.

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