KR101065595B1 - Power Providing Method and System for Charging Based on Electronic Authentication Card - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention is any time at any place where a power line terminal associated with an AMI (or AMR) terminal for a smart grid is installed, such as a smart card such as an electronic resident card equipped with an RFID chip or an NFC chip, a USIM card, or a mobile phone. After authentication of user information using an electronic authentication card such as USIM, the user can use the power supplied through the power line to charge a portable terminal such as a notebook PC, a mobile phone, a PDA, a PMP, or an electric vehicle. The present invention relates to a method and a system for providing a power, and a method of charging a post-payment method based on the authenticated user information on the used power consumption.

Power line terminal, charging, electronic authentication card (smart card, electronic resident card, USIM card, etc.)

Description

Power Providing Method and System for Charging Based on Electronic Authentication Card}

The present invention relates to a method and system for providing personalized power, and more particularly, to an electronic device equipped with an RFID chip or an NFC chip at a place where a power line terminal connected to an AMI (or AMR) terminal for a smart grid is installed. After authentication of user information using resident card or electronic authentication card such as smart card, USIM card, USIM installed in mobile phone, personal information terminal such as notebook PC, mobile phone, PDA, PMP A method of providing power by allowing electric power supplied through a power line to be used for various devices requiring charging, such as an electric vehicle, and charging a post-paid payment method based on the authenticated user information on the used electric power usage. And to the system.

At present, various personal mobility information terminals are rapidly spreading. For example, modern people carry portable devices such as a personal computer (PC), a mobile phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a portable multimedia player (PMP), etc. Various multimedia information such as viewing can be used. In addition, the recent development of electric vehicles has been a trend that is spread to many people.

Most of such mobile terminals or electric vehicles are equipped with a battery, and thus cannot operate when the battery is discharged. In addition, due to the limitation of the battery of the terminal can not be used continuously. Therefore, various infrastructures for filling must be established. However, at present, in addition to the methods that can be used in the house for charging the battery of a mobile terminal or an electric vehicle, it can be charged only in some limited places such as some charging stations or subway stations installed to pay and charge. Insufficient formulation of the substructure. Some stores offer free charging for your convenience, but if you're constantly using a lot of users or using power-hungry devices or devices, such as electric cars, you may be charged for the use of power. Will have

In addition, although there are some places where a paying device is installed, the existing paying method is a method of charging a battery after placing a terminal on a predetermined cradle and inserting a coin or deducting the amount charged in a transportation card. I may offer it. In addition, there is a method of charging power after measuring power usage in the existing paid power usage method, but most of them adopt a prepaid method, which is complicated to configure and charge a device to implement this. It causes a lot of inconvenience in use.

Accordingly, the present invention is to solve the above problems, an object of the present invention, any place where a power line terminal associated with an AMI (or Advanced Metering Infrastructure or Automatic Meter Reading, AMI) terminal for the smart grid is installed. At any time, the user information is authenticated using a smart card such as an electronic resident card equipped with an RFID chip or an NFC chip, a USIM card, or an electronic authentication card such as a USIM installed in a mobile phone. It provides a method and system for providing a power that can use the power supplied through the power line to charge the electric vehicle, and bills in a post-paid manner based on the authenticated user information for the used power usage. There is.

First, to summarize the features of the present invention, the power providing method according to an aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object of the present invention, the first step of recognizing user information received from the electronic authentication card; As the user information is transmitted to the AMI terminal using a PLC communication method, and the user information is transmitted from the AMI terminal to a server connected to a network, the permission information generated after authentication of the user information at the server is generated. Receiving the license information from the AMI terminal in the PLC communication scheme when transmitted to the mobile station; A third step of supplying power from a power line to a terminal according to the license information and generating information on power usage of the electric device connected to the terminal; And a fourth step of transmitting information on the power usage to the server through the AMI terminal, wherein the server charges a fee corresponding to the information on the power usage to a corresponding billing number based on the user information. Can generate billing information.

Before the first step, an electric device to be used for power is connected to the terminal, and in the third step, power is supplied to the terminal until the electric device is removed from the terminal according to the licensing information. Automatically recognize that the device is removed from the terminal to generate information about the power usage.

In the first step, the user information may be wirelessly received and recognized from the electronic authentication card including the smart card equipped with the RFID chip or the NFC chip, the USIM card, or the USIM mounted in the portable terminal.

The server manages the information on the subscriber who has issued the electronic authentication card in a database, and authenticates the authentication based on the information stored in the database, or transmits the user information to a third authentication authority and uses the license according to the received authentication information. The license information may be generated by determining whether the license information is present.

The server manages information about a subscriber who has issued the electronic authentication card in a database, and the server retrieves a management number of the user based on the information stored in the database from the user information on the electronic authentication card. It is possible to charge a bill by creating a bill for sending to or by transmitting the billing information to the server of the associated mobile communication company by extracting the phone number of the mobile terminal from the user information.

The power supply system according to another aspect of the present invention includes a power line terminal for communicating with an AMI terminal through a power line in a PLC communication scheme, wherein the power line terminal includes: a PLC communication unit supporting the PLC communication; User information receiving means for receiving user information from an electronic authentication card; A terminal to which an electric device to use electric power is connected; As the user information is transmitted to the AMI terminal through a PLC communication unit, and the user information is transmitted from the AMI terminal to a server connected to a network, the permission information generated after authentication of the user information at the server is the AMI. A control unit for receiving the license information from the AMI terminal through the PLC communication unit when transmitted to the terminal; And a power supply and measurement unit configured to supply power from a power line to the terminal according to the license information and to generate information on power usage of the electric device connected to the terminal, wherein the controller is configured to provide information about the power usage. By transmitting to the AMI terminal through the PLC communication unit, the information on the power usage is controlled to be transmitted to the server, and the charge corresponding to the information on the power usage in the billing number based on the user information in the server Billing information can be generated for billing.

The power providing and measuring unit, according to the license information, supplies power to the terminal until the electrical device previously connected to the terminal is removed from the terminal, and automatically recognizes that the electrical device is removed from the terminal. To generate information on the power usage.

According to the method and system for providing power according to the present invention, anytime, any place where a power line terminal connected to an AMI (or AMR, Advanced Metering Infrastructure or Automatic Metering Reader) terminal for a smart grid is installed and authenticated using an electronic authentication card Since it is easy to install in a post-paid manner and charges the user by using the power supplied through the power line, it can be used to reduce the burden on the landlord and to charge a personal portable terminal or an electric vehicle with convenience and flexibility.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and the contents described in the accompanying drawings, but the present invention is not limited or limited to the embodiments. Like reference numerals in the drawings denote like elements.

1 is a view for explaining a power supply system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, a power supply system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a power line terminal 110, an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), or an automatic metering reader (AMR) terminal 120, a network, and a network. 130, and the management server 140.

Referring to FIG. 1, in the power supply system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention, at any time at any place where a power line terminal 110 associated with an AMI terminal 120 for a smart grid is installed, an electronic authentication card may be used. For example, a smart card such as an electronic resident card equipped with a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip or a near field communication (NFC) chip, a USIM card (a card equipped with a USIM), or a universal subscriber identification (USIM) installed in a mobile terminal. Receiving user information wirelessly using a module, and by the management server 140, by using the power supplied through the power line of the power company in a post-paid way, by using a notebook PC (Personal Computer), mobile phone , Personal digital assistants (PDAs), portable multimedia players (PMPs), and the like, to conveniently charge electric vehicles.

Here, the AMI terminal 120 collects power usage information remotely by communicating with a power usage meter installed in a customer using a power line of a power company, and notifies the power company's server, for example, the management server 140. an apparatus, according to the present invention, in association with these through the AMI terminal 120 and the power line for the smart grid (power Line communication) PLC communication methods, such as by operating the power-line terminal 110 were to provide power to the post-paid scheme . Although the AMI terminal 120 and the power line terminal 110 may be implemented by a PLC communication method that transmits and receives a required signal using a power line, in some cases, such as a general wired communication method or a mobile communication method of a serial or parallel communication method. It may be implemented by a general wireless communication scheme.

The management server 140 that manages subscriber information and performs authentication may be implemented in a predetermined communication method by a network 130 such as a wired / wireless dedicated network, the Internet, or a mobile communication network.

In addition, the power line terminal 110 is described as an example of receiving the user information wirelessly from the smart card, the USIM card, or the USIM mounted on the portable terminal as described above, but is not limited thereto. When the authentication card is used, the card reader may be used to receive user information from the corresponding electronic authentication card in contact with the card reader.

The smart card, the USIM card, or an electronic authentication card such as the USIM mounted on the mobile terminal may be issued by the system 100 administrator, and information about a subscriber collected at the time of issuance, for example, an address and a resident The number, the number of the electronic authentication card, the telephone number, etc. may be stored and managed in the database of the management server 140 together with the corresponding management number. The management server 140 may perform authentication on the user information (number, phone number, etc.) received from the electronic authentication card based on the information on the subscriber as managed in the database. In addition, the management server 140 may transmit the user information to the server of the third certification authority to perform authentication. In addition, the management server 140 charges a charge corresponding to the information on the power usage of the electric device notified from the power line terminal 110 to the corresponding billing number (number of the electronic authentication card, telephone number, etc.) based on the user information. can do.

FIG. 2 is a detailed block diagram of the power line terminal 110 of FIG. 1. 2, the power line terminal 110 according to an embodiment of the present invention, the control unit 210, the memory 211, the user interface 220, the terminal 230, the PLC communication unit 240, RF communication unit 250, and a power providing and measuring unit 260.

The controller 210 is responsible for the overall control of the power line terminal 110 as described above. The memory 211 may temporarily store information on the strategy usage measured by the power provision and measurement unit 260. The user interface 220 includes a display means such as an LCD, and may include various keys or buttons for inputting a control signal as necessary. Information on the strategy usage measured by the power provision and measurement unit 260 may be displayed through the display means of the user interface 220.

The terminal 230 may be in the form of an outlet to which an electric device such as a mobile terminal or an electric vehicle that uses electric power is connected. When a plug of a portable terminal or an electric vehicle is connected to the terminal 230, after authentication of the management server 140, the power providing and measuring unit 260 under the control of the control unit 210 is connected to the terminal 230 through the power line. Can be powered by).

The PLC communication unit 240 supports PLC communication with the AMI terminal 120 connected by a power line. The RF communication unit 250 is a means for receiving user information from the electronic authentication card as described above, an electronic chip such as a smart card such as an electronic resident card equipped with an RFID chip or an NFC chip, a USIM card, or a USIM mounted on a mobile terminal. User information stored in the authentication card can be received wirelessly. In addition, when a contact type electronic authentication card is used, user information may be received from the corresponding electronic authentication card in contact with the card reader by using a predetermined user information receiving means, for example, a card reader, instead of the RF communication unit 250. .

In particular, in the present invention, the control unit 210 transmits the user information received through the RF communication unit 250, etc. to the AMI terminal 120 through the PLC communication unit 240, the network 130 in the AMI terminal 120 When the license information generated after authentication of the user information in the management server 140 is transmitted to the AMI terminal 120 as the user information is transmitted to the management server 140 connected to the AMI terminal 120, the AMI terminal 120 The corresponding license information may be received through the PLC communication unit 240.

Accordingly, the power providing and measuring unit 260 may supply power from the power line to the terminal 230 according to the permission information and generate information on the power usage of the electric device connected to the terminal 230.

After the user information is received through the RF communication unit 250 or the like in a state in which the electrical device is connected to the terminal 230 in advance, when the control unit 210 receives the permission information as described above, the power supply and measurement unit 260 may supply power to the terminal 230 until the electrical device previously connected to the terminal 230 is removed from the terminal 230 according to the corresponding licensing information, and the electrical device is removed from the terminal 230. If it is automatically recognized, it can generate information on the power consumption up to that point. Such power usage information may be temporarily stored in the memory 211 and displayed on the display means of the user interface 220.

When the power providing and measuring unit 260 generates the information on the power usage as described above, the controller 210 transmits the information on the power usage to the AMI terminal 120 through the PLC communication unit 240, the corresponding power Information on the amount of usage can be controlled to be transmitted to the management server 140. When the information on the power usage is transmitted to the management server 140 as described above, the information on the power usage temporarily stored in the memory 211 may be deleted. The management server 140 may generate billing information for charging a fee corresponding to the information on the power usage to the billing number based on the user information.

Hereinafter, the operation of the power providing system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 3.

First, a user of an electronic device such as a personal portable terminal such as a notebook PC, a mobile phone, a PDA, a PMP, or an electric vehicle, connects the electric device to the terminal 230 in order to use or charge the electric device (S310). The electric device may be connected to a predetermined charging device and connected to a terminal 230 in the form of an outlet.

At this time, the user information receiving means such as the RF communication unit 250 approaches a smart card such as an electronic resident card equipped with an RFID chip or an NFC chip, a USIM card, or an electronic authentication card such as a USIM mounted in a portable terminal within a predetermined distance. If so, it is possible to wirelessly receive the user information (number of electronic authentication card, telephone number, etc.) stored therein (S311). Although it is assumed that the electronic authentication card is a contactless type, the present invention is not limited thereto, and when a contact electronic authentication card is used, corresponding user information may be received using a card reader.

The received user information may be recognized by the controller 210, and the controller 210 may transmit the user information to the AMI terminal 120 through the PLC communication unit 240 (S312). At this time, as the AMI terminal 120 transmits the corresponding user information to the management server 140 connected to the network 130 (S313), the management server 140 will generate the license information after authentication for the corresponding user information. It may be (S314).

The management server 140 is a smart card, USIM card, or when the electronic authentication card, such as USIM mounted on the mobile terminal is issued, information about the collected subscriber, for example, address, social security number, electronic authentication card The number, phone number and the like can be stored and managed in the database with the corresponding management number (S300), the management server 140 is the user information received from the electronic authentication card based on the information on the subscriber as managed in the database The license information may be generated by determining whether to use the license according to the authentication of the number (telephone number, telephone number, etc.) of the electronic certificate. In addition, the management server 140 transmits the user information to a server of a third certification authority, for example, a bank or an accredited certification authority, and determines whether to use the license according to the received authentication information to generate the license information. Can be.

As such, when the management server 140 generates the license information according to the authentication, the management server 140 may transmit the corresponding license information to the AMI terminal through the network 130 (S315). Accordingly, when the AMI terminal 120 receives it and transmits it to the power line terminal 110 in a PLC communication method, the power line terminal 110 may receive corresponding permission information through the PLC communication unit 240 (S316). .

In response to receiving the license information, the control unit 210 controls the power supply and measurement unit 260 to provide power, so that the power supply and measurement unit 260 supplies power from the power line to the terminal 230. Can be supplied (S320). At this time, the power providing and measuring unit 260 starts to measure the amount of power used by the electrical device connected to the terminal 230 (S321). Subsequently, when the electric device is removed from the terminal 230 (S330), the power providing and measuring unit 260 may automatically recognize that the electric device is removed from the terminal 230 and generate information on the corresponding power usage. (S331). Such power usage information may be temporarily stored in the memory 211 and displayed on the display means of the user interface 220. As such, when the power providing and measuring unit 260 generates information on the power usage, the control unit 210 transmits the information on the corresponding power usage to the AMI terminal 120 through the PLC communication unit 240 (S332). ), The AMI terminal 120 may transmit the information on the received power usage to the management server 140 (S333). When the information on the power usage is transmitted to the management server 140 as described above, the information on the power usage temporarily stored in the memory 211 may be deleted.

Accordingly, the management server 140 may generate charging information for charging a charge corresponding to the information on the power usage received in the corresponding charging number based on the user information (S340 and S350). For example, the management server 140 searches the database based on the user information received in step S313 (number of electronic authentication card, telephone number, etc.) to extract the management number of the user and send it to the address of the user. A bill may be prepared (S340). The bill thus prepared may be sent to the user's address. Alternatively, the management server 140, if the user information received in step S313 includes a phone number, for example, when receiving the user information from the USIM of the mobile phone, the phone of the mobile terminal such as a mobile phone from the user information The number may be extracted and the fee may be charged by transmitting the corresponding billing information to the server of the associated mobile communication company (S350). Such billing information may be collected daily, weekly, monthly, and the like, thereby allowing the billing or billing information to be sent on the day.

As described above, the present invention has been described by way of limited embodiments and drawings, but the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains various modifications and variations from such descriptions. This is possible. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be determined not only by the claims below but also by the equivalents of the claims.

1 is a view for explaining a power providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a detailed block diagram of the power line terminal of FIG. 1.

3 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of a power providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (7)

In the power providing method using a power line terminal to communicate with the AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure) terminal via a power line in a PLC communication method, A first step of recognizing user information received from the electronic authentication card; The user information is transmitted to the AMI terminal through a PLC (Power Line Communication) communication method, and the user information is generated after authentication of the user information at the server as the user information is transmitted from the AMI terminal to a networked server. Receiving permission information from the AMI terminal in the PLC communication scheme when permission information is transmitted to the AMI terminal; A third step of supplying power from a power line to a terminal according to the permission information and generating information on power usage of an electric device connected to the terminal; And a fourth step of transmitting information about the power usage to the server through the AMI terminal. In order to generate billing information for charging a charge corresponding to the information on the power usage to the billing number based on the user information in the server, The power line terminal communicates with a power usage meter installed in a customer using the power line of a power company to collect power usage information remotely and notify the server to the AMI terminal through the power line for the PLC communication method. By doing so, at a place where the power line terminal associated with the AMI terminal is installed, the user is provided with power to the electrical device by the post-payment method using the electronic authentication card. The method of claim 1, Before the first step, connect an electrical device to be powered to the terminal, In the third step, the electric power is supplied to the terminal until the electric device is removed from the terminal according to the permission information, and automatically recognizes that the electric device is removed from the terminal, thereby providing information on the power usage. Generating power. The method of claim 1, In the first step, the user information is wirelessly received and recognized from the electronic card including a smart card, a USIM card, or a USIM mounted on a portable terminal equipped with an RFID chip or an NFC chip How to Provide. The method of claim 1, The server manages information about a subscriber who has issued the electronic authentication card in a database, and transmits the authentication information based on the information stored in the database, or transmits the user information to a third authentication authority and uses the information according to the received authentication information. The license information is generated by determining whether to permit the license. The server retrieves a management number of the user from the user information on the electronic authentication card based on the information stored in the database and prepares a bill for sending it to a corresponding address, or the telephone number of the mobile terminal from the user information. Extracting and transmitting the corresponding billing information to a server of the associated mobile communication company and charging the bill. delete And a power line terminal for communicating with the AMI terminal in a PLC communication manner through a power line, wherein the power line terminal comprises: a PLC communication unit supporting the PLC communication; User information receiving means for receiving user information from an electronic authentication card; A terminal to which an electric device to use electric power is connected; As the user information is transmitted to the AMI terminal through a PLC communication unit, and the user information is transmitted from the AMI terminal to a server connected to a network, the permission information generated after authentication of the user information at the server is the AMI. A control unit for receiving the license information from the AMI terminal through the PLC communication unit when transmitted to the terminal; And a power providing and measuring unit configured to supply power from a power line to the terminal according to the licensing information and to generate information on power usage of the electric device connected to the terminal. The control unit transmits the information on the power usage to the AMI terminal through the PLC communication unit, so that the information on the power usage is transmitted to the server, the server to the corresponding billing number based on the user information Generate billing information to charge a fee corresponding to information on power usage, The power line terminal communicates with a power usage metering device installed in a customer using the power line of a power company to interoperate with the AMI terminal that collects power usage information remotely and notifies the server to the PLC communication through the power line. And at a place where the power line terminal associated with the AMI terminal is installed, a user to receive power from the electric device in a postpaid manner using the electronic authentication card. The method of claim 1, wherein the power providing and measuring unit, According to the license information, the electric power is supplied to the terminal until the electric device previously connected to the terminal is removed from the terminal, and automatically recognizes that the electric device is removed from the terminal. Power supply system, characterized in that for generating.

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