KR100840610B1 - Electronic card with SAMs - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an electronic worker card in which SAMs are mounted. The worker card includes a card SAM for user authentication, a payment SAM for bill payment, and a charging SAM for bill charging, and one side of each SAM displays a communication state of SAMs. This allows one worker card to control payment and charging in addition to user authentication.

Description

SAM mounted electronic worker card {Electronic card with SAMs}

1 is a view showing the structure of an embodiment of an employee card according to the present invention;

2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a terminal performing communication with an employee card shown in FIG. 1;

3 is a flowchart illustrating an embodiment of a worker card operating method using a worker card and a terminal illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2.

The present invention relates to a card used by a worker in a toll collection system on a toll road, and more particularly, to an electronic worker card with a built-in SAM.

Electronic payment cards (smart card, RF (Radio Frequency) card, hybrid card, combination card, etc.) are used in the toll collection system installed on the highway, tolled private investment route.

In such toll collection system, the charging SAM, which is charged with millions of won of electronic money, is installed in the lane controller SAM. Therefore, there is always a security risk such as theft when the worker is not at work. In addition, the payment SAM, which charges the payment through the electronic payment card, and the charging SAM itself, which charges the electronic payment card, are expensive products of tens of thousands of won.

Here, the SAM (Security Application Module) is the same as the IC card, the basic operation structure, but may be referred to as a small security authentication server. It implements the function of a remote card authentication server partially for fast card processing. It does not implement S / W inside the terminal and programs it in a security-enhanced chip. It performs functions such as analyzing card data, encrypting / decrypting data, and adding an authenticator to transaction records.

In the toll collection system, a worker uses a magnetic card or enters a work number through a terminal in the toll collection system, and therefore works. Therefore, it is easy to access an unidentified person due to the theft of the magnetic card or leakage of the number. There is this.

Magnetic cards are always a security risk due to the easy copying and the magnetic records are easily erased from magnetic objects such as magnets. In addition, it is difficult to accumulate accurate working data by using multiple magnetic cards in combination, and it is difficult to identify the cause of the trace when a problem occurs.

The conventional charging SAM and payment SAM are mounted on each board installed in the toll collection system, and the card SAM is mounted on the worker card, making it difficult to exchange and track according to the unique SAM ID. In addition, in case of attaching and detaching to maintain each SAM, SAM may be replaced by wrong recognition of the communication failure of SAM itself due to socket failure.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in an effort to provide an employee card that enables to control not only user authentication but also charging and payment through a single card in a toll road toll system.

In order to achieve the above technical problem, an embodiment of the employee card according to the present invention, the SAM mounting unit for mounting the card SAM for user authentication, payment SAM for bill payment and charge SAM for charge charging respectively; And a light emitting device positioned at one side of each of the card SAM, the payment SAM, and the charging SAM.

In this way, a single worker card can be integrated control of user authentication, payment, charging and the like.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail with respect to the worker card and its operating method according to the present invention.

1 is a diagram showing the structure of an embodiment of an employee card according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, an employee card 100 according to the present invention includes an RF antenna 110, a card SAM 120, a payment SAM 130, and a charging SAM 140. One side of each SAM is equipped with light emitting elements (eg, LEDs) 122, 132, and 142.

The worker card 100 may be a contact or contactless type or a combination type that supports both. In the case of the contact type, the card SAM 120, the payment SAM 130, and the charging SAM 140 mounted on the worker card each include a bonding surface. In the case of the contactless worker card includes an RF antenna 110 therein. Communication through the RF antenna 110 is the same as a conventional RF card. The employee card can also be active with its own power source or passive (powered via RF communication in the case of contactless) powered from the outside without its own power source.

When the worker card is contactless through RF communication, the card SAM of the worker card and the SAM module of the terminal described in FIG. 2 perform limited communication to prevent heat from being generated in the worker card. That is, if RF communication is continuously performed in units of several msec or less, heat is generated in the SAM due to the overload of the SAM, but the present invention prevents this by performing limited communication.

The SAMs 120, 130 and 140 are attached to the worker card in the form of a socket. An example of a socket is a Compact Single In-line Memory Module (SIMM) type. Since the SAMs are installed in the worker card in the form of a socket, when the exchange is required, only the corresponding SAM needs to be replaced without replacing the card. In addition, it is possible to replace and use various kinds of SAMs besides payment SAM and charging SAM, thereby improving interoperability.

 Each of the SAMs is attached with light emitting elements (LEDs, etc.) 122, 132, and 142 to indicate the state of each SAM. For example, when the payment SAM 130 is broken or the communication state is poor, the light emitting device 132 mounted on one side of the payment SAM 130 is turned on.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a terminal performing communication with an employee card shown in FIG. 1.

Referring to FIG. 2, the terminal 200 includes a cover 210 in which an RF antenna is embedded, an insertion hole 230 into which a worker card is inserted, and a contact surface contacting each SAM of the worker card to perform RF communication with the worker card. 220.

The employee card according to the present invention can be used as an electronic card used by a tollgate worker on a highway or toll road to start work. If you are working like a normal electronic card, you can perform electronic payment, charging, etc. through a worker card tag or insertion.

According to the message displayed on the screen of the terminal while the work key is turned on (for example, "Cut out the worker card"), the worker card is placed on the worker card mounting module of the terminal, and the cover with the RF antenna (210 By closing) the RF communication with the worker card and the wired communication through the bonding surface 220 is possible.

Specifically, when the worker card is a contact type, the worker card is inserted into the insertion port 230. The contact terminal protrudes from the joining surface 220 of the worker card mounting module, and after the insertion, the joining surfaces 230 of the SAMs of the worker card are contacted with the joining surfaces 230 disposed above the insertion hole of the terminal. The communication is connected.

If the worker card is contactless, the worker card is placed above the joining surface of the terminal. When the worker card is closed with the cover 210 equipped with the RF antenna, power is provided to the worker card through the RF antenna, and each SAM of the worker card is activated to communicate.

If the worker card is a combination type that supports both contact and contactless, when the worker card contacts the contact surface 220 of the terminal, the worker card checks the integrity of communication such as payment SAM and charging SAM and integrity of payment SAM Perform The card SAM communicates with the terminal through the RF antenna mounted on the worker card and wirelessly transmits whether the charging SAM and the payment SAM are normally operated to the main controller of the terminal.

3 is a flowchart illustrating an embodiment of a worker card operating method using a worker card and a terminal illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2.

Referring to FIG. 3, when a worker inserts a worker card into the terminal (in the case of contact type) or closes the cover after placing it on the terminal, the worker card is connected to the terminal to check the communication state of each SAM, etc. (S300). . The worker card checks whether other SAMs (payment SAM and charging SAM) are connected to the terminal through a card SAM connected to a polling type communication port.

As a result of checking the connection state of each SAM, if there are SAMs whose connection is abnormal, the light emitting element located on one side of the corresponding SAM is turned on, so that the worker can know the abnormality of the worker card. In addition, the screen of the terminal displays whether the SAM is abnormal (S335).

When the SAMs of the worker card normally communicate with the terminal (S305), the terminal receives an ID and password from the worker. The employee is authenticated through the card SAM of the employee card and the input ID and password (S310 and S320). If the worker is authenticated, the second authentication is performed through the worker's fingerprint (S320). If both the first authentication and the second authentication are normal, the start of working of the worker is started (S330). If the first authentication or the second authentication fails, the failure is displayed on the screen of the terminal (S335).

The invention can also be embodied as computer readable code on a computer readable recording medium. The computer-readable recording medium includes all kinds of recording devices in which data that can be read by a computer system is stored. Examples of computer-readable recording media include ROM, RAM, CD-ROM, magnetic tape, floppy disk, optical data storage, and the like, and may also be implemented in the form of a carrier wave (for example, transmission over the Internet). Include. The computer readable recording medium can also be distributed over network coupled computer systems so that the computer readable code is stored and executed in a distributed fashion.

So far I looked at the center of the preferred embodiment for the present invention. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the present invention can be implemented in a modified form without departing from the essential features of the present invention. Therefore, the disclosed embodiments should be considered in descriptive sense only and not for purposes of limitation. The scope of the present invention is shown in the claims rather than the foregoing description, and all differences within the scope will be construed as being included in the present invention.

According to the present invention, a card SAM, a payment SAM, and a charging SAM are mounted on a worker card, so that only the worker can be owned and improves confidentiality since password input and fingerprint recognition are performed before starting work. It also provides integrity to prevent tampering, forgery, etc. by unauthorized persons, and to prevent changes to the various SAMs in the worker's card. Using one worker card, identification of the employee, control of the use of the electronic card, and the like are performed, thereby facilitating generation of data such as electronic card payment and charging.

In addition, it is easy to grasp the electronic card payment status and charging status for each worker, and by reading the worker card, it is possible to easily read the working status of the worker. In addition, by changing the magnetic worker card to an electronic card, it can be protected from magnets or magnetic objects, and by inserting or placing the worker card in the worker's electronic card reader it is possible to control the identity of the employee and use of the electronic card as one.

Claims (6)

A SAM mounting unit on which a card SAM for user authentication, a payment SAM for bill payment, and a charging SAM for charge charging are respectively mounted; And And a light emitting element positioned at one side of each of the card SAM, the payment SAM, and the charging SAM. The method of claim 1, And said card SAM, said payment SAM and said charging SAM are attached to and detached from said SAM mounting unit in the form of a compact SIMM type socket. The method of claim 1, The card SAM is a worker card, characterized in that for determining whether the communication between the payment SAM and the charging SAM and the external terminal through the communication port of the polling type The method of claim 3, wherein The light emitting device is a worker card, characterized in that to emit light when the communication between the payment SAM or the charging SAM and the external terminal is abnormal. The method of claim 1, It further comprises an RF antenna, And the card SAM, the payment SAM and the charging SAM communicate with an external terminal via the RF antenna. The method of claim 1, And a bonding surface capable of contacting an external terminal on an outer surface of the card SAM, the payment SAM, and the charging SAM. And said card SAM, said payment SAM, and said charging SAM communicate with said external terminal through their respective mating surfaces.

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