KR101663499B1

KR101663499B1 - Computer-executable method of noticing emergency

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Publication number: KR101663499B1
Application number: KR1020160012116A
Authority: KR
Inventors: 김종석
Original assignee: 주식회사 썬플라워즈
Priority date: 2016-02-01
Filing date: 2016-02-01
Publication date: 2016-10-07

Abstract

The present invention relates to a computer-executable method for notifying an emergency state, which can detect an emergency state of an old or infirm person having an insufficient cognitive ability. The computer-executable method for notifying an emergency state comprises the steps of: (a) receiving a signal indicative of abnormality including a motionless time which corresponds to absence of motion of a user and which is generated by an abnormality detection sensor adapted to detect the absence of motion lasting for a specific time by continuously detecting the motion of the user; (b) determining a level of an emergency state based on an emergency response rule set in accordance with the motionless time when the signal indicative of the abnormality is received; and (c) transmitting the determined level of the emergency state to an abnormality detection server so that the abnormality detection server transmits a message, regarding occurrence of the emergency state, to at least one of emergency notification terminals selected in accordance with the level of the emergency state.

Description

COMPUTER-EXECUTABLE METHOD OF NOTICING EMERGENCY [0002]

The present invention relates to an emergency notification technology, and more particularly, to a computer-executable emergency notification method capable of detecting an emergency situation of an aged person with insufficient cognitive ability.

A wearable computer is a computer that can be worn freely, such as clothes, watches, and glasses. A variety of technologies such as voice and motion recognition as well as miniaturization and weight reduction of wearable computers are applied. These wearable products are combined with IT technology and can perform various functions to prevent healthcare and lost children by utilizing smart phone, GPS and various sensor technologies.

Korean Patent Registration No. 10-1109640 discloses a technique relating to a hat having a function of preventing a baby from occurring to prevent a baby from occurring. According to this technique, it is possible to prevent a situation in which infants and children are separated from the group and become misplaced when the group is outdoors by a group. The hat provided with the mislaasure preventing means includes a plurality of caps each having a distance measuring sensor and a data transmitting / receiving device; The distance measuring sensors provided in the plurality of hats measure a distance to an adjacent distance measuring sensor, and the measured data are transmitted to the hats The controller transmits the data to the sensor terminal apparatus through the transmitting / receiving apparatus, and the controller determines the data received through the transmitting / receiving apparatus included in the sensor terminal apparatus to measure the distance between the distance measuring sensors, And when any one of the sensors moves away from the group by a predetermined distance, it notifies the leader through the notification means of the guiding device.

Korean Patent No. 10-1562039 discloses a wearable device having a low-frequency generating function and a technology related to a health management system using the wearable device. The present invention relates to a wearable device having a low-frequency generating function for effectively preventing nausea and vomiting caused by nausea, morning sickness, medication, or the like by allowing a low frequency to be transmitted to the median nerve of the wrist so as to be worn on the wrist and a health management system using the wearable device A wearable device having a low frequency generating function to be worn on the wrist generates a low frequency and the low frequency is transmitted to the median nerve of the wrist so that nausea and vomiting due to nausea, have.

Korean Registered Patent No. 10-1109640 (registered on Jan. 18, 2012) Korean Registered Patent No. 10-1562039 (registered on October 10, 2015)

An embodiment of the present invention is to provide a computer-executable emergency notification method capable of detecting an emergency situation of an aged person with insufficient cognitive ability.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a computer-executable emergency notification method capable of periodically checking status information of a senior citizen through a terminal manufactured in a band form.

An embodiment of the present invention is to provide a computer-executable emergency notification method that can promptly report an emergency situation to a terminal of a predetermined guardian when an emergency situation is detected.

Among the embodiments, a computer-executable emergency notification method includes (a) continuously detecting an operation of a user and detecting an operation of the user for a predetermined period of time, (B) receiving the abnormal signal and determining an emergency class according to an emergency response rule set according to the non-operation time; and (c) And transmitting the emergency occurrence message to at least one emergency notification terminal selected by the anomaly detection server.

The step (a) may include detecting the user's pulse wave through the pulse wave sensor when the current time corresponds to the sleeping time designated by the user. The step (a) may include detecting the movement of the user through the gyro sensor when the current time does not correspond to the sleeping time designated by the user.

The step (b) may further comprise the step of determining the emergency class according to the following equation.

[Mathematical Expression]

(The sleeping time designated by the user)

(The Rank function corresponds to a step function that outputs one of the minimum and maximum emergency class ratings,

The IDLE function corresponds to a function of receiving the input of t and outputting a value corresponding to one time period among a plurality of time intervals that gradually decrease according to the user's inactivity)

If the emergency status class is the highest level, the emergency notification terminal closest to the current position of the user other than the selected emergency call notification terminal, To the general user terminal which has been set as a specific group in the telephone book, the general user terminal which has been contacted, the most recently contacted general user terminal, the favorite user registered ordinary user terminal, the shortcut user registered with the shortcut key, To be transmitted.

The disclosed technique may have the following effects. It is to be understood, however, that the scope of the disclosed technology is not to be construed as limited thereby, as it is not meant to imply that a particular embodiment should include all of the following effects or only the following effects.

A computer-executable emergency notification method according to an embodiment of the present invention can detect an emergency situation of an aged person who lacks cognitive ability.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a computer-executable emergency notification method can periodically check status information of a senior citizen through a terminal manufactured in a band form.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, when an emergency situation is detected, the computer can perform emergency notification of an emergency situation to a terminal of a predetermined guardian to quickly resolve an emergency situation.

1 is a diagram illustrating an emergency notification system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a block diagram illustrating the user terminal of FIG.
3 is a flowchart illustrating an emergency notification method performed by the user terminal shown in FIG.
FIG. 4 is a view for explaining the range of an emergency notification terminal capable of receiving an emergency message according to a non-operation elapsed time of a user.

The description of the present invention is merely an example for structural or functional explanation, and the scope of the present invention should not be construed as being limited by the embodiments described in the text. That is, the embodiments are to be construed as being variously embodied and having various forms, so that the scope of the present invention should be understood to include equivalents capable of realizing technical ideas. Also, the purpose or effect of the present invention should not be construed as limiting the scope of the present invention, since it does not mean that a specific embodiment should include all or only such effect.

Meanwhile, the meaning of the terms described in the present application should be understood as follows.

The terms "first "," second ", and the like are intended to distinguish one element from another, and the scope of the right should not be limited by these terms. For example, the first component may be referred to as a second component, and similarly, the second component may also be referred to as a first component.

It is to be understood that when an element is referred to as being "connected" to another element, it may be directly connected to the other element, but there may be other elements in between. On the other hand, when an element is referred to as being "directly connected" to another element, it should be understood that there are no other elements in between. On the other hand, other expressions that describe the relationship between components, such as "between" and "between" or "neighboring to" and "directly adjacent to" should be interpreted as well.

It is to be understood that the singular " include " or "have" are to be construed as including the stated feature, number, step, operation, It is to be understood that the combination is intended to specify that it does not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, or combinations thereof.

In each step, the identification code (e.g., a, b, c, etc.) is used for convenience of explanation, the identification code does not describe the order of each step, Unless otherwise stated, it may occur differently from the stated order. That is, each step may occur in the same order as described, may be performed substantially concurrently, or may be performed in reverse order.

The present invention can be embodied as computer-readable code on a computer-readable recording medium, and the computer-readable recording medium includes any type of recording device that stores data that can be read by a computer system . Examples of the computer-readable recording medium include a ROM, a RAM, a CD-ROM, a magnetic tape, a floppy disk, an optical data storage device, and the like, and also implemented in the form of a carrier wave (for example, transmission over the Internet) . In addition, the computer-readable recording medium may be distributed over network-connected computer systems so that computer readable codes can be stored and executed in a distributed manner.

All terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs, unless otherwise defined. Commonly used predefined terms should be interpreted to be consistent with the meanings in the context of the related art and can not be interpreted as having ideal or overly formal meaning unless explicitly defined in the present application.

1 is a diagram illustrating an emergency notification system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the emergency alert system 100 includes an anomaly detection sensor 110, a user terminal 120, an anomaly detection server 130, at least one emergency alert terminals 140, (150, 152).

The anomaly detection sensor 110 may include a pulse wave sensor and a gyro sensor. In one embodiment, the anomaly detection sensor 110 may be implemented as a wristwatch that can wrap around a user's wrist, and may be closely attached to a user's wrist. The anomaly detection sensor 110 is connected to the user terminal 120 to continuously detect the operation of the user. When an abnormal condition is detected, the anomaly detection sensor 110 sends an abnormal signal including a non-operation time according to the user's operation to the user terminal 120 .

In one embodiment, the anomaly detection sensor 110 may sense the user's activity according to the sleeping time set by the user. For example, when the present time corresponds to the sleeping time set by the user (for example, 11:00 am to 8:00 am), the abnormality detection sensor 110 can detect the user's pulse wave through the pulse wave sensor. The anomaly detection sensor 110 can sense an emergency during sleep during a sleep time when the user's motion hardly occurs through the detection of the pulse wave.

In one embodiment, when the anomaly detection sensor 110 does not correspond to the sleeping time set by the user (for example, from 8:00 am to 11:00 pm), the gyrosensor may detect the movement of the user. A gyro sensor is basically a technology that uses dynamic motion of a rotating object and is used for position measurement and direction setting. It can be widely used for smart phone, remote control, airplane or satellite attitude control device.

The user terminal 120 corresponds to a computing device connected to the anomaly detection sensor 110, and may be implemented, for example, as a smart phone, a computer, or the like. In one embodiment, the user terminal 120 may receive an anomaly signal from the anomaly detection sensor 110 and, if an anomaly signal is received, determine an emergency severity level according to an emergency response rule established according to the inactivity time . Emergency Response Rules and Emergency Classes may be determined as shown in the table below.

Rating function Action Details always A specific radius deviation between the anomaly detection sensor 110 and the user terminal 120 Outputting a notification to the user terminal 120 1 rating There is no data change in the abnormality detecting sensor 110 for 10 minutes. When an emergency situation notification message is requested to the first emergency terminal 140a 2 ratings There is no data change in the abnormality detecting sensor 110 for 15 minutes. When an emergency situation notification message is requested to the first and second emergency terminal (140a, 140b) 3 ranks There is no data change in the abnormality detecting sensor 110 for 18 minutes. The emergency situation notification message is requested to the first, second and third emergency situation terminals (140a, 140b, 140c) 4 ratings There is no data change in the abnormality detecting sensor 110 for 20 minutes. The emergency situation notification message is requested to the first, second and third emergency situation terminals 140a, 140b and 140c and the general user terminal 150, 5 ratings There is no data change in the abnormality detecting sensor 110 for 21 minutes. The emergency situation notification message is requested to the first, second and third emergency situation terminals 140a, 140b and 140c and the general user terminals 150 and 152,

The anomaly detection server 130 can receive the emergency status class determined from the user terminal 120 and transmit the emergency status notification message to at least one selected emergency notification terminal. In one embodiment, Can be implemented.

At least one of the emergency notification terminals 140 may receive the emergency message from the anomaly detection server 130. In one embodiment, the at least one emergency alert terminals 140 may be implemented as a protector and a neighboring smartphone.

The general user terminals 150 and 152 can receive the emergency message from the anomaly detection server 130 when the emergency status level determined from the user terminal 120 is four or higher. In one embodiment, the general user terminals 150, 152 may be implemented as smartphones.

2 is a block diagram illustrating the user terminal of FIG.

2, the user terminal 120 includes an abnormal signal receiving unit 210, an emergency class determining unit 220, a message transmission request unit 230, a user status input unit 240, and a control unit 250 .

The abnormal signal receiving unit 210 performs a function related to receiving an abnormal signal from the abnormal sensor 110. [ The abnormal signal receiving unit 210 can continuously detect the operation of the user from the abnormality detecting sensor 110. In one embodiment, the anomaly signal receiving unit 210 may receive an anomaly signal and a non-operation duration time of the user if the operation of the user is not detected for a predetermined time in the anomaly detection sensor 110. [

The emergency class-level determining unit 220 may determine an emergency class according to a predetermined emergency-response rule based on the abnormal signal from the abnormal-signal receiver 210 and the data received when the user's undetected duration is received.

In one embodiment, the emergency class determining unit 220 can determine the emergency class according to the following equation.

(The sleeping time designated by the user)

Here, the Rank function corresponds to a step function that outputs one of the minimum and maximum emergency class ratings, and the IDLE function receives an input of t and selects one of a plurality of time intervals And outputs a value corresponding to the time interval of the time interval. The emergency class-level determining unit 220 may determine the emergency class to be 0 if the current time corresponds to the sleeping time designated by the user (e.g., 11:00 am to 8:00 am). When the current time is not the sleeping time designated by the user (for example, from 8:00 am to 11:00 pm), the emergency class determining unit 220 determines that the danger level is within the minimum and maximum emergency class levels It can be decided as one. In one embodiment, the emergency class-level determining unit 220 may receive an input of time and output a value corresponding to one of a plurality of time intervals that gradually decrease in accordance with a user's operation. For example, as the duration of user's inactivity increases, the time interval decreases and the value output from the Rank function increases.

The message transmission requesting unit 230 transmits the emergency status level determined by the emergency status level determining unit 220 to the anomaly detection server 130 and the anomaly detection server 130 transmits the at least one emergency status notification terminal (140) to transmit an emergency occurrence message. In one embodiment, the message transmission requesting unit 230 can request more messages to the emergency notification terminal 140 as the emergency level is higher. For example, when the determined emergency status level is the first level, the message transmission request unit 230 can request the first emergency notification terminal 140a to transmit a message. As the step increases, the second and third emergency situations And may request the notification terminals 140b and 140c to transmit the message.

In one embodiment, when the emergency class is the highest class, in addition to at least one selected emergency announcement terminal 140, the emergency announcement terminal 140 closest to the current position of the user, The general user terminal 150 most recently contacted, the most recent contacted general user terminal 150, the normal user terminals 150 and 152 registered as favorites, the general user terminals 150 and 152 registered through the shortcut key, It may request to transmit an emergency occurrence message to all of the general user terminals 150 and 152 set as a specific group in the telephone directory.

The user status input unit 240 may receive a sleep start and end time from a user, and may be implemented with a touch screen of a smart phone or the like in one embodiment. The user status input unit 240 may enable the anomaly detection sensor 110 to detect the user's operation using a sensor appropriate to the situation based on the user status input from the user.

The control unit 250 controls the overall operation of the user terminal 120 and controls the control flow between the abnormal signal receiving unit 210, the emergency situation class determining unit 220, the message transmission request unit 230, Or data flow. In one embodiment, the controller 250 may be implemented as a CPU of the user terminal 120.

3 is a flowchart illustrating an emergency notification method performed by the user terminal shown in FIG.

In FIG. 3, the user terminal 120 attempts to connect with the anomaly detection sensor 110 to detect the operation of the user (step S310). Here, the user terminal 120 may be connected to the anomaly detection sensor 110 through BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) or Bluetooth communication.

When the connection with the anomaly detection sensor 110 is completed, the user terminal 120 detects the operation of the user from the anomaly detection sensor 110 (step S320). The user terminal 120 detects the operation of the user and checks whether an abnormal signal is detected (step S322).

In one embodiment, the user terminal 120 continuously senses the user's activity from the anomaly detection sensor 110 if an anomaly signal is not detected, and receives an anomaly signal and an inactivity duration if an anomaly signal is detected S330). The user terminal 120 determines an emergency situation class based on the received operation duration time (step S340). The user terminal 120 may request at least one emergency notification terminal 140 based on the determined emergency status level (step S350). In one embodiment, the higher the severity of the severity of the emergency, the greater the number of emergency notification terminals 140 may be requested to transmit to the user terminal 120. If the emergency level reaches the highest rating, It may also request the general user terminals 150 and 152 to transmit a notification message.

FIG. 4 is a view for explaining the range of an emergency notification terminal capable of receiving an emergency message according to a non-operation elapsed time of a user.

In FIG. 4, the user terminal 120 may request the first emergency notification terminal 140a to transmit the emergency alert message if the user's un-operation elapsed time is within 10 minutes.

The user terminal 120 may request the first and second emergency notification terminals 140a and 140b to transmit an emergency notification message if the unexecuted elapsed time of the user exceeds 10 minutes, , It is possible to request the first, second and third emergency notification terminals 140a, 140b and 140c to transmit the emergency alert message. The user terminal 120 can reduce the message transmission period as the un-operation elapsed time of the user increases, and when the emergency status level increases, the emergency user terminal 150, 152 associated with the user terminal 120 Message transmission request.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made in the present invention without departing from the spirit or scope of the present invention as defined by the following claims It can be understood that

100: Emergency alert system
110: abnormality sensor 120: user terminal
130: abnormality detection server 140: emergency notification terminals
150, 152: General user terminals
210: abnormality signal receiving unit 220: emergency situation class determining unit
230: Message transmission requesting unit 240: User status inputting unit
250:

Claims

(a) receiving an abnormal signal including a non-operating time according to a non-operation of the user, the abnormal signal being generated from an anomaly detection sensor that continuously detects a user's operation and detects that the operation is not detected for a specific time;
(b) when the abnormal signal is received, determining an emergency situation class according to the following equation corresponding to the emergency response rule set according to the non-operation time; And
(c) transmitting the emergency status class to the anomaly detection server, and causing the anomaly detection server to transmit the emergency notification message to at least one emergency notification terminal selected for each class, Notification method.
[Mathematical Expression]

(The Rank function corresponds to a step function outputting one of the minimum and maximum emergency class ratings, and the IDLE function receives the input of t and a plurality of time intervals This function corresponds to a function that outputs a value corresponding to one of the time intervals.

The method of claim 1, wherein step (a)
And detecting the user's pulse wave through the pulse wave sensor when the current time corresponds to the sleeping time predetermined by the user.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein step (a)
And detecting the movement of the user through the gyro sensor when the current time does not correspond to the sleeping time designated by the user.

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2. The method of claim 1, wherein step (c)
If the emergency status class is the highest, the emergency notification terminal closest to the current position of the user other than the selected emergency call notification terminal, the general user terminal most frequently contacted in the past specific time interval from the present, The step of transmitting the emergency occurrence message to all of the general user terminal most recently contacted, the general user terminal registered as a favorite, the general user terminal registered through the shortcut key, and the general user terminal set as a specific group in the telephone directory And a computer-executable emergency notification method.