KR100881596B1 - Methods and systems for managing the condition of the bathroom - Google Patents

Abstract

A method and system for checking a condition of a toilet's facilities to effectively manage the toilet is disclosed. According to the present invention, the failure status information of the toilet facilities by providing a bar code or manually check the failure status information generated, and emergency status information and general status from the sensor detecting the fire, power outage, flooding, room temperature, humidity and the number of users A fixed / mobile terminal device which is classified and provided as information, and a plurality of fixed / mobile terminal devices are managed by interworking heterogeneous through a PCL according to the form of the fixed / mobile terminal device, and the plurality of fixed / mobile terminals Provided is a system including a toilet management server storing failure monitoring information generated by classifying information provided from a terminal device into a plurality of grades for each fixed / mobile terminal device according to an action priority.

Accordingly, the present invention can widely manage the condition of the toilet, the emergency measures through the toilet management server in the case of severe damage to the toilet facilities such as fire, power outage, and flooding effect of reducing the cost of maintenance and repair of the toilet Can be obtained.

Description

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The present invention relates to a method and system for managing a state of a toilet, and more particularly, to a method and system for effectively managing a toilet by checking a state of a facility of a toilet using a terminal device.

In general, toilets are classified into indoor toilets located inside buildings and outdoor toilets located outdoors. Since these toilets cannot be inspected by the toilet inspector at any time, safety problems such as electric leakage or fire caused by the user, freezing risks caused by cold weather in winter, and arson are improved and exposed. As the state and many toilet users enter and exit, there is a need to manage the breakdown status and the inspection status of the toilet paper, the toilet, and the sink.

As a patent related to the management of such a toilet, there is a content disclosed in Korean Patent Publication No. 1020060091185 filed by Lee Seok-kyu and published on May 02, 2007. The invention disclosed in the above publication discloses a temperature sensor for measuring the temperature inside the toilet, a fire detector for detecting a fire occurrence in the toilet, and a manure amount detector for cleaning the toilet before detecting the amount of manure. And an earth leakage breaker detector for detecting an operating state of the air conditioner for maintaining a constant temperature inside the toilet, an earth leakage breaker that cuts off commercial power supplied to the toilet when a short circuit occurs, and a temperature measured by the temperature sensor. Accordingly, the operation of the air conditioner is controlled to be maintained at 20 to 25 ° C. in summer and 10 ° C. in winter, and the operation state and input values are transmitted to the control center by receiving the values of the fire detector, the manure amount detector and the earth leakage cutoff detector. In addition, the toilet control to transmit the value of the manure detector to the purifier server And a lighting device for illuminating the inside and the outside of the toilet under the control of the toilet control unit or the control center, a center interface unit for communicating with the toilet control unit and the control center, and a power supply when the ground fault breaker is operated. In the integrated management system of the outdoor public toilet consisting of a battery for supplying and an alarm for notifying when it is determined that the emergency state in the toilet control unit, the data transmission from the toilet control unit to the control center is set by a predetermined time transmission And when the event occurs, the control center is connected to the relevant authorities in accordance with the event of the value input from the toilet control unit, characterized in that the automatic notification.

However, the invention disclosed in the above publication discloses the automatic management of temperature, fire, manure, leakage protection, lighting, heating and cooling by using a fixed integrated management system on the toilet side, and only manages and controls the toilet, In addition, the inspection status of the toilet paper, the toilet bowl, and the sink is not performed. Above all, the control center has a limitation that can be managed only for temperature, fire, manure, leakage protection, lighting, heating and cooling because only the fixed integrated management system on the toilet side is connected.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a fixed / mobile terminal apparatus for classifying and checking the toilet according to a state of a toilet.

In addition, the fixed and mobile terminal devices may be linked with the fixed and mobile terminal devices, and the action priority may be set by setting action priorities according to the fixed and mobile terminal device toilets formed in one toilet through various paths. And it is an object of the present invention to provide a toilet management server provided to each terminal requiring the information.

In order to achieve the object of the present invention as described above, and to perform the characteristic functions of the present invention described below, the characteristic configuration of the present invention is as follows.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for managing a state of a toilet using a network, the method comprising: (a) a fixed / mobile terminal device checking a failure state of a toilet facility by barcode or manually and displaying the fault state information generated by the network; Provided to the toilet management server via the (b) the toilet management by classifying the emergency status information and the general status information from the sensor that detects the fire, power outage, inundation, room temperature, humidity and the number of people using the fixed / mobile terminal device Providing to the server, (c) the toilet management server through the PCL (Phos Client Library) to perform interworking between heterogeneous according to the type of the fixed / mobile terminal device fixed / moved in the steps (a), (b) Generating failure monitoring information by classifying information provided from a terminal device into a plurality of grades for each fixed / mobile terminal device according to an action priority; and (d) the failure monitoring information. A method is provided that includes transmitting monitoring information to a corresponding terminal in the form of an SMS or an email (the terminal includes a terminal of a customer, a manager, a technician, and a terminal device in a bathroom).

In the step (b), when the fire and power failure are classified as emergency status information, the emergency status information may be detected from a sensor and immediately provided to the toilet management server.

In addition, the step (b) may classify the room temperature, humidity, and the number of users into general state information and provide the general state information to the toilet management server according to a preset time condition.

In addition, the step (c) is an emergency, such as fire, power outage, flooding when classified into the highest, middle, and lowest grades arbitrarily according to the degree to be taken, or when the failure state of the toilet is unusable. Is set to the highest level, the case where there is no inconvenience in using the facilities of the toilet due to the failure status is set to the middle grade, and the failure monitoring is classified into the lower class in the case of failure status information related to the inspection by the toilet inspector. Information can be generated.

In addition, according to another aspect of the present invention, as a system for managing the state of the toilet using a network, providing a failure state information generated by checking the failure state of the toilet facilities by a barcode or manually, fire, power outage, Interworking between heterogeneous through the PCL according to the type of fixed / mobile terminal device, and the fixed / mobile terminal device provided by classifying the emergency state information and the general state information from the sensor that senses inundation, room temperature, humidity and the number of users Manages the plurality of fixed / mobile terminal apparatuses and stores the failure monitoring information generated by classifying the information provided from the plurality of fixed / mobile terminal apparatuses into a plurality of classes for each fixed / mobile terminal apparatus according to an action priority. A system including a toilet management server is provided.

The fixed / mobile terminal device may provide the toilet management server immediately after detecting the emergency status information from the sensor when classifying the fire and power outage into emergency status information.

The fixed / mobile terminal device may classify the room temperature, humidity, and the number of users into general state information to provide the general state information to the toilet management server according to a preset time condition.

In addition, the toilet management server may transmit the failure monitoring information to a corresponding terminal device in the form of an SMS or an email (the terminal includes a terminal of a customer, a manager, a technician, and a terminal device in a bathroom).

In addition to this, a computer readable recording medium for recording a computer program for executing the above-described method may be further provided.

According to the present invention, a fault management terminal provided with a barcode or a manual check is provided through a mobile terminal apparatus, and a fixed terminal apparatus for classifying into emergency state information and general state information and toilet management interworking with the fixed / mobile terminal apparatus. By providing a server, the state of the toilet can be managed in a wide range.

In addition, according to the present invention, when the damage to the toilet facilities such as fire, power outage, and flooding is severe, it is possible to obtain the effect of reducing the maintenance and repair costs of the toilet by urgent measures through the toilet management server.

In addition, according to the present invention, it is possible to obtain the effect of maintaining the clean state of the toilet by checking whether the status of the toilet manually by using a barcode and a mobile terminal device by the toilet inspector.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The following detailed description of the invention refers to the accompanying drawings that show, by way of illustration, specific embodiments in which the invention may be practiced. These embodiments are described in sufficient detail to enable those skilled in the art to practice the invention. It should be understood that the various embodiments of the present invention are different but need not be mutually exclusive. For example, certain shapes, structures, and characteristics described herein may be embodied in other embodiments without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention with respect to one embodiment. In addition, it is to be understood that the location or arrangement of individual components within each disclosed embodiment may be changed without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. The following detailed description, therefore, is not to be taken in a limiting sense, and the scope of the present invention, if properly described, is defined only by the appended claims, along with the full range of equivalents to which such claims are entitled. Like reference numerals in the drawings refer to the same or similar functions throughout the several aspects.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art can easily implement the present invention.

[Preferred Embodiments of the Invention]

Configuration of the entire system

1 is a block diagram showing an overall system for managing the state of the toilet according to an embodiment of the present invention by way of example.

Referring to FIG. 1, the entire system according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a terminal device 100 for each toilet, a toilet management server 200, and a site technician / customer terminal 300.

First, the terminal device 100 according to the present invention uses the fixing terminal and the mobile terminal to manually or automatically check the state of the toilet (including barcode recognition) of the toilet management server 200 via the network. Perform the function provided by). In this case, the mobile terminal may include a PDA, a notebook computer, a mobile phone, a smart phone, and the like according to an aspect of a network to be described later. For example, when the terminal device 100 is a mobile terminal, the mobile terminal checks a failure state of a toilet facility and manually inputs it into a service window implemented in the mobile terminal, whereby the failure state information generated thereby causes It will be able to provide to the toilet management server 200 via. In addition, the mobile terminal may be provided to the toilet management server 200 by generating a broken state information automatically recognized by recognizing the barcode attached to the facilities of the toilet to determine whether the toilet facilities are damaged and present. In this case, the toilet facility may be understood as a broad concept encompassing a toilet, a urinal, a sink, a cleaning tool, an air-conditioning device, a lighting device, and the like installed inside and outside the bathroom. Therefore, the breakage and the presence of the toilet facilities refers to the presence or absence of damage and the presence of toilet paper for facilities such as toilet, urinal, wash basin, air-conditioning device, lighting device.

On the other hand, when the terminal device 100 is a stationary terminal, the stationary terminal is a fire detection sensor, an electrostatic detection sensor, a submersion detection sensor, a temperature detection sensor, a humidity detection sensor and the number of users installed in the door check By detecting a fire, power outage, inundation, room temperature, humidity, and the number of people from a dragon sensor, the detected information may be classified into emergency state information and general state information and provided to the toilet management server 200. In this case, the emergency information is information related to fire, power outage, and inundation requiring urgent action, and is preferably provided to the toilet management server 200 after being detected by a fire, power outage, and inundation detection sensor.

On the contrary, the general state information is information related to the room temperature, humidity, and the number of users who do not need urgent measures except fire, power failure, and flooding, and may be provided to the toilet management server 200 according to a preset time condition. In this case, the preset time condition may be a day unit or a time unit.

Next, the toilet management server 200 according to the present invention manages a plurality of fixed / mobile terminal device 200 by performing interworking between the heterogeneous through the PCL according to the form of the fixed / mobile terminal device 100 described above. It performs a function, by classifying the information provided from the plurality of fixed / mobile terminal device 100 to a plurality of classes for each fixed / mobile terminal device according to the priority of action to generate fault monitoring information to generate the SMS or email By transmitting to the terminal device 300 in the form, it is possible to manage a plurality of fixed / mobile terminal device (200). Here, the terminal device 300 refers to a terminal device owned by a site dispatch technician or a customer, a head office, or an office manager who maintains and repairs a plurality of bathrooms. A more detailed description of the toilet management server 200 will be described later with reference to FIG. 2.

The site technician / customer terminal 300 according to the present invention performs a function of receiving failure monitoring information from the toilet management server 200, and more specifically grasps the current state of the toilet facilities and the internal environment through the failure monitoring information. It becomes possible. Therefore, the site technician can maintain and repair the toilet facilities according to the failure monitoring information, and in the case of emergency monitoring information that is urgently needed, the site technician can immediately dispatch the site and take a choke.

On the other hand, between the terminal device 100 and the toilet management server 200 of the present invention, or between the terminal 300, such as on-site dispatch technician, customer, and the toilet management server 200 can be connected to each other via a network, the network It can be configured without regard to the communication mode, such as wired and wireless, and may be a variety of communication networks such as a local area network (LAN), metropolitan area network (MAN), wide area network (WAN) It may be configured as. However, the network of the present invention is an aspect of the terminal (100, 300) between the terminal device 100 and the toilet management server 200, or between the terminal 300, such as the site dispatch technician, customer, and the toilet management server 200. Therefore, it is preferable that it is at least one of the Internet network, mobile communication network and WiBro network.

Configuration and treatment process of the toilet management server 200

2 and 3 is a configuration diagram showing an example toilet management server 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 and 3, the toilet management server 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention is a PCL interlocking unit 210, status information receiving unit 220, a terminal device classification class 230, failure monitoring The information providing unit 240, the communication unit 250, the control unit 260, and various databases 270 and 280 may be included. The state information receiver 220 may include a fault state information receiver 221, an emergency state information receiver 222, and a general state information receiver 223.

First, the PCL interworking unit 210 according to the present invention performs a function of providing a PCL for performing interworking between heterogeneous according to the form of a fixed / mobile terminal device. The PCL is a library that converts and distributes data transmitted and received between the terminal device 100 and the toilet management server 200, enables bidirectional communication, and allows a connection section suitable for a fixed / mobile terminal device.

The fault state information receiving unit 221 according to the present invention receives fault state information via a network from a plurality of fixed / mobile terminal apparatuses 100 with fault state information for diagnosing a fault state of a toilet equipment checked by a barcode or manually. It performs the function. In this case, the received failure state information may include information for checking the toilet facilities by the toilet inspector.

Emergency state information receiving unit 222 according to the present invention a plurality of fixed / mobile terminal apparatus 100 for emergency state information that requires urgent action, such as fire, power outage, immersion information detected using a sensor installed in the outside, the toilet ) To receive via network.

The general state information receiving unit 223 according to the present invention uses a plurality of fixed / general state information requiring actions according to a predetermined time, such as room temperature, humidity, and a user, detected using a sensor installed inside and outside the toilet. It performs a function of receiving from the mobile terminal device 100 via a network.

The classifier 230 for each terminal device according to the present invention uses the fault status information receiver 221, the emergency status information receiver 222, and the general status information receiver 223, respectively. When it is confirmed that the state information has been received, the information is analyzed and classified into a plurality of grades for each fixed / mobile terminal device 100 according to the priority of action.

For example, the classifier 230 for each terminal device classifies the information provided from the fixed / mobile terminal device 100 into the highest level, the middle level, and the lowest level according to the degree to which the information is to be taken. The information provided from the fixed / mobile terminal device 100 is classified as the highest level in case of an urgent need such as when the toilet is in an unusable degree. In other words, the information classified as the highest grade may correspond to the emergency state information and the failure state information corresponding to the failure state. In addition, the information that is classified as the highest rating may be a general state information only when the room temperature or humidity is very high or low due to a lot of deviation from the appropriate room temperature or humidity.

 On the other hand, in case of information classified as middle grade, the failure state of the toilet facilities is small when the toilet equipment is partially damaged in toilets, urinals, wash basins, cleaning tools as well as heating and heating devices and lighting devices installed inside and outside the bathroom. This can be the degree to which there is no inconvenience in using the facilities of the toilet, and the general state information may be applicable only when a little high or low at an appropriate room temperature or humidity. In the case of information classified into a lower class, the failure status information related to the inspection by the toilet inspector may correspond to this.

As such, the classifier 230 for each terminal device according to the present invention may generate failure monitoring information divided by the highest, middle, and lower grades, and store them in a database.

After the failure monitoring information providing unit 240 according to the present invention confirms that the failure monitoring information is generated by the classifier 230 for each terminal device, the corresponding number of failure monitoring information is connected in accordance with the form of SMS or e-mail It performs a function of transmitting to the terminal device (100, 300). In this case, the terminal devices 100 and 300 collectively refer to the terminal 300 of the customer, the manager, and the technician and the terminal device 100 in the bathroom.

For example, when the corresponding terminal device is the terminal device 100 in the bathroom, the failure monitoring information providing unit 240 of the present invention provides the failure monitoring information related to the temperature, humidity, and heating / heating temperature in the bathroom via the network. It is to be transmitted to the terminal device 100 within. On the other hand, if the corresponding terminal device is the terminal 300 of the customer / manager / technician, the failure monitoring information providing unit 240 of the present invention other fixed monitoring information other than the failure monitoring information transmitted to the terminal device 100 It will be transmitted to the terminal 300 of the customer / manager / engineer.

The communication unit 250 according to the present invention performs a function for the toilet management server 200 to transmit and receive various data between the terminal device 100 in the toilet and the terminal 300 of the customer / manager / technician.

The control unit 260 according to the present invention includes a PCL interlocking unit 210, a failure state information receiving unit 221, an emergency state information receiving unit 222, a general state information receiving unit 223, a terminal classifying unit 230, It performs a function of controlling the data flow between the failure monitoring information providing unit 240 and the various databases (270, 280). That is, the control unit 260 of the present invention controls the signals transmitted and received between each component module through the communication unit 250, the PCL interlocking unit 210, fault status information receiving unit 210, emergency state information receiving unit 220 ), The general state information receiver 230, the classifier 240 for each terminal device, and the failure monitoring information provider 250 may perform unique functions.

Finally, the reception information database 270 according to the present invention stores the information received by the failure status information receiver 221, the emergency status information receiver 222, and the general status information receiver 223, and the failure monitoring information database. 280 performs a function of storing the customer state information generated by the classifier 230 for each terminal device.

Examples of how to manage your bathroom

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method for managing a state of a bathroom according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to Figure 4, the method for managing the state of the toilet according to an embodiment of the present invention, the fixed / mobile terminal device 100 checks the failure status information generated by checking the failure state of the toilet equipment or manually Providing to the toilet management server 200 via the network (S300), the stationary / mobile terminal device 100, emergency state information and general from the sensor to detect the fire, power outage, flooding, room temperature, humidity and the number of users Classifying the status information to provide to the toilet management server 200 (S310), the toilet management server 200 performing the interworking between heterogeneous through the PCL according to the form of the fixed / mobile terminal device ( S320), the toilet management server 200 generates fault monitoring information by classifying the information provided from the fixed / mobile terminal device 100 into a plurality of grades for each fixed / mobile terminal device according to the priority of action. The system (S330), and the failure monitoring information in the form of SMS or e-mail may include the step (S340) to the terminal (including the terminal device of the customer, manager, technician and terminal devices in the bathroom). . This has been sufficiently demonstrated through the functions processed according to the respective configurations of FIGS. 1 to 3 described above, and is replaced here.

As described above, the embodiments according to the present invention may be implemented in the form of program instructions that may be executed through various computer components, and may be recorded in a computer-readable recording medium. The computer-readable recording medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc. alone or in combination. Program instructions recorded on the computer-readable recording medium may be those specially designed and constructed for the present invention, or may be known and available to those skilled in the computer software arts. Examples of computer-readable recording media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tape, optical recording media such as CD-ROMs, DVDs, and magnetic-such as floptical disks. Included are optical media and hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute program instructions, such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. Examples of program instructions include not only machine code generated by a compiler, but also high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The hardware device may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the process according to the invention, and vice versa.

1 is a block diagram showing an overall system for managing the state of the toilet according to an embodiment of the present invention by way of example.

2 and 3 is a configuration diagram showing an example toilet management server 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method for managing a state of a bathroom according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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100: fixed / mobile terminal device 200: toilet management server

210: PCL interlocking unit 220: status information receiving unit

221: fault state information receiving unit 222: emergency state information receiving unit

223: general status information receiver 230: class classification unit for each terminal device

240: failure monitoring information providing unit 250: communication unit

260 control unit 270 reception information database

280: failure monitoring information database

Claims (9)

As a method for managing the state of the toilet using a network, (a) the fixed / mobile terminal device checking the failure state of the toilet facilities by barcode or manually providing the failure state information generated through the network to the toilet management server; (b) the fixed / mobile terminal device categorizes the emergency state information and the general state information from the sensor detecting the fire, power outage, flooding, room temperature, humidity, and the number of users, and provides them to the toilet management server; (c) The toilet management server receives information provided from the fixed / mobile terminal device of steps (a) and (b) through a PCL (Phos Client Library) that performs interworking between different types according to the type of the fixed / mobile terminal device. Generating failure monitoring information by classifying the fixed / mobile terminal device into a plurality of classes according to the priority of actions; and (d) transmitting the failure monitoring information to a corresponding terminal in the form of an SMS or an email (the terminal includes a terminal of a customer, a manager, a technician, and a terminal device in a bathroom); How to include. The method of claim 1, In step (b), When the fire, power outage, flooding is classified as emergency information, after detecting the emergency information from the sensor, characterized in that to provide immediately to the toilet management server. The method of claim 2, In step (b), And classifying the indoor temperature, humidity, and the number of persons into general state information to provide the general state information to the toilet management server according to a preset time condition. The method of claim 1, In step (c), According to the degree to be taken, if it is classified as the highest, middle, or lowest level, urgent such as fire, power failure, flooding, or when the failure state of the toilet is unusable, set the highest level. If the toilet equipment such as the toilet, urinal, wash basin, and cleaning equipment installed inside and outside the room is partially damaged, the failure of the toilet equipment is inconvenient to use the facilities of the toilet. And a case where there is no middle class, and classifies the case of failure status information related to the inspection by the toilet inspector into a lower class to generate the failure monitoring information. A computer-readable recording medium for recording a computer program for executing the method according to any one of claims 1 to 4. As a system for managing the state of the toilet using a network, Provides fault status information generated by checking the fault status of toilet facilities by barcode or manually, and classifies it into emergency status information and general status information from sensors that detect fire, power failure, flooding, room temperature, humidity and user Fixed / mobile terminal device, and Manage a plurality of fixed / mobile terminal devices by interworking heterogeneous through PCL according to the type of the fixed / mobile terminal device, and fix the information provided from the plurality of fixed / mobile terminal devices according to the priority of action. Toilet management server that stores fault monitoring information generated by classifying into multiple classes per mobile terminal device System comprising a. The method of claim 6, The fixed / mobile terminal device, In the case of classifying the fire, power outage and flooding into emergency status information, after detecting the emergency status information from the sensor, the system characterized in that it is provided to the toilet management server immediately. The method of claim 7, wherein The fixed / mobile terminal device, And classifying the indoor temperature, humidity, and the number of persons into general state information to provide the general state information to the toilet management server according to a preset time condition. The method of claim 6, The toilet management server, And transmitting the failure monitoring information to a corresponding terminal device in the form of an SMS or an email (the terminal includes a terminal of a customer, a manager, a technician, and a terminal in a bathroom).

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